<story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chris_wot</author><text>Dear God man! You don&amp;#x27;t know anything about her. For all you know she&amp;#x27;s already tried everything.&lt;p&gt;For that matter, the article says she is healthy and the doctors have given her the all clear. So she&amp;#x27;s of a somewhat larger build - big fucking deal!&lt;p&gt;This is probably coming off wrong. I&amp;#x27;m sure you mean well. But don&amp;#x27;t be so quick to give healthy living advise to someone with a medical condition (or for that matter, really &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt;) you don&amp;#x27;t know. Put yourself in their shoes - the point of this article really - how would &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; like unsolicited, judgmental advise about something you have little control over?</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&amp;gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.&lt;p&gt;I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leephillips</author><text>What marknutter says (&amp;quot;do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult&amp;quot;) is tautologically true. What you say (&amp;quot;For all you know she&amp;#x27;s already tried everything&amp;quot;) can not possibly be true.</text></comment>
<story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chris_wot</author><text>Dear God man! You don&amp;#x27;t know anything about her. For all you know she&amp;#x27;s already tried everything.&lt;p&gt;For that matter, the article says she is healthy and the doctors have given her the all clear. So she&amp;#x27;s of a somewhat larger build - big fucking deal!&lt;p&gt;This is probably coming off wrong. I&amp;#x27;m sure you mean well. But don&amp;#x27;t be so quick to give healthy living advise to someone with a medical condition (or for that matter, really &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt;) you don&amp;#x27;t know. Put yourself in their shoes - the point of this article really - how would &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; like unsolicited, judgmental advise about something you have little control over?</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&amp;gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.&lt;p&gt;I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kefka</author><text>And there&amp;#x27;s something rather neat about physics, chemistry, and biology.&lt;p&gt;Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. So, that means garbage in = fat + garbage out. You really are what you eat.&lt;p&gt;I know this by my own diet. When I gobbled up everything in sight, I &amp;lt;gasp&amp;gt; got fat. When I quit packing my face full of food, I lost weight. Interesting how that works.</text></comment>