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The Fat Trap

Jan 04, 2012 22:33

The Fat Trap
Source - NYTimes
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: December 28, 2011For 15 years, Joseph Proietto has been helping people lose weight. When these obese patients arrive at his weight-loss clinic in Australia, they are determined to slim down. And most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to the clinic’s program and dropping ( Read more... )

science, health care, obesity, health, new york times

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homasse January 5 2012, 05:07:00 UTC

Oh, god, I remember when my big brother tried to fat-shame me when I was twelve. It backfired on him spectacularly, mind, but GAH.

big brother: Look down.
me: *looks down*
big brother: Can you see your feet?
me: ...No.
big brother: It's because you're fat! You need to go on a diet!
me: I'm not fat!
big brother: Look down!
me: *looks down*
big brother: Can you see your feet?
me: No.
big brother: You need to go on a diet! You're too fat!
me: I'm not fat!
big brother: Can you see your feet?
me: No.
big brother: *irritated and yelling* It's because you're fat! Your stomach is in the way!
me: ...It's not my stomach that's in the way! *glare*

Then there was a long, long pause, and he looked really, really confused...and then all the blood drained out of my big brother's face as he realized his twelve-year-old baby sister had really big boobsIn the twenty-odd years since then, he still tries to shame me, but now it's that I don't exercise enough and I make excuses ('cause, y'know, a hand in a splint with a damaged tendon, that's no reason ( ... )

homasse January 5 2012, 07:53:16 UTC

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.

kyra_neko_rei January 5 2012, 08:31:33 UTC

Then he lectured me when I said I worked out with a barbell when I was watching TV and online by saying I wasn't exercising right if I could do other things at the same time

Is he stupid?! (Rhetorical question.) Facepalming the hell out of a doctor who thinks muscle contraction is somehow dependent on perfect mental focus thereupon.

maladaptive January 5 2012, 14:02:28 UTC

I wasn't exercising right if I could do other things at the same time, and thus wasn't really dedicated.

Totally OT, but I hate these exercise fundies. Exercise should consume me! No it's sooooo boring, that's why all my exercise comes from biking, kayaking, and skiing. Because being in the gym not doing anything but flexing my muscles in a prescribed order is boring as hell.

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