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I challenge all you bariatric veterans and newbies to walk 30 minutes a day! Download an app and track your progress, walking has become addictive for me! 30 minutes a day is going to give you around 50 miles a month! Since eating is no longer a sport for me, I spend my lunch break at work walking, I walk for 20-30 minutes before work, about an hour in the evening with one of my kids, wife, dog, etc. Take a day or two off, no big deal. Just do it often and after a few weeks you can't wait to get back out! My May goal was 60 miles, June was 100, and July will be 115 miles. Go for it!

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Im in a bi***y mood today so I totally take offense to use of words former fatties. Guess what im pre op and still currently fat. Thanks for making me a little grumpier today.

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Great message however the method of delivery leaves a little to be desired. I agree - I find it offensive and I'm not that easily offended.

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Sorry...but you have to be fat (like I was and still am) to have bariatric surgery. I'm fat and so are you if you're having bariatric surgery or had it. Alcoholics are boozers, drug addicts are junkies, and overeaters like myself are fatties. No more hiding behind your oversized plate of slop, no more excuses about not having time, and stop watching a full season of Breaking Bad without leaving the couch. Get outside and walk! :)

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Your arrogance is going to get you into trouble.

You are being rude to the people here on this board.

You want to call yourself a "Fatty" then go right ahead but don't label the people on this board like that.

You're going about talking to people here in the wrong manner.

If you continue like this someone will report you for being offensive and I don't think you want that to happen.

People come here to be encouraged not to be called names.

Think about.

Edited by Chelly

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Right cuz after all - everyone who is fat is just lazy and pigs out. Thanks for promoting that stereotype. Hey, why not promote another one - how people don't need bariatric surgery -if only they would get off the couch. My next comment is self-censored out of respect for forum terms of service.

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I think some people may be overreacting here, I think the message came from a good place. Some people may not like the delivery, but I did and that's why I joined this forum to see a wide variety of people expressing themselves.

This also scares me from expressing myself in the future for fear someone might not like what I have to say to the point Alex is "reminding" us of the forum rules because of the word "fatties"

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Count me in! I need to get this body moving.

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We are all fatties or have been fatties lol, I think fatty is a lot kinder than a lot of other things I have been called in my life. Like fat cow, fat pig etc etc

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Right cuz after all - everyone who is fat is just lazy and pigs out. Thanks for promoting that stereotype. Hey, why not promote another one - how people don't need bariatric surgery -if only they would get off the couch. My next comment is self-censored out of respect for forum terms of service.

Not all of us, but yes. We all fit the stereotype. You don't get fat from working out, walking 4 miles a day and eating lean Protein with veggies. Nobody forced fed us like a foie gras duck. We (ok 99% of us) are all plumpers because we were (and are) lazy and could eat an entire large pizza in 15 minutes, do a dinner bang bang (for you Louis C.K. fans) and like myself ate a Dodger dog every inning at a LA Dodgers game. Yes, I scarfed down 9 Dodger Dogs once in 3 hours. I've exercised more since my sleeve (3 months ago) than I have in the last 10 years. I love my 70lb lighter body! Bariatric surgery is a tool, you need to exercise and eat right for the tool to work.

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Love the idea of a fitness challenge. Don't love the disparaging name. You know what the truth is - I was morbidly obese. I hate the word obese - I actually somehow find it more troubling then being called a fatty, but it is the correct medical term for my condition. Even though I have lost weight, I still have the disease of obesity - have been forever changed by it physically and will always have the tendency to regain weight (more than people who were never obese).

However, that doesn't define who I am as a person and I think that is where the name calling stings. I am first me a person - cowgirljane - I am a mother, a sister, a project leader, a friend, a traveler, a thinker, a writer and a whole lot of other things.

Reason some of us are sensitive to this is a lifetime of seeing ourselves as that "fatty" rather than seeing ourselves as a full person. I am at goal (been there awhile) and guess what - even though my physical appearance is completely different, my heart and soul and other talents and traits remain.

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