Two short stories about fats The other day I ended up going to the gym in the evening, which I  never do for reasons I'm sure many of you understand. But I couldn't make it in the morning so I crossed my fingers that the free weights would be relatively clear. When I was at uni I could show up super early and no one would be at the gym. Everyone in the weight area would be swolebros but not even they could imagine waking up early to get things done. I quickly learned to become a morning person to accommodate my anti-social personality. Now in my area it's mostly old people so they are there at all hours, but they pretty much completely cover all the cardio machines and the weight machines only, leaving the free weight area relatively empty.  So anyway I'm doing my squats and some blob in my peripheral gradually gets in my space. I realize it's trying to talk to me so I say "hang on" seeing as I can't hear and it's taking all my strength to complete the set. Finally I finish and turn to it- her, a huge older woman who I would guess is well over 300 lbs. She asks me to teach her how to squat when I'm done, so I glance at the trainer area (members get a few sessions of training for free) in confusion and they're all there....but I shrug and say ok. Obviously she should be focused on diet but I believe that many women become empowered and respect their body much more when they lift, so maybe it will inspire a life change. She hovers for the duration of my sets and then I try and show her how to do it.  As you can probably guess she can't come even close to parallel with just the bar, but she does a bunch of them saying it's easy (because how could it not be when the weight is like 1/10th of your body and you're barely moving). Then she gobsmacks me further. She hands me her phone and asks me to take pics of her doing it. And a video. She says it's to show her "trainer," but I don't understand why this person is not here with her, or why she doesn't use one of the trainers who were at the gym then, or if she's just saying that so she can have pics to upload to insta or something. It was sad more than anything. People who do this shit at the gym and aren't ripped or fit already are clearly not there for the right reasons, and will definitely fail. I said "uh...sure," cause that was pretty much the only response I could manage that wasn't a laugh. I did manage to get a little shitlording in when she said she could do more weight and I responded with "yeah, it looks like you've got some strong legs." Each of those "strong legs" were almost larger than both of mine combined.   A while back my brother and his girlfriend came out for the birthday of a family friend. Everyone who came was obese except for me and my brother's girlfriend- she is beautiful, tall, and rail thin, but I think secretly has low self esteem because she is dating my lardo brother- so of course they opt to go out for dinner. I also feel I should mention that out of the seven people there, four were also diabetic, including my brother. So we're ordering and my mom asks if anyone wants to get a pizza and share it, and my brother gets this solemn look on his face and shakes his head no. He then says "I'm quitting pizza." I obviously laugh at the absurdity of this statement. Then I notice the practiced blank expression on his girlfriend's face and his serious look and I just gape. My mom asks him wtf and he says "I eat pizza every day. It's starting to make me feel like crap."  I seriously can't, folks. How stupid do you have to be to make a statement like this, or to eat fucking pizzas every day. His excuse is that he's a teacher and thus has no time to cook, but even if that were the case there are plenty of easy and filling meals out there that aren't fucking pizza. To this day I cannot get over how hilarious that moment was.