(July 30, 2016 at 2:01 am)Maelstrom Wrote: In the end, it is all about excuses.
True fact: a balance of diet and exercise ensures weight loss.
Another true fact: those obese people who make excuses are not keeping up a regular schedule of exercise and diet change.
No, they just want to make excuses.
One of the major problems with weight loss in relation to obese individuals is lack of willpower.
The fact is that they can lose weight. They try, and then they decide to stop, because the food tastes too good and the exercise is too hard.
You're welcome for me bringing you this reality check.
It isn't that simple. Advertising pressure, overwork, poverty, and other factors besides medical conditions can cause people to be overweight. My little bro has been fighting with his weight for most of his life.
THIS is fat shaming, just telling them to suck it up, that they are somehow lazy for being fat. This helps no one.
Yes, obese people can lose weight, but it is far from simple, and much more complicated than just eat right and exercise. Single moms working 2 jobs may not have time to eat right, or have the money for healthy foods, or the education to know what the hell to eat, even.
Education and support, this is what we can offer the overweight folks. They are people and deserve to be treated as people. With love and support, not scorn.
But we still should not be celebrating obesity. We have to find a medium where we aren't shaming them, but we aren't enabling them either.
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
