There's this health hippie I work with that eats only organic smoothies and seeds or some shit but he weighs like 400 pounds. He also has fibromyalgia and doesn't shut the fuck up about it. Once he sat in his chair and broke it and said it was because fibromyalgia took his eyesight. Now he works from home. I think we all need to go over to his house and teach him about the real world of TWW.

9/19/2014 10:58:02 AM

ITT, "one" = "all"

9/19/2014 11:06:57 AM

you just notice the fat ones because they're easier to ridicule

9/19/2014 11:07:52 AM

you just notice the fat ones because they're easier to ridicule notice

9/19/2014 11:12:48 AM

at least he is trying to do something about his health.

9/19/2014 11:22:35 AM

lol fibromyalgia lol

9/19/2014 11:25:25 AM

Haha "health hippies"

9/19/2014 11:26:48 AM

I've known people that swore off meat for health reasons. But then they will reach for highly processed foods to eat. I guess they're right in that those ho hos don't contain meat.


Maybe it is related to that common misconception that all fat people eat everything in sight. When in reality a lot of overweight people are very picky eaters. But when they do find something they like, they gorge themselves on it. Or what they find that they like are highly fatty sugary foods.

9/19/2014 11:28:07 AM

How long have you known him to eat that kind of stuff at that weight?

MAYBE he has been fat most of his life and has just started to do something about it now by eating healthy? You can't drop hundreds of pounds in a month or two.

9/19/2014 12:45:15 PM

it's glandular

9/19/2014 12:47:30 PM

Are they vegetarian usually?

They are carb-heavy so they get fat. They're so ill-informed they think smoothies and veggies chips are healthy.

9/19/2014 2:26:01 PM

girl i dated in college thought she had fibromyalgia, and it was a point of conflict because i didn't believe fibromyaliga was a real disease

turns out it was actually aggressive MS, and now she has trouble walking and I'm an asshole

9/19/2014 2:50:43 PM

9/19/2014 9:13:40 PM

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"Are they vegetarian usually? They are carb-heavy so they get fat. They're so ill-informed they think smoothies and veggies chips are healthy."

The carbs are definitely a problem. Dude I work with decided one day to go vegan. Did a juice diet for 10 days, then went to a "standard" vegan diet. He lost about 25 lbs. in the first three months (he wasn't huge to begin with, just a little overweight) but then he said in the past month he's regained about 5 of it because he was getting careless with potatoes and rice. So now he's trying to cut out potatoes, cut out white rice, and cut down on brown rice. Plus he said his doctor advised him he should cut out nuts and all oils (even olive oil). I admire his dedication and he's definitely doing it right (no processed foods whatsover) but soon he's going to run out of things to eat...

9/21/2014 1:31:57 AM

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"Plus he said his doctor advised him he should cut out nuts and all oils (even olive oil)."

Unless there is some genuine medical reason (like, he has no gall bladder), tell him his doctor is stupid.

9/21/2014 2:18:32 AM

last time a doctor told a patient to cut out nuts, he got a snippity snippity on the wing wang

9/21/2014 11:32:41 PM

I know a fat vegetarian, but he is known to eat a lot of grilled cheese

9/21/2014 11:40:11 PM

His fibromyalgia support group is full of health hippies and they're all refusing to eat anything that was once living now, because the chemicals in plants and animals and medicines are what causes fibromyalgia. Also his farts now smell like gasoline and he has a Segway scooter!

9/22/2014 8:01:04 AM

is there any food source that wasn't alive at some point?

9/22/2014 8:27:06 AM

^
salt, potassium, ...

all of which are definitively "food" because you must consume them to survive

therefore they are food sources

9/22/2014 8:42:26 AM

salt is a seasoning, not a food.

9/22/2014 8:53:21 AM

its also a necessary nutrient

9/22/2014 9:51:56 AM

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"is there any food source that wasn't alive at some point?"

No milks were ever killed to make milk, but I guess the "source" was alive.

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9/22/2014 10:36:24 AM

i believe cookies were never alive.

9/22/2014 12:01:44 PM

flour was, flour is an ingredient in cookies

9/22/2014 12:06:20 PM

Had a coworker who was a vegetarian. Not for any health reason or to save the animals, but just didn't like the texture and taste of meat. He is a carb junkie though and would seriously binge at Olive Garden. Went to a work conference in Greenville once and even though half our meals were provided, he left every day to go to Olive Garden for lunch and dinner!

Motherfucker is like 300+ pounds.

9/22/2014 12:32:03 PM

needs the never ending pasta pass

9/22/2014 12:35:00 PM

the thing about people who eat healthy and are still large, is that they forget that healthy foods still have calories.

9/22/2014 12:59:40 PM

I used to work at a smoothie place. They are like half sugar. Now idk what smoothies homeboy is drinking but if they aren't homemade with a non-calorie sweetener, brosef is drinking like 30g of sugar minimum I'd say

9/22/2014 2:04:56 PM

He said he's mostly air and not water weight now so he expects to deflate soon. What a dumb motherfucker! Let's go over to his house and pop him with a pin.

9/23/2014 7:59:43 AM

Comin into work lookin like a Macy day balloon. He says he's still reducing "air and water weight" by eating salt.

10/31/2014 8:17:45 AM

someone called him a marshmellow and he took it to heart

10/31/2014 8:38:48 AM

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"ITT, "one" = "all""

10/31/2014 11:18:34 AM

I know a lot of hippies (that is weird to say) and very small percentage of them are fat. Most of them are too afraid to eat anything other than some tiny ass vegetables they harvest mooned themselves to be fat

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10/31/2014 12:54:38 PM

I'm excited about the Marxist Soylent philosophy. Everyone consumes a disgusting shake designed by nutritionists for every meal. All other foods are outlawed everywhere. No more of this hording extra fat inside your bodies, capitalist pigs.

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"is there any food source that wasn't alive at some point?"

I believe that we'll soon start converting compounds from crude oil into edible molecules. The margin between oil and junk food is still fantastic. Corn crops are already fungible, but petroleum itself takes more advanced chemistry. I guess it's still up for debate whether it was alive at some point, but it's been millions of years even if it was.

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10/31/2014 1:11:19 PM

You're in luck

http://www.soylent.me/

10/31/2014 5:36:44 PM

theres so many possibilities

-being fat is often genetic and not always due to eating habbits. esta fat vs ser fat
-smoothies usually contain fruit. if someone eats only fruit they are probably consuming way too much sugar
-if you consume hfcs for several years, it could damage the way your body metabolizes fat meaning you will get fat almost regardless of what you do next.
-exercise?

10/31/2014 5:52:09 PM

in my experiences, hippies tend to be either skinny or fat. I haven't met too many hippies of average build.

10/31/2014 11:49:24 PM

This girl I usta be friends with was really skinny in college (by college I mean she lived near college), she stopped doing cocaine and got obese.

Why couldn't a moderate amount of cocaine be a diet drug?

11/1/2014 1:59:11 AM

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"is there any food source that wasn't alive at some point? "

The fruitarian diet - a subset of vegetarianism - kind of goes along with this. It's as close to "no kill" as you can probably get (while actually still being able to eat). More info: http://vegetarian.lovetoknow.com/Fruitarian_Diet

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"-if you consume hfcs for several years, it could damage the way your body metabolizes fat meaning you will get fat almost regardless of what you do next."

[citation needed]

11/1/2014 10:55:32 AM

It could do that. Also, it could make you grow fairy wings too.

11/1/2014 10:57:21 AM

11/1/2014 11:02:12 AM