- The remains of a Mickey Mouse shaped, chocolate-coated ice cream bar.
Disney World
Seen at Disney World. Presumably that is the remains of a Mickey Mouse shaped chocolate-coated ice cream bar. The ears have been eaten. Total calories about 500, more than a quarter of what she needs for the whole day. Food addiction causes more death and misery than all other addictions combined. And, if you are worried about global warming, it takes a least ten pounds of fossil fuel to produce one pound of superfluous human fat.
It is rarely possible to be addicted to refined food and not obese. Generally these are the people that have convinced themselves that they can live on chocolate bars as long as they exercise a lot. Dead wrong.
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chym_dai, > Jon, ElDave, N!(K -- loveforphotography --, and 28 other people added this photo to their favorites.
WoodenCamelMedia_com (68 months ago | reply)
Ick. That's what I call a "FPA" (fat pubic area).
*abro* (67 months ago | reply)
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ariane.s (67 months ago | reply)
A little flat to me.
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Eva Kühnhammer (67 months ago | reply)
7/10
Amsterdamned! (67 months ago | reply)
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incendiarymind (67 months ago | reply)
The composition is a little too straight ahead and, well, blocking out the face isn't very candid since expression is as important to a candid shot as anything (though there is a group out there for faceless expression candids). Though I completely understand why you would self-censor out the face. Still, through all, a pretty interesting part of the photo project which looking through the rest is pretty shocking.
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Jan Ronald Crans (66 months ago | reply)
O My God!
Mr TGT (65 months ago | reply)
Please join my group Large people of the world
3parkle farieee yayyy lol heheheee [deleted] (65 months ago | reply)
How did you take it without her knowing? I wonder if she can actually walk- like to see her try! (snigger snigger)
colros (65 months ago | reply)
At the time I had a Canon G2 which has a screen that rotates 180 degrees. You can aim the camera in one direction while looking at the rotated screen. People are accustomed to think you are taking a picture in the direction you are facing. I now have a G6 with the same type of screen. But Canon has stopped making this line. Very few digital cameras have this capability, certainly none of the SLRs I have seen so far.
> Jon (65 months ago | reply)
haha shes got the whole front ass thing goin there
colros (65 months ago | reply)
I think it is as mistaken to laugh at obese people as it is to laugh at alcoholics. I only want to make people aware of the gravity of the problem (no pun intended). There have always been a few gluttons who were oblivious to the consequences of their addiction but food addiction is now rampant. One third of the American population and one quarter of the Candian population are now obese. Something happened in the early 1990s so that people, who had been careful with food intake before, stopped being vigilant. I believe that event was the introduction of statins in 1987 and the promotion of the "cholesterol myth", as long as your blood cholesterol is "normal" you can eat anything. If anyone can come up with a better explanation, let's hear it.
Emperor Anton (65 months ago | reply)
Do you think the amount of exercise that we get, which has been reduced greatly because of the number of hours we sit at our computers "surfing" the net rather than actually surfing or doing anything that might actually burn some of those empty calories. That and the decreased quality of our food supply combined.
colros (65 months ago | reply)
The energy equivalent of running one marathon is consuming three Burger King Quad Stackers and a large order of chips. Which is easier to do?
CHEER ME UP! (63 months ago | reply)
Wow! yes it's sad... I hope I can do something with myself right now before it's too late :S
I have a 3 year-old son and all the time I give to him healthy food, I never liked him to eat at McDonald´s or pizza... we just move to the US from Mexico and here, the most (note: not all but the most of them) of the kid's menus give no more than 4 options which include: cheddar cheese sandwich, pizza, chicken nuggets or cheese burgers all with a side of fries and a sundae or ice cream treat :S
Since we moved (1 year ago) I've gained about 20 pounds, all the time I feel overweight but now I'm feeling miserable, so I started to do something...
The sad part of all this is that I am aware of the harm that all this food do to my health (that's why I try to feed my son with healthy options) but I feel addicted to it... I noticed how big and delicious are US's cookies, ice cream and pizza!
I used to give my son some homemade-almost-fat-free skinless chicken breast vegetable soup (with natural (not canned or freezed) veggies of all colors: spinach, carrots, tomatos, celery, peas, potato and zucchini) while I eat a big cheese burger and hide of him to drink my "diet" coke so he can't see me because I don't like him to drink this stuff... isn't that stupid???? lucky me that he don't like burgers! (because we don't used to eat them in Mexico as often as we do here and also I know what junk food is so I never give this kind of food to him)
Now I'm eating as I feed him, and I didn't weight myself since months ago because I was afraid to noticed my ugly reality, so I don't know how much I've lost but I certainly feel it in my clothes... and in my conscience!!
I know that my son need to see that mom and dad (his family!) don't eat junk food not just him to be consciously healthy, so we are trying to quit all our addictions to refinated flours, fat and fake food... and start over a new way of living...
Cutestingaash (62 months ago | reply)
I simply can not grasp the fact that some people
can laugh about over weight people!
(from someone who is bit under weight)
MandaBeads (62 months ago | reply)
"I simply can not grasp the fact that some people
can laugh about over weight people!"
Agreed. Doesn't anyone else think that's a bit childish?
Mr TGT (60 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Large People of the World, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Please join as well ! Great Shots
Mr TGT (60 months ago | reply)
Thanks , not laughing just exposing the problem of overweight people that are actually malnurished, do to eating empty calories.
Paranrs [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)
What's sad is the other day I went to buy some new pants/shorts. I wear a 32 inch waist. My wife and I spent a lot of time going through the racks before we found what I needed. It seems that a 32 inch waist is not ordered in quantity, but if I wore a size 40 there would be no problem. I had a difficult time finding pants small enough to fit me. Years ago I never had this problem. I guess the merchandisers are increasing the sizes of the clothes that are ordered.
colros (60 months ago | reply)
If projections of the obesity pandemic hold true it may become impossible to find the 32 waist in a few years. At least the large sizes can be taken in if we have to. What a wa(i)st(e)!
seraphinethefab898 (58 months ago | reply)
:(
medusadivaguy [deleted] (56 months ago | reply)
what a theme eh! wow! jiz!
Anthony Franco Photography (56 months ago | reply)
You FAT NASTY PIG! How can someone live like this. I see she's trying though. Good job tiny, after that have a Diet Coke.
Cutestingaash (56 months ago | reply)
Franco ,
How can a vicios person as you
have such a beautiful pictures like yours?
Anthony Franco Photography (56 months ago | reply)
I’m not a vicious person. Are you going to tell me you have respect for a person like this! Here's an example for you (Cutestingaash) You see people like this in stores riding around in the stores motorized carts. These are meant for HANYCAPED PEOPLE, NOT people who stuff their face and eat like a pig. You got a guy back from Iraq with his legs blow off looking for one of these carts. But guess what? You have a 400 lb women riding around in it looking for more junk food. And I’ am vicious? Get a clue genius. And for the rercord I'am not Laughing.
Cutestingaash (56 months ago | reply)
Unfortunately Franco
my Father is a handicap.
I've been with him too many times when "normal" people
took the handycap's parking lot, seeing him trying
to conquer his furstration mixed with rage (not allways succeeding).
So yes, you got a point there with those motorized carts
& yet , to refer the words you wrote to any overwheigt human being,
is bit too harsh.
colros (56 months ago | reply)
An example of an obese person having to use a powered wheel chair, again from Disney World. Ironically, the sticker on the cart says, "United We Stand."
Anthony Franco Photography (56 months ago | reply)
I could write forever on this, but I wont. All I have is one word to write.......................................( SELFCONTROL) Well maybe one more (SELFRESPECT)
Cutestingaash (56 months ago | reply)
Franco,
I hope you realize what a lucky person you are,
managing to live your life with Self Respect & Self Control.
Too many people cant,
smokers, alcoholist, violent people, obese & so on...
I have a hunch they all tried to overcome it,
but unfortunately they aren't strong like you.
Anyway, why laugh about anyone?
latingirl702002 (54 months ago | reply)
"What the hell you looking at mister?"
"Well, I was looking at that sky scraper until you blocked the view."
larryfishkorn (54 months ago | reply)
She's lump, she's lump
She's in my head
She's lump, she's lump, she's lump
She might be dead
misS cUca... U_u.... (54 months ago | reply)
oh my g0d¡!¡!
looking_for_a_cause_too (53 months ago | reply)
Priceless! I'm swearing off Mickey Mouse ice cream bars forEVER!!
TheGreatContini (53 months ago | reply)
fantastic photo!
frankwbeard (53 months ago | reply)
What the hell is hanging from her right arm???
colros (53 months ago | reply)
I think it's a water bottle.
Angel_Undercover (53 months ago | reply)
Somebody Call P.E.T.A.
SwimsinWA (52 months ago | reply)
Wow, I cannot even begin to respond to this. Have you no more common courtesy than to snap pictures of people when they aren't looking just to be able to make fun of them later online? To be frank, it disgusts me. I know all about obesity, through all my 17 years I have watched my mom has struggle with it in fact. Some, such as my mother, even have Diabetes, complicating the matter so much more, making every pound that much harder to lose. It is no easy thing for some to keep weight off or lose it. Food IS an addiction, on that point you are right, however, it seems a better use of time would be to help such people rather than poking fun at them. While I do in fact have not even a 32 inch waist you say is going to be so rare, but rather a 28 inch waist, I, hopefully at least have more respect for my fellow humans than assume such a disparaging attitude. It disappoints me that humankind has still not progressed so far as to even respect its own kind. That could very well be you in that picture, and how would you feel about it? A condition you most likely had tried time and again to change and recover yourself, and now people have posted your picture on the web just to poke fun at you. Once again it is a gross, and unkind, low, and just plain mean act.
Anthony Franco Photography (52 months ago | reply)
once again someone with no photos has something to say! Why are you part of a photo website if you have no photos to share? And as far as your comments about gross and disgusting, yeah your right people who have no control of their life and eat like pigs is gross and disgusting. And save those excuses for other fat people Please! And I don't have respect for people who don't have respect for them selfs. It's called dieting and exercise, PERIOD! Try it you'll be amazed.
SwimsinWA (51 months ago | reply)
Actually I do. I swim every day from 3 to 6 in the afternoons excluding Sundays. And twice a week every morning 5:30 to 6:30. I am pretty amazed too. It keeps me in great shape. However, that is beside the point. My point is it is exceedingly rude to make fun of people that, as you point out, do not have control over their own life. It is sad, but why would make fun of them for that? Would you make fun of someone that has lung cancer because they smoked all their life? They have lost control as well, in the same way. And as for the point about having no pictures, I just registered, and, as a full time student, have not yet had the free time to put in to upload pictures, thank you.
Stacii (dolcexo) (51 months ago | reply)
This is a strange, morbid, yet poignant photo.
isavedlatin11 [deleted] (51 months ago | reply)
this photo should be a warning add for heart disease.
i know that obesity is a disease and that the people who are affected by it don't have much control over it. yet, i also think that if i, or someone in my family were to suffer from it i would love and respect myself and them enough to intervene and do my best to help control it. people who are obese have to understand that they are different and that people are going make fun of them. whether its in person or behind their back, it's inevitable. the comments on this photo may be harsh, but its also reality. a reality that people need to see. i doubt the intent of this photographer was to go home and put this on flickr for the sole purpose of humiliating this person. i think real life photos like this are important. i believe that in a country where obesity is a huge issue, photos of this nature are beneficial to people who think they may be heading down the road to obesity, and may motivate them to get help before they lose control.
Brittney-Lynn (51 months ago | reply)
franco45.
you think that it is disgusting for a person to look like this, and i look at you with the same amount of disgust because of your lack of self control. you are rude and an embarrassment to people who can maturely discuss heart disease and the impact of obesity on our country without being so violent with our words. people who speak about others like you did struggle with an inward disease of a lack of self control. you are no better than this woman, and no worse. we all have flaws. why is she so bad because she is fat? maybe there are certain things about you that are far more disgusting than her weight. i look at a personality, at a soul before i look at weight, and from what i know of you from your comments, you may as well weigh 2,000 pounds.
oh and your photos of women in lingerie and hooters girls are oh-so classy.
Anthony Franco Photography (51 months ago | reply)
Yet again another person (BRITTNEY LYNN) with no photography, but so many wise words-A.K.A Bullshit! Thats Three people now that have so much to say and no photos to share. And do you notice they all have the same comment BOO HOO :( Oh I’m so sorry for not being politically correct. I should have wrote a comment saying "You poor thing, you have issues and its not your fault, its ok to be fat. You go ahead and eat all you want. I will pray for you and your four chins. I tell it like it is. It kills me how people feel so sorry for someone like this who did this to them self. Brittney stop projecting, don’t get mad at me because your fat. And don’t be jealous of the girls on my stream. They actually care about their bodies and have self respect.
And Brittney, theres nothing I hate more than a big mouth on a photo site with no photos. so put down the the cheese burger and go take some pictures.
dolizamalore (50 months ago | reply)
Did she give consent for this picture to be posted? Did any of the people in your "Big Fat Americans at Disney" give any sort of permission?
(I do have pics posted on this site)
colros (50 months ago | reply)
dolizamalore, are you trying to blame the messenger?
I suggest you have a look at this upload and the paper it's from.
The obesity pandemic is now causing reduced life expectancy in the most obese parts of the USA, the first time in the history of the USA that life expectancy has gone down in any part of the country, except maybe during the 1918 flu pandemic. And it's going to get a lot worse. So, instead of complaining about shocking pictures of obesity I suggest you start doing something about it. If you would like some suggestions just send me a flickr mail.
Food addiction, along with other addictions will destroy the USA and most capitalist democracies sooner rather than later, long before terrorists can do it. And speaking of terrorists, who is responsible for funding the Taliban. You guessed it, heroin addicts. If there were no heroin addiction to provide a lucrative market for Afghanistan poppies there would be no Taliban and no lifeline for Al-Qaeda.
But do the presidential candidates dare to mention any of this? No way. No votes in telling the populace that it has to control its appetites, reduce consumption. Much more popular to tell them the government will reduce gas taxes, subsidize food, and bail them out of the greed-fed credit crunch.
BTW, as of today, you have no publicly viewable photos on flickr.
dolizamalore (50 months ago | reply)
I've already read your preachings. You still didn't answer any of my questions. Did anyone give their consent verbal, or written. Did you know that it is against copyright law to use someones likeness without a signed model release?
Obesity is a problem, but you have no right to exploit overweight people. Where is your moral compass? If you are trying to educate people your going about it very poorly.
Hope ya don't get sued!
BTW my pictures are private
colros (50 months ago | reply)
Preachings? All I do is state the facts and try to connect the dots. If you think I am wrong, give a rebuttal, don't complain about photos that only show reality.
Anyone who does not make any of his/her photos public has no right to complain about what others post publicly. What are you afraid of?
Have a look at my Creative Commons license. I make no money from these photos so there is nothing to sue me for. Flickr has millions of photos of people of all types none of whom have given "consent". We are all being photographed regularly by CCTV in many buildings and public spaces. What is special about my photos?
My only goal is to stop the obesity pandemic. If you have a better way, let's hear it.
dolizamalore (50 months ago | reply)
You still have never answered my question. What are YOU afraid of? You may not be profiting but, you are using their likeness as part of your cause. That is not covered by a creative commons license. Therefore you would need permission to use someones likeness. Using their photos as you are is slanderous. Also Disney is private property not public. Do you have Disney's permission to use photos for this cause?