You sound fat: THE THREAD

[Lisa]

So for a while I've been hovering around 157, which has been so annoying since I've been working out and trying to eat better. Yesterday I got on the scale and was at 149! I weighed myself like 4 times to see if it was a mistake... nope! I think that what I'm doing is actually working..

Lesley, that's awesome! Congrats, girl!

And special kudos to Lisa and Jake "the stick"! Folks like you and your accomplishments are great motivators for the rest of us!

Oh, no, congrats to Jake, not to me. I still need to go from a 10 to an 8 - about 20 lbs. which I haven't done much about!

[IggytheBorg]

Haha. Fuck that shit. IT's about choice. You choose to eat non stop shit, which in turn can destroy your health. It's not like I'm denying them healthcare because of a pre-existing wrist problem. ;p

What if excessive, obsessive fapping caused the pre-existing wrist problem?

[IggytheBorg]

I don't suppose I've ever been knee deep in tang, but I have been ankle deep in llama shit, so I have that going for me.

What does the orange-y stuff astronauts had for breakfast have to do with anything? And how the hell did you end up knee deep in it?

[I_Cassini]

So for a while I've been hovering around 157, which has been so annoying since I've been working out and trying to eat better. Yesterday I got on the scale and was at 149! I weighed myself like 4 times to see if it was a mistake... nope! I think that what I'm doing is actually working...

Addition: I just realized what thread I posted this in.... kind of wish I posted this in the personal accomplishments instead of the "you sound fat" thread...

That is fantastic! We must buy some shoes to celebrate

[Timothy225]

Nonsesne! Good work, Lesley! And special kudos to Lisa and Jake "the stick"! Folks like you and your accomplishments are great motivators for the rest of us!

Well done all of you! Now, do some wind sprints!

[Lesley]

So for a while I've been hovering around 157, which has been so annoying since I've been working out and trying to eat better. Yesterday I got on the scale and was at 149! I weighed myself like 4 times to see if it was a mistake... nope! I think that what I'm doing is actually working...

Addition: I just realized what thread I posted this in.... kind of wish I posted this in the personal accomplishments instead of the "you sound fat" thread...

[Lisa]

YAAAY JAKE!!! Good job!

I just got in some good walking exercise, and didn't eat a THING today that I shouldn't have!

[Shit Dickface]

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHH BITCHES

[Lisa]

You go for it, boo boo! Best of luck to you and Jen and your mom! Even when I decide to treat myself, I make myself walk for it, because I love walking. So let's say that I want to get something from Sephora. Sure, there's Sephoras all over the city, and there's one right across from my office. But I make myself walk to the Sephora three subway stops away. If you go at a good brisk pace, it's not even that long to get to.

[Timothy225]

Great article, Lisa, and I concur: size 2's and size 0's do nothing for me. Girls are meant to have curves, damn it! The concentration camp look is NOT sexy.

I'm getting inspired lately. Until I can get back into the gym on a regular basis, the wife and I and my mom are going to start walking after dinner to try and burn off some weight. Good cardio, plus we're going to start using our home treadmill more regularly, too. I'm gonna try and make this the Summer of Svelte.

[Lisa]

WHAT THE FUCK. PEOPLE RECOMMEND THIS SHIT? ARE YOU SERIOUS. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

I wish I was kidding.

Dude, it's NYC.

THIS. Let me tell you how totally invisible I am to salespeople since I've gained weight. Even when I was a size 6 (which is actually a bit too thin for me. I'm happiest at a size 8 - I still look good, and I get to eat normally), I got a bit of the nose in the air when I'd walk into a store, while the salespeople fell over themselves for the girls who were a size 2. All this was going on while the clothing industry was busy creating the new "size 0", for girls who wouldn't buy something if there was a "2" on the tag. But now that I'm a size 10? I don't even get greeted when I walk into a store. "May I help you find anything, m'aam?" is something I haven't heard in a clothing store in at least six years. Don't think that there aren't girls all over this city who are doing crazy shit like that to drop some weight.

Jake, it's like that in L.A., too, isn't it? When I worked at the ad agency I was with for five years, one of our big clients was a major cosmetics company. While researching for their ads, we did a nation-wide survey for them, and it turns out that across the board, the average American woman is a size 12. Guess which two cities were the exceptions? New York and Los Angeles, where the average was a size 2. FIVE whole dress sizes between two cities and the entire rest of the country, as an average. And I'm sorry, I don't think there "just happens to be" an entire population of naturally rail-thin women only in those two cities alone by coincidence. I'd venture to guess a lot of women in both places are probably doing some really dangerous things to stay that thin.

Even if it's not outright crazy stuff, we have a lot of size 0s and 2s in my office (mostly the younger girls, who get brainwashed by this stuff - I did too, when I was there age), and you should see what these girls *don't* eat. You see them coming back at lunch with nothing more than garnish. They have these little extra small sizes of salad, and nothing more. No protein, no whole grains, no dairy or soy, nothing. It's really creepy.

[gravedigger]

Dude, it's NYC.

[Shit Dickface]

WHAT THE FUCK. PEOPLE RECOMMEND THIS SHIT? ARE YOU SERIOUS. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

[Lisa]

I love that this thread got bumped. Allow me to enlighten you as to why...

So hey, it's payday, so I decide to try and find a couple of cute summer tops now that it's getting hot out. So I'm buzzing in and out of a few stores, seeing if there's anything cute. I finally spot a couple of tops I like, and I go in to try them on. And you guys know I'm always bitching about how I want to lose weight (and yes, I'm noshing on a nice green salad in between typing these words), so I'm trying on a medium and a large in the same top, and the medium fits pretty well, but it's showing of my love-handles a bit more than I like. But the large is way too big (and yes, I know sizes mean nothing - I have a top in a small that hangs off of me). So who else can a girl commiserate with right then and there but the dressing room attendant, right? So she's going, "The large is too big for you, honey, you have to go with the medium." I said, "Yeah, I know, but I'm just not crazy about the way the medium comes in at the waist and shows off these rolls I've got."

Wanna know what this genius says to me? "Oh, that's easy to get rid of. Just go on a diet of vinegar and laxatives for a couple of weeks." I said, "You know how dangerous that is, right? You know that that's abusing laxatives and living off of nothing but vinegar. I know a girl who died from abusing laxatives." (And that's the truth, too. A girl I was friendly with back when I was doing stand up when I first moved here died from abusing laxatives. Her death was so horrific, they actually did a piece about her in NY Magazine. So the next time someone says something insensitive about your weight, show them this article about my friend Margaret, and watch them shut the fuck up).

Anyway, this moron repeats it, and says, "Yeah, but the girl you knew probably did it long term. This is just for a couple of weeks." Oh, that's all. Just for a couple of weeks. Y'know, just abuse laxatives and live on one ingredient for salad dressing for a couple of weeks - as you would do.

Quite frankly, this dipshit is the last person who should be working a dressing room, where she's counseling women who are very possibly going to be unhappy at the way an article of clothing looks on them. This is the last person a woman should be turning to when they're thinking, "This makes me look fat." Dope.

[Ed Hocken]

Good lord!