10/24 of those extra hours trying to sleep in between getting up to pee, and the other 14 dribbling from one or another opening
bollocks. Must have left my webcam turned on...
Losing weight especially through exercise tones up your muscles and reduces your cholesterol levels.
I don't mind keeling over with a nice quick heart attack. Gone in one. That will do me. But I dread having 3/4 of a heart attack or a stroke and finishing up a drooling burden on everyone. Being fed by a spoon holds no pleasure. So loose the weight and enjoy more of life.
For an active person, a very tangible benefit of losing weight is that your ankles, hips and knees last longer and hurt less.
Shit! If that’s true about cycling I’m going to live a very long time. I’m not prepared financially or emotionally for that.
Loving some of the “facts stated on here. I’ve met some fat old people, how?They should be dead from being fat. Having dodgy genes passed down, now there’s a way to **** up your life expectancy.
I’ve met some fat old people, how?They should be dead from being fat.
Why?
Because it makes you die earlier, fact!
*add sarcastic face as original post appears to have been taken seriously. Also did you know skinny people can die young?
Why?
Reasons
How? - Firing squads
If they're a good friend they won't take offence at being told to F-off properly, and they should know that you're offended too by the way you said it.
But having said that, if you can lose weight properly, as others up there^^ have said not through going on a diet but changing your diet and other habits, you will genuinely see a big difference. Since January last year I've lost just under 3 stone. Been trying to lose a bit of weight for ages, but after getting my diabetes under proper control again (wasn't hugely out but enough to make a difference with shovelling loads of sweet stuff down my neck because of hypos) not only have I lost weight but I now take a lot less insulin, generally don't feel hungry anywhere near as much and when I do don't feel like eating the amounts I used to.
Out running and on the bike it's made a huge difference too, I can beat my usual riding buddies up hills where I always used to be last before and get to the end of a ride feeling vaguely human.
As one of the guys I ride with said after I'd lost 2 stone "that extra weight would be like having 13 bags of sugar in your Camelbak"
I'm sure anyone would notice the difference that would make.
Over the last 18 months I've gone from 86 kg to 66 kg. About 10kg of that in the first year was down to exercise, but the next 10 in last 6 months was due to giving up meat, takeaways and alcohol.
Yes I am far faster up a hill, but to be honest I miss junk food, beer, and burgers. I may be healthier, but not sure I am happier.
That Kate Moss quote is plain awful. I used to be fairly fit, lean fast blah blah blah........cake Kate, cake tastes better than skinny feels. So does beer and curry and chips and crisps. Although I imagine if copious amounts of cocaine have wrecked your taste buds everything will taste a bit bland.
I suspect, OP, that you know they're telling the truth and don't want to confront it, which is what is upsetting you. I know there's a fashion these days for everyone being able to take offence for everything, but they're not taking the piss, they're saying it because they can see you're making your life harder and probably they're concerned about your health.
Of course it's your body, your choice, and as an active big chap you'll be healthier than an inactive big chap. But I'm sure you'd enjoy riding more if you lost a bit of weight.
As others have said, it's a lifestyle change not crash dieting you need. And cake can be consumed at the right times (around bike rides!). I'm not sure I would agree with the comments about it being easy - it's not hard, but it is relentless to avoid the things that'll make you fat.
I doubt a diet of cocaine, Marlboro red and the odd salad is going to leave you feeling that healthy
That's why I replaced the salad with a burger...
lol at Binners about Kate Moss.
You should always be able to tell a friend to **** off. That's why they are friends.
Satirical problems for fit cyclists seems to be centered around lycra being baggy [shudders].
I'm guessing you meant sartorial, but satirical fits this thread pretty well. Unlike jeans on my epicly muscular cyclist's legs.
As a fellow porker, I just remind them that lighter people are far easier to kidnap and there’s a lot less effort required to dispose of the bodies
Fantastic. If I'd asked someone "why are you so fat, Rolaand" and they came back with this, it'd shut me up 😀
Yes I am far faster up a hill, but to be honest I miss junk food, beer, and burgers. I may be healthier, but not sure I am happier.
Ah, an honest man.
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As one of the guys I ride with said after I’d lost 2 stone “that extra weight would be like having 13 bags of sugar in your Camelbak”
Sounds delicious tbh
In my case, you don’t. You take a look in the mirror, have a word with yourself and sort yourself out.
I still bloody love a burger and a pint or 6, but if you run 40 miles per week and cycle close to 100 you can largely eat what you want. Thin feels good, but burgers taste better. Being fit as a butchers dog is better than both, and exercising loads means you can have it all.
My youngest enjoys taking the piss out of me when we’re on the BMX track.
Him: I know 4 fat people
Me: yeah
Him: you are three of them
Me f£@&@(
Him: Are you bleeding gravy
Me: ffff£&&)@; b€#¥%¥{
Him: heheh (rides off into the distance)
Mind you, I’ve lost a stone since February and built a lot of muscle. Trouble is he’s getting bigger and bloody faster!
I've lost 2 stone in the last 2 and a half months by making simple diet changes. Still, someone recently still felt the need to sit and lecture me on how I need to "keep going" and "you won't stay on course" etc. etc. etc.
Same person did some stupid crash diet, lost a load of weight and then went and put it all back on so they must be experts?
Go with the "I'm fat and I can diet, but you'll always be a ****" method
Is it a thing though, do friends actually comment about each others weight ? I've got friends in all shapes and sizes, tall, short, skinny and fat. Most of them aren't cyclists and it's never occurred to me to mention thier body shape to them in any meaningful way. Certainly not to their faces. A little bit of teasing perhaps amongst riding buddies, but most of that is self depreciation.
Commenting directly to someone about their weight isn't an intervention it's just rude. We all know if we're fat or not, nobody's in denial, and if they are it's there buisness not any body elses.
If you're annoyed that a friend is calling you fat, it probably means that you aren't entirely happy with your body yourself. If you aren't happy with yourself, you should do something about it* - the only critic who really matters is you.
*This may not necessarily mean losing weight
We all know if we’re fat or not, nobody’s in denial,
Actually I didn’t notice for ages. Not so much denial, more creeping waist syndrome. In my mid to late thirties I had fairly severe reverse body dysmorphia. I’ve pulled my head out of my arse now though, although I’ve yet to do a great deal about it.
This thread has assisted me in my decision to make a conscious effort to eat a bit less/better. And run/ride a bit more too. Cheers! 👍🏼
'friend' - You'd feel great if you lost another 30 pounds.
'me' - Here's a tenner, now **** off and don't bother me again
He was rght, only lost 10 so far and feel much better already 😀
Some activities e.g. exercise add microlives
But I bet that by the time I retire microlives will have been replaced by nanolives (better spec, lower carbon footprint). 🙂
Wow im humbled by all the sage advice and ways for me to just lose the beef. My wife (a teacher) came out with the best one though I think. She said put on your best sarcastic/ quizzacle look and say "excuse me did you mean to be so rude?!". That will do me . Off for a spoonies lunch special now - scotabroad aka "geeztwapehs" 😉
aplainwanananinginwananaw?
The Fat and the Furious.
Is it a thing though, do friends actually comment about each others weight ? I’ve got friends in all shapes and sizes, tall, short, skinny and fat. Most of them aren’t cyclists and it’s never occurred to me to mention thier body shape to them in any meaningful way. Certainly not to their faces. A little bit of teasing perhaps amongst riding buddies, but most of that is self depreciation.
Commenting directly to someone about their weight isn’t an intervention it’s just rude. We all know if we’re fat or not, nobody’s in denial, and if they are it’s there buisness not any body elses.
Friends have commented about how I'm losing too much weight and looking skinny (gone from ~97 to ~82kg at 1.84m). My BMI just scrapes under 25kg/m² now, if I was to be super dedicated I'd want to lose 5-10kg more to ride faster.
So many people in modern society are unhealthily overweight that being at the upper end of a healthy weight looks unhealthily skinny to some people. Of course if someone's telling you the opposite it's fine to ignore them - I certainly ignored the people worrying about my weight loss - but it's simply not true that weight is something people don't comment on. And nor should it be in a world of eating disorders and huge levels of obesity in society.
Geeztwapehs
Dundonian? You're ****ed diet or no diet.
Will you be having those pehs in a buttered roll?
I’m this fat because every time I f#@£ your wife she gives me a biscuit.
Let you have that one for nothing.
Beaten to it above!
Really though sticks and stones and all that!
The Fat and the Furious.
Was (genuinely!) the name of a US hot rod tv show on The discovery channel. The mechanics were all as you’d imagine...
Tell them that you need big hammer to knock in a long nail
"i am alright with my weight but thanks for sharing your opinion."
=
I don't give a sh1t about your opinion so FO.
How to tell a friend to F off when they call you fat?!
Answer back "So? So what? You want me to sit on you?"
They don’t sound like a friend.
I'm not fat, I'm just thick skinned.
Wait. No. No I'm not. I'm going to ask the internet to come up with a comeback. Can you just wait there?
For an active person, a very tangible benefit of losing weight is that your ankles, hips and knees last longer and hurt less.
If that’s the case, then, as someone who’s been active for years, walks between four to six miles a day, walks into town, etc, why do my knees and othe joints ache so much?
My BMI is well within range, I’m 5’10”, weigh roughly 12 stone, yet I’ve never had great stamina, when I was biking every day, I’d still struggle on hills. Why is that?
I’ve never had to worry about losing weight, I eat well, to the extent that my g/f constantly wonders where the hell I put it all, but I don’t put on weight, I wear 32” waist jeans, I can ‘just’ about get into a 30” pair I bought 35 years ago, so why do I ache so much in my joints, and struggle up hills?
I am 65 in less than a month, which might go some way to explain it...
I'm commenting because I've been in a similar place not so long ago. As others have suggested, if you care they're saying you're fat then you should either care enough to do something about it, or stop caring about them saying it - not doing either is just leaving unresolved cognitive dissonance that in the longer term is not doing you favours, and probably isn't helping your eating habits.
I recently lost quite a lot of weight, and am still losing. Others have pointed it out - if you're otherwise healthy it's really not very difficult. And don't "go on a diet", just sort out what you're eating. You can have pizza, but don't have a huge one, and have some salad before you start on the pizza as a starter. I still enjoy a cold beer in the evening, but it's not the first thing I drink. I have 1 or 2 pints of cold sparkling water which takes the thirst away and I really enjoy the beer, and I'm not reaching for another straight away because the first one only lasts 2 minutes. It's the first glass of fizzy water that only lasts 2 minutes (it works out way cheaper too).
I used to, on a weekend, have cereals for breakfast and a slice or two of toast with butter and jam. Now I'm paying attention I realise that that one meal was already just about my calorie intake for the day. Because it was the weekend, I'd often have something nice in the evening too, and probably a couple of beers. I'd probably end up on 4000+ calories on a Saturday. Far too much.
I'd stopped weighing myself, because rather like you, I didn't like be told I was fat (it's what the scales were saying...). If I didn't look in the mirror too much I could kid myself. My mind considered I was still what I weighed the last time I weighed myself. When I did finally weigh myself I'd actually put another 10 kilos on. I was a proper biffer. I still am, but without dieting, my weight is slowly going in the right direction. I don't really care how long it takes, but I now weigh myself each morning just to ensure that the trend is still heading the right way. That's my only real indicator. Last night I went to an impromptu BBQ at some parents of my kids friends. I drank beer. I ate sausages, crisps, olives (loads :O ). Didn't count how much of what, but made sure I filled up on salad, and stopped when I wasn't hungry anymore. And I had a gorgeous fruit salad with fresh nectarines and strawberries with fresh mint leaves. I knew my weight will have gone up, because I ate too much, but I also now know that if I'm not doing that a couple of times a week, I'll be alright. So I don't care that I ate too much "bad" food last night, I'll just be more careful this week to make sure that next Sunday the trend is still, overall, the right one.
Unless you sort out the dissonance that you care about being told you're fat, but aren't doing anything about it yourself, you'll not be in a good place - however much you ski/bike/walk etc.