Speaking of Fat People: The National Association to Advance FAT Acceptance(NAAFA).

[rideit]

Guess what the number 1 winter sport is for fatties?


Snowmobiling!
TRUE!

[markb]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/art...110D73.DTL&o=0


A 500-pound man injured while rafting down a shallow stretch of the St. Croix River was pulled to safety Tuesday by dozens of rescue workers who spent hours carrying him to a navigable part of the waterway.
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When I used to raft guide during college on shallow rivers back in the southeast, I had a huge fatass fall out of my boat at the top of a long shallow section. We tried to pull him back into the raft through about 100 yards of shallow rockiness, wrestling a huge slimey lifeless blob. The fbastard got all banged up and cut up, bruised and nearly passed out from exhaustion. No one showed any sympathy.

On another trip we had a couple of those kinds of ladies where you can't see their elbows and they tuck their tits into their elastic waistbands. They asked their guide what he'd do if they fell out, b/c he was too small to pull them back in. Without missing a beat or breaking a grin he said, "I'll hop on your back and paddle you to shore."

[TeleHoar]

Hey be nice now...

fat people have twice as much laundry as the rest of us.
One shirt= one load.

[MakersTeleMark]

I wonder how many pounds Rontele has put back on studying for the bar?

[Mofro261]

I wonder how many pounds Rontele has put back on studying for the bar?

maybe it's this thread, but I just read that as "Roundtele"

[GoldMember]

ARMREST UP - When you get to your seat during pre-boarding, raise the armrest between seats. This may give you the inch or two of extra space you need. The chances are that the passenger who will be seated next to you won't say anything; if he does, smile pleasantly and say that you'll both be more comfortable if the armrest is up.

As a guy who flies a lot, this one really pisses me off. I'm too often the guy sitting next to this blob. At least when the armrest is down, it somewhat contains the blob from molting over into my seating area. There's nothing worse on a cross-country flight than having the blob squishing me against the armrest on the other side of me. I pay for a full-fare ticket and only get half the seat.

Try sitting around O'Hare sometime and count the number of fat people you see compared to normal shapes. The percentage of fat/obese people in this country is astounding.

[BeanDip4All]

blob... blob... the blob... squishing

yuck.

[brutah]

Try sitting around O'Hare sometime and count the number of fat people you see compared to normal shapes. The percentage of fat/obese people in this country is astounding.

After my first trip to europe, i had a layover in chicago on the way back home. I just walked around shaking my head saying "I'm back in America" to myself the whole time.

[GoldMember]

Here's a good story about a guy who got his mind around being fat and how to overcome it. I'm thinking of Steve when I post this. Keep up the great work and conform your lifestyle and you never have to go back. Those in that Fat group would do well to heed this advice and look to this guy for inspiration.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/sport...99473&page=all

Winning loss
Spokane triathlete shed old ways


Spokane's James Hicks, 375 pounds lighter after a four-year program, has his sights firmly set on the New York City Triathlon later this month. The Spokesman-Review (Jed Conklin The Spokesman-Review)



Stefanie Loh
Staff writer
July 13, 2007

Do, or do not. There is no try. James Hicks is a living, breathing testament that Yoda's adage does work in real life.

In 2003, Hicks weighed 575 pounds and had such low blood oxygen levels that his doctor told him he could expect to die from a heart attack any day.

Four years later, Hicks has lost more than 375 pounds, completed about 30 triathlons and will compete in the New York City Triathlon on July 22.

The death sentence from his doctor and his insurance company's subsequent refusal to pay for a gastric bypass surgery catalyzed the Spokane man's transformation from "fat man to Ironman." But Hicks attributes his success to a tip he picked up from Dr. Phil's book "The Ultimate Weight Solution" and his own ability to set goals and achieve them.

"Dr. Phil called it 'right thinking,' but really it's finding out what your identity is and how it affects your life, and then deciding if you want to change your identity," Hicks said.

The book made Hicks realize that no diet plan could help him until he changed his mindset and stopped thinking of himself as "The Fat Guy."

"I realized that my identity was 'The Fat Guy.' It had been so ingrained in me that I was completely locked in to who I was," Hicks, 33, said. "So all my decisions, all the career choices I made, the friends that I made, the things I did in my spare time, they all kinda fell in line with being 'The Fat Guy.' 'The Fat Guy' can do Atkins, 'The Fat Guy' can go on Weight Watchers. It doesn't matter because you're still 'The Fat Guy' on a diet. And everything you do on that diet is contrary to what your identity is.

"I realized that if I wanted to have any kind of successful weight loss, I had to change that identity so that if was natural for me to eat healthy and do healthy things."

Hicks' first step was to join a Weight Watchers program. His new identity: Weight Watchers guru.

"It all started as a New Year's resolution. I would join Weight Watchers and do everything I could to follow the program to the 'T' – eating the right amount of points, never cheating, getting to know everything there is to know about the program, and just being a rock star," Hicks said. "I never planned to lose all my weight, just to lose a little bit to get away from death's door."

Determined to succeed, Hicks also set weekly and daily goals to stay on track with the program.

It worked.

Three months later, Hicks had lost about 60 pounds.

That's when he began walking.

"I woke up one morning, got out of bed and actually had energy," Hicks said. "In 30 years of my life, I never had energy, ever. Even as a toddler I was always tired."

That morning, Hicks decided to walk to work from his wife's office instead of having her drop him off.

The eight-tenths-mile walk took him 55 minutes that day, but Hicks finished it feeling more energized than he had in a long time.

From then on, Hicks walked to work from his wife's office every morning. Then, he started walking during his half-hour lunch break. Soon, Hicks was up to 3 miles a day.

Inspired by the joggers he saw on the Centennial Trial on his daily walk, Hicks signed up for the annual Bloomsday run.

"Here I was, at a point where I could not walk more than 3 miles in a day, and I signed up for a 7.5-mile race a month away because I had a few weeks to prepare, and I made a decision that I was gonna make it happen," Hicks said. "If I did it a little bit at a time, I knew I could get there."

On the week of the race, Hicks hit the 100-pound weight loss milestone. Hicks and his wife walked Bloomsday and finished in last place. But he was so proud at having finished that he decided to run the race the following year.

That summer, Hicks bought a cheap bike and began riding to work. The rush he got that first day on the bike excited him, and was similar to the rush he'd had the first day he'd started walking to work.

Soon, Hicks started running and going to the gym.

One day, he overheard someone at the gym talking about triathlons. The idea intrigued Hicks so much that he decided his new goal was to complete an Ironman.

Hicks did his first triathlon in March 2006. Since he first picked up Dr. Phil's book, Hicks' new healthy ways have rubbed off on his friends and family.

Gone are the days when Hicks and his wife, Amy, would come home from work, bake a cookie sheet full of an assortment of frozen deep-fried bar food, and chow down on a 3,000-calorie dinner. Dinner now consists of salad and lean protein, and James Hicks has also inspired his brother to start exercising and eating better.

Hicks even motivated his friend and workout buddy Stephanie Holten to start doing triathlons.

"James is a wonderfully inspiring person and he makes me feel like I can do more," said Holten, 33. "I don't swim well, but did my first triathlon with him, and he stayed with me the whole time. He swam on the other side of me so that I'd have that safe feeling of having someone there."

Hicks and Holton are training together for the Portland Marathon in October and Hicks will also compete in his first Ironman-distance triathlon (140.6 miles) this August.

But at the moment, he's gearing up for next week's trip to New York.

The event organizers heard about Hicks' story and offered to waive the race entry fee. Hicks signed up, but had to figure out how to raise money for his airfare and accommodations.

Hicks is in talks with Southwest Airlines to see if they'll sponsor his airfare, but he still needs to raise funds to pay for other costs.

"If you put in your mind that failure is not an option, then it's easier to succeed," Hicks said. "I'm determined not to give up on New York, up to the date I have to leave. At the time I signed up, I wasn't sure how I was going to get there. But I knew I could make it I set my mind to do it."

[Free Range Lobster]

There's nothing worse on a cross-country flight than having the blob squishing me against the armrest on the other side of me.

When they smell bad and insist on eating even more fast food makes it worse.

Seriously, you're entitled to the space of your seat, not your seat, and half your neighbors seat.
Buy both or get the fuck off the plane.

[GoldMember]

When they smell bad and insist on eating even more fast food makes it worse.

That only makes it better. They not only take half my space, they then sit there and eat their Double Whopper and greasy fries that they brought on the plane with them, mixing that aroma with their own greasy sweat seeping from their myriad fat pores. The whole mission of NAAFA is bullshit to start with but imploring their members to violate the rights of others, such as they do on the plane, really infuriates me.

[NippleHighPow]

When I used to raft guide during college on shallow rivers back in the southeast, I had a huge fatass fall out of my boat at the top of a long shallow section. We tried to pull him back into the raft through about 100 yards of shallow rockiness, wrestling a huge slimey lifeless blob. The fbastard got all banged up and cut up, bruised and nearly passed out from exhaustion. No one showed any sympathy.

On another trip we had a couple of those kinds of ladies where you can't see their elbows and they tuck their tits into their elastic waistbands. They asked their guide what he'd do if they fell out, b/c he was too small to pull them back in. Without missing a beat or breaking a grin he said, "I'll hop on your back and paddle you to shore."

BWAAAAAAAAAAA! Can't stop laughing from picturing a fat ass being made into a boat!

[ECbum]

WTF?

http://www.naafa.org/documents/policies/feederism.html

[road trip]

What's worse is how Big Pharma made fat a disease and then made a pill to cure it.

As a member of Big Pharma, I say we should stick said pill into the water at the NAAFA convention. Think of how many people would thank you after they had the extra space on the flights out of Chicago after said convention.

Seriously though... just like many other ailments, you can beat obesity before taking a pill. It's just that most people would rather take a pill than make lifestyle changes... and really, that pill doesn't even work that well. The only people that it works with are those that start taking it, can tolerate it, and make other lifestyle changes with it. These are the folks that it works with.. it's really only meant to be a supplement to diet and exercise. No magic bullets have yet to be created...

[DJSapp]

heh. this whole thread reminds me of www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com

edit: my god, that site is still up

[MakersTeleMark]

heh. this whole thread reminds me of www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com

edit: my god, that site is still up

Wow.



"oh my oh my! yes i am a eatbeast! this part of my selfmess is made of bacon meat."

[Tunco]

heh. this whole thread reminds me of www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com

edit: my god, that site is still up

I haven't looked at Fatchickinpartyhats in years, I gotta go see if Napster is back to its old ways.

[Plakespear]

"Oh sorry about that, my husband and I have a little game we play called hide-the-twinkie, I guess he missed one..."

As if chemo wasn't making me nauseous enough already

[G]

Guess what the number 1 winter sport is for fatties?


Snowmobiling!
TRUE!

awesome

[72Twenty]

[Phill]

Hahahahahaha

[arild]

Is this a serious organization?

I'm being serious here. That's the most terrifying piece of html I've ever seen.

[Shorey]

[rugbydave]

^^bahahahahahahhaha

[Crud's Uncle]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1