Comments on: 7 Reasons You’re Fat and Why You’ll Probably Stay Fat

By: Ada (Weight Loss Jungle)

Ada (Weight Loss Jungle) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:11:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing! You have so much information that is helpful to people who need to lose weight or people who are trying to be healthy. I truly enjoy your blog.

By: Personal Trainer in Virginia

Personal Trainer in Virginia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:38:07 +0000

Holy smokes. First of all, Israel, many kudos for putting yourself out there like this and speaking your true feelings. Not only did you write something so deep and true but you led others to chime in and add additional quality view points. I can’t believe I actually read every comment. Must’ve taken me almost an hour.

I personally am not fat. I’m actually very fit and have been a personal trainer since 1998. Everyone’s openness on this post really helped me gain broader insight into the minds of the people I work with and the clients my company serves.

As personal trainers, we’re only part of the equation. Many of the hurdles are within the mind of the client. We can lead them to water but can’t make them drink it. An entire mindset shift needs to occur and as someone else mentioned… Do it one thing at a time. What’s the rush. We often set ourselves up for failure without even knowing it and with the best intentions at heart.

Thanks for sharing. Now I’m going to scroll back up and check out your progress.

Dennys Passeto, CPT

By: julie

julie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:44:10 +0000

Thanks for a brief voice of reason amongst all the self-righteousness. It’s not as simple as everyone really wants to believe to lose weight and keep it off, otherwise we wouldn’t have a multibillion dollar weight loss industry, and a problem that just gets worse.

By: LostmyFlab

LostmyFlab — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:34:37 +0000

Great post there. I’ll just like to point out that perhaps the reasons are not as simple as what we see. We’re all different people leading different lifestyles, one will never realise how much circumstances another faces in order to lose weight.

I believe many people are actually putting in effort to lose some weight. You can tell by relating it to how much the weight loss industry is worth.

Most people are going to stay fat only because they do not know how to stay thin. So many of them are channeling efforts into the wrong directions. Just take a look around..

By: Israel Lagares

Israel Lagares — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:55:27 +0000

Sounds like a great title. I checked you site out and like the info on there. Thanks!

By: pyjammez

pyjammez — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:00:45 +0000

It can all be summed up in this sentence. “I’m too lazy and I like food too much”. I’m going to write a book titled that one day. lol

By: David

David — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:18:57 +0000

I would add at least 8 hours sleep to it. Tension and stress can also make you fat!

By: phalioto

phalioto — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:01:34 +0000

this article should be renamed to:

“the reasons why i’m fat and will remain so”.

this has nothing to do with me or most folks i know… huh?

maybe the article writer should get out more often and put the fork down..

remember, denial is the tattle tail!

By: Diet And Health Plans

Diet And Health Plans — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:48:19 +0000

Dude this is an Awesome article

I agree with you

I cant loss my weight for years now. ….. Damn nightmare

Im eating less and often but still nothing …..Must be my metabolism

By: Acai Berry

Acai Berry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:37:37 +0000

haha.. I love this article. Great job. It’s so true that the simplest things are the objects holding people back.

By: Israel Lagares

Israel Lagares — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:39:33 +0000

LOL. Indeed.

By: lionheart

lionheart — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:21:04 +0000

mmmm dorritos. I’m guilty of all these things.

By: Israel Lagares

Israel Lagares — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:46:48 +0000

We’ve all been at one point or another…

By: Better Body Journal

Better Body Journal — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:28:50 +0000

Damn, so guilty of 1 and 2!

By: constructive troll

constructive troll — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:40:00 +0000

i heard that the no.1 reason fat peeps are fat…
fat friends
and the no.2 reason fat peeps are fat….
fat family
here is a classic what came first the chicken or the egg situation
now that may not be too constructive but it give us some basis for understanding the mental/emotional environment. i have never been fat, the most over weight i have been is probally 10 extra lbs of fat, i am more muscle bound. i believe in the old school formula of weight loss.
Expend more than you consume and you will be GUARANTEED to loose weight.
This formula requires that you kinda know the calories you intake, and that you excerise.
When it comes down to brass tacks, i think we all know how to loose weight. but i think there are other issuses to loosing weight.
a older female friend of mine told me once that women can subconsciously hold onto their fat because it kinda gives them a “feeling” of emotional protection, like a suit of armor made of fat. true change will only occur when one understands the driving reasons that they do what they do. this goes for uprooting any bad habits.
it may take a while of introspection and ontology to understand why you are fat. go back to when you first started to pack on the pounds.
it could be you love sense gratification, in this case your sense of taste. i LOVE to stimulate my taste buds and explore the different textures and aromas of all foods. the difference is i dont shy away from using my body. the pleasures of having a healthy body are endless. you must focus on what you want instead of what you dont. mental monologue like this will help…. ” eating this will nourise my body” instead of ” im not sastisfied by eating this” or ” with everthing i do i build a closer, more harmonious relationship with my body” instead of “wouldnt it feel great to just sit down and relax”
the body has great intelligence, we should all take the time to listen to what our bodies are saying to us. our emotions are the bodies reaction to what we think. are you feeling terrible? what were you thinking before you felt terrible? wanna feel better? think of something positive! “oh, boy. it’d feel great to be able to run like a kid again, fleet of foot and free of spirit!”

By: najia

najia — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:44:59 +0000

fat kid you might be right those were some of the reasons why i never used to do anything about ma weight.i know iam a fat pig and i admit that i didn’t used to care but do know what as soon as i started to care and decided to do something about it my doctor told me not to exercise and to top it up i can’t even make my own food choices. so guess what you are wrong those are not the only reasons why people like us are fat this is one more and is way more depressing than any of the ones you have mentioned.

By: Simlock verwijderen

Simlock verwijderen — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:42:51 +0000

You are probably right. But if you want to lost weight you need to have courage to say NO to FASTFOOD. Because being fat is not good.

By: Justin Hinchcliffe

Justin Hinchcliffe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:22:23 +0000

Great post man.

By: SkinnyBoy

SkinnyBoy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:33:57 +0000

According to the CDC, the first line in the post is wrong. Overweight people are in the majority:

Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3

Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 32

By: ListenCarefully

ListenCarefully — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:47:11 +0000

From freshman year (15?) to 19? Losing weight at that age is nothing. Try it when you’re 40 with all the responsibilities of family, work, home etc. Making health and fitness a priority then is a REAL challenge. And your body responds less to exercise.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:25:47 +0000

Booze is a big one !
The key is to start fights afterwards so you can burn off the calories !

By: Fatty mc fat fat

Fatty mc fat fat — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:35:42 +0000

Haha funniest ive ever read, get out there and lose some weight i weighted more freshman year of highschool than i do now at 19 its not that hard lmao.

By: love handles

love handles — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:53:10 +0000

Bingo! Half the battle of losing weight is basically against yourself. Unfortunately we are our own worst enemy eating stuff that’s bad.

I recommend that if you are seeking to lose weight, you be the one to go to the supermarket next time and make sure you get only healthy stuff. After all if you follow rule #1 above, we are lazy and hence would just deal with whats in the cupboard.

This works VERY WELL – seriously try it – buy only healthy food and just see if you don’t start eating healthy.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:39:46 +0000

I find it puzzling when someone will tell an overweight person ‘If you’d JUST (fill in the anadotal notion). It isn’t a ‘JUST DO THIS.’ It is a DO this and this, but it’s not easy.

And no one’s lazy. They just choose not to eat healthy foods, they choose not to incorporate exercise into their lifestyle, etc. We call that lazy but it really has to do with their priorities. When eating fast food was OK to get a quick lunch, I had a weight problem. When I made it a priority to make my own lunch, I chose a different priority which gave me a different outcome.

Israel, I gave up the scales in 1996! Swear!!! I haven’t weighed myself since that day…it wasn’t a good one. But I have kept a log book of my body measurements. And I go by how my clothes fit. Inches down, smaller clothes equals success to me. Oh, and improving with my exercising and food choices too.

Just by the sheer amount of comments here shows the complexity of loosing weight and staying healthy. Our culture isn’t set up for health success, sadly.

By: joaquin

joaquin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:24:26 +0000

A lot has to do with your gene pool.