UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs 225
Qedward writes "Stoke-on-Trent City Council is sending texts to obese people in the area to help motivate them to lose weight. Examples of the texts sent include 'aim to eat a variety of fruit and vegetables each day,' 'aim to eat regular meals and keep a check on snacks and drinks' and 'maybe walk to the shops or use the stairs more often.' Over 100,000 people in the region are overweight or obese, the council said, and the texts are for those who are aged at least 18, have a body mass index of 25 or over and who have proactively signed up to receive the motivational messages."
i hate fat fucks as much as the next guy... (Score:0, Funny)
but that's uncalled for!
i hate fuck fat guys as much as the next... (Score:4, Funny)
that butt's uncalled for!
Hello Citizen - U Look GRate! Today! (Score:5, Funny)
"I don't know... lately I just don't feel like there's anything special about me."
"You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you."
Sample Texts (Score:5, Funny)
"Get off your arse and walk, fatso!"
"Put down the fork, you slob!"
"You're disgusting! No one will ever love you!"
"Be sure to vote in Council elections next Tuesday!"
Re:Sample Texts (Score:2, Funny)
"Oy you Essex slapper, lay off the pies n' pasties."
"Listen ya swamp donkey. Get the bangers outta yer pie hole Or I'll give ya a right trunky in the tradesman's entrance and make ya lick me yarbles!"
Re:Council Money Well Spent (Score:4, Funny)
Are you the naked guy I saw running with no shoes on during the blizzard?
Re:i hate fat fucks as much as the next guy... (Score:5, Funny)
You should stop feeding the trolls. It's making them fat.
Re:Council Money Well Spent (Score:4, Funny)
Why, yes. Yes I am.
Re:BMI (Score:4, Funny)
But if I used "mass" I could never lose it, just convert it into energy.
Re:they need an incentive (Score:4, Funny)
Take out the carbs, and life is much better. Less sugar means your insulin doesn't kick in and store everything to your tissues. This takes place in London, Bath, Stokes, Leicester, Wales, wherever. It's how we're put together. Depression causes people to carb-load. That's a personal problem, not a regional one. Carb loading to increase serotinine is a well-honoured pass-time.
For the last thirty years, people have been hammered with messages to avoid fat. Coke is full of sugar and fat free. Companies put sugar into food when they remove fat, because removing fat without replacing it with sugar makes things taste bad and people don't buy them. So for the last thirty years people have been stuffing themselves with carbohydrates, making them fat and diabetic. And the more you try to avoid fat, the worse it gets.
And then they start dieting. Those with plenty of will power are the unlucky ones: They actually lose lots of weight. The body thinks it's starving. And all the weight comes back, with some more, because all the will power in the world cannot overcome a starving body in the long run.
The best advice: Ignore all the advice that tells you to avoid fat. _Do_ avoid sugar and other carbohydrates. Do _not_ try to lose weight. Ignore your weight, because being obsessed with your weight will make you unhappy which bad in itself, but will make you eat more as well.
And, if someone calls you "fatty", hit them in the face as hard as you can, knock them out, and kick the shit out of them when they are on the ground.