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> I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does
by marknutter 13y ago
> I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.
I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.
- informatimago 13y agoWhy? Really. Most people only have one day or two of food at home. In cities, stores have two days of stock at most. The federal government shut down. If anything else happens, God forbids, that breaks down the provisioning circuits, panic will soon ensue, and for city dwellers, only 2 days before they start dying from thirst, and 42 days until they die of hunger. Now, I'd like to see all those lean people, how they'll fare after one week. If us the fat people can hide for a week and avoid being eaten by them, then the world will be ours!
- voyou 13y agoIf her doctor says her health is good, why should she listen to the "advice" of some random person on the internet?
- chris_wot 13y agoDear God man! You don't know anything about her. For all you know she's already tried everything. For that matter, the article says she is healthy and the doctors have given her the all clear. So she's of a somewhat larger build - big fucking deal! This is probably coming off wrong. I'm sure you mean well. But don't be so quick to give healthy living advise to someone with a medical condition (or for that matter, really anyone) you don't know. Put yourself in their shoes - the point of this article really - how would you like unsolicited, judgmental advise about something you have little control over?
- kefka 13y agoAnd there's something rather neat about physics, chemistry, and biology. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. So, that means garbage in = fat + garbage out. You really are what you eat. I know this by my own diet. When I gobbled up everything in sight, I <gasp> got fat. When I quit packing my face full of food, I lost weight. Interesting how that works.
- chris_wot 13y agoHere's another thing that's neat: Google. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=polycystic+ovarian+syndrome https://www.google.com.au/search?q=polycystic+ovarian+syndro... This takes me to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome Wikipedia tells me this has little to do with "gobbling up everything in sight". Sadly, physics, biology and chemistry don't know what cause it (yet), nor is there a cure (yet).
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- ben0x539 13y agoDo you suffer from polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland, too, or something similar, or do you just think that it's gonna work for everybody because it worked for you? Overweight people are not spontaneously generating matter, sure, but it's not like people can just stop eating until they hit the weight you'd prefer them to have, they kinda stop working before that happens.
- coldarchon 13y agoActually I don't understand why this wasn't an eye-opener to her to lose weight. Instead she puts all into the same category with those who insulted her extensively. She categorizes people and complains of being categorized ..
- arrrg 13y agoThat’s between her and her doctor and none of your business. Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited health advice. That’s widely inappropriate and impolite. Please don’t do it.
- cabalamat 13y ago> Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited health advice Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited internet posting advice? Is there any good reason I shouldn't regard you as a hypocrite?
- arrrg 13y agoIs it really so hard for you to see the difference between medical advice and advice about polite behavior? The difference seems very clear cut to me. One is most definitely not like the other.
- cabalamat 13y ago> The difference seems very clear cut to me. Then perhaps you'd be good enough to enlighten us all as to what it is.
- nknighthb 13y agoOther members of society are in a position to correct your social misbehavior. People other than this woman's doctor are in no position to correct her approach to her own, personal medical issues that you are neither adequately informed nor qualified to judge.
- sejje 13y agoThe difference, I'm guessing, is that you feel like more of an expert on politeness than the medical field.
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- kyro 13y agoThis is one of the more insidiously cruel comments I've seen here. Never mind PCOS, hypothyroidism is a condition that can suck you of your energy, lower your metabolic rate, put you into depression, and much more, all contributing to weight gain. Point is, it can be a vicious cycle that feeds itself. But who gives a damn? Who am I to start judging the accuracy or severity of her diagnoses? What if she made it all up? It doesn't matter a damn bit, to me or to you. But at the end of the day, we have no reason to believe she's lying. Wording your comment in a more civilized manner does not make it that much less childish than the "yeah, nice excuse, fatty, now go run" that we expect from reddit.
- marknutter 13y agoWell, I'll try to be more uncivilized next time. I am not accusing her of lying. I take what she says at face value, but I challenge the claim that these conditions make it impossible to lose weight. If she wants to be at the weight she's at, then my advice can be safely ignored. If she is, however, interested in losing weight, then she should do her best to overcome these conditions instead of using them as an excuse to give up.
- jader201 13y agoTo be honest, I didn't give much thought to that piece. It was an interesting side-fact -- that her doctor had said she was in good health -- but that's about it. It's really not up to strangers -- especially those not qualified -- to identify whether she is healthy. It's not even the point of the article. Not saying that you are making it the issue of the article, just saying I didn't really even give that part of it much thought.
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- abhi21284 13y agoNo offense, but your advice sounds similar if you are saying to a woman to not to wear shorts or do not go out after 8PM otherwise she deserves to be get raped.
- Pxtl 13y ago> just more difficult Why should she have to? If she's healthy and going further requires committing tremendous personal resources to weight-loss? For somebody who has a medical condition that causes their body to commit an inordinate amount of energy into fat production, reducing their intake to weight-loss levels may leave too little energy for the person to function effectively day-to-day. Or they may have to slave away on burning calories five hours a day. Is that a realistic project for the sake of vanity?
- marknutter 13y agoNobody said she has to. If she does want to, though, I think it's possible.