EVERYONE should exercise!

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Exercise?? eggs -are -sides  ... for bacon. Bacon makes everything better.

 Tell ya a secret: 

Obesity isa bigger problem in Oz than it is the US.  I blame it on McDonalds  and a lack of moral fibre due  convict ancestry.  

I'm overweight ,born in the free settlement of South Australia. IE No convicts in MY family. it's also been over 30 years since I ate at a US fast food chain. Except for Subway ,twice; they sold me iNSTANT coffee!  Yet, I'm still fat. Why? Because I'm an  obsessive  compulsive pig  of course.


There's a new taboo, called 'fat shaming ' I really don't get it. Obese people tend not to be forced to eat at gunpoint.  However , many obese people do have an enabler. I don't . So have no excuse.

"Fat shaming" is something created by obese people to try an normalize being overweight. And while I believe that, in general, you should be able to live how you want, being overweight is legitimately unhealthy and makes you feel like crap about yourself. At the very least, when you're overweight you're not the best version of you that you can be. If you're okay with that, and willing to accept the potential consequences of being fat, then more power to you I guess. I think you're not going to feel as good about yourself as you would if you were thin, but hey, live your life.

But to suggest that we should normalize being overweight and not promote physical well-being through exercise and proper diet is complete nonsense. Models are skinny/muscular and exceptionally attractive for a reason. That's why they're models - because it takes an insane amount of work to be really fit and keep your figure like that.

It doesn't take any effort to be fat and just throw on some clothes, get in front of a camera and call yourself a "plus-sized model." While there may be an audience that wants to see plus-sized models, for the most part, models are going to be skinny/muscular and insanely hot so long as that's what our societal and primal standards for beauty are.

I dated a girl who was a model and I remember how insanely stressed she used to be about her job all the time. She put so much work into watching what she ate and keeping a regular exercise routine that I think it legitimately played a part in why we broke up - which is fine, we honestly weren't right for each other to begin with and I was at an age where I still wanted to party and be free.

But I could tell how much it weighed on her. She works for a big company now and is somewhat well-known in the fashion world so she's quite accomplished and is doing very well for herself - but holy shit did it take a lot of hard work for her to get there. She went through a lot of shit to be where she is now.

And you mean to tell me that after this girl obsessed constantly over what she ate, kept an extremely regimented workout routine and busted her ass for years to find the right agent to get her the right gigs so she could make a living doing what she loved, that some fat girl or fat guy can walk into the same agency and call her or himself a model and start getting gigs? Get the fuck outta here. That's insane.

Granted, that's now actually how it works as there are few agencies that are going to hire overweight people for modeling. I'm sure big & tall catalogs for men need heftier guys - and that's fine. That's who SHOULD be modeling those clothes. But to try and normalize it to a point where you think being fat is just as okay as being a healthy weight is simply nonsense. If you're overweight, you're not as healthy as you could be. That's just the facts.