To be irritated by people who say they can't lose weight?

[BeerSnake]

umm just eat less and get out more. Or am I being unreasonable?

PALEO - that's all I have to say

Actually - Pig to Twig might do the trick too.

or Marks Daily Apple

please research these titles/sites if you wish to lose weight

and it's fucking not about eating less and exercising more

"and it's fucking not about eating less and exercising more

Fabby - so because you are a lazy cah, you assume everyone else is?

I'm currently a size 10, much slimmer than my usual size 14/16. The main reason for this is that I'm currently a stay at home Mum to a baby and toddler and I'd go crazy if stuck inside with them every day so am out pounding the pavements on a daily basis.

The only way I can stay slim is if I get daily exercise. The only way.

I'm worried that once I go back to work and sit at a desk all day, and then come home and attend to family life, it will creep back on.

Hardly because I am lazy and sitting there scoffing donuts like you do. But because I won't have the opportunities to exercise. Loads and loads of people, especially Mums, are too busy to exercise and once you get into your 30s and beyond it is extremely rare to be able to manage your weight through diet alone.

Engage brain before speaking and realise not everyone is like you.

I think getting on a bit makes it harder to loose or even maintain weight.
I have been the same weight give or take, with 3 pregnancies. for about 10-12 years. I don't eat very much. I weigh myself each morning, If the scales say I have put on a pound or two, I eat very little for a a couple of days to get back to my "happy weight" The older I get the less I eat to keep my weight consistant. IT IS A CHORE and hard, and dull and boring!!! but I like my "Happy weight" as it makes me.... well Happy. I would love to eat more! and do feel hungry sometimes (lots actually), but a taste on the lips will put more lard on my just ok hips.
By the time I am 50 I will probably living on scotch mist to maintain my weight.
Loosing weight is hard!!!!! and a Bummer

I want a doughnut now. A nice jam one with real sugar on it.

Me too!!! Takitezee

YABU

Do one, OP.

I am currently on a diet, I have lost a stone, it has taken me weeks. I have not eaten anything other than protein and steamed vegetables and salad. No bread, no potato nor pasta nor rice.

I drink water and black tea.

I walk for 40 minutes a day.

Anyone normal would lose weight at a much faster rate than me. All I have to do to put weight on is eat a "normal" meal. Like a sandwich for lunch. Or include one steamed potato for dinner.

So thanks for the advice and sorry if I annoy you so much by my endless struggles.

Can someone post me a bag of raspberry doughnuts? Pretty, pretty please.

oh so you only have to run 15 miles per week and can stay slim? Should I run those 2 miles before or after my daily 2 hours of hardcore exercise?

hmmm, i think OP is mainly right, i am sure the vast majority of people could lose weight if they ate less and exercised more - i know i could - having excuses as to why you cant get out and exercise miss the point in the fact that you are agreeing if you exercised more you would be able to lose weight.

You dont see many fat people in african tribes and the like do you, you didnt see that many fat people in the war years - because work was manual and food was scarce

so yes you are mainly correct OP. Of course there are a some cases where medication plays havoc with your system.

Agree with chicky and well said Tilly and Empusa.
To some shallow minded people weight seems to be the first thing they see in someone, but more commonly it is the person who is commenting/critisizing that actually has self confidence issues with themselves ad picking on something else makes them feel better.I am a bit OW now, I had dd 2 years ago and am pregnant with second, but even when I wasn't OW I would never have commented on something like this purely because I try and see the best in people and that doesnt involve weight. I also have a sister who has struggled from childhood and has PCOS and I have seen what she has been through as I have other close friends who are the most amazing people and a hell of a lot stronger in mind than myself.

You dont see many fat people in african tribes and the like do you - errm yes you do, In many African countries being overweight is a sign of beauty and wealth.

Ok so, I'm now size 16-18, two dc's, youngest nearly 9 months. We have no car so I walk nearly EVERYWHERE pushing a large pram. I'm out everyday with Dc's. School run is a half hour hike uphill. I eat sensibly, have the odd chocolate bar and biscuits. Do tell, oh wise one, how I can shift the bloody weight???

scrambedeggs The OP is mainly right to be "irritated" by overweight people? Really? The OP appears to be making a lot of assumptions on what other people can and can't do.

How about my situation?
I can't lose weight easily at all.

I know exercise would fix it, but I can't do substantial exercise due to a long term disability.

So I cannot lose the weight. Not until (or if) I get better.

Fair to have people "irritated" by me? I think not.

If the OP had said they found people irritating who said that eating less and exercising more didn't result in weight loss, I'd have agreed. But the OP is just a jibe at overweight people, who have enough on their plates (pardon the pun).

Hence why they are a twat and BU.

This isn't a helpful OP, it's intended to point and laugh at fat people.

OP

YANBU with the basic science behind losing weight
YABU to express it though as it's an unpopular opinion and upsets a lot of people

I dont have enough on my plate. I ate the fucking lot

@ Bimbo

Way of life sorry about that, was watching a donut someone chucked up the hill instead of worrying about my spelling

YABVU because you don't have any understanding, but YANBU at the same time. All diets 'work' but they really don't work for everyone all the time. Eat less do more, sounds so SO simple, but its not a case of eating less, but usually, eating more of the right things.

I've struggled with my weight since pre-teenhood, not my mum's fault directly either (unless her obsession for healthy meals was the reason why I'd buy chocolate - which it kinda was sometimes!) yet I am quite nutritionally savvy and have always been active.... I tried every diet going, every eating plan and some worked some of the time but none worked as a lifestyle choice.

Until this year, my 37th on the planet. I've lost 2stone and counting, very happily, easily incorporated into the 'family' and I'm happy and yes, at times think 'shit this is actually EASY!!'.

I also know many people who eat very little and are very very fat. I truly believe its about balance, eating enough, not too little, not too much, of the right things, and its something that is EASY, but involves forming a habit, which takes at least 2 months ancd ongoing reminders to get right.

Illogical to people who've never struggled, but then so is anorexia... yet its a problem, have a heart. Accept that you don't kmnow everything, and that's what is obvious to you maybe more complex for others and you won't come across as an annoying twat with no empathy, even if fundamentally you aren't wrong.

So yeh, YABU... sorry for long post.

FlamingFanjo, I have the same condition (plus a few other things).

I also get pissed off with sweeping comments. Well done on your four stone weight loss, I have lost two stone but by God, it has been very hard work.

I exercise, 2-3 hours fairly brisk dog walks per day, eat healthily 99% of the time but lose weight very slowly. My legs look very heavy in comparison to my top half, (neat waist and stomach, but substantial norks) and folk pass rude comments if I ever wear anything which doesn't completely cover my legs. I can't run as it's too painful, and I struggle with elliptical trainers/excercise bikes as one leg is significantly shorter than the other.

I do the best I can.

Yes my legs do look very fat to the casual observer, but there is arse all I can do about it.