Originally Posted by deaconbam
I am fat and diabetic. The two often go hand-in-hand, and I am getting back into cycling to combat both. Words of encouragement often matter a great deal to people who are overweight and taking positive steps to get the problem under control.
In another thread, I asked for advice on buying bibs. Most replies were very helpful. However, I received the following:
"larger" people of the world: do us all a favor and cover the spandex with a baggy short...
Very nice, very supportive...yet people like this are often the first to say, "Why doesn't he/she do something about his/her weight problem?" Maybe it's just one more sign that the amount of intelligence in the world is fixed, but the population is growing.
If you want to post to an internet forum, you'd best grow some thicker skin. Yes, it would be nice if we all lived in blissful harmony, always polite and well-mannered to each other, even taking warm showers together and singing kumbya, but that ain't the way the world is. We have to deal with the world as it is and change it by our own example, not griping about the bad example of others.
As a larger type feller myself, I agree that spandex and such is for the skinny folks...people like to see me...but not ALL of me.
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