Lisa

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• Commented on Fashion Writer: Malnourished Women Are Out...
  Darnit! Just when I start getting this weight business under control, fat comes into fashion. Oh well, guess I'd better stop worrying about that whole health thing and lay back into the doritos!...
• Commented on Can Obesity Be a Civil Rights Issue?
  There's a difference between discriminating against someone and holding them accountable for their decisions and actions. I am not suggesting we tattoo red F's to the foreheads of fat people and make them use a separate fountain and sit at...
• Commented on Can Obesity Be a Civil Rights Issue?
  I always have a hard time with this question too. How do we balance the rights of the individual vs what is fair for the group? I don't think someone should be discounted from jobs or other opportunities where weight...
• Commented on Brain Surgery for Weight Loss?
  OH! AND I MEANT TO SAY! I can't stand the "tried everything" people either. I was fat. Okay, more than fat. Really effin obese. I didn't want to be really effin obese anymore. So I did some research. I learned...
• Commented on Fat-Burning Supplement Warning
  I've never aimed to be skinny. I want to be healthy. That's it. I never understood the desire to be "skinny". Skinny is easy. Don't eat. Take drugs. Healthy, however, is admirable! It's eating the right foods in the right...
• Commented on Brain Surgery for Weight Loss?
  Oh, I've been in sarcasm training for 27 years now. If I ran a minute for every time I said something sarcastic, I would have never gotten over 300 lbs. Maybe I should institute that new rule.......
• Commented on Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines?
  Look at most of the parents of overweight children. How can they teach their children behaviors they are unwilling or unable to model themselves? I agree it's their responsibility, but I also think sex ed should be taught by parents,...
• Commented on Brain Surgery for Weight Loss?
  I'll do anything to lose weight! Except exercise! Or change my diet. Other than those two things...just name it and I'll do it. I'm serious this time. Really, anything. Anything at all. Except alter my food intake or energy expenditure....
• Commented on Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines?
  Schools do put the money generated from vending machines to good use, but essentially we are trading health for education, and I think kids have a fundemental right to have both provided for. There are other ways to generate income...
• Commented on Fat-Burning Supplement Warning
  People are always looking for the magic bullet. That's why when I'm asked how I lost weight, I pretty much always answer "Crystal Meth. Sucks about the bugs crawling all over my skin, but anything is better than being fat,...
• Commented on How Many Calories In Your Burger and Fries?
  I don't think putting it in people's faces is going to result in them reading it or using it to make choices. If people are interested, they will seek out the information. If they aren't, they won't read it, even...
• Commented on Vegetable Juice Helps Dieters Lose More Weight
  Vegetable juice isn't bad. If you're feeling low-blood sugary and need a lil something to skip you through til you can get some real food, I'd rather have some pure fruit or vegetable juice than pop or candy or a...