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Originally posted by BiggerThanYou:
Today as I walked through UTSA every girl there was overweight...EVERY GIRL. I know looks aren't everything, but damn...
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As my friend refers to them - BUW - Big Underwear Women. Great if you like women who are large and in charge. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
On a more serious note - being in Chicago, which is always up there in the fattest city listings - it seems it has become chic to be overweight among young people. Especially among females. A trip to a local mall reveals overweight teens flaunting their fat with tight jeans, revealed midriffs poking out over pant waistbands, etc. And eating absolutely the worst junk foods. Used to be that if you were overweight, you wore baggy clothes to hide it. Even the so-called 'thin girls' now have definite 'junk in their trunk.' You see much less of the typical gawky skinny teenager nowadays. From an aesthetic sense, I could care less...part of me is glad that looks are not the overriding concern for them if they are fat. But the part that is in the majority fears for their future health, and our nation's future health care costs.
Finally, yes I do realize this post is probably sexist. There are just as many fat teenage boys - the difference being that they still hide it with baggy clothes and knit caps. You don't see them stuffing themselves into clothes that don't fit and show skin.
OK, I'm done with my sexist, misogynist rant.
San Antonio, once again, is the fattest city found in the United States. Also, another very honorable category we are on top of is binge drinking. We are the city that has the most binge drinkers out of the whole United States (connection?). Even the trainers at the gyms are fat, not just slightly overweight either, but a good 40 pounds overweight. When I go to a gym to workout I don't really want to hear some trainer blab to me about a routine "I should be doing because all of our trainers here are on it" when I watch them guzzle down a coke before attempting a few squats while there rolls jiggle back and forth before finally coming to stand still around 2-3 minutes later. I walk through my college, go to work, walk through the mall, and what do I see? Overweight, miserable people who say nothing to anyone and walk around with frowns on their faces. I'm not complaining, just finding a connection. People who eat too much and become extremely overweight are unhappy people for the most part. I think their physical appearance and the way they feel make them miserable. It's a dangerous situation here in the ole U.S. Being overweight is about to surpass smoking as the number 1 cause of death. I think it is because society is becoming lazy as a whole! Big rant. BIIIIIIG time rant. Tired of lazy people taking the easy way out. It's easier to sit on your butt and chomp down a number 1 from Wendys than it is to exersize and eat healthy. It annoys me to no end because they could prevent themselves the humiliation and health problems if they would just spend a little time working towards living a healthy lifestyle. Today as I walked through UTSA every girl there was overweight...EVERY GIRL. I know looks aren't everything, but damn...Yes, it's over. Time to move...
I just get frustrated with people sometimes because they spend so much time on other things, but they spend no time on fitness. All it takes is a few hours a week, and simply not scarfing down fast food and sweets all day. How hard is that? Anyhoo, send some of those chicas down my way! 
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