When Jerry comes home from school and his parents and Tim Blake Nelson show him the Camp Hope video, is this supposed to be the first time they ever addressed Jerry’s weight issue? That would be kind of a shock if Jerry’s parents never told him they thought he was fat.
shareThey probably tried before to enroll him in sports or get him to do outdoor activities to no avail, so they jumped at the camp hope opportunity. Also parents want breaks from their kids which is another reason they send kids to camp. I thought Jerry had a point that his dad was "fatter than I am". Its funny because it shows that the family probably didnt make it a point to really cook healthy meals otherwise only the kid would be fat.
I use to be the fat kid for awhile in my life, this movie was great! Its technically my favorite disney movie!
I grew up a fat kid too and had (have) a morbidly obese mother. We were not a family that gorged ourselves in junk food that you often think about obese people, but the problem was that my mother cooked and made me eat oversized meals. Maybe it stemmed from the war and Depression times when there was a shortage of food and my mother had this mindset that she vowed to never have her children go hungry. But instead it had the adverse effect of making me fat. It's funny that in one scene in the movie, one of the girls (the popular girl) asks why the guys don't just lose weight and another girl asks why don't she show them how to puke after meals like she did. I would literally have had to develop bulimia to be thin growing up. Either that or working as a ditch digger.
My mother also blamed and shamed me for being fat. When I was 10 or 11, she told me that an 11-year old does not have love handles. Never mind that you're the one feeding me the calories...
Im sorry you had to deal with that kind of trauma, I hope you overcame that past and are doing well in life.
I think another funny part is the fat kid with braces and short spiked bangs (Cody maybe?) is actually making out with one of the pretty girls right on the dance floor as Tony pulls the plug and tells everyone to go home XDDD
I have a normal weight BMI now at 6'2.5" and roughly 195lbs. I have some abdominal fat that I find is too much. Not a "dad bod" or beer belly, though. According to the Navy method, my body fat is 19% or 17%. Some people manage to not look fat at this level, but others like me look like we need some exercise.
I used to think that being fat was genetic. My paternal grandfather was obese (he died a premature death) and my father to the skinnier side, although he isn't so skinny now. My biology teacher in high school told me that the obesity skipped through generations from my grandfather to me. I then looked at my great-grandfather's war records and they said he was 5'8.5" and 150lbs. He looked a lot like my uncle who is obese, so that pretty much proved to me definitively that it couldn't be genetic. There were very few obese people before industrialization.
My grandfather died a premature death from Acromegaly, which is a form of gigantism that happens in your thirties. His face and hands and feet began to grow and his neck grew. It got to the point where he couldnt breathe. This was in the 1943 when he died. Nowadays you can treat this genetic disorder early and even find out if you have it before it starts.
Im technically obese now, but Ive lost weight before and can do it again. Its harder now because my current job has me sitting all day and long hours away from home. Im 5'9" 191 pounds. It seys for my BMI I wont be techncially obese anymore at 165 pounds. But even at my lowest of 143 pounds I still had some lovehandless. Of course pounds cannot tell all because I have muscle, and I've had people tell me currently that I am not fat. But personally I felt the best at around 160 to 155 pounds. And its better for my heart.