The point is A) nobody should be held to a specific standard of body appearance to be treated like a human being, and B) unless you're their doctor, you have no way to judge which is which and it's none of your business.
Also, it's estimated that between five and ten percent of adult females in the US suffer from PCOS (PCOD, metabolic syndrome, whatever today's name for the damn thing is), according to the Department of Health and Human Services. So that's between one in ten and one in twenty women in the US, before we even begin to account for other disorders. So yeah, there are people who just gain weight by eating too much and not exercising, but the number of people affected by an obesity-causing disease isn't that small.
As somebody society considers "a land whale" I'm trying to change how I look. One side of things, I've always been bullied saying I'm fat and ugly and need to die. On another side people say love yourself for who you are. And on the third side I have my family telling me I'm obese and need to diet. It's tough, I've gone through 8 different types of diets and have just started getting in the habit of working out. I haven't lost a pound. So consider some "land whales" are probably trying to change
Jaybae - it's tough. And even if you never lose weight/get skinny, you'll probably have a shitload more energy once you're in the habit of exercise.
Also - I don't know how it works for most people, but for me after the first four months or so of cutting most processed foods out of my diet, I gained a LOT more sensitivity in my sense of taste. Turns out brussels sprouts ARE awesome if you know how to cook them, and sweet peppers aren't just a sad lie - they actually are about as sweet as apples, once I wasn't used to soda anymore. I'm still squarely in the "land whale" category - the only goddamn thing that makes me lose weight is a medication with some ASS side effects - but a better diet and exercise do help things.
First of all not eating enough causes weight gain to. Your body thinks you are starving yourself and slows down your metabolism, storing everything as fat. I'm a little overweight but I work retail, on my feet 45 hours a week running around. I'm up and down ladders, lifting and moving heavy stuff. I do 5ks for fun, I know for a fact I'm more fit then a lot of naturally thin people. But I don't eat enough (I try to) and I have pcos, I even stopped drinking everything but water but can't lose weight. This is a repost and people were jerks about overweight people last time I read it. Can we all keep our judgments to ourselves, you don't know the circumstances. You don't have to accept overweight people, that's okay but don't hurt other people's feelings. When you do that, you just make yourself look bad.
She's definitely in the category medically described as obese, possibly "morbidly obese", since I think all that really takes is fifty extra pounds.
Then again, maybe I underestimate what fifty extra pounds looks like, since people always look at me funny when they hear my actual weight and say they assumed it was less?
Fat people aren't fat because they "can't stop eating," it's largely due to portion control and eating the wrong types of food. People are drawn to the myth that fat people are fat because they constantly have a candy bar in their hand when that's rarely true. I'm not justifying it, I'm just pointing out the false information in this post that the majority believes.
I'm not sure why "body acceptance" is associated with middle age obese women. The original focus was for vulnerable preteens/ teenagers, inundated with images of what they should look like from magazines and movies.
A) those images don't stop when you leave the teenaged years, and B) most currently middle-aged women were vulnerable teens and preteens when those images were much, much more rigidly socially enforced. "Guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses" doesn't pack as much punch in an era when "having a job" is an increasingly socially viable method of permanently supporting yourself. For those women the damage is already done, and we're trying to reverse it, which takes a heftier effort than preventing it does for preteens and teens.
I don't disagree. I just think opponents of body acceptance always haul out women who are basically fight a mental illness and say positive body image is just lazy people not wanting to diet.
Okay, I misinterpreted the connotation of your original comment. Yes, body acceptance needs to be for everyone, and dragging out a specific example to attempt to discredit the entire concept is definitely horse hockey.
All in all, I just don't understand why people are so opposed to the concept of positive body image. Like what do they care if a heavy/ short / bald / freckled person chooses not to be filled with self loathing everytime they look into the mirror
To solve that, you'd have to solve the problem in general of why people feel the need not only to attain social status but specifically to attain social status *above somebody else.* Still workin' on that one.
Shouldn't everyone be a part of the movement? Not just people who have a different body but also people who have the same bodies but don't agree that they have the same bodies.
Recently my entire body has been consumed by the strange patches of vitiligo and I’m a 16 year old with a full head of white hair. But ya know I sure am glad some 400 pound whale can feel great about themselves whilst I’m repeatedly told how creepy I am now. If you can’t guess I’m being sarcastic and obesity is actually a problem that you shouldn’t be calling pretty
Also, it's estimated that between five and ten percent of adult females in the US suffer from PCOS (PCOD, metabolic syndrome, whatever today's name for the damn thing is), according to the Department of Health and Human Services. So that's between one in ten and one in twenty women in the US, before we even begin to account for other disorders. So yeah, there are people who just gain weight by eating too much and not exercising, but the number of people affected by an obesity-causing disease isn't that small.
Also - I don't know how it works for most people, but for me after the first four months or so of cutting most processed foods out of my diet, I gained a LOT more sensitivity in my sense of taste. Turns out brussels sprouts ARE awesome if you know how to cook them, and sweet peppers aren't just a sad lie - they actually are about as sweet as apples, once I wasn't used to soda anymore. I'm still squarely in the "land whale" category - the only goddamn thing that makes me lose weight is a medication with some ASS side effects - but a better diet and exercise do help things.
Then again, maybe I underestimate what fifty extra pounds looks like, since people always look at me funny when they hear my actual weight and say they assumed it was less?