tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post114860980700164556..comments2024-02-15T02:23:32.121-08:00Comments on Fatty McBlog: Just Wondering...fatty mcgeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00180072695306201058noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1150315981758988982006-06-14T13:13:00.000-07:002006-06-14T13:13:00.000-07:001. Connecticut, sorry babes.2. J'adore les bananes...1. Connecticut, sorry babes.<BR/><BR/>2. J'adore les bananes! I love them more than ice cream, and that's a powerful statement coming from me.<BR/><BR/>3. I love fat girls! I used to be overweight myself and like hanging out with people who are happy with their bodies and don't stress over every little calorie, and I find that fat girls are more like that. I hate hanging out with people who babble on and on about their diets or how much they hate the way they look.<BR/><BR/>4. I'm 5"2 1/2 and 130, but I carry it well and have good muscle tone, so most people are shocked to hear what I weigh.<BR/><BR/>5. Sorry, female as hell.<BR/><BR/>6. I haven't had any surgeries but love reading about them.<BR/><BR/>7. I love the humorous aspect of your writing and I love it when you make me think. Article about fat and society and fat and dating are awesome because there is so much to talk about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1150048494374332302006-06-11T10:54:00.000-07:002006-06-11T10:54:00.000-07:00Hello Emily and Lindsey!I'm a bloke (man) from UK....Hello Emily and Lindsey!<BR/><BR/>I'm a bloke (man) from UK...<BR/><BR/>Bananas are mid-complex carbs good in the day to support activity and stave off hunger/energy drop for about an hour I find.. They are high in roughage (keeps you regular) and potassium... I found out the latter from an ex-biochemist when I was in Eygypt and had REALLY BAD food poisoning - bananas personally peeled and coca-cola stright from the bottle (v.close to rehydration "salts" in composition)were teh only "safe" foods and kept me alive for the days of illness! Woo! for bananas...<BR/><BR/>I'm 6'1" and currently 166lbs (on a bulking phase at the moment.. goal of 175lbs ish) bit of a body builder/martial artist... so not fat...<BR/><BR/>I love cute fat chicks! ;)<BR/><BR/>Currently in an open relationship with a v.lovely cute fat girl<BR/><BR/>Like your blog on the whole - much with the cute and funny in your writing!<BR/><BR/>Take care<BR/>Cheers<BR/>from<BR/>Jon<BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149598259022878472006-06-06T05:50:00.000-07:002006-06-06T05:50:00.000-07:001) While I am not the fan you are asking about, I ...1) While I am not the fan you are asking about, I do think that there must be some fat people, or even fatty lovers in Dubai. Why not?<BR/><BR/>2) Ahh... that is wishful thinking. If bananas are fattening maybe that is what people should cut out. It isn't the chocolate cake after all! It's those darned bananas that are making me fat.<BR/><BR/>3) I don't hate fat people, I am fat people! <BR/><BR/>4) I am downright fat. I weigh 255lbs. I know this because I am a member of Weight Watchers and they tell me each week how much I weigh... to the pound... <BR/><BR/>5) There must be male readers... even fat male readers.<BR/><BR/>6) No, no surgery. I have lost 120lbs on Weight Watchers, but I still weigh 255lbs.<BR/><BR/>7) What you are posting about now is just fine, keep it up. I love it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149561028201330622006-06-05T19:30:00.000-07:002006-06-05T19:30:00.000-07:007) I would really love it if you could focus on th...7) I would really love it if you could focus on the addiction to food and what exactly makes it so difficult to just stop eating and exercise. I know that for myself, I am completely dedicated and driven and go to extreme measures to accomplish my goals. I have been very successful in life and had to make huge sacrifices to accomplish my dreams. Yet when I try to lose weight, I cannot, it is something that I absolutely can't commit to or successfully carry out. I feel like I could accomplish anything in the world before I could accomplish losing a substantial amount of weight. You both seem to be successful people who have worked hard in life - so tell us, what exactly is it that makes it so impossible to just buck up and lose the weight? Lindsey can commit to the education and hard work it takes to become a lawyer, but can't lose weight? Maybe you don't know the answer . . . but maybe just tell us what it feels like. I apologize if I came off negatively, I am just basically reviewing my own situation which I feel most likely applies to the both of you too (as well as many many more fatties!!!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149171845612377812006-06-01T07:24:00.000-07:002006-06-01T07:24:00.000-07:00I stop in now and then and I'm a Fat Woman who hat...I stop in now and then and I'm a Fat Woman who hates herself, not others, but I’m working on overcoming that.<BR/><BR/>I'm always interested in dating details and how you feel in relationships with other partners or how you feel when not in a relationship. Oh, and how much you blame negative experiences on your weight. Also I want to know what positive things you do for your self-esteem. <BR/><BR/>I love reading your blog and finding out that everything I think of or experience someone else has too. It's such a relief.punkindunkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225411840299840423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149096939699546152006-05-31T10:35:00.000-07:002006-05-31T10:35:00.000-07:001. Scotland.2. I have no idea why that finds this ...1. Scotland.<BR/><BR/>2. I have no idea why that finds this site. Bananas are high-GI because they're quite sugary, which is unfortunately also why they're nice. So you can't have them on South Beach and similar.<BR/><BR/>3. Not a hater. I like people in general.<BR/><BR/>4. Overweight by BMI standards, but average-ish to look at, I think. I spent my teenage years loathing my body but not doing anything about it, and avoiding exercise because I hated getting hot and sticky, and also thought everyone would stare at this fat girl exercising. It seemed unimaginable that this could ever change. I wasn't that fat, actually. But I was fairly unfit. <BR/><BR/>Just over a year ago (having learned to like myself in the meantime) I started doing a lot more exercise, and am now much fitter and stronger and feel a lot healthier. I've lost some weight but am still not skinny, and probably never will be, but I now go running and lift weights three times a week and enjoy it. My seventeen-year-old self would find that very implausible.<BR/><BR/>5. I'm a girl.<BR/><BR/>6. I've had daydreams about having the money for lipo, but nothing more radical. I would never actually go through even with lipo. I'm a wimp.<BR/><BR/>7. Um, not really. I find the usual stuff you do pretty interesting, though sometimes I wish you'd be a bit easier on yourselves, because I remember what it was like to feel that way.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14530845147391401083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149062856393546952006-05-31T01:07:00.000-07:002006-05-31T01:07:00.000-07:00Hey, Littlem!No non-fic books I'm afraid, let alon...Hey, Littlem!<BR/><BR/>No non-fic books I'm afraid, let alone anything available in the US. (Well, not unless your local Barnes and Noble stocks the UK <I>Writers' And Artists' Yearbook</I>, to which I am a regular contributor. My day-job(s) involve working with commercial artists, helping them understand how the industry works and how best to present and promote their work to commissioners. I also lecture on the subject and even flog the stuff – so most of the non-fic I produce appears in related publications.<BR/><BR/>Alas, no disrespect to your good mum, but I can't even <I>look,</I> at rhubarb. It's a geneuine food phobia. I was forced to eat rhubarb crumble by sadistic school prefects one time too many. As a result, I was the only girl in my entire school, (out of 700 pupils), who went home for lunch!<BR/><BR/>Are you a writer too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149052431651614682006-05-30T22:13:00.000-07:002006-05-30T22:13:00.000-07:00I love this.Girl avec attitude from NYC (not that ...I love this.<BR/><BR/>Girl avec attitude from NYC (not that you all don't already know this).<BR/><BR/>I'm wondering if people are Googling "are bananas fatty" in quotes. You get different results depending on where you place your quotation marks.<BR/><BR/>Whoever asked if we were all wearing the same outfits from Lane Bryant -- they all LOOK different because we are ACCESSORIZING them differently. (Hee.)<BR/><BR/>Buff, you only don't like rhubarb because you haven't had my mom's killer strawberry rhubarb pie. She will convert you. Come visit. Authors need their strength. (I want to talk to you more about that author thing -- where can I find your non-fiction book over here in the states?)<BR/><BR/>I am an unruly girl and so will not put neat numbers in like the rest of you cool orderly people.<BR/><BR/>McBlog Queens, you so rock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149025675558628832006-05-30T14:47:00.000-07:002006-05-30T14:47:00.000-07:001) Nope UK - besides - somebody already confessed ...1) Nope UK - besides - somebody already confessed to that one<BR/>2) Pretty certain bananas ain't fatty, no idea why so many people wish to confirm this though<BR/>3) Not me - find fat gals kinda sexy.<BR/>4) Nope - put myself fairly squarely in the 'normal' bracket here.<BR/>5) Another one to add to the list of men<BR/>6) No - no need, and probably wouldn't consider it even if i was fat<BR/>7) Just keep doin what you're doin - you got me hooked. Would be good to hear how the whole blind date you 'warned' about your weight thing went though.<BR/><BR/>How do girls that come across as being as witty and intellectually engaging as you pair do fail to find dates? Mystery to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149025581446060942006-05-30T14:46:00.000-07:002006-05-30T14:46:00.000-07:00Sam - You feel better about yourself now?Sam - You feel better about yourself now?Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03640694873121260553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149016076225458602006-05-30T12:07:00.000-07:002006-05-30T12:07:00.000-07:001. not dubai---indiana. close though, right?2. i ...1. not dubai---indiana. close though, right?<BR/><BR/>2. i found you through pastaqueen<BR/><BR/>3. i dont hate fat people. many of my best friends are fat. although im realy not good at using the word fat. i was taught against it growing up. <BR/><BR/>4. not fat<BR/><BR/>5. not a man<BR/><BR/>6. no surgeries<BR/><BR/>7. just update More!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1149010494053497652006-05-30T10:34:00.000-07:002006-05-30T10:34:00.000-07:00My husband is obsessed with Dubai, and really want...My husband is obsessed with Dubai, and really wants to go there. I'm an American who moved to The Netherlands 6 years ago. No, not Amsterdam.<BR/><BR/>Bananas are high in potassium, so I eat them to help stave off the crazy legs at night.<BR/><BR/>The only fat person I hate is myself. <BR/><BR/>I am fat.<BR/><BR/>I'm female.<BR/><BR/>I have no clue what duodenal switch surgery is.<BR/><BR/>I stumbled upon your blog while looking for information about how to get rid of my big disgusting pannus. You had that excellent painting posted, and I find your entries to be interesting and funny and touching. And I too am now mesmerized by the Famous Bowl from KFC, too bad it will probably never come to Holland.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the great work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148990161690206382006-05-30T04:56:00.000-07:002006-05-30T04:56:00.000-07:00Just read my own comment. For #4, I should be cle...Just read my own comment. For #4, I should be clear that losing 30lbs was really a drop in the bucket for me. It almost sounds like -30lbs and ta da! I'm a normal weight. Ha ha, not even close. Multiply that by 4 and we're getting somewhere.januaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575474033807340285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148990030668890122006-05-30T04:53:00.000-07:002006-05-30T04:53:00.000-07:00Love, love, love your site.1. Mystery has been so...Love, love, love your site.<BR/><BR/>1. Mystery has been solved! I'm from Massachusetts.<BR/><BR/>2. All this reading about bananas in the comments made me just eat one! It'll probably be the healthiest thing I eat all day, quite frankly.<BR/><BR/>3. Am fat, don't hate other fat people but can't say I feel a tremendous kinship with them either.<BR/><BR/>4. Very fat. Uncomfortable in my own skin fat. Used to be still very fat, but comfortable, when I was about 30 lbs less than this and exercising frequently. <BR/><BR/>5. Not me.<BR/><BR/>6. Not me, but some days it sounds good. I may get there someday, but first, I am re-starting medication to first treat my depression. I used to be on Prozac, which gave me the ability to act in my own best interest for once - I could actually decide to do something, and do it, in my case, following WW. (Not saying that would be the case for any fat person who is depressed, but that's how it seemed to work for me. Not on meds, I get fatter and just don't care, and don't like that feeling. That's just me.) <BR/><BR/>But after I had lost some weight, I wanted to try to have a baby, so I slowly went off the meds. Now I see that was a mistake, as I regained all the weight and more and feel like hell. So, meds are back, babymaking plans on hold for now. <BR/><BR/>7. I'd read anything you guys wrote. The topics continue to fascinate me, especially how honest you are.januaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575474033807340285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148956731916373122006-05-29T19:38:00.000-07:002006-05-29T19:38:00.000-07:00What was I dying from? Just being fat! When I'd la...What was I dying from? Just being fat! When I'd lay down, my breathing was labored and I felt like I was being crushed. I couldn't walk even half way around a normal mall. I couldn't keep up with the family on vacations. Walking three flights of stairs up to my condo got my breathing so hard and my heart going so fast that I would need to rest for 20 minutes after the fact. My blood sugar and cholesterol was out of control. My PCOS was wrecking my body. My feet, knees, and back hurt constantly. Infact my knees still make really awesome grinding noises when I walk upstairs. If the tempurature got over about 70 degrees I'd sweat myself into dehydration. There was nothing healthy at all about me. I wouldn't have lived any sort of decent quality of life if I would have NOT had surgery. All that is gone now and I live normally. I thank God everyday for my surgeon, my insurance, and the woman who pointed me in the direction of the DS. I got my life back and I am living it to it's fullest now. There is no way I could have done anything that I do today at 310 pounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148953039844796092006-05-29T18:37:00.000-07:002006-05-29T18:37:00.000-07:00I'm struck by the fact that the fat-bashing crowd ...I'm struck by the fact that the fat-bashing crowd hasn't shown up in answer to this very nice invitation. Where are you folks? Nothing to say?<BR/><BR/>Reader background: I was kind of heavy--that is, I felt grotesque, but it was a very normal size statistically (and, no, bananas played no role.) Then I lost about forty pounds over about three years (no surgery), and while I feel much better in all kinds of ways and it was definitely worth it, I'm with a lot of people above in that I still self-identify as fat and am still fascinated with the ways in which fat is read and perceived. Lane Bryant still feels like "my" store even though I can't wear their clothes anymore, and while my feelings toward fat are, if possible, more mixed than ever, fat people are basically still "my" people. <BR/>I still assume, quite without warrant, that fat people have suffered and will therefore be that little bit braver and more socially aware and more compassionate than skinny ones, and when I meet selfish, petty, smug, horrible fat people, I still feel unreasonably disappointed. (We all have our stupid biases, and this one's mine. As if the fat hadn't the same right to be unpleasant as the skinny!) That's not you ladies, by the way (just in case anyone could think it.) Hang in and keep writing. <BR/><BR/>CatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148936092021598872006-05-29T13:54:00.000-07:002006-05-29T13:54:00.000-07:00Any of you fatgirls pig out for a memorial day bbq...Any of you fatgirls pig out for a memorial day bbq? I bet you all could shovel tons of food at one of those :) Eat a few dozen hotdogs on me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148934032401651262006-05-29T13:20:00.000-07:002006-05-29T13:20:00.000-07:00commiepinkscum:UM...nope....you read too much into...commiepinkscum:<BR/>UM...nope....you read too much into what I said. Have you not read the prior posts on this website regarding wearing sleeveless shirts? Have you ever walked into a restaurant and looked at the booths to see if you'll fit? What I'm saying is that IF you don't like being fat, you don't have to be. I selfpaid for WLS (second mortgage, i'm not rich!). The option is there and that's the choice "I" made. The fact is, YOU CAN"T control other people, but you can control how you react or who you want to be, where the choice is available. If you like being fat, so be it. I, personally, Hated it and if I had the money I'd pay for whoever wanted WLS to get it. IF you don't want WLS, then enjoy your life! Don't let my choices affect who you want to be. You must be female, women always over think what someone else says. Obviously, no one has a choice about their race or age. Duh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148924155951558892006-05-29T10:35:00.000-07:002006-05-29T10:35:00.000-07:00anonymous 9:25 AM, are you seriously saying that a...anonymous 9:25 AM, are you seriously saying that all we fat people have to do is just stop being fat and everything will be okay?<BR/><BR/>So if black people just stopped being black, or gay people just stopped being gay, or the elderly just stopped being so darned OLD then they wouldn't have to put up with those comments from people, right? Heaven forbid people be respectful and courteous to each other, or that we expect tolerance, or that people just mind their own damned business. No, fat people should cave in to those who harass and demean us into conformity. The problem is that we're fat and want to wear a sleeveless shirt, not that jerks think they have the right to pass judgement on us because we showed our big arms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148923748068616552006-05-29T10:29:00.000-07:002006-05-29T10:29:00.000-07:00Dani, what were you dying from?Dani, what were you dying from?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148919941988352392006-05-29T09:25:00.000-07:002006-05-29T09:25:00.000-07:001. That's already claimed, but I'm in WA state.2. ...1. That's already claimed, but I'm in WA state.<BR/>2. I eat bananas for potassium because of leg cramps.<BR/>3. As aformer fatty, I feel bad for fat people because I know lots suffer in silence and put up with bs from negative people and I know there is an answer to being fat. I also know some people don't mind being fat.<BR/>4. Was a fat kid, fat adult (size 24)<BR/>5. I'm all girl.<BR/>6. Had the DS and Love it. I live a normal life and wear a 8/10.<BR/>7. You guys do great. But like I said in #3....there is a way out of beating yourselves up and having every part of your life be about being fat. From thinking about booth seats to sleeveless shirts. Skinny people have no idea how every part of your life revolves around being fat. Whenever someone says "you should diet" I wanted to scream, "You think I don't know I'm fat....I wake up every morning knowing just how fat I am."<BR/>Yeah...it still makes me angry four years later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148913033543178202006-05-29T07:30:00.000-07:002006-05-29T07:30:00.000-07:001) Ohio2) mmmmm... bananas. 3) I don't hate fat p...1) Ohio<BR/><BR/>2) mmmmm... bananas. <BR/><BR/>3) I don't hate fat people. I found this site through Big Fat Blog, which, I believe, I found through NAAFA's site many moons ago. I find NAAFA, and to some extent, BFB to be fascinating due to the "herd mentality." Much like a pro-ana site, it's interesting to see how militant/ group-oriented people can be about something as personal as <I>body size</I>! (That's why I visit the cult watch site, too. The militant body-love/body-hate groups aren't cults in the traditional sense, but it's funny to see how people can be banished for having... wrong thoughts...) <BR/><BR/>Anyway, when I jumped over to your blog, it was so refreshingly funny, personal, <I>normal</I> and pragmatic. I remember one of you posting about enjoying the “very special” episode of Full House, in which DJ frantically tries to spin her way to a model’s body. Well ladies, it’s hard to explain, but that struck a chord with me. I love it!<BR/><BR/>4) Not overweight<BR/><BR/>5) Female<BR/><BR/>6) Nope. Interesting concept, though. It seems that d/s allows for more "normal" eating habits post-op.<BR/><BR/>7) My answer to 3 might be helpful, but I really just want you guys to keep doing exactly what you're doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148878782106956212006-05-28T21:59:00.000-07:002006-05-28T21:59:00.000-07:001. Brisbane Australia. Found your your blog throu...1. Brisbane Australia. Found your your blog through an Australian diet web site. hehehe<BR/>2. Love Narnies<BR/>3. Don't hate fat people<BR/>4. Not fat<BR/>5. Female<BR/>6. WT???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148868633466863042006-05-28T19:10:00.000-07:002006-05-28T19:10:00.000-07:001) Am not the Dubai fan. Not exactly a fatty lover...1) Am not the Dubai fan. Not exactly a fatty lover, either, at least not in the creepy fetishy sense.<BR/><BR/>2) I dunno. I never really thought about it, but I was under the impression that nanners were fatty. Or maybe that's just what happens after you fry 'em in batter or top them with ice cream.<BR/><BR/>3) Do not hate fat people. Hate my own fat self, but am approaching that problem using a triangulated approach of diet, therapy and distraction, of which your blog is a part.<BR/><BR/>4) I am fat! I recently broke into the 'overweight' line for my BMI. I am oddly proud of that.<BR/><BR/>5) (checks) Not me.<BR/><BR/>6) Not me, although I know a few people.<BR/><BR/>7) Have you ever had people at certain food places recognize you? If you go on a binge, do you do anything to avoid having the checkout clerk/hamburger slinger/whatever from realizing that you are buying all that food for yourself? Because I could use some suggestions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1148866096820966812006-05-28T18:28:00.000-07:002006-05-28T18:28:00.000-07:001. In in Palau, but cannot for the life of me rem...1. In in Palau, but cannot for the life of me remember how I found your site. Linked on LJ, maybe? I check about once a week.<BR/><BR/>2. Bananas aren't fatty, but corn is. As my grandmother said, it's what they feed pigs to make them fat. I love corn.<BR/><BR/>3. I don't hate fat people. I love fat people!<BR/><BR/>4. I don't think I'm fat. I wear a 14-16 and am 5'8". I've lost about 40 pounds and now engaged in the "gimme a one" game with my digital scale every morning. I'm chunky. But I carry all my weight around my middle and have been cruelly called a dugong (sea lion).<BR/><BR/>5. No WLS for me. <BR/><BR/>6. I just wish you'd post more often.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com