Fatties. My money where your mouth is.
 

My dad was obese for my entire life. He bore a very strong resemblance to Roger Ebert, without the all-consuming lust for ti[/i]ts. So I know from fat. And many of you are fat. Many of you are fatter than that, and you're supposed to be in the prime of your goddamn lives.

You think you're gonna have the energy to lose weight when you're 50? When you have kids and a mortgage and a wife who loves you twice as much as you love her? No. I say this with all sympathy and love, cause I loved my dad: NOW is the time to get thin.

So, in an attempt to do something about this, I will sponsor 5 fatties for the rest of 2006. Dids is one of them, and I'll set aside slots for other people I've publicly called fat, including Gamble and Tony P. Otherwise, feel free to try to convince me to sponsor you.

For the first hundred pounds you lose from now to January 1, 2007, I will pay you a dollar a pound. For the next two hundred, I will pay you 50 cents on the pound. After that, you're out of luck, but you're also out of the 'morbidly obese' demographic.

Documentation? Take a torso+head picture of yourself now, then take a picture of you on a scale so we can establish the baseline. Post both and your current weight in this thread.

The method of verifying weight loss may change over the course of the year at my discretion, but we'll start on the honor code. No payment will be made until January of next year.

If anyone wants to join the sponsoring, post.

Volunteers begin your chewing.


Edit: if you're willing to wait til may to get paid you can also opt for an entire year to get my money

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I would like to be sponsored, but the earliest I can get a picture on a scale is Thursday. Hold my place in line?

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I would like to be sponsored, but the earliest I can get a picture on a scale is Thursday. Hold my place in line?

Weight, height and age?

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What would qualify as being fat? What is the minimum amount of extra poundage you need to be carrying around?

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Bison,

The doctor yesterday had me at 331. I will take a picture tonight. While I can't verify it, I was around 345 near the start of the year. (I don't own a scale, as most ones that weight 300+ are [censored] expensive, but I'll have to see what they've got at the gym).

Since you don't read blogs... I kinda thought I had a heart attack a couple weeks ago. It turns out it was heartburn, but it kinda scared me (although not enough to go to the emmergency room, that's another issue which I do not understand). That's been a much needed kick in the ass.

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What would qualify as being fat? What is the minimum amount of extra poundage you need to be carrying around?

I don't know, but people who could get the whole $200 will get preference.

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I would like to be sponsored, but the earliest I can get a picture on a scale is Thursday. Hold my place in line?

Weight, height and age?

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320-330 lbs. (I havn't weighed myself in a few months but this should still be ballpark correct)

6'6"

21 years old.

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For the first hundred pounds you lose from now to January 1, 2007, I will pay you a dollar a pound. For the next two hundred, I will pay you 50 cents on the pound.

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This is the first time in my life I've ever thought -- "Damn, I'm too skinny."

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I wouldnt consider myself fat, but I'm pathetically weak and I could lose 30 lbs.... If you don't want to sponsor that's fine, but I'd like to participate.

22/m/5'9 198 lbs of pure non-muscle.

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Kipin,

I'm not sure you count as "morbidly obese". To me, that's where the line should start.

I really enjoy that a term used to describe me has some connotation that I'm already dead.

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Also note: if you're willing to wait til may to get paid you can also opt for an entire year to get my money

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I wouldnt consider myself fat, but I'm pathetically weak and I could lose 30 lbs.... If you don't want to sponsor that's fine, but I'd like to participate.

You get nothing chubs.

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You forgot to put NSFW in the thread title...

I'm assuming you're paying for the rights to the pix for the new Google FattyPorn© project I've heard so much about?

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Kipin,

I'm not sure you count as "morbidly obese". To me, that's where the line should start.

I really enjoy that a term used to describe me has some connotation that I'm already dead.

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Dids,

By the book I am morbidly obese.

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Bison,

I'll add $0.25/lb (up to 100lbs) for each of your sponsored fatties.

If you get enough add-ons like this, the fatties can be looking at some good coin.

You are a good man.

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That is a [censored] book. Maybe it's just 'cause you're so tall, but you just don't strike me as "fat".

Unless you've really porked the [censored] out since I last saw you.

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You forgot to put NSFW in the thread title...

I'm assuming you're paying for the rights to the pix for the new Google FattyPorn© project I've heard so much about?

It does NOT have to be a topless photo. Just something to give us a sense of scale.

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That is a [censored] book. Maybe it's just 'cause you're so tall, but you just don't strike me as "fat".

Unless you've really porked the [censored] out since I last saw you.

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I havn't but I have always thought of myself as fat, and it brings my self-confidence level down in social interaction.

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5-9, about 200 lbs. Do I qualify?

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5-9, about 200 lbs. Do I qualify?

Prolly not. That's bantam around here.

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I could qualify but i don't want the [censored] money. I'm willing to side bet with dids though.

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bison,

This is a great thread. All the fatties out there should really take up this offer. Fattest I had ever been was in early high school and I was only 35 lbs overweight. But, even after losing that little bit of weight girls started to look a me differently and it was entirely worth it. If not for the pussy do it for your health!

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I would like to try and be sponsored. I am 6'0 and about 250. However, I am diabetic and I am really starting to fear what the long term consequences of my extremely unhealty lifestyle will do to me in the long run...I need motivation...pick me! I am 20 years old.

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I'll let this run til Thursday at noon Pacific and pick my contestants then. Keep the nominations coming.

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would age 33, 5'9" 230 get me on the list? I need to drop 50 - 60lbs... I've got a 20month old kid and another on the way (late July) and I'm playing poker part time at night so there is VERY little free time for exercise and eating right is an afterthought... but $60 as motivation might help! Also, I could be your "safe" pick, i.e. - not much chance you'd have to pay up.

either way ... this is a very very very cool think that you're doing Bison.

~FishNChips

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I'll add .25c a pound up to 100 pounds for each fat-ass good luck!

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bison,
i will match whatever you pay Dids. Daddy [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]'s Dids. The rest of you can bite it.

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We all know my stats...but I will be no ones monkey boy!!! EAD

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We all know my stats...but I will be no ones monkey boy!!! EAD

Alrighty, one husky slot just opened up.

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i appreciate your kindness and care, but 1 dollar per pound? these are poker players, they make 250 bucks in 30 minutes.

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i appreciate your kindness and care, but 1 dollar per pound? these are poker players, they make 250 bucks in 30 minutes.

I'm putting a grand on the line (prolly more like $500) for people I have never met. Feel free to sweeten the pot.

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I'm 5'11, 245 lbs, 19.

Edit: I also smoke, not sure if it matters but figured I would throw that in there.

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Bison,

The doctor yesterday had me at 331. I will take a picture tonight. While I can't verify it, I was around 345 near the start of the year. (I don't own a scale, as most ones that weight 300+ are [censored] expensive, but I'll have to see what they've got at the gym).

Since you don't read blogs... I kinda thought I had a heart attack a couple weeks ago. It turns out it was heartburn, but it kinda scared me (although not enough to go to the emmergency room, that's another issue which I do not understand). That's been a much needed kick in the ass.

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Remember what I told you about protein at the Wynn? I won't pay you a cent, but I'll give you all the help you need with nutrition. If you'll just take me up on it and actually respond!

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I'm 5'11, 245 lbs, 19.

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Your age is like the only reason to consider you. 245 means you don't even need to drop a hundy but 19 is [censored] young to be 245.

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Dids,

By the book I am morbidly obese.

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WTF, who parked a van in this thread?

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The books are retarded, by the book I should lose about 30-40lbs. which is ridiculous w/ my fram and muscle to fat ratio.

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6'2" approx 350+ (i'm going to the doctor tomorrow for an unrelated issue so I'll know for sure)

I don't have a scale, but I can figure out a way if you want me to. I've dropped 50+ pound so far in the last year, and have kind of hit a plateau in terms of willpower sponsorship is just what I need.

As a bonus I'll email you pictures of my adorable kids, one is 7 years old, the other is almost 8 months so you know what I stand to lose if I don't get rid of more weight. My goal is to lose another 150+ pounds so I should be in your target group.

Thanks for your consideration, I'll take the camera with me tomorrw to photograph the scale at the docs.

Garrett

edit: Forgot to add age, I'm 26 (almost 27)

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Congrats on the first 50, as a former fatty I can tell you that you are a [censored] steam engine and once you build up a head of steam using your first 25-50lbs, there's no stopping you.

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I'm 5'11, 245 lbs, 19.

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Your age is like the only reason to consider you. 245 means you don't even need to drop a hundy but 19 is [censored] young to be 245.

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The sad part is I used to be 265 in january

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Hold on. Can I have a month to put on like 300lbs then get sponsored? I promise that if I put my mind to it I could be the fattest fatty of them all!