Was I Sucky?

[morgana]

"Oh I'm not at the gym, I can't even be on my feet much...just losing weight consistently" or something to that effect.

Ok so no gym...how the hell are you losing weight then? By being off your feet?

If he'd bottle that, he could get rich. Really rich. In fact, where can I get some?

Yeah, right. So either he was lying earlier when he posted stuff about going to the gym nearly every day, or he's lying now about not going to the gym.

Either way, he's lying.

And I'd call him out about that, too. Good job, blas.

[tacohuman]

Ok so no gym...how the hell are you losing weight then? By being off your feet?

i can't speak to his situation, or how to maintain such weightloss consistently, but i lost 25lbs in 10 days lying flat on my back while in the hospital recently.

just sayin...it is possible, in some circumstances.

[BookstoreEscapee]

i can't speak to his situation, or how to maintain such weightloss consistently, but i lost 25lbs in 10 days lying flat on my back while in the hospital recently.

just sayin...it is possible, in some circumstances.

Extreme anxiety and panic attacks are a good way to go, too...especially if your anxiety manifests itself as an inability to swallow. Lost about 20 pounds in a month or so that way...

[Andara Bledin]

Unless you are gravely unwell, losing that much weight that regularly is not really possible without surgery.

However, it is possible to be completely unable to work and still exercise enough to lose weight. Swimming is the most effective and least injurious of all forms of exercise.

^-.-^

[DesignFox]

Extreme anxiety and panic attacks are a good way to go, too...especially if your anxiety manifests itself as an inability to swallow. Lost about 20 pounds in a month or so that way...

Oh dear god. I went through that my freshman year of college. You know, being skinnier was kinda nice, but the rest that went along with it, wasn't.

I'm much happy being healthy, even if it means I've gots a bit of a tummy.

Blas, he is full of shit, or he is extremely unhealthy. The only person I've ever known who went from being a pretty big guy, to being a rail thin pole within a year turned out to have a severe form of diabetes that very nearly ended up killing him (because it was undiagnosed for so long). I didn't meet this guy until he was a bean pole, and until he showed me photos of himself as a fatty, I didn't believe he used to be as big as all of his friends said he was.

So yea. Good call. If he's losing weight that rapidly-especially if he's not doing any form of exercise or under the supervision of a trainer- he needs to go to a doctor.

[Buglady]

Extreme anxiety and panic attacks are a good way to go, too...especially if your anxiety manifests itself as an inability to swallow. Lost about 20 pounds in a month or so that way...

Yeah, I'm kind of wishing for my six-months-long stress headache back, because not being able to eat for a week here has SUCKED. (I have never had anxiety affect my stomach before. My appetite, yes, and my throat, so I couldn't swallow; but now I'm hungry, and I can swallow, but I have heartburn the second I eat even a morsel! I know it's stress, because I put down a deposit on an apartment yesterday and I'm counting down to being able to leave here... after which I really hope my body can rebalance itself).

[McGoddess09]

10 pounds a week?

I lost five pounds in a week by doing nothing but sleeping and drinking water when I had my concussion and they put me on pain meds. It was weird.

[blas]

*BUMP*

A little update for your enjoyment.

The other night, he came in to work to sign some papers for his long term disability thing and to talk to the boss.

Usually when he does this, he'll come right before our break time, so that he can visit us for a while.

Well, he purposely came at a different time and found one of our mutual friends and said "You should tell blas that I really don't appreciate her calling me out and accusing me of lying."

Mind you, after I called him out on it, he walked in circles around my questions and comments......and now he doesn't even have the gall to even call/text me or contact me on Facebook to let me know he has a problem with me.

Grow the fuck up. You're a liar and I called you on it, now you can't deal with it.

[Jester]

I am not going to defend this guy or slam him, as I don't know his situation, and I don't know whether he is a liar or is really disabled.

What I do feel the need to do, though, is to address certain blanket statements that have been made here.

The first is that one cannot lose weight without going to the gym, i.e., that if you are at home doing nothing, you are not going to lose weight. My answer: bullshit. There are many people who, because of various ailments, certainly do just that, losing weight while laid up. I have seen people whither away while doing nothing but laying in bed. I am not going to get into specifics, and this may or may not have anything to do with the dude in question, but to say that this is impossible is just ignoring reality.

The second thing I want to address is that someone cannot possibly be disabled if they are able to go to the gym every day. Again, bullshit. The physical requirements of a job may well be beyond someone who is in some way physically disabled, but that same person may well be able to go to the gym and do various exercises, either for physical therapy, or simply to stay in shape. A bad but valid example would be if I broke my foot. Could I go work out at the gym? Sure, as long as I did not do anything that involved stressing my foot. Could I be on my feet for several hours bartending and/or waiting tables? Not a snowball's chance in Phoenix. There are many physical ailments and/or disabilities that make it impossible for someone to do their particular job, but would not in and of themselves make it impossible for that same person to work out in various ways at the gym. Remember, even the most strenuous workouts are no more than 2 or 3 hours, whereas jobs go up to 8, 9, 10 hours or more.

Again, I am not defending Blas's friend. I don't really know his particulars. But I want everyone here to keep in mind that what is being said to be impossible is not so, and that if you don't know the details of someone's situation, you might not want to make blanket statements about it.

Just a thought.

I will wander off and go be less serious and more silly somewhere else now.