Unless you were fat, are fat or have any close friends who are fat - you will never know the truth behind the matter.
I'll lay it on the line here - and I could care less what little 10th grader happens to think it's funny. I was 300+ pounds in middle school - something I am not proud of in the least. My own family - flesh and blood - used me as the brunt of their jokes. "Give it Shelly, she always has room for more". Know what I got for my 16th birthday? A fucking metal pig feed bucket with my name on it. Yeah, that's got love written all over it. The same poeple that gave me the left overs from Thanksgiving dinner telling me to eat it so it wouldn't go to waste were the same ones that beat me down mentally for the way I looked.
I hooked up with a few guys that were older than me and they showed me around the gym, even then, while I was trying to better myself - people snickered and belittled me. Much like some of you do on a daily basis. The first 20 pounds flew off - words didn't effect me anymore. After losing 100 pounds I told them all to fuck off and die.
So the next time you see someone at a buffet - take a closer look at what they are eatting - maybe they are on a diet and having a salad or trying the low carb diet. I've seen the comments that some people make "I'll never be fat" and "Fat people are lazy". I hate to tell you but there are more fat people than fit people and without those lard asses runn
Hats off to you Shrebly.
I also had a girl friend in High school who was very bright but also
very big. Around 250lbs at the time. People constantly asked me
why on earth I hung out with her since in those times I was
the quintessential athlete and captain of several school teams.
I didn't give a hoot that she was big, I liked her intelligence
and her honesty.
However, I couldn't be everywhere to defend her, and the
I have to say that constant attacks by other people DO TAKE THEIR
toll on ANYBODY.
She eventually broke down and was clinically depressed for
quite some time.
She contemplated suicide quite a few times.
Even her parents were bashing her.
Imagine that. Getting CONSTANTLY attacked at
school, and then coming home and getting
more of the same abuse she got at school.
She later told me that if I hadn't been there she didn't think she
would have made it.
Well, to make a rather long story short, I began to show her
how to eat properly,(None of those magazine type
diets or anything like that), lift weights and do cardio.
I also introduced her to the ECA stack which did
wonders.
People would snicker when they saw her lifting weights, doing
cardio, but as soon as the pounds started coming off,
it was like she was re-born.
It took a while, and a lot of help, but after about 13 months she
got down to 125 at a height of 5"7 with a very respectable
14% BF.
Needless to say, when her senior Year arrived, I don't think I have
been more proud of anybody in my life. She didn't insult
people that had insulted her for years, she didn't act like
she was "hot"(She was quite attractive), she was just
her old self, and I think that stung the people who had
harrassed her for years even more than if she would
have told them all to go to hell(Which she woud have been more
than entitled to do)
Guys in my teams, who had constantly harrassed her,
were asking me if I could set them up with her.....LOL
Needless to say I told them that that really wasn't
a possibility.
She went through hell, and I do mean HELL because
of IMMATURE HS kids.
I really wish people(and parents) would look past
somebodies surface, and see whats really inside.
Godspeed