Mmmm.... BMI = crap.
I have to agree with bcsoda.... this thread is absolutely disgusting. The absolute contempt people have for overweight people is sad. Half of this thread is making fun of fat people, the other half is just plain insulting.
Both of my parents grew up in poor families. So when they both got middle class jobs, they would take us out to A&W, and MacDonalds, and stock the pantry full of Joe Louis and potato chips. Nutrition wasn't that big of a thing in the 70s, especially for blue collar workers. So the whole family was overweight. My brother and I adopted the poor diet our parents set for us. I was made fun of, bullied, ridiculed... with comments very similar to those made in this very thread. I became depressed and that only made me eat more. I took solace in food. It seemed to be the only thing that brought any kind of happiness. In 2009 I topped out at 340 pounds. At some point I realized that I shouldn't give a #### what others think about me and the real problem is that I didn't like MYSELF.
I've bored people with my story in a variety of other threads. My newspaper article is here:
http://www.yourottawaregion.com/print/1051637
But I didn't lose the weight because people were making fun of me. I lost the weight DESPITE the ridicule. I hated going to the gym at 340 lbs because of the finger pointers and snickers. There was a fellow here that put an ad up on Kijiji offering to clean someone's pool for the summer if he could swim there during the day. He didn't want to go to a public pool and be laughed at for his weight. It's the attitudes shown in this thread that make people feel like absolute crap about themselves and their lives.