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No. 150448

Ragen Chastain is a fat acceptance activist/public speaker, an extreme advocate of HAES (Health at Every Size), and a self-described "elite athlete".

She first caught the attention of the internet for her dancing, example left. She had a blog, danceswithfat, where would call herself a three-time national dance champion, even though she can barely even get both feet off the ground. This rustled the jimmies of GOMI, fph and fatlogic, where she starred in several posts about her HAES claims and became a known figure. Further investigation revealed that her dance titles were in categories with no/few other dancers for pay-to-win non-competitive social dancing:
https://truthaboutragen.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/ragen-chastains-national-dance-championship-titles/
(yes, she has her own hate site)

Then she kind of dropped the dancing thing in favour of a new endeavour: Ironfat. She purported that she would take on a full Ironman in 2016 to prove once and for all that fat people can do anything that skinny people can.

Her first attempt at running was in the Seattle marathon, which she documents here:
https://truthaboutragen.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/ragen-chastains-national-dance-championship-titles/
tl;dr:
>says she trained 370 miles for a 26 mile marathon
>cutoff time is 8.5 hours
>actually takes her 12.5 hours
>(that’s 2 miles/hour, or 3.3 km/h)
>the race organizers cleaning up behind her tell her to quit early on
>after realizing she won’t, they break into tears and tell her how inspirational she is
>took half an hour bathroom break

She then started to blog about her Ironman training, which included many tales of street harassment and sassy comebacks with little stats or substance. The highlight of this was when she started “Selfie Sunday” - a day intended to prove the haters wrong where she would post selfies from every Sunday of the month. Except that the haters looked up the exif data for her selfies and discovered that they were all taken within minutes of each other:
https://truthaboutragen.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/road-to-tempe-2015-fake-selfie-sunday/
Or perhaps the most damning evidence of fakery:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RagenChastain/comments/3oi6az/repost_ragen_strikes_again/cvxi71w

After this she started deleting all her metadata lol.

So around October of last year, Ragen attempts a half Ironman after 1.5 years of training. She was disqualified at the first gate (after the swim) for taking too long.
Live thread from the day of the event:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RagenChastain/comments/3p80ed/imaz_703_race_day_megathread_put_all_race_updates/

You’d think that this might cause her to reevaluate her views on HAES or her own abilities but nope. Like a true narcissist, she keeps on trucking with the same delusions of athleticism.

Fast forward to this week:
Ragen participates in a leisurely 5k aimed at fat people as a “baby’s first race” kind of thing. She clocks in at over an hour, even though she was found to have cut part of the course. She was captured on video crossing the finish line from the opposite direction, then turning around and taking pictures with her friends (who bandited the race):
https://truthaboutragen.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/road-to-tempe-2016-ragen-the-cheater/
She has since been disqualified and removed from their website.

She also has claimed to have been a national merit scholar and valedictorian with a perfect GPA, a professional level clarinet soloist, a cheerleading captain, winner of the annual lifeguard races 4 straight years, and a competitive figure skater & gymnast, all while in high school.
I think this cow has great potential. She posts in bursts, but when she does they’re full of hilarious delusions and bait-taking.

No. 150449

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https://youtu.be/iQmwsARQ0G4
Video of her crossing the finish line backwards

No. 150452

Oh my god I've followed Ragen for years and she's the perfect cow. She's so self righteous and pandering and such a fucking pathological liar.

No. 150453

Her form is so bad when she dances, I don't understand why she's so proud of barely being able to move. She looks like a potato sack full of eels when she's doing one of her two-minute boogie sessions.

No. 150455

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>>150452
Yeah, I was pretty surprised that she didn't already have a thread.

>>150453
Example vid for anyone wondering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIYbfxjpHo&feature=youtu.be

No. 150457

>>150448
Just realized that I pasted the wrong link for the Seattle marathon story:
https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/my-big-fat-finished-marathon/

No. 150463

Is the same woman who makes shit loads of cash through crowdfunding by pandering to hopeful, naive fatties?

No. 150472

>>150455
Wow she is actually the best dancer in that sad video. The lady in white top looks tragic.

No. 150489

Idgaf about this haes whale others when at least she's doing some sort of exercise and not continuing the narrative "I can't run because of muh genetics I should be accepted for sitting at home". Her attitude stinks and she's probably doing so much damage to herself by doing things wrong, but it's not the worst of the bunch.

>>150463
Would definitely prefer if she asked her followers to "help prove skinny bitches wrong by exercising" rather than along them for cash

No. 150503

>>150489
she lies though, and she is one of the primary proponents of this HAES bullshit.

No. 150506

She's pretty impressive, if only for her persistence. However slow, she did finish the race… and she only took a break once? She sure as hell trained for that.

I'm sure she could have lost the weight if she wanted to. That some crazy stubbornness.

No. 158998

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After two weeks without updates, Ragen is back with a new tale of fat shaming.

No. 159002

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The Ironman is coming up pretty soon btw. In November I think? Should be interesting to see if she's really been training as much as she says she has.

No. 159006

>>158998
I love how she is always supposedly encountering prejudicial incidents and manages to end them in triumph-over-adversity/pseudo-inspiring self-advocating heroism. Yeah, he ducked his head and called you ma'am, suddenly contrite and respectful. Sure, Jan. Bitch has been watching too many Lifetime movies. Oh and by the way, who, after the shock of such an incident, whips out their camera on the spot? Because, y'know, I always have my phone on and open to the cam function when working out; doesn't everyone?
As for her image, is that supposed to be the car headlight? So let me see…these alleged egg assailants stayed in position while she took the pic? That glare isn't streaking. FAIL

No. 159007

At first glance I thought this was the chick from that TLC show, "My Big Fat Fabulous Life."

No. 159040

>>159007
She wishes. Whitney way thore is everything ragen wishes she was. Think about it. An obese dancer with her own tv show to spread her HAES message. Ragen must be seething

No. 159061

>>159007
lmao i love to hate watch the show. Everyone on it is ridiculous

No. 159068

>>158998
IF that's true, how rude. Don't laugh at heavy people trying to exercise at least their trying.

No. 159109

>>159068
It's not though, don't worry. She comes out with a story like this every week or so and it always involves her bravely standing up to fat shaming, making others cry, high five her, tell her that she's changed their views on fat people etc.

This is actually one of her more plausible sounding stories until she comes across the second group of teenage boys that change their mind about harassing her once they hear of her heroic struggles. She just can't help herself when it comes to exaggerating. She just had to throw in the extra harassers to let her followers know that she experiences the most fat bigotry out of them all.

No. 159134

>>159061
In the next ep her pig tries to mount her, while she tries to fuck the male obeast at the radioshack. When will she drop dead?

No. 159136

>>159068
You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You diet in the kitchen and build muscle and endurance in the gym. You know why a typical fattie gains weight after joining a gym?

>is on ellyptical for ten minutes and calls it a day

>burned 93 calories
>"I've been good and did muh exercise, I have earned this 966 calories concoction from Starbucks, teehee!"

No. 159154

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>>159109
Here's another example of a typical day in Ragen-land. It seems like everybody that passes by interacts with her.
>bike riding
>group of three guys swarm her and follow her
>they don't believe she can be fat and athletic
>another pair of guys asks her how far she's going
>they give her a you go girl
>lady is learning to roller skate in a parking lot and falling down a lot
>smiles at Ragen every time she passes
>just as our hero is debating giving up on her bike ride, roller skates lady swoops in with some unexpected character development
>yells to Ragen that she's kicking ass
>now motivated to bike 10 more miles
>by the end of the bike ride, roller skates lady has learned to roller skate

No. 159156

>>159134
Also it looks like her personal trainer finds her pigging out on junkfood and drops her as a client. You can even see all the fast food wrappers from previous binges in her car, it's disgusting.

I can't wait to see her crying and see what excuse she pulls out of her ass this time. I think she deserves her own thread tbh.

No. 159159

>>159156
I would join you for that thread if you wanna make one. I mean, she produces new milk once a week by virtue of having a television show so we'd have a lot to discuss.

Personally, I think that a lot of the show is fake, but Whitney's delusions are real. Like, I'm pretty sure that her boyfriend is just an actor & her job is fake, dance studio is fake for tv etc. But I think that she legitimately thinks of herself as hot shit, and doesn't see a problem with her weight.

No. 159163

>>159159
I would make one, but I've never made a thread before and for some shitty reason my laptop won't let me attach/save photos. If someone else would do it I would definitely join in on the conversation as well.

No. 159165

>>159163
oh yes, I'd love a whiney weighs more thread.

I could give the barebones on why she's a cow, but it will probably be a shit thread

No. 201250

Tomorrow is race day! Ragen is in Arizona and has checked into the race!

Has anyone else been following this? You can find updates here: https://truthaboutragen.wordpress.com

I hope she at least completes the swim so the laughs can last a bit longer!

No. 201254

>>201250
She's going for that Personal Record.

No. 201277

>>150455
The girl in the white cammy is perf. I wish more youthful chubby girls like her were leading the HAES movement as opposed to these ugly, 400 pound midwestern mom motherfuckers. So at least when women like that say "I'm overweight but I exercise" it's much more believable than the hambeast who says the same thing but gets caught cheating a 5k race and has the dance moves of a potato.

I'm fine with fat people being who they are as long as they attempt to be active, but this Ragen bitch is a liar. Straight up. She might as well be on the same level of tumblr hams who say they're healthy but who eat junk and never exercise at all.

No. 201288

>>201250
Bless you, anon, I forgot about this!

No. 1345517

A spammer made a 4 year necrobump, but Regan still hasn't finished that Iron Man.



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