Quoting *Turtles*:" You don't need to go to a gym, seriously! I workout without the gym. I do dvd workouts and use the outdoors ... [snip!] ... to my advantage and I have lost weight successfully. I know a lot of people who look great, but their health is lacking."

I walk and run which keeps me feeling good, but doesnt really help me lose. I think it just keeps me maintained so i dont gain MORE weight.

I really do think I need a real ass-kicking hard-core no mercy type regimen to actually see some fat burn off.

If you have any DVD suggestions would love to hear em, a friend suggested I start doing DVD's and netflix workouts.

Quoting DisneyMommyTTC#3:" I walk and run which keeps me feeling good, but doesnt really help me lose. I think it just keeps me ... [snip!] ... burn off. If you have any DVD suggestions would love to hear em, a friend suggested I start doing DVD's and netflix workouts."

I am thinking I need an ass kicking too. I have done the 30DS by Jillian Michaels and I lost 13 lbs in a month and kept it off. I think any of her dvds are great. I want to do Insanity & P90X because I heard those two dvd's kick your ass!

Quoting DisneyMommyTTC#3:" I walk and run which keeps me feeling good, but doesnt really help me lose. I think it just keeps me ... [snip!] ... burn off. If you have any DVD suggestions would love to hear em, a friend suggested I start doing DVD's and netflix workouts."

if you arne't eating enough calories... and then working out... your body will go into starvation mode and not lose anything.

Quoting snglemama:" and her weight is caused by her inability to care for herself. The actual fat doesnt' disgust ... [snip!] ... system billions, and it's a bad cycle. I also feel like obesity says a lot about your personality, your character traits."

I'm overweight and sad that you think I have a bad personality  

Quoting snglemama:" and her weight is caused by her inability to care for herself. The actual fat doesnt' disgust ... [snip!] ... system billions, and it's a bad cycle. I also feel like obesity says a lot about your personality, your character traits."

that's not really fair to assume those things.

I am morbidly obese, and while yes, I do enjoy buffets once in a while, I generally stick to two plates at those trips and one containing mostly salad...
I also assume I do "normal" things...whatever that is.
I go to the gym 3-4 times a week too.

I hate that society has that impression of fat people, that they don't care about themselves or do "normal" stuff b/c they're too fat when it's simply not true for MOST fat people...

In general, I am disgusted by attitudes not appearances.

I had a patient in his late twenties who was so fat, he needed his mother to wipe the crack of his ass for him.

I was VERY disgusted by that.

I'm not digusted per say but I do feel bad for them. Something that does bother me is very overweight/unhealthy adults when children with them who are also overweight. I usually see these types of familes at Wal-Mart with a cart full of junk food. I'm sure they are still lovely/great people but I do feel sorry for the children because unlike adult who know better, the children don't really get much choice it what foods are bought for them which can lead to a whole life of unhealthy eating habits, health problems, being picked on ect..

Honestly, yes, I judge fat people and think obese people are disgusting. Ten, twenty pounds over weight isn't bad, but when we get into the hundred pound overweight area, they disgust me. People say thyroid problems. I call bull smurf. It's an eating problem.

It sucks that people can be so judgemental. My SO has lost over 120lbs and now has a lot of excess skin that we can't afford for him to take time off work to get seen to. That excess skin sits under his clothes and makes it look like he's still morbidly obese (which looks ridiculous now because he;s got quite a slim face). My BMI is around the 27 mark. We both get laughed at a lot for being fat, in his former job SO was called a fat smurf or a disguisting fat bastard every single day even though he busted his ass losing weight. He fell into depression because of it, and even though people would probably say he needs to grow some balls etc but when its every day, 6 days a week its going to get you down.
Our child health nurse is paranoid about us making DS obese even though I grow all my own vegetables and am extremely careful about what he eats. She insists that we have more regular visits than most because we're classified as a 'high risk' family. Already its been decided that we're bad parents simply because, due mostly to severe depression brought on by bankruptcy, we went through some really bad times where we made some bad decisions. Mind that this was YEARS before we even contemplated having children.

I admit I am disgusted by people who are severely overweight--particularly those who are double (or even more) what a healthy weight would be for them and those who can no longer properly function or take care of themselves because of their weight. I wouldn't be mean to them or anything, of course, but I don't think I could respect someone who was like that.

Regular overweight people don't disgust me, unless all they ever do is complain about their weight without ever doing anything to change it. In that case, it's more of an attitude thing than their actual appearance that bothers me.

Lack of hygene is what disgusts me. And most of the time the lack of hygene stems from being obese and not being able to clean yourself. I do feel bad for obese people though honestly, being pregnant and gaining 33 pounds already has affected me alot more than I thought it would. I don't like what I see in the mirror, even though I know it's just because of the pregnancy. I feel like I ran a marathon when I walk around the block just because of this little bit of extra weight. I couldn't imagine carrying around 100+ extra pounds on a daily basis.

Quoting snglemama:" you DO have a choice. You choose to leave your body the way it is. Obesity... puts you at risk ... [snip!] ... work and PAIN for the nurses.. and increased wait time for assistance for anything that has to do with movement, transfers etc."

This is actually a false statement according to many research findings. While many can and do lose significant amounts of weight, the majority of them fail to keep it off. It isn't just an issue of will power either. You are struggling against your bodies internal systems.

When someone is fat, they're body (through poor diet, chemicals in food, or yo-yo dieting, or genetics for instance) has driven up its set point weight. This is a weight that the body is programmed to fiercely protect within an approximate 20 lbs range. A person who has lost a significant amount of weight the body will slow the metabolism and send intense hunger signals because it interprets the weight loss as a shortage of nutrition in the environment. One researcher compared it to holding your breath. You can do it for awhile but then the body's urging for you to breathe becomes stronger... and so it is with an obese person who has lost a large amount of weight.

If someone can manage to keep the weight off for 5-6 years, the body readjusts and the drives diminish. That is why only 2-5% of people who lose weight through dieting actually keep it off. It is an extremely difficult thing to do.

There is also a problem with focusing on weight loss as the goal. Weight loss is a fickle beast and when a person's weight isn't showing a significant improvement, people give up and go back to the old way of life. If we focused on a lifestyle that promotes doing healthy behaviors because they make us feel good, learn to accept ourselves as we are, learn to listen to our bodies and eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full, and seek activities that we find enjoyable, our bodies will eventually gravitate towards a healthy weight for us... and thin isn't what a lot of bodies choose.

I found a forum called http://fitfatties.ning.com/
if anyone is interested.

Quoting The (super kinky) Master:" I'm overweight and sad that you think I have a bad personality  "

Well, let me tell you the truth. I wouldn't use the word "disgust", but it isn't very pleasing to the eyes to see an extremely obese person waddling around, huffing and puffing. Does that mean I'm thinking "ew, what a gross person, they better not get near me!"? No, absolutely not. But I do think "wow, I would hate to be that overweight" or "wow, it looks so uncomfortable to be that fat."

I voted other.