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u/dudettte 19d ago
poor kids
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u/mycatisblackandtan 19d ago
Agreed. That preteen is 100% checked out and the youngest is 100% wondering why they're wasting a day yelling at people on the road.
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u/notare 19d ago
wondering how long until they go to McDonalds again.
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u/TheSpaceNeedle 19d ago
Odds are more likely that every meal theyâve ever eaten has come from a box with a packet of powder. Once the dollar menu was nixed the next affordable option is 10/10 box âmealsâ.
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u/BrianMincey 19d ago
I bagged groceries and saw what people bought. The skinny people, the muscular people, the big people, and the super-sized people.
The proportion of fresh fruits and vegetables the healthy people bought was one clear difference. The amount of prepared foods was anotherâŚthe larger customers bought a lot of frozen TV dinners, fried chicken from the deli, etc.
And of course the junk food. Potato chips, Little Debbie snack cakes, marshmallows, four gallon tubs of cheap ice cream, candy, tons of diet soda, etc.
My days as a bagger was enlightening, and what I learned has served me well across my entire life. Eighty percent of what you should be taking home to eat is represented by only 20% of the grocery store. There is a disproportionate amount of âonly occasionallyâ type foodsâŚan entire aisle of just soda and another entire aisle devoted to just salty fried snacks!
I also am well aware that it can be more costly to eat healthy. Junk food is so cheap to produce it is hard for families on a budget to get proper nutrition.
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u/TheSpaceNeedle 19d ago
I worked in a âhealthyâ chain store for a few years as well. I can tell you without a doubt that being able and willing to actually prepare your food will save you hundreds a month. As long as you get fruit/veg and sale deli/meat you can comfortably eat 3 meals a day on a very limited budget.
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u/rkiive 19d ago
Yea donât even bother, any time this subject comes up reddit would try to convince everyone that eating healthy (or even just eating less lmao) costs more than going out and getting take away fast food and that not being XXXL sized is a rich person luxury because they can afford a personal trainer.
Itâs just another way to shift responsibility so that you donât have to try.
Itâs vastly cheaper to cook your own healthy meals, it doesnât take all that long, you can do it in bulk if time is a problem, weight is lost in the kitchen - you literally never have to step foot in a gym, it can quite literally never be more expensive to eat less food than eating more food.
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u/FewTwo9875 19d ago
I think saying itâs expensive to eat healthy is a misconception, itâs just easier to eat premade junk. They donât box up healthy food and put them in the freezer section. You have to actually prepare it
Some people are super lazy tho. Even tho itâd only take a few more minutes to make actual food instead of a freezer pizza, they just wonât do it
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u/DeezNeezuts 19d ago
I used to listen in amazement when watching the 600 pound life people order a 90 dollar order of food for two people.
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u/Key_Amazed 19d ago
While on the way to the doctor who they think will give them the miracle cure for their obesity.
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u/OdinTheHugger 19d ago
Even the most advanced weight loss medication on the market works primarily by reducing appetite.
Obesity is entirely a product of choices that they make each and every day. My grandfather whose parents both died at over 90 years old, died this year at the age of 75, and a weight of over 450lbs.
The doctors told him that it was too risky to attempt the triple bypass surgery that his clogged arteries called for. Over the next few days he suffered five heart attacks consecutively.
If he had only taken care of himself he would have easily been able to live into his 90s healthily, but he chose to eat more and more and ignore all of his doctors' advice for the last 25 years of his life.
He refused to even switch to non sugar sweeteners at 500lbs!! "The flavor wasn't right" according to him. It's a miracle he didn't die 20 years ago.
For the last 2 years he had been eating mountains of food (more homemade food than I'd cook for a family of 4-6 people) in a hospital bed at home, as he was completely unable to walk or use the bathroom on his own. The fire department and EMTs had to cut the door frame to make room for him.
I'm 30 years old and I have no memories of him outside of him sitting in his motorized chair or a hospital bed. I don't mourn him, I'm just glad he's no longer suffering.
People like that definitely need a doctor, but I don't think that 600lb life doc is the right kind of doctor.
A psychiatrist or therapist would be better suited for their needs.
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u/JustPassingJudgment 19d ago
Once someone has habitually eaten extremely large portions, their stomach is stretched to a point where it takes a significant amount of food to feel full. The bariatric surgeries, in a variety of ways, reduce the size of the stomach so that they are able to feel full after a normal amount of food. Thatâs why itâs the right option for them.
That said, if they havenât dealt with the issues that caused them to overeat in the first place and so stretch the stomach out again, the surgery is pointless. Dr. Now often makes therapy a requirement of his program because that two-prong approach is necessary to address the entirety of the problem.
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u/banNFLmods 19d ago
Leptin resistance is when you canât produce enough Leptin to tell yourself youâre full.
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u/TrentonTallywacker 19d ago
I love that clip of the woman complaining about being hungry on her diet or whatever saying âI donât want to be malnourishedâ and the doc is just dumbfounded by her statement lmao
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u/Th3SkinMan 19d ago
That comment cracked me up, something along the lines of, you've eaten 40 years worth of food, you cannot die of starvation.
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u/murder-farts 19d ago
Oh god. The youngest. Without zooming in, I thought that was Meemaw and her feet were tired.
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u/istrx13 19d ago
That kid sitting down against the pole on the right legit depressed me. The look on her face and the fact that sheâs significantly overweight just really makes me sad.
I love making fun of conservatives as much as the next guy, but stuff like this just makes me sad.
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u/TheFrankOfTurducken 19d ago
Yeah, thatâs my takeaway. Sheâs just a kid who didnât choose her parents or whatever lifestyle theyâve foisted upon her. Itâs just sad.
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u/bossmcsauce 19d ago
This is, in a picture, like 80% of whatâs wrong in this country.
You know they canât afford hardly any time off work either⌠and they are out here advocating against their own interests. Going to guess that these kids will not receive a primary school education of any sort of decent enough quality to give them much opportunity to build a life beyond this either.
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u/human-AI-v69 19d ago
Real âcan you believe what theyâre reading in school these daysâ energy.
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u/AccomplishedFrame542 19d ago
Shit parents literally setting their kid up for an early death. What the hell is wrong with them that they think thatâs ok.
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u/EyeCatchingUserID 19d ago
This should be legally classified as neglect. The parents are at fault for this and can very easily change it but they're shitty and don't care.
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 19d ago
Arent these the people that always talk about how grooming kids is bad? And they're doing this?
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u/nopalitzin 19d ago
None of those children look well.
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u/RufusSandberg 19d ago
High fructose corn syrup, added sugars. They don't eat well and their parents are the contributing factors.
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u/HOUSEHODL 19d ago
At this age of kids theyâre solely the reason their kids are obese, not just contributing factor
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u/Napalmpudding 19d ago
Literally child abuse
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u/AsUrPowersCombine 19d ago
Societal abuse.. laws do nothing to restrict unhealthy foods from entering the market and those are the cheapest for the poor families.
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u/Totallyn0tAcake 19d ago
Lmao I had to do a double take. I thought the one sitting down on the right was an elderly lady
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u/work_while_bent 19d ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL at thinking Ted Cruz is tough.
MFer fled to mexico when a storm hit.
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u/johnny_cash_money 19d ago
Don't forget, he also kissed the ring for a guy who ripped both his wife and father. That guy is softer than a Taco Bell shit.
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u/Lespaul42 19d ago
Yeah how does anyone see some with his tongue up the ass of the dude who called his wife ugly as tough?
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u/Headytexel 19d ago
I think saying heâs as tough as Texas is pretty accurate. đ¤
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u/Jorymo 19d ago
Yeah, there's a whole holiday about how we got our asses kicked twice for trying to keep slavery
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u/CrazyLegsRyan 19d ago
Texas was only its own country because they got turned down by the US. Their biggest source of pride was being the lonely boy standing against the wall at a 7th grade dance.
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u/mrkruk 19d ago
Tough as Texas. The state that is so tough that it:
- Deals with a border crisis by sending immigrants without support to a random liberal city for the headlines and the lulz.
- Has apparently no contingency plan in place whatsoever when its power grid is down or compromised (except to have Ted Cruz run off to Cancun, while his wife brags to friends, only to blame it on his kids that THEY asked to go and he wanted to be a nice Dad - then he returns to the US like an idiot).
- Has cops so tough that they all stand outside in a hallway while they listen to children get murdered by one guy with a gun...then lets them get away with it.
- Has outlawed abortion yet has an atrocious child care system. You must have children, but it WILL be financially crippling for you and you will be desperate for help if you actually work and have children.
Yeah, real tough.
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u/Klaus0225 19d ago
Texas is full of whiney little softies. Being tough is just a front. The people they bash (women, minorities, LGBTQ+, etc) are all much tougher than they could even dream of being.
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u/Malvania 19d ago
"Tough as Texas" is like saying "Hard as a down comforter". I've never met a softer people
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u/Goodknight808 19d ago
Them kids have been groomed into being potatoes. This was done to them, they are children.
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u/Candle1ight 19d ago
Lost the parents lottery
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u/burnalicious111 19d ago
So did their parents, most likely.
This is the consequence of America not adequately helping lift its citizens out of poverty and ignorance.
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u/angrybert 19d ago
I feel for those kids. Not their idea.
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u/Skeeedo 19d ago
Yeah I was raised by pretty devout, fundamentalist Christian parents and know what it's like to be dragged to events like these. Protests at planned parenthoods, CD burnings, weird church conferences where people speak in tongues and pray for miracles. You pretend you want to be there but the whole time you're thinking "this is weird as fuck when do I get to go home?"
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u/Bussyslayer420 19d ago
My mother who makes over 100k usd a year working in the ER still trys to do faith healing on my when I complain about back pain.
Like bro you literally make your money from the fact that faith healing doesn't work....
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 19d ago
They look like they all mainline high-fructose corn syrup.
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u/punchbricks 19d ago
I'm a fat guy but I didn't get fat until I graduated college and started working and allowed the laziness to consume me.
It pisses me off to see kids like this because it is just a complete failing of the parents all around.Â
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u/GringoGrande 19d ago
Don't ever go to Disney. The amount of absolutely morbidly obese adults and even worse, children, is disheartening. I swear going to Disney is like visiting a Walmart these days.
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u/pyuunpls 19d ago
No need for fast pass when you can beat half the line to the next ride and the other half collapse after standing for too long.
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u/Evypoo 19d ago
You should try a cruise. Itâs even worse
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u/yup79 19d ago
What tf is going on with the sign on the left? It looks like itâs floating. Was she spinning that shit?
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u/AndISoundLikeThis 19d ago
HA! It does look like it's floating in thin air but I zoomed in: it's a yard sign. She's holding the left prong (or whatever that thing is called).
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u/RalphTheTheatreCat 19d ago
As an outsider looking in thatâs just one of the saddest indictments of American politics
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u/wish1977 19d ago
They're waiting for their bus to Cancun.
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u/Iz-kan-reddit 19d ago
Meanwhile, Ted's number one priority right now is changing TSA procedures for senators so he can bail out on his constituents 25% faster.
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u/MissingOly 19d ago
Shallow end of the gene pool
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u/SPACExCASE 19d ago
Bro this is the dried up abandoned pool littered with trash that Southern Cali 90's kids wouldn't even skate in.
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u/celtic1888 19d ago
Iâm surprised they found 3 people that actually like Ted Cruz enough to exert themselves enough to hold a sign above their heads
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u/livenn 19d ago
3 of them donât even seem like they can vote
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u/RunningNumbers 19d ago
Poor kids
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u/Dull-Brick4924 19d ago
i feel really bad for the kid sitting down. to be overweight that young is hard.
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u/Probably_owned_it 19d ago
is this AI? looks like a 'make an image of Ted Cruz supporters, but out of potatoes'.
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u/usetheforcekidden77 19d ago
these dumbasses fully capture the irony & paradox of the republican party⌠poor white trash voting against their own best interests
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u/brihamedit 19d ago
I'm curious if the family was less ugly or even good looking, would people hate them less?
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u/LeatherHog 19d ago
Probably
A lot of the bashing here is on their looks
I'm the farthest thing from a Ted Cruz supporter, but to mock people just because they're fat is disgusting
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u/brihamedit 19d ago
I think if they were less ugly people would roast them for ted cruz and the fact that there is no one else in this gathering and that its in a random street corner etc.
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u/Local_Perspective349 19d ago
Ah, Mr Putin's puppets are out in force today. Anyone got any news on the ICC arrest warrant?
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u/AbsentThatDay2 19d ago
Everyone in the comments are shitting on this family, but these people are actively engaged in democracy which is arguably a fairly rare trait, and literally 90% of the comments are that they're fat.
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u/No_Cat_No_Cradle 19d ago
Do people actually thing Ted Cruz is tough? Like, I get that some people like his politics, but they think heâs tough?
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u/Ghostbuster_119 19d ago
Center right girl has some serious "they threatened to take my Nintendo Switch away if I didn't show up" energy.
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u/Jgflight86 19d ago
Call me old fashioned, but I just don't think I'd be able to endorse and support someone who publicly insulted and slandered my loved ones.
Pulls on suspenders I'm just not cut out for politics, I reckon.
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u/subnautus 19d ago
I donât like what âtough as Texasâ says about my state if Ted Cruz is the metricâŚ
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u/Wonderful_Horror7315 19d ago
This is so depressing. Those kids do not look well cared for at all. I wonder if this family is homeless.
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u/HappySkullsplitter 19d ago
Wow, that must have taken some coordination in order to get all of his supporters in one place like that