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I am not a "whale".
First of all. I happen to be in the ideal range for my height, and I am indeed an amateur Vegan bodybuilder. i hope to be a personal trainer some day. My gym of choice is Gold's, and that's all the information you're getting from me about myself.
Second, I have participated on various support groups on various topics. I've enjoyed the support and help I received and the hope that my posts won't be echoed on some other site.
My mother was extremely overweight. I watched how the world treated her. She was ill, and had an eating disorder, but was a talented professional artist, devoted housewife and mother. Our family was devestated when she died. Yes, I'd rather that she'd been healthier and lived longer, but it irritates me to know that while she was alive she was the subject of redicule and cruelty.
Most people who are overweight know how the world feels about them. Many of them have astonishing slow metabolism and they've experience failure so many times that they are afraid to try again. The best we can do if we want to be ambassadors for health is to show that being fit doesn't mean being a cruel, hedonistic slob.
Now my advice about therapy wasn't all toungue-in-cheek. I have a background in psychology, and your posts suggests an interesting pathology. Those who obtain extreme pleasure in being abusive, particularly toward those that they already see as weak, suggests that 1) they fear becoming that person, and thus unleash a huge amount of hostility toward them, and/or 2) they fear their own weaknesses and shortcomings and cover them by lashing out at others.
Tell me, oh Oinker, what is your, "shortcoming"? Be careful dear. Size does matter.
First of all. I happen to be in the ideal range for my height, and I am indeed an amateur Vegan bodybuilder. i hope to be a personal trainer some day. My gym of choice is Gold's, and that's all the information you're getting from me about myself.
Second, I have participated on various support groups on various topics. I've enjoyed the support and help I received and the hope that my posts won't be echoed on some other site.
My mother was extremely overweight. I watched how the world treated her. She was ill, and had an eating disorder, but was a talented professional artist, devoted housewife and mother. Our family was devestated when she died. Yes, I'd rather that she'd been healthier and lived longer, but it irritates me to know that while she was alive she was the subject of redicule and cruelty.
Most people who are overweight know how the world feels about them. Many of them have astonishing slow metabolism and they've experience failure so many times that they are afraid to try again. The best we can do if we want to be ambassadors for health is to show that being fit doesn't mean being a cruel, hedonistic slob.
Now my advice about therapy wasn't all toungue-in-cheek. I have a background in psychology, and your posts suggests an interesting pathology. Those who obtain extreme pleasure in being abusive, particularly toward those that they already see as weak, suggests that 1) they fear becoming that person, and thus unleash a huge amount of hostility toward them, and/or 2) they fear their own weaknesses and shortcomings and cover them by lashing out at others.
Tell me, oh Oinker, what is your, "shortcoming"? Be careful dear. Size does matter.
And by your rationale, as stated above, I guess white supremacists are afraid of going to bed and one morning waking up a black homosexual that routinely goes to the synagogue...
