Deflating to loss weight......... Google provides insight

Patriot_in_NY said:

I too was initially skeptical about this "excuse" that the Patriots used to explain away the deflate comments by McNally and JJ. I'm a pretty "stout" guy myself and I don't necessarily use those terms to refer to myself or attempts to lose weight. In fact, if you called me fat outright or told me to go on a diet, you'd prolly have an asswhooping coming, so I'm perfectly acquainted with "euphemisms" for describing us bigger body-type folks. Even in football, O and D line man are often referred to ass big bodies, heavy loads, or any number of other "fat" euphemisms. Even so...... Deflate was a new one to me. I doubt many people round the locker room refered to Vince as Fat-Vinny..... No. it was always "Big Vince".

So instead of just mocking it as BS or whatever like many of the national folks.... I turned to google. I googled "deflate" and "Weight loss"

I found 278,000 results. Many of the early ones referenced the Patriots situations, so I jumped to PAGE 8.

I found quite a large number of "deflate" references as it pertains to weight loss. So many, that it got me thinking that perhaps it's not as far-fetched as it seems. I even found an old NEWSPAPER AD from 1982 that uses the exact term "deflate".

This was a 5-second search of google too. It's not like I had to work very hard to find any of this. However, and I guess this is my point, perhaps instead of just assuming that this is a BS excuse to pile on. When you hear people saying that it is total crap that two (obvious) jokesters, heavily involved in the preparations (e.g. inflating and deflating footballs) would use the term deflation as a fat euphemisms, perhaps suggest that they use google as a tool to enlighten them.

Not saying that this is the explicit reason that the reason these guys were using it, but it's CLEARLY not that unusual as most of us think at first blush.

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I Don't Like My Melting Body

When people lose a lot of weight, everyone gushes. Everyone admires and applauds and expects us to talk about how great we feel and how much happier we are. And that's reasonable. I mean, losing a lot of weight really does improve your quality of life in most cases. [........] But no one likes to hear the negative stuff. When you lose a lot of weight, you're not supposed to complain about it, or talk about the parts you don't like. It's almost like if you say something negative you are ungrateful for the chance you have to be thinner. Hey, I've felt that way before myself. When I weighed 250+ pounds and I'd see people blogging about how much they hated their hip fat at 175 pounds, I'd roll my eyes and think, "I would KILL to have your hip fat! Wanna trade?" But really, how we feel is how we feel. And *not liking* something about the process does not negate the huge relief, gratitude and happiness I have that I have lost this weight.

My body used to be way too large. I hated how I looked and felt. My knees were hurting ALL the time even up until about 10 pounds ago. When I weighed 278 pounds, my skin was tight. When I'd run my hands over my body it felt very curvy and soft yet firm. Every curve had density to it. I felt solid.

Now, my body is more than 90 pounds lighter. The flesh is deflated, and the curves, while still there, are no longer firm with tight skin. People talk about "loose skin" after weight loss, but I am finding it is more like the flesh that is there is really squishy and not at all firm. The skin IS different... not smooth on my thighs by any means. It's like you inflated a large balloon to capacity, left it that way for ten years, and then left half the air out. Can you picture the surface? Kind of wrinkly? Not "loose" but different. It still covers the air in the balloon, but it is not smooth and firm when you run your hands over it anymore.

I don't like my melting body. I don't like the skin being wrinkly in places and the deflated feeling of my fat. I don't like that I can poke with my finger and it goes in two inches because the fat is so loose and mushy. I don't like that when I put on my underwear, which fit perfectly and are not tight at all, they dent into my fat a good inch or more because that fat is so soft and squishy. I don't like that my upper arm fat sways in the breeze if I reach for something, or that I have a patch of wrinkly skin appearing under my jawline. I absolutely do not like the sensation that I am melting, with my flesh dripping down like wax off a hot candle. My body is not the right shape anymore. It feels like someone should take a spatula and scrape up the oozing frosting and get rid of the drips. I do not like it at all.

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rads2005 said:

And that still doesn't explain the "going to espn" comment 8 minutes later.

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rads2005 said:

I was really disappointed they gave such a weak explanation for the "deflator" comment. More plausible would have been if McNally was responsible in some way for helping to deflate game balls during the week, or ensuring with the referees that balls were deflated on game day down to 12.5.

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Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

deflatethemate.com

says it is for couples who are "fat, sick, and out of shape. But we are finally doing something about it".

Is this a support group for people who compulsively take air out of footballs? Are they usually fat, sick, and out of shape? Who knew?

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rads2005 said:

I was really disappointed they gave such a weak explanation for the "deflator" comment. More plausible would have been if McNally was responsible in some way for helping to deflate game balls during the week, or ensuring with the referees that balls were deflated on game day down to 12.5.

And that still doesn't explain the "going to espn" comment 8 minutes later.

The rest of it I thought was good.

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Dr Pain said:

I agree and that along with the jacket text makes it far more believable. The ESPN comment actually made more sense about him not going to ESPN about his friend sneaking him some shoes.

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rads2005 said:

I was really disappointed they gave such a weak explanation for the "deflator" comment. More plausible would have been if McNally was responsible in some way for helping to deflate game balls during the week, or ensuring with the referees that balls were deflated on game day down to 12.5.

And that still doesn't explain the "going to espn" comment 8 minutes later.

The rest of it I thought was good.

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