Hi ripitup: apparently things are going from bad to worse. They smothered her in lard - now she's going downhill fast.

... - C

i just pi$$ed a little from laughter

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And gaining speed

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Seriously theres something wrong that someone would put their health at such risk, just for attention. Anyone treating the weight problem should be struck off, that's just trimming the edges. I had a look at the previous mentioned website last night. It ain't pretty, and I likes em built for comfort, not speed.

Hope she/they find some solace.

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+1 and with this new health care plan I think people like this should be exempt from any kind of coverage for intentionally doing this and causing health problems...sorry if my opinion offends anyone but this kind of stuff ticks me off.
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welcomes media coverage There will be plenty of cameras around when the fire dept. has to come in and knock a wall down and drag her out of the house with a crane

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Well...this is -strictly- my opinion as always.

Health issues aside, personally I've always preferred large women such as BBW's/SSBBW's to "skinny women"...I'm sorry but I can't see being attracted to a woman who's shaped like a teenage boy (like a lot of so called super models are..."stick figures with puffy lips...nothing super about them"). I've known a few woman who were in the 300 lb+ range who actually "carried their weight" with a great deal of pride and elegance. I have a lady friend right now who's roughly about 350 lbs. She's physically active, she maintains here appearance quite well and she's actually quite beautiful...if I weren't happily married...well...you get the idea.

BTW...just for the sake of mentioning it, consider how physically strong a person (man or woman) has to be to carry around even 300 to 400 lbs. Seriously, think about it. Even if you're a guy of an "average weight" of around 180 - 200 pounds or so, imagine carrying around an extra 100 to 200 pounds -all day-...think about the physical strength that's gotta require. Now in the case of this woman on Supersize Bombshells, consider carrying around an extra 400 lbs...that requires some -serious- muscle my friends! How many folks here can even lift 400 lbs, let alone carry it around all day, every day? That alone warrants a great deal of respect.

Now I will admit that there can be some very serious health issues there (such as the fore mentioned diabetes) but if a person is comfortable with their weight...even 600+ lbs...and it doesn't give them any serious problems and the person they've chosen to spend their lives with doesn't have an issue with it, I can't really see the problem there. I dunno...maybe it's a perspective thing but I grew up on the opposite end of the scale (literally)...until the time I was about 20 years old I was 6' 2 1/2" and I was only 140 - 160 lbs. I was a freakin' rail and I -hated- it (you wouldn't believe the crap I got back in school) but I couldn't gain weight (muscle or flab) -at all-...I just had a majorly hyper-active metabolism. Now that I'm getting a bit older and my metabolism is finally starting to slow down a bit, at 240 lbs, I'm "comfortable" with my weight and my self-image. I actually wouldn't mind being a good 300 to 400 lbs myself but 250 seems to about my limit...heavier than that and I just don't feel good (but that's -my- body...everyone is different).

The simple truth of the matter is that there are some "big women" out there who are incredibly beautiful and there's plenty of scrawny little skanks out there with too many marks on their foreheads from being touched with ten foot poles. The fact is that "beauty" isn't a dress size or a number on a scale. So really what this comes down to is this: if you don't like looking at women like this, then don't look (well duh!) and at least have the courtesy and respect to allow them to live their lives they way they choose...after all, I'm sure if we were to look closely enough, we could find plenty of crap to make fun of you as well. If you don't like people being disrespectful or indignant towards you, don't do it to others...simple as that.

Again, just my own personal opinions.
Jim

She probably looks like she has a package of hotdogs sitting on the back of her neck...

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and +1 nevin about the healthcare. and fitting 5 of me in there.

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Sadly obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in North America.More and more people are not just overweight but morbidly obese and this is putting a bigger strain on our health care than alcohol,tobacco and cancer combined.As a child I was grossly overweight until I tired of the teasing, not being picked for sports and not able to get a girlfriend.When I was 13 I took the bull by the horns and stopped my obsession with being full all the time and actually became skinny.After my spinal fusion in 95 I again started to substitute food for just about everything else and my weight blossomed once again.After finding out that I'd developed diabetes due to overeating I once again started weight loss and now after loosing 60+ pounds I feel much better than I did for years,have less back pain and wear the same size clothes that I wore when I was in my early 20s. Obesity is rarely"glandular"as some people claim but usually boils down to simply taking in more calories than your body can burn off.The sedentary lifestyle and abundance of junk food in many peoples diets are whats causing this fat explosion,if people don't get off their butts and eat healthy they are condemning themselves to morbid obesity.For someone to aspire to be the world's fattest male or female is sick and such a person must be mentally unbalanced.Gluttony after all,is one of the 7 deadly sins-and it is quite deadly.

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Well, on the issue of exempting people based on issues such as this...if that's the case, then you they had better exclude about 9/10's of the American population. If you're going to exclude people based on weight issues, then you have to exclude smokers and drinkers certainly and for that matter, you'll have to exclude anyone who eats things like canned vegetables and any frozen/microwave dinners (such as "Oncor") because of the MASSIVE sodium content (high blood pressure), anyone who eats substances such as mayonnaise or other high cholesterol foods, most meats and such that have been treated with hormones, etc.. Oh yea...what about all of these idiots who are giving themselves skin cancer by going to "tanning salons"...after having a wife go thru chemo, you certainly don't want to pay for that kind of thing either! What about all these people now a days who drive while using cell phones, let alone those who choose to "text while driving"...roads aren't safe...better exclude -anyone- who drives a car in this country!

As far as "health care" in this country goes...America sucks -BAD-! I'm sorry but I hear this kind of pure crap from my older brother who was lucky enough to "marry in to money". He get's ALL of his health coverage taken care of because of his wife's medical insurance so he don't like "paying for other people's health care", he don't like "managed health care", etc., etc.. I'll tell you all the same thing I told him...try living without -ANY- health care for 5 or 10 years, the way I have to knowing that if you get sick, you can't even go to the doctors office let alone get a prescription for antibiotics or something. A year or so back I stepped on a piece of glass and ripped my foot open pretty bad...I couldn't even to to the emergency room for stitches (tell me some of you don't have kids this happens too!). My wife had to patch me up as well as she could and all we could do was "hope" that it would heal...and the damn thing actually bled on and off for 3 days. In my own case if I ever get something such as cancer, that's it...I'm a dead man...period. Think about what it's like living your life every day in this modern day and age knowing THAT little tidbit. I looked at the billing statements for when my wife went through chemo...most of her treatments were in the neighborhood of $70,000 EACH. Now consider....serious consider paying that out of pocket because you can't afford even basic health coverage! It's easy for some people to say things like that if you've never had to do without but for some of us, it's a whole different ball game and while I don't wish to sound rude, it's rather petty and short-sited. Most other "civilized" countries in this world take care of it's citizens, but not the United States. Here in the US it's a game for the rich and screw the rest and I'm sorry but that's just -wrong-.

You don't like "paying for other people's health care"...self inflicted or not...then instead of griping about it, perhaps you should come up with a way that's fair and equitable to -EVERYONE- in this country and then get it passed thru our country's government...then we'll talk.

Jim

(I apologize to everyone if that came of sounding a bit rude but living in the situation I am, I find comments such as that EXTREMELY offensive...you can't even begin to imagine what it's like until you've lived it personally).

Ok...I'm going to take this one issue by issue here...




Show me your statistics. That's all I'll say there until I see them.




Well, I'm sorry to inform you of this but while you may blame these issues on having been over-weight (and I'm sure that you will continue to do so regardless of what anyone else says), things such as this happen to "skinny" people too. Again in my own case, I was excessively skinny and I too was always the last picked for "sports" (usually with the team that "got stuck" with me moaning and groaning about it), I never had a girlfriend until my senior year in high school (and she was just as screwed up as I was), etc., etc.. In fact I was the kid in school that other kids would punch in the face in the school hallways just because I was standing there...they knew there was nothing I could do about it.

As far as kids and "teasing" goes...children are exceptionally cruel...we teach our children to be that way (often with crap such as we're discussing here). "Fat children" will blame such things on their obesity but the truth is, if you're "different" from a perceived norm in -ANY- way, you're going to get crap about it as a kid. Got a funny name? What about zits? Are you a black kid going to a mostly white school (or vice-versa)? Perhaps your family can't afford "nice" cloths? Not wearing the latest "cool band t-shirts"? Try living with something like allergies where your nose runs all the time during the spring and fall...you don't know teasing my friend! I'm sorry you weren't comfortable with yourself as a person back then but the truth is it had VERY little to do with your obesity. Had you of been of average weight, there's a very good chance you would have gotten picked on for something else...get over it (and teach your children better!).

Incidentally...considering you had problems as a child, perhaps your issue should be with some of the other folks who have made comments here instead. Think about how they must be teaching their own children to react to children who are the way you were. I would think a person who went through that kind of suffering as a child would be more of an advocate for "size acceptance" rather than helping to perpetuate the problem even further...you've been there, you -know- how it feels...perhaps you should be teaching others how wrong that truly is.



Ok...I will certainly be the first to admit that there -can- be health related issues when it comes to people being excessively "large". In your particular case though, it sounds as though a good deal of the problems you experienced were just as physiological as anything else. You seem to have experienced some type of trauma there (spinal fusion) and you "turned to food". To some degree I can relate...I was in a very bad car accident back in early 2002 and even before that I was experiencing problems with my back (a different story in itself)...which of course were exacerbated by the accident (although the insurance and workman's comp wouldn't cover ANY of it because it was considered a "pre-existing condition"). Here 8 years later, I still suffer to some degree or another because of those injuries. That said, in such a case a person does have -a choice-. After my accident I could have just sat around the house and ate myself in to oblivion but instead I went thru physical therapy and managed to get (most of) my life back.

In such a case when a person turns to food, they often have deeper issues than whatever caused the situation. Regardless, this is also an example of "this is what happened to me so I'm going to judge others based on this same thing".



I'm sorry but I find that to be just a little too "black and white". Ok...I'm not going to say glandular here but the truth is that EVERYONE's metabolism and bodies are different. Again, I'm a naturally "skinny guy"...at 6'2", my wrists for example are actually CONSIDERABLY thinner than my wife's. I have VERY skinny bones and such. More over, this type of mentality tends to lump all people in to the same type of thinking...and even the basic differences between men and women MUST be taken in to account. Either way though, I've known some heavy folk who are in fact quite active and who really don't eat all that much and then I've known a few folks like myself who can eat like a truck and never put on a single pound. Again I won't say glandular but "metabolism" is absolutely a factor and anyone who denies this is simply fooling themselves.




Well, again this is true to some extent but that's NOT the end all be all of it as I just mentioned above. However, the real thing that concerns me here is your use of the term "morbid obesity". You have a preconception that an excessively heavy individual is "morbid"...apparently based again on your own experiences. That's pretty sad there my friend. On a grander scale (err...no pun intended) this really is starting to say "I'm great and everyone else should be just like me".

Now I'm not saying that everyone should run out and buy a ton of junk food here and blow themselves up such as the lady on SSBBWBS's is but to give you a sense of contrast, I personally find people (and especially women) who torture themselves...not because of health issues but because they have this preconception of what's considered "beautiful"...I find -that- "morbid".

Ok...again health issues aside here for a moment, a good portion of this whole debate is based on "perception". I can't speak for the rest of the world as I've only been outside the US twice in my life however here in the US we American's have been "programmed" to think that "skinny is attractive". This is just my opinion but I believe that a very good portion of that comes from things such as the fashion industry...an industry I would add that is ran by "guys who like other guys". As I said in my first post on this thread, personally I'm just not attracted to women who are built...or who maintain themselves...like teenage boys. I'm sorry but I find -NOTHING- attractive about that at all. If that's your thing...you like girls that are shaped like boys...hey...what you do in your own bedroom isn't any of my business but please don't tell ME that's what I'm supposed to find attractive as well!




Wow...how utterly condescending and judgmental. Again we seem to be back to you thinking that everyone should look and apparently "think" like yourself. I'm not really saying whether this is right or wrong and I'm certainly not saying it's healthy but yikes...if that's really the case then as I said in my issues about "health coverage", we're all pretty much whacked. I honestly don't know too many "puritans" out there...and the very few that I've met are incredibly annoying. We all have our vices my friend and we all have our issues. Instead of sitting in judgement of others, perhaps we should just sit in judgment of ourselves...




Sin??? Oh...give me a break. I'm sorry but that argument is utterly pathetic. If you really want to worry about "sin", how's about all the good religious folk out there who have killed in the tens of thousands in various holy wars over the past 2000 years? How many "good Catholics" and "good Protestants" have murdered each other in Ireland alone in their holy war? Hey, how about issues such as global warming and all the damage we humans have done...and are STILL doing to the ONLY planet we have to live on? To me those seem to be -FAR- great sins than a person who chooses to eat themselves in to oblivion. There are FAR worse things out there than over-eating...let's leave the archaic religious ideology out of it...and if you find yourself incapable of doing that then remember this one instead, "judge not lest ye be judged".

These are, as always [b]just my own personal opinions[/i]. In this case however I'm just trying to provide some counter-point. I don't like it when people try to tell me how to live -my- life...let alone how or what to eat, even if it's on the internet and I strongly suspect that when push comes to shove, a great many of you don't either. Let's -try- and remember that.


Just some things to consider from a guy who lives his life outside of he box...

Jim