O&A saved my life

0  2015-12-20 by [deleted]

Before Opie and Anthony I was clinically obese, fighting through depression, alcohol, a psychological addiction to fast food, and drugs. After hearing stories from Jim Norton about overcoming his addictions and battling his demons I knew I could change. His life lessons helped me lose over 25lbs and now I'm down to a comfortable 280 lbs for my 5'10" frame. I'm now able to wear clothes that perfectly compliment my body, instead of hiding it away in fear of scrutiny.I kicked the booze/drugs and attend AA classes whenever I can, my addiction now is helping people laugh and feel good. Thanks to Anthony Cumia, Jim Norton, and the regulars I'm now the toast of the town and a hit at all the gatherings. Now I'm able to face people who criticized my appearance with confidence and self worth. I was able to explain to them that fat-hate is based on fear, dehumanization and media panic. The state has now allowed me to visit my kids twice a month since I've been passing my mandatory drug tests. I can now stare into the eyes of my children with a feeling of self respect. I've been working as a custodian at my local grocery store and will have enough money to buy each of my kids a Christmas gift this year. I owe everything to the O&A show, I owe my life, and I just want to give them credit for all the positive outcomes that have happened since tuning in. Thanks for your support brothers, God bless.

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Wow kids grow up so fast these days

Are you the guy who used to post here pretending to be a 13 year old O and A fan??

That's my son Gregory

Your son that you see twice a month and you share a Reddit account?

We do. It's all in good fun, I turned him on to the O&A show and now he's hooked.

Uggghhhh....

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Normally I would say congrats and well done when I see a post like this. But you have proven yourself to be a fake, phoney liar. I hope you eat yourself to death you fat shit..

No need for the hostility, I'm simply having a laugh with my children and am in utter extasy due to the holiday cheer

The laughs I got from Jim and Patrice over these last three years have made me happier to be alive, if it wasn't for them i'd be relistening to old Carlin, Pryor and Hicks tapes daily like a nutjob.. I need comedy to survive

Tell your kid to put ear-muffs on for this:

You're still obese, dummy.

Being an anti-fat asshole who harbors this much hate is not healthy

You came to the wrong sub for love. I was just bustin' ya chops, brothaman! Seriously, I'm glad you stopped the drinking and turned shit around n' everything, but....this isn't a place I'd go for some positive reinforcement. Unless it's hatred for a certain large-titted bore. Then you're welcomed with open arms. It's like that scorpion story...it's our collective nature to snipe.

As someone who actually went into treatment for an eating disorder when I was 22 I still struggle with accepting myself even at 52. Sometimes I feel guilty for eating something "bad" and it makes me physically ill. I'm so terrified of going back to how I was. Every time I see threads like this that ill part of me starts saying, "maybe they're right... maybe you are worthless." It fucking sucks. I have to tell myself I'm still a person no matter what I weigh. I've tried almost everything to lose weight but I'll always be a bigger person - it's in my genetics. I'm still human and I still have feelings.

Edit: I do appreciate the fact that you came back to apologize though instead of going away with your head held high believing you did the right thing. That shows at least some maturity. You should talk with someone if you are having trouble in your life, I won't pester you by saying anything you probably have heard before but maybe you should put down the bottle and talk it out with someone you trust before you go back to that weird place again.

This is Colin Quinn without the 140 characters limit.

I would say congrats but your still a fatass and at that weight there arent clothes that compliment your body type.

Its really ridiculous to think that fat people are morally corrupt people who deserve to suffer for their actions. Think about a child who is fat. Would you want the child to suffer for its condition? No. You would say that the child needs compassion and help to change their habits. The reason why you wouldn't blame a child is because you would say "it only decided to eat that much because of its socialization and because it finds it difficult to control its urges to eat." Its decisions were clearly caused by factors that don't involve moral responsibility. But then somehow after that child gets a certain age, we start to add in a new factor and we say that adults somehow have a capacity for free will and whatever bad decisions they make make just reflect their immorality. You have to add this factor in because if you thought that their actions were only caused by their nature and their nurture then you would have to believe that they would deserve compassion rather than hatred for their self destructive decisions. But you want to hate them so you invent a new mysterious aspect of the mind so that you can justify your un-compassionate attitude. You forget about all the factors that contribute to a bad decision and you just boil it all down to one bullshit factor, free will/ immorality.

Sorry bro, being super fat is not healthy and its a decision you can make to change. Keep convincing yourself of this idea that you dont have free will and I'm going to keep making fun of you. shockin and jockin

Where is the love on this site, man? Where's the empathy? Posts like this just depress me so much. If you want extremely obese to suffer for their perceived transgressions, fine! They're suffering. I promise you, they're suffering. You don't need to help. There's no one weighing 600 lbs who is living the high life. Even if they're existing on your tax dollars, I promise you they feel trapped in a prison made of their own body. Why would you want to attack people who are already suffering? Why punch down at someone who just needs a hug? So many assumptions and so little empathy, you should feel ashamed.

Nah dont feel ashamed and punching down is easy. I want to be a shockjock one day

but it also killed Steve Carlisi. well, specifically Opie who killed him. so it all cancels out.

Thats crazy, I started listening to OnA completely normal and after 2 years became the guy you were before you started listening.

Different Strokes it takes!

Ive been overweight my whole life and then finally last august I started losing. I wound up losing around 30 lbs and then my depression medication stopped working and the withdrawl was so bad I wound up gaining 40. Do you know what it feels like to come so close and then lose it all in the span of a month? I feel fucking hopeless. And yet here people are insulting me and telling me I should hate myself. Guess what? I already DO!

Hey dummy, I'm pretty sure you're trolling but if you aren't- You're coming to the OnA subreddit to look for sympathy you fucking asshole. What the fuck did you think would happen?

thread has already given me too much anxiety. Are we going to sacrifice people's lives for the sake of self-confidence? Because being skinny is the only kind of health that matters right? Who cares if you push yourself into an eating disorder? Who cares if you spend so much time obsessing over your imperfections that you develop anxiety? Who cares if you hate yourself so much you sink into complete depression? You're not fat anymore. I'm saving your life here.

Sacrifice people's lives for self-confidence? No. For laughter? Yes. Goodnight you fat depressed faggot.

I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight after reading all these hateful comments, uhhh goodnight

I can't tell if you're a troll or just a delusional fatso who had no idea what this subreddit was about when he decided to post this sappy bullshit here.

Jesus your really trying to bully someone who already struggles with depression? How shitty can you get!

Nice "bit" fatso

Peckas