Body shaming, and "My Big Fat Fabulous Life"

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Even scientifically it isn't that simple.
Some hormones caused by stress can lead to a body storing more of the calories eaten as fat. Age changes it. Hell, the current weather effects it. And psychology is part of it as well, which is still scientific. Not to mention medications that can affect weight loss and weight gain, some of them long after you stop taking the meds, like certain antibiotics.

It's a far more complicated issue than many people realize.

Well, at the end of that day those things just effect the number of calories that people burn. Except for the medications, most of them causes only minor changes in your metabolism at most. Even those psychology maybe change how much someone eats, the underlying cause of weight loss is always the same. Which is you consume more calories then you burn. All the things you mention only effect calories in or calories out in one way or another.

I'm however, not in the camp that says it's easy to lose weight and fat people are lazy or anything like that. If I imagine my life while wearing a 50 lb bag of flour on my stomach, it becomes literally impossible to do the things I normally do. In fact a fat person who is trying to lose weight through exercise is anything but lazy because of how difficult it is to be overweight. Same with losing weight through diet, likely most overweight people are addicted to food to one degree or another. So losing weight through diet is extremely difficult.

However the fat acceptance movement wants to deny basic reality and basic science. As feel, as an Atheist, it's almost my duty to oppose them as they spread so much disinformation. I also think that people who are fat feel bad. They feel bad because being fat makes your life far more difficult. The fat acceptance movement wants to shift that blame for feeling bad to other people, rather then the individual. If there were 0 fat shaming tomorrow, fat people would still feel like shit. That's because of the difficulties that go with being fat.

My final problem with the movement is the free speech aspect. You know any movement has a major problem the moment they start going after comics and humor. It's one thing to say that mannequins are too skinny or that television actors are unrealistic looking (which is a complaint I have myself), but quite another to say that comics and television shouldn't make this joke because it offends fat people. Well here is a hint: Turn off the fucking TV. Don't watch the comics that make fat jokes. Not being able to handle fat jokes is immature. Instead the movement brutally tries to censor people who, in their minds, fat shame.