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Comment on Update by ScreamingFatGirl

ScreamingFatGirl — Mon, 30 May 2011 02:02:50 +0000

I’m glad to hear that there is a positive reason to put the blog on hold. You may want to start a blog related to your creative pursuits so you have another focus. I’ve got 3 other blogs (under a different name) which are not in the least related to weight loss and are outlets which I find very valuable.

If you ever want to talk to someone who empathizes or share your shop’s name or whatever, feel free to contact me at screamingfatgirl@gmail.com.

Comment on Update by kaplods

kaplods — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:56:50 +0000

Taking the comments too personally really is the least of the reasons I’m having to put the blog on hold, at least temporarily. I may eventually continue here or transfer it to another site (which means I’ll have to keep it active until I’m ready to do that).

My main reason for taking a sabbatical from blogging is that I am working on opening an etsy shop for my crocheted and multimedia arts and crafts, and working on a YA urban fantasy novel (suburban fantasy may be more accurate).

Comment on Update by ScreamingFatGirl

ScreamingFatGirl — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:48:02 +0000

If the comments are bothering you, you may want to simply start a new blog on something like Blogger and eliminate comments altogether. I don’t know about 3FC, but Blogger allows you to simply block any and all commenting. That is what I have done on my blog… not because they are troubling, but because I just think that it’s best if I’m in this on my own so that I can dispense thoughts and ideas as they occur to me, but not feel drawn into a community which I sometimes find destructive.

No matter what you do, I wish you the best of luck. You have such great wisdom and it’d be a shame if you didn’t have an outlet with which to share it.

http://screamingfatgirl.blogspot.com/

Comment on No last straw, just a lot of unlearning by ScreamingFatGirl

ScreamingFatGirl — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:11:03 +0000

Miss K, your responses are lacking in insight and unhelpful. If you have nothing to say of value, and you clearly see nothing of value on this blog, why are you here? If you want to just bash on fat people, there are plenty of avenues out there to pursue where simple-minded views spewed by people who lack any true depth of understanding like to talk to each other.

Consider also that you must have some underlying self-esteem problems if this is how you elevate yourself (that is, at the expense of others). Be supportive, or be gone. Don’t make kaplods life any harder than it already is by hanging around here and sniping at her and adopting a self-righteous posture.

http://screamingfatgirl.blogspot.com/

Comment on No last straw, just a lot of unlearning by Miss K

Miss K — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:49:52 +0000

I dunno…it just seems to me that there’s a whole lot of thinking and a whole lot of analyzing and not a whole lot of DOING in this blog…its nice to ponder the whys and wherefors and the how comes and to try to rationalize why things are what they are but at the end of the day, living in extreme obesity is living in a diseased state. Plain and simple. And to suggest that it is anything else is, well, kind of fooling oneself? If one was to present to a clinic in a state of ketoacidosis as a result of uncontrolled diabetes, one would be assessed and would HAVE to take pretty specific drastic actions immediately. The same is true, IMHO, with respect to extreme obesity. The navel-gazing, why am I this way, it must be genetic, my body doesn’t like carbs, the doctors are wrong, I don’t have the right information is just obscuring the plain and simple fact that IF one is in a state of morbid obesity, one MUST take direct and simple action if one wishes to avoid the inevitable complications of this terrible health state. Unfortunately, that means reducing intake and plain old moving in order to reduce the strain the heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, skin, circulatory system that immense amounts of extreme excess fat imposes on the poor ole body. At the END of the day, the ONLY thing that is provable over and over and over again is that IF you eat MORE calories than you USE, you WILL gain weight, and the converse is true.
Unfortunatley, I know that this simple fact just isn’t politically correct to say. It is much easier to commiserate, to rationalize, to lay blame elsewheres for one’s self inflicted health status, to look to genetics, to look to society, and so on. I think it is tempting to say that the diets don’t work for me, that I don’t have the “right” diet, but the facts around weight loss although varied are actually pretty clear. It doesn’t really matter WHAT diet one follows, the bottom line is compliance to the chosen diet is the determining factor (and by DIET I mean comprehensive manner of dealing with the calories IN part of life). It doesn’t really matter WHAT exercise you do, some is better than none. The simple fact is that it just doesn’t take that many more calories to sustain a high body mass than it does a low one — the BMR of a 165lb woman such as myself is approximately 1450 calories; that of a 275lb woman such as my friend is approximately 1900 calories — that’s a large fountain soda a day. THIS is the reality. And if one is able to maintain a large body mass to the point of it having significant health implications, then one is simply eating. too. much. Period. End of story.
I feel for those who are struggling with weight as I have for years, but I fear that until there is the recognition and ACCEPTANCE of the fact that one will NOT lose weight unless one changes one’s lifestyle drastically to support HEALTH, the morbidly obese individual will not regain their health.
Now, I don’t think one needs to be within the “normal” BMI standards, and that BMI is debatable, but the bottom line is that the human body isn’t meant to sustain a weight that is universally classified as morbidly obese. We can debate BMI, waist measurements, measures of fitness, but I’m so sorry. The fact of the matter is that someone with a BMI of 52, with a waist measurement of 60 inches can in NO WAY be considered physically fit. At these sizes and weights, the argument is moot.
Please please PLEASE, for all of you who are morbidly obese and/or suffering from weight-related illness, understand that it will ONLY be through limiting your caloric intake and movind daily that you will regain your health, no matter how unpopular or politically incorrect you may find that statement to be.
JMHO

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