I dont know how to answer that except to say it was a mild pace. Not super fast. Not a power walk either. We could probably average about a mile every 10-12 minutes.
How do fat people play pool ?
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I dont know how to answer that except to say it was a mild pace. Not super fast. Not a power walk either. We could probably average about a mile every 10-12 minutes.
I found out that I have Diabetes Type 2 last January. The Dr. gave me the std. lose weight and excersize bit. At the time I was 209 at 5'11".
So, I took all sugar, bread, potatoes, rice, pasta out of my diet--and lost 35 pounds in 1 year without doing any real excersize--and I eat as much as I like, whenever I like, and whatever I like (minus the aforementioned). Beer is the only non-complex carbohydrate I allow myself.
I have gone down 3 pant sizes, a shirt size, a neck size, and have a whole new wardrobe (basically, because nothing from before fits).
So, I took all sugar, bread, potatoes, rice, pasta out of my diet--and lost 35 pounds in 1 year without doing any real excersize--and I eat as much as I like, whenever I like, and whatever I like (minus the aforementioned). Beer is the only non-complex carbohydrate I allow myself.
I have gone down 3 pant sizes, a shirt size, a neck size, and have a whole new wardrobe (basically, because nothing from before fits).
i read the first few pages and trailed off a bit. i'd like to chime in with my perspective.
my whole life my weught has gone up and down. in 2005 i was a sous chef and weighed about 320. the owners ot the restaraunt were a couple of greek brothers who were both olypic class wrestlers. a lot of the guys who worked there were either into wrestling, boxing or mma. i was the odd man out. a bartender i was friends with convinced me to take a bet with him. loose more % of body weight in a month win $100. i lost 30 lbs and won. doubled the bet and lost another 30 and won again. by 2007 i was in the gym 5 to 6 days a week sometimes twice a day. i was 220 and about 16-18% body fat a far cry from where i was. this is about when i started playing pool.
cut to today. i am 340 lbs back up over where i was. i feel worse than ever and everything hurts - always. but i still play pool. i can play for about 10-12 hours in a tournament and maybe 8 or a little more if just playing or betting a little something. sure it's tough, but so is working out. i just play through the pain, just like i used to lift through the pain or bust my ass on an eliptical. it's all mental. and one of these days i'll do what i have always done. wake up one morning and be tired of being fat and do something about it.
last thing i'd like to adress. if you are offended by that picture, the title of the thread, or the term fat. get over yourself. i am fat and i know it. if you are, so do you. i joke about being fat all the time. i know how i got here and how to go back any time i want. and so can you. it's simple, eat less move more and you're on your way. the road from there may be different if you have health issues or the like. but eat less and move more and you'll loose something - garaunteed. stop being so god damned sensitive and grow a pair. either be fat and embrace or change. but don't cry when you get called out on it.
my whole life my weught has gone up and down. in 2005 i was a sous chef and weighed about 320. the owners ot the restaraunt were a couple of greek brothers who were both olypic class wrestlers. a lot of the guys who worked there were either into wrestling, boxing or mma. i was the odd man out. a bartender i was friends with convinced me to take a bet with him. loose more % of body weight in a month win $100. i lost 30 lbs and won. doubled the bet and lost another 30 and won again. by 2007 i was in the gym 5 to 6 days a week sometimes twice a day. i was 220 and about 16-18% body fat a far cry from where i was. this is about when i started playing pool.
cut to today. i am 340 lbs back up over where i was. i feel worse than ever and everything hurts - always. but i still play pool. i can play for about 10-12 hours in a tournament and maybe 8 or a little more if just playing or betting a little something. sure it's tough, but so is working out. i just play through the pain, just like i used to lift through the pain or bust my ass on an eliptical. it's all mental. and one of these days i'll do what i have always done. wake up one morning and be tired of being fat and do something about it.
last thing i'd like to adress. if you are offended by that picture, the title of the thread, or the term fat. get over yourself. i am fat and i know it. if you are, so do you. i joke about being fat all the time. i know how i got here and how to go back any time i want. and so can you. it's simple, eat less move more and you're on your way. the road from there may be different if you have health issues or the like. but eat less and move more and you'll loose something - garaunteed. stop being so god damned sensitive and grow a pair. either be fat and embrace or change. but don't cry when you get called out on it.
This isn't the weight watchers testimonial page
go on there & tell everone to grow a set.
Maybe they will be impressed.
SLIM
go on there & tell everone to grow a set.
Maybe they will be impressed.
SLIM
this isn't the fake tough guy hero of the world i'll protect the lard asses page either - go find that and maybe they'll drop down on thier knees and play seal with you for standing up to the mean 'ol people pickin' on the fatties.
you go by the name slim but you're getting all but hurt over a fat thread. so are you one of those guys whose a giant fat ass with an "ironic" nick name. or are you a skinny bleeding heart trying to take up the battle for fatties.
now put your fork down and stop pitty eating.
As true as that may be,a few years ago he suffered a heart-attack while playing pool.Some heavy guys I know use there weight to there advantage.One guy use to use his
man-boob as a aiming tool and would let the cue rest on the side of his boob and kept his stroke real straight and he played great.
The biggest issues he had was his legs would really bother him after awhile.He had a great sense of humor about his weight and was very
comfortable with himself which in hindsight is the most important thing of all.
I am not standing up for any one or any thing
i explained once & i will do it again for you since you don’t see the need to read all the post before you start spouting off.
I just think this is a stupid thread.
Unfortunately i started reading it & made a comment to the original poster.
He was smart enough to realize it was made in jest.
If you feel the need to make comments about crying & whining that no one has done and growing a set, then be prepared when some one makes a comment back.
I did not make any tough guy statements as you did, i just let you know that you did not impress me with you computer tough guy comments.
Quit trying to start something over nothing.
I was going to private message this to you, but i want to see how stupid you can make yourself look in public on the fourum
SLIM
i explained once & i will do it again for you since you don’t see the need to read all the post before you start spouting off.
I just think this is a stupid thread.
Unfortunately i started reading it & made a comment to the original poster.
He was smart enough to realize it was made in jest.
If you feel the need to make comments about crying & whining that no one has done and growing a set, then be prepared when some one makes a comment back.
I did not make any tough guy statements as you did, i just let you know that you did not impress me with you computer tough guy comments.
Quit trying to start something over nothing.
I was going to private message this to you, but i want to see how stupid you can make yourself look in public on the fourum
SLIM
Last March 305, today, 228. Bought a table a month ago because I knew I could now play without back pain or hitting my man boobs. Everything is harder when you are fat, I have been fat my whole life, this is my first weight loss and it is based on calories in and calories out. Bottom line, most fat people who are active as I have always been have a great deal of muscle and can surprise you with what they can do as long as it does not involve Jumping, (we can get up but the landing kills us), I find that the muscle I needed before is serving me well now and making pool a possibility again for me. Never pity us, like as has been said, we know we are fat, (I still am at 5'9"), but don't underestimate us either.
BTW getting glasses when I turned 40 messed my game up more than my weight ever did.
BTW getting glasses when I turned 40 messed my game up more than my weight ever did.
I haven't read the whole thread and don't plan to. I am overwieght and I don't like the way the post is worded. I do want to say this: its very easy to make stupid and insulting comments when u feel protected behind the security of ur screen and keyboard. Before u post something ask urself "would I say this to the person if I were standing face to face?" So to the OP, the next time you walk into a pool hall walk up to the first fat person you see, show him the picture u attached to the thread and ask him the same question you posted. 'And let the punches fall where they may' Good luck.
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well ok, let's see if you were kidding with the op you were definately snyde and condesending towards me. i don't think for one minute you'd have the balls to say that to me in person and if you did i'd respond the same. if your not a backdown type of guy i can assure you i'm not either. plenty of people who know me well enough in real life post and lurk on here. they can tell you i am the same guy typing or speaking.
i have the strength of character to admit who i am and not be ashamed about it. people who cry and whine, and yes there are people in this thread who are, about the way this subject was handled are delusional. i am a big fat ass. judging from what you wrote so are you. if anyone can't handle being called fat they should either a. loose some god damned weight or b. grow a pair. yes i said it again.
a lot of people have the image of the crying little fattie in the corner sad because he got picked on. well, that ain't me. and if someone is seriously hurt by words they need to grow up.
i think this is a worthwhile topic to be discussed and i could care less how it was brought about. i feel the op can say whatever the hell he wants. especially because he started off by saying he was fat and lost some weight.
you didn't have to be a douche and come step on my comment but you did. and you did go the tough guy route with me. sorry but i don't let people take a shot and lay back in the cut.
so tell me again pseudo intellectual, how am i making my self look stupid. i related a life story, and spoke my mind that people should be a lot less sensitive becasue that's how i honestly feel. you reacted like a five year old and told me to take to weight watchers. yup, you're the grown up rhodes scholar here, ain't cha.
Thank you so much
you traveled about as far up the stipidiy scale as i figured you would.
No one is whining, no one is crying, well except you.
No one told you to join weight watchers.
You are the only one being an internet tough guy.
I stand by my comments.
"you do not impress me."
internet bullies do not impress me, even if the spout about how people who know them understand that they are "really tuff"
okay, go ahead, throw out some insults, call me names, or if you want, say something intellegent.
i have a feeling i know which path you will take.
SLIM
you traveled about as far up the stipidiy scale as i figured you would.
No one is whining, no one is crying, well except you.
No one told you to join weight watchers.
You are the only one being an internet tough guy.
I stand by my comments.
"you do not impress me."
internet bullies do not impress me, even if the spout about how people who know them understand that they are "really tuff"
okay, go ahead, throw out some insults, call me names, or if you want, say something intellegent.
i have a feeling i know which path you will take.
SLIM
This is very good general advice I received from my wife.
If there is something you dont like about yourself or your life, either change it or be happy with it.. Really just TWO choices....(and either one is OK).
you keep calling me stupid but i guess you're a smart guy who can't read. you are the one who told me to "take it to weight watchers".
i never said anywhere i was tuff - i said i would say all of this to you or anyone else in person. and there are people who can vouch that i would. that is a far cry from calling myself a tough guy. i call it like i see it. here, in person or anywhere.
i didn't call you names, i called you a pseudo intellectual and i stand by it. all you did was come back with "you traveled up the stupidy scale". how did i do that exactly? by telling my story? by calling you out for being rude to me?
you're the kind of guy who likes to stir the pot and then back off and say i am not starting anything. so go ahead tell me again i'm an inernet bully and that i'm stupid. it's all you've got i guess.
and as far as impressing you goes, who's trying. i don't try to impress anyone. i don't feel the need to. like i've posted before i am me. and i'm good with it. you on the other hand seem like you've got some pent up something. anger, self loathing, rage, i don't know what.
TheThaiger
Banned
Well, lets see
so far: You have called me a douche, an internet tough guy, a whiner & several other things including some drop to their knees comment that i just don’t understand.
You have said that i would not have the balls to say what i have typed, to your face or in person.
I assure you that i do have the balls & would say everything to your face or in person that i have typed..
Call me all the names you want, say whatever you like.
I still stand by the statements that i have made.
You do not impress me & your name calling and silly insults have made you look very stupid.
SLIM
so far: You have called me a douche, an internet tough guy, a whiner & several other things including some drop to their knees comment that i just don’t understand.
You have said that i would not have the balls to say what i have typed, to your face or in person.
I assure you that i do have the balls & would say everything to your face or in person that i have typed..
Call me all the names you want, say whatever you like.
I still stand by the statements that i have made.
You do not impress me & your name calling and silly insults have made you look very stupid.
SLIM
truth > feelings
Much respect. I like people who have the strength of character to speak the truth even when it's not popular.
TheThaiger
Banned
Yup.
I have huge respect for fat people who lose loads of weight, also. Fundamentally changing your life is extremely difficult to do - kudos to those that can.