tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post116613287599488482..comments2024-02-15T02:23:32.121-08:00Comments on Fatty McBlog: The Biggest Losersfatty mcgeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00180072695306201058noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167248155065561742006-12-27T11:35:00.000-08:002006-12-27T11:35:00.000-08:00If $9,600 could buy you a body that you were proud...<I>If $9,600 could buy you a body that you were proud of off the rack at Macy's, I think you'd consider it a steal.</I><BR/><BR/>Good point, but it ain't gonna happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167248040900459812006-12-27T11:34:00.000-08:002006-12-27T11:34:00.000-08:00What exactly are your jobs that you can't focus on...<I>What exactly are your jobs that you can't focus on a diet/exercise program? I'm a lawyer -- I could see that if you worked in a firm, that might be the case, say. But I mean, no job is worth your health.</I><BR/><BR/>Anon @ 5.01. From what I've read, the McGees have 9.00 to 5.00 office jobs. It's not like they can't find the time to work out and prepare healthy foods, they just don't want to. Bingeing and blogging is so much more fun!<BR/><BR/>And I totally agree with "no job is worth your health." I put on masses of weight a few years ago when I was running my own business and working 90+ hours a week, week in and week out. * But somehow, I don't think the McGees are in that situation.<BR/><BR/>* As you can see from my username, I have since lost the weight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167242063727932592006-12-27T09:54:00.000-08:002006-12-27T09:54:00.000-08:00Yeah, but what good is saving $9,600 a year if you...Yeah, but what good is saving $9,600 a year if you're unhappy? If $9,600 could buy you a body that you were proud of off the rack at Macy's, I think you'd consider it a steal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167238927461112282006-12-27T09:02:00.000-08:002006-12-27T09:02:00.000-08:005:01, $200 a week might sound cheap; but if you us...5:01, $200 a week might sound cheap; but if you use this trainer every week for a year, it equals $9,600 dollars. That's not exactly inexpesive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167224467224665812006-12-27T05:01:00.000-08:002006-12-27T05:01:00.000-08:00What's the difference between whining, "I'm always...What's the difference between whining, "I'm always broke!! I wish I had money. But spending sprees at mall are just that fun" and what the mcgees whine? <BR/><BR/>What exactly are your jobs that you can't focus on a diet/exercise program? I'm a lawyer -- I could see that if you worked in a firm, that might be the case, say. But I mean, no job is worth your health. <BR/><BR/>And I find it VERY hard to believe that if each of you called up a parent and said, "I want to hire a trainer. It's $200 a week" that they would be like, "no."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167113776171580122006-12-25T22:16:00.000-08:002006-12-25T22:16:00.000-08:00There is just NO reason why an educated, well-off ...<I>There is just NO reason why an educated, well-off woman in her twenties who is extremely unhappy at her current weight should be ingesting cheeseburgers.</I><BR/><BR/>And here we have the entire premise of this blog: "I hate being fat! (Gulp) Wah - people are mean to fatties (Belch) I wanna lose weight (Chewing noises) No, really I do! (Guzzle)..."<BR/><BR/>And on and on, ad nauseum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1167067859157769872006-12-25T09:30:00.000-08:002006-12-25T09:30:00.000-08:00That whole "because cheeseburgers are just THAT go...That whole "because cheeseburgers are just THAT good" thing is unbelievable to me. Can't you see what you're doing to your own happiness? <BR/><BR/>I mean, i struggle with weight, and cheeseburgers are just OFF the menu. Going on eating sprees involving dipping sauces and cheeseburgers is just insane to me. <BR/><BR/>It sounds to me like you girls are a little bit like alcoholics or drug addicts, but your drug of choice is food. <BR/><BR/>There is just NO reason why an educated, well-off woman in her twenties who is extremely unhappy at her current weight should be ingesting cheeseburgers. I mean, I know what it's like to eat extra calories at holidays, or after a stressful day, or get second helpings when you know you shouldn't ... but cheeseburgers? That's just self-destructive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166911869339553012006-12-23T14:11:00.000-08:002006-12-23T14:11:00.000-08:00I got out of bed.Was it littered with cookie crumb...<I>I got out of bed.</I><BR/><BR/>Was it littered with cookie crumbs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166846019385809942006-12-22T19:53:00.000-08:002006-12-22T19:53:00.000-08:00I got out of bed.I got out of bed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166827195139720322006-12-22T14:39:00.000-08:002006-12-22T14:39:00.000-08:00What's your problem? We're being honest here. Or d...<I>What's your problem? We're being honest here. Or don't you approve of people actually getting off their asses and losing weight? Go and choke on another packet of Doritos.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah bitch. What have YOU done today to make you feel proud?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166824836577157482006-12-22T14:00:00.000-08:002006-12-22T14:00:00.000-08:00Anon at 12:42 - I take it you're a proud fatty? No...Anon at 12:42 - I take it you're a proud fatty? Now THAT's a fucking sad sack of shit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166815273602342612006-12-22T11:21:00.000-08:002006-12-22T11:21:00.000-08:00(looks above) God what a fucking sad sack of shitW...<I>(looks above) God what a fucking sad sack of shit</I><BR/><BR/>What's your problem? We're being honest here. Or don't you approve of people actually getting off their asses and losing weight? Go and choke on another packet of Doritos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166776933542099022006-12-22T00:42:00.000-08:002006-12-22T00:42:00.000-08:00(looks above) God what a fucking sad sack of shit....(looks above) God what a fucking sad sack of shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166744918742932012006-12-21T15:48:00.000-08:002006-12-21T15:48:00.000-08:00But I'd rather be uncomfortable for a couple weeks...<I>But I'd rather be uncomfortable for a couple weeks than berating myself for a lifetime.</I><BR/><BR/>I hear you, sister! I wish I'd got on top of my weight problem when it was only ten pounds. Waiting until you're 40-something to lose the weight, then looking back at your life and realising all the things you missed out on really sucks. I really feel as though I'm making up for lost time. <BR/><BR/>Anon @ 5.17 and 6.21Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166697207794938752006-12-21T02:33:00.000-08:002006-12-21T02:33:00.000-08:00I think the McGees just don't want to put in the w...I think the McGees just don't want to put in the work. Losing weight isn't fun. It isn't easy. It's sometimes painful.<BR/>I recently gained 10 pounds and you know what? I'm hungry right now. But I've lost two pounds this week by cutting out food I'd rather eat and going to the gym for a little bit longer. Do I particularly want to do it? No. But I'd rather be uncomfortable for a couple weeks than berating myself for a lifetime.<BR/>It's just about facing reality, that sometimes the phrase "no pain no gain" is dead fucking serious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166667710231583952006-12-20T18:21:00.000-08:002006-12-20T18:21:00.000-08:00e - you're welcome and I'm happy for you that you'...e - you're welcome and I'm happy for you that you're working through the baggage. I wish I had done it when I was 26 and not waited until I was 46!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166666911861338452006-12-20T18:08:00.000-08:002006-12-20T18:08:00.000-08:00Hey--thanks.Frustration and anger make sense to me...Hey--thanks.<BR/><BR/>Frustration and anger make sense to me, those are reasons, real, honest reasons. I don't even really disagree with the purported <I>content</I> of your or most trolls' posts, either--it's really just the (mostly terribly denigrating) tone and the (<I>really insane</I> amount of) repetition (which I'm sure would decrease if people just weren't baited) of the topic. And with that I'm talking trolls in general, not just your one or two posts. <BR/><BR/>Honestly, though, I didn't like the tone of your post, either, and while you may have only posted once or twice (it's hard to keep track with all the anonymouses), it's still the same freakin topic over and over again, admittedly because it's a reaction to the McGee's same freakin topic over and over again. I just have more understanding for the McGee's because I'm in the same boat, and while I make very, very sure never to complain about my fatness to my friends, I probably would complain in a blog (I do complain in my journal) to try to work out whatever dumb shit I'm putting in the way of changing myself. Because I am putting dumb shit in my own way, and I know it my own damn self, but part of the dumb shit is dumb shit I'm hanging on to from my mom, and my dad, and my grandma, and all these people who told me what to do and how to think and what to feel, and now I'm a goddamn fat 26 year old still putting this dumb shit from my childhood in front of me, and I don't know how else to get rid of it except for slowly whittling it down through expressing, out loud, somewhere, what it really is. And while I know a blog is public, I would hate (and do hate) to be faced with the same shit in my present as the shit that I'm hanging on to from my past, so I commend the McGees for their strength, because I probably would have culled the comments section long ago.<BR/><BR/>Erg. Probably TMI for you, sorry.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, while I can't agree with what you're doing or how you're doing it, at least, in your case, I now know where you're coming from, and it's not so bad. So, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166663822908358712006-12-20T17:17:00.000-08:002006-12-20T17:17:00.000-08:00OK, e, I'll be honest now... The reason I posted w...OK, e, I'll be honest now... <BR/><BR/>The reason I posted what I did is that, having lost a lot of weight myself, I lose patience with people who say they want to lose weight, but continue to do nothing about it. I know that bitching to fatties won't help them and is ultimately futile, so I guess I'm posting out a massive sense of frustration. <BR/><BR/>I have read the archives and in some of those earlier posts the McGees express real pain at being so overweight. I want to tell them that they don't have to go through life being fat and feeling so bad about themsleves, that there is an alternative, but that THEY have to make it happen. <BR/><BR/>I'm not actually bitter and twisted, nor a bitch, but I will admit that I'm angry at myself for being so overweight for so long. So maybe I'm projecting that anger onto the McGees?<BR/><BR/>I think if people are fat and happy with themselves, that's cool, but when they constantly complain about how miserable it is to be fat but continue to binge and find excuses not to diet and exercise, I just want to shake them - or come over all Jillian Michaels on them.<BR/><BR/>So that's my story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166658223639411992006-12-20T15:43:00.000-08:002006-12-20T15:43:00.000-08:002:56:I appreciate any response, since (from what I...2:56:<BR/><BR/>I appreciate any response, since (from what I've seen) no troll has ever answered the "why" question on this blog.<BR/><BR/>As for "happy"--I'm interested in satisfying my curiosity, which your response did not. What you said, though it may have a whiff of honesty, is more akin to how angry fatties respond to trolls than how I would expect a troll to respond to a fatty.<BR/><BR/>Sarcasm aside, if you're actually claiming to be a bitch, are you one of those people who's a bitch and proud of it? Then it would make sense to me why you're here. Horrid would make sense too, so, are you horrid and proud of it? I ask the "proud" bit because most people try to avoid being horrid bitches, though some don't and pride themselve on it.<BR/><BR/>If you're actually bitter and twisted, that would also make sense. The situation you're in right now, though, just doesn't make sense. Or, it doesn't make sense to me. I'm interested in some illumination as to why it makes sense to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166655396179465882006-12-20T14:56:00.000-08:002006-12-20T14:56:00.000-08:00And I'm still very, very curious about my question...<I>And I'm still very, very curious about my question, especially in your case.</I><BR/><BR/>OK, e, I'll bite. I say these things because I'm a horrible, bitter, twisted bitch and not a wonderful, loving, caring person like you.<BR/><BR/>Happy now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166654917769032072006-12-20T14:48:00.000-08:002006-12-20T14:48:00.000-08:00's'easy, Poppy, just sign up for a (freeee) blogge...'s'easy, Poppy, just sign up for a (freeee) blogger account and my blog's your oyster. Believe me, no one on the face of the planet is more rubbish with computer-related things than me. If I can do it, a lobotomized <I>troglodyte</I> is capable of opening up an account. <BR/><BR/>Go on, you know you want to...Buttercup Rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08929261555166423769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166650922159764362006-12-20T13:42:00.000-08:002006-12-20T13:42:00.000-08:00Thanks, buffpuff: I wish you had a more accessible...Thanks, buffpuff: I wish you had a more accessible blog. <BR/><BR/>Back to thread: I read the McGees because they are funny and honest and unpreachy, and sometimes I actually want to know what other people have to deal with even if I don't share the same problems. If thinking that Lindsey and Emily sometimes make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves makes me a troll, then, er, fol-de-rol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166648760959777082006-12-20T13:06:00.000-08:002006-12-20T13:06:00.000-08:0030000 words is quite a short book. Will there be i...<I>30000 words is quite a short book. Will there be illustrations?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, Poppy, it will; loads. It's primarily a reference/textbook, and will involve a ton of research and interviews - though it won't have a dry, academic tone. The publisher's quite a hip one and anxious to avoid that kind of thing.Buttercup Rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08929261555166423769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166644470013157032006-12-20T11:54:00.000-08:002006-12-20T11:54:00.000-08:00I have been a silent reader of the blog for a whil...I have been a silent reader of the blog for a while. And I have found it funny, sweet, and interesting. To those who are making fun of people who are larger than you or saying that they're too lazy, I have more than enough to say to you. <BR/>But I'm not even going to add to the fighting in this forum. All I'm going to say is that you girls are awesome:) Keep up the great work and don't let the trolls get you down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14578627.post-1166642994644588252006-12-20T11:29:00.000-08:002006-12-20T11:29:00.000-08:00Anonymous at 10:16:Why should I care if the McGees...Anonymous at 10:16:<BR/><BR/><I>Why should I care if the McGees lose weight or not? They obviously don't.</I><BR/><BR/>As <B>another_troll</B>'s before, your interpretation of my words is backwards. In your case, you illustrated the point of my post beautifully. And I'm still very, very curious about my question, especially in your case.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure you, and all you other trolls, don't care about answering my question, and therefore, don't respond. This makes a lot of sense, good job on being consistent. But all of you <I><B>do</I></B> respond to a whole mess of other things you claim are not worth caring about or, at the very least, incredibly below you. This doesn't make sense, and is inconsistent. You choose to spend <I><B>so much</I></B> time on something that you yourself claim you don't care about. <I><B>If you don't care</I></B>, 10:16, then why do you choose to take the time to read their blog, the time to make negative posts, the time to read do-gooder responses, and the time to reply to do-gooder responses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com