Pendulum effect gone mad. People have now gone so far in the other direction trying to not offend fat people they genuinely believe slim people are the unhealthy ones. Would love to know how many of these people would turn down looking like her if you offered it.
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Pendulum effect gone mad. People have now gone so far in the other direction trying to not offend fat people they genuinely believe slim people are the unhealthy ones. Would love to know how many of these people would turn down looking like her if you offered it.
Similar here. I get up early and get home late. By the time I've put my kids to bed I can either sit and watch TV or exercise. So for the last 10 months I've chosen exercise every other night. I now have weights at home (in fact I'm posting between sets right now) and use them when everyone else is in bed. But before I had them I simply went for an hours walk around midnight. when it was raining I would jog on the spot in the living room for 30 mins. Combine that with diet and the weight soon comes off.
It's a sacrifice but I really couldn't stand being the unfit overweight blob I was this time last year.
...and I would certainly like to pull the woman in the bikini.
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no such thing, most model are thin cause it's their job to not eat.
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I don't think many men have seen just how much women hate various things when they think no bloke is listening.
I'd really hate to be female, I couldn't cope with the loathing from other women.
I'm OK with the poster, if fat girls were normal then I'd like looking at them in a bikini, but I don't, I like looking at thin ones.
Anyway women keep telling me they don't dress for men so this isn't my problem, it is theirs.
Having been in Las Vegas for a few days now I'm already dreading stepping off the plane when I fly home at the weekend and seeing all the fat and unhealthy looking English people again.
The sad thing is that it now seems to be a crime in England if you look after yourself.
British society seems to despise success. That could be financial success, being good looking, being in great shape, or whatever. If the people who are complaining about these posters, which are 100% fine spent half of the time they are moaning about it on exercise instead they might be in shape too. Easier to moan though. ... Why is it that thanks to shows like Geordie Shore more and more British guys are getting ripped, whereas the sight of one slim woman sends thousands of women off on one?
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The sad thing is that it now seems to be a crime in England if you look after yourself.
British society seems to despise success. That could be financial success, being good looking, being in great shape, or whatever. If the people who are complaining about these posters, which are 100% fine spent half of the time they are moaning about it on exercise instead they might be in shape too. Easier to moan though. ... Why is it that thanks to shows like Geordie Shore more and more British guys are getting ripped, whereas the sight of one slim woman sends thousands of women off on one?
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Just a thought to all those "fatties should lose weight instead of taking up the NHS", consider this, is it 23 stone Pete who is diabetic, has high blood pressure and high colesterol but will only live to 50 or perfect John who is very fit and slim but will live to 115 that will cost the government more? I wonder if the costs for John's pension and other senior benefits and the fact that John will likely require knee/hip replacement from the high impact of all that excersizing and the NHS for other age related diseases be less or more than the costs Pete accrued over his short life?
We have been down that rabbit hole many times in many similar threads. This is just another rehash of the same circle jerk of people with social issues that manifest in other ways than over eating.
I do wonder if a lot of posters hold these views in reality and angrily walk around everyday with clenched fists at the site of immigrants and overweight people.
I figure that after a long day stuffing envelopes for some boring law firm you need to vent frustration at some random group of people whilst queuing up the next episode of dragonball z
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Actually the one in the poster and a lot in the fitness industry work extremely hard to achieve and maintain their physique.
Then surely that makes advertising campaigns like this complete a fallacy and miss leading nonsense?
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I think aspiring to be healthy and living healthily and having a decent stint at life is so much more valuable. I think the costs are irrelevant as during most of the older person's life will undoubtedly contribute more to the NHS through working longer anyway.
It is pretty selfish allowing yourself to let the state look after you because you're too lazy to do something about it yourself.
Most fatties are fat because it's their joy to eat.
As an ex fatty I can say what I want about fatties it's their fault entirely.
Maybe if people knew what "body image" actually meant, we could actually have an adult conversation about such things.
(here's a clue: "body image" has nothing to do with how you actually look)
What's actually gone on in the thread is lots of people promoting unhealthy/negative body image whilst proclaiming to be supporting healthy body image. Are people being knowingly ironic, or just ignorant?
erm it kind of does...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_image
I'd ask the same about you... have people been suckered so much into the whole fat acceptance movement that they actually think someone who stays in shape is promoting an unhealthy body image?
While some can claim that the fitness poster promotes an unhealthy body image as it may cause anxiety in people who are obese I'd argue there are far greater health concerns surrounding obesity and the idea that everyone is wonderful and should be happy in their body's no matter how morbidly obese they got is a bit silly.
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