Thread: Fat people

I don't like them. I'm talking the really obese types, the ones who if I were so inclined I could make a three piece suit from just the seat of their trousers.

The fact they teach their offspring the same eating habits absolutely riles me.

This morning, not for the first time, I saw a woman and man taking their three brats to school. They all looked like they were going to burst out of their skin. The saddest thing... All three of them, including the one in a push chair were having, for breakfast I assume a fucking microwavable cheeseburger!

IMHO, the parents should be shot, the kids sent to fat camp and a bloody high tax put on that shit!

Totally agree. I know some people have genuine problems with their weight and struggle all their lives with it but other people really don't seem to give a shit and continue stuffing themselves.

IMO obesity in children is child abuse. Children are predisposed to run around like lunatics and burn off energy. There's a huge difference between 'puppy fat' (which these parents tend to blame) and putting a child's life at risk.

Drives me mad. And no, I'm not skinny - I'm a size 12 who is very aware that if I don't get off my arse, I can't eat what I like.

Feck off...fatties ROCK

Originally Posted by bigbird67

Feck off...fatties ROCK

Yes... They do. Especially when a heard of them stagger towards a Gregs, or Icelands, or Starburger!

If adults want to be obese, fair enough - but I agree, stuffing your child full of rubbish is child abuse. Surely it's as bad for their health as withholding food would be? They're (usually) fundamentally both cases of undernourishment.
Don't quote me on this, but I've heard that a child who is obese only has a 20% of maintaining a healthy weight during their adult life. Thinking this, it always saddens me seeing an overweight or obese child, knowing that the chance of a healthy lifestyle is already stacked against them.

Originally Posted by squirrel_pigeon

Drives me mad. And no, I'm not skinny - I'm a size 12 who is very aware that if I don't get off my arse, I can't eat what I like.

If you think a size 12 is verging on the lines of fat, I'm going to personally march over to your obode and bounce your head off the nearest sideboard




Mucho gracias love

it stands to reason that an obese child would be an obese adult and probably produce children who become obese too. If you are never taught decent nutrition by your parents you will more than likely consider the diet you grow up with to be normal and continue to eat like that then feed your children the same way. It's a vicious cycle.

It's such a shame because for me cooking is something i love doing and feeding my kids healthy meals gives me a sense of accomplishment

I also struggle to understand it. My eldest just doesn't put weight on no matter how hard i try to put a bit of meat on his bones and i know thats more than likely because he just cannot sit still for longer than five minutes! Exactly how much would you have to feed a naturally active child to get them to an obese state??? The cynic in me wonders if its a lazy parents way of making their child easy to handle because they move less and are sluggish from the extra weight they carry.

Originally Posted by Josephine

If you think a size 12 is verging on the lines of fat, I'm going to personally march over to your obode and bounce your head off the nearest sideboard

I never said that size 12 is verging on the lines of fat - it's just not skinny To me, skinny is size 8 or below although my little sister demonstrates that you can be a size 8 with hips and boobs. I hate her

I like to think I'm pretty normal although as I'm a midget at 5'2" I do have to be careful cos whereas a size 12 looks ok on me, going up to a 14 or a 16 starts looking chubby on me even though on someone even 4 inches taller it would be fine. I keep on top of my weight by eating sensibly(ish) and not going to Greggs for a bit when I have to lie down to get my jeans fastened

When I'm talking about people/children who are obese, I'm talking about those who are a medical cause for concern - those parents who cause their children to expand to the point where school uniform shops offer size XXL. There are far too many of them around and I totally get why the government has to run campaigns such as 'Change 4 Life'. Unfortunately, if someone hasn't got the sense not to feed their child full to bursting of salt, sugar and fat then they're not going to have the sense to do anything else.

DDs school is in a low income area and there are a lot of very overweight families who are part of the school community. The school has actually got involved in some cases and now there are strict rules about what can be contained in packed lunches, breaktime snacks etc in an effort to give some kids a bit of a chance.

Whilst I agree, I also have mixed feelings, my daughter is classed as over weight, its an issue I've seen progressing for the last couple of years. We don't eat stupidly and she's very active, I've contacted the health center for help after they did a healthy start weigh in at school and gave her a letter that had a little graph on saying she was bordering clinically obese and listed all the ways in which she could die early. As you can imagine it didn't go down too well and I had a battle even trying to get her to eat.

The Health Visitors and Drs were like my backside, there isn't anything on offer and the letter was apparently just sent out in case I wasn't aware she was what is considered a healthy weight.

Financially I aren't in a position to get her in any groups and I already adopt a healthy eating plan at home.

Her weight has become more of an issue since it was actually raised as an issue. We were doing fine as our eating plan was seen as normal routine. It really is a vicious circle.

I know I should be around the 9 stone mark (tops) for my height and in my whole adult life never got below 10- I once went down to 10 stone 2lbs and everyone thought I was dying I looked that ill.

I know the post is more aimed at huge people who obviously have a bad lifestyle and bad eating habits and I totally agree, so its really frustrating that I am battling this problem knowing there are parents out there who don't give a fook

EnigmaRole - one of DDs friends was classed as on the verge of obese in year 2 and this caused her parents a lot of anxiety as well. They weren't doing anything 'wrong' and the girl in question was active and ate sensibly. She was just chubby. Over the summer, she's shot up in height and has slimmed down a lot because of this - you'd never believe she was the same child - but when she gets weighed, she's still coming out as overweight.

Recently her GP suggested sending her for a bone density scan as he couldn't think of anything else to suggest - lo and behold she actually does have big bones which seems to be skewing the BMI results. She's never going to be dainty - her Dad is 6'7" and over 20 stone - but looking at BMI alone (which is essentially what the height/weight charts are) doesn't always work.

As I said above, I'm only 5'2" and I've got a tiny frame - my hands and feet are the same size as DDs and she's 8 - so whereas the guidelines suggest I can go up to 9 and a half stone with no problems, when I was at that weight after having DD you could have painted me purple and used me as a Ribena berry I need to be 8 and a half stone max to be a comfortable size 12.

BMI sometimes needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. I remember Stephen Fry saying when he lost all that weight and looked ill that it was depressing to still have his BMI say he was overweight when he clearly wasn't. It's not always accurate.

I don't like the way BMI is calculated. I don't think it works for women at all. I'm sure anyone with boobs will agree those buggers can weigh a fair amount but aren't taken into consideration at all when measuring bmi. My mum was told she could have a boob reduction if she lost a stone and a half which would put her back into a normal bmi range but having the op she would have actually lost more than that anyway.

well as a fatty this always gripes me.

I would say I have a healthy ish diet- well normal anyway. I may not be the most active person ever but even when I played sports 5 days out of 7 I was still very large. According to the NHS my BMI should have killed me by now (ok maybe thats a bit OTT but its very much in the red).

People judge me because of my size and my BMI. I have been told to halve my body weight and I am trying hard to get there. I understand the original post was talking more about Children and being overweight but to dislike someone because of their size is just small minded.

Not all fat people stuff gregs down their face all day.

I agree BMI is a load of bollox! My friends daughter shows up in the danger-zone BMI wise, but she's a diver and a gymnast and is solid muscle.

Dizzy- halving your body weight? there would be nothing left of you. Seriously, although I understand why guidelines are put in place I think sometimes weight doesn't correlate to health.

A friend of mine has what would be classed as the perfect figure, but I found recently when out walking she can't walk and talk without getting seriously out of breath. We did 'The Golden Mile' at school with the kids where they had to run around the field 4 times to run a mile...she only just managed the mile, whereas I stayed there all day and did it with all the year groups, admittedly I didn't constantly run and I wasn't in as bad a way as her at the end of the first mile...I wish I could've said the same for my bladder

Originally Posted by dizzy.chick

Not all fat people stuff gregs down their face all day.

As I said earlier, some people have genuine issues with their weight and struggle all their lives with it. I'm guessing you fall into this category. I also know that it is possible to be overweight and otherwise healthy.

I can't speak for the OP but certainly my issue is with those who are obese and don't care. They will continue to eat, never move a muscle and then milk the NHS for all it's worth.

OHs mother is obese and is now signed off from work and raking it in on benefits due to problems with her hips and knees CAUSED by being obese. She actually gets DLA now - her overeating has bagged her a brand new motability car. Despite being told by the doctors that if she lost weight, these problems would be lessened considerably, she chooses instead to sit on her backside and stuff her face with takeaways (can't stand long enough to cook, you see). OHs youngest sister is only 14 and has moved out to live with a friends family cos she can't stand living there any longer.

There's definitely 2 classes of 'fat people'.

Yup, I can understand why it might cause offense, I'm not going to apologise though.

I understand that some people are over weight for health reasons, natural shape/weight and that if we were all the same size it would be boring yadda yadda yadda.

However, I don't believe that the majority of people who are a good ten - twenty stone over weight are so because of the above. The majority sit on their behinds and graze constantly, they probably eat more than the rest of would eat in a week in just one day.

I am not saying that everyone needs to be under a certain weight. I strongly believe however that there are parents who are destroying their children... A child who is still in a push chair eating a cheese burger before 0830 is in my opinion going to grow up thinking that's the way to eat!

I think Dizzy falls in to the 'her doctor is a fruitloop' category! No way on earth would i say she needs to lose half her body weight or anything like that.

Originally Posted by golden_showers

Yup, I can understand why it might cause offense, I'm not going to apologise though.

I understand that some people are over weight for health reasons, natural shape/weight and that if we were all the same size it would be boring yadda yadda yadda.

However, I don't believe that the majority of people who are a good ten - twenty stone over weight are so because of the above. The majority sit on their behinds and graze constantly, they probably eat more than the rest of would eat in a week in just one day.

I am not saying that everyone needs to be under a certain weight. I strongly believe however that there are parents who are destroying their children... A child who is still in a push chair eating a cheese burger before 0830 is in my opinion going to grow up thinking that's the way to eat!

i just had a fold -down burger table fitted to my mobility scooter with a hole for my milk shake!

mmmmmmmmm fruitloops!



sorry couldn't resist that one.

I'd more or less go home via A&E, if I was to stuff a greggs, down my gob

I'm fat and an emotional eater....with all the stuff that went on this year, i just literally stuffed it all inside me . i know what i'm doing wrong and once everything gets a bit calmer i will loose this weight.
i'm much more careful with my daughters eating habits and will make sure she eats her fruits and veg........we now have come to the point where she rather has cheese or an apple then a piece of choccy.

so i can't really be against fat people, i just hate it when they use it as an excuse to not work and see it as a lifestyle