EATING A TON OF FOOD ISNT THE ONLY REASON FOR BEING FAT, AND IF IT IS THERE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER OPTIONS
Poverty can mean getting cheaper food, which means preservatives and other unhealthy elements. Sickness can mean inability to cook food, so takeout and pre-prepared food are the only options. I’m talking thyroid issues. I’m talking digestion issues. Sensory issues. Mental issues. Parental neglect. There are loads of reasons and they are valid, you foolish people.
Would you make a post like this about smoking? Like “how can you be addicted to smoking, can’t you just notice you’re buying another pack and stop lol”. No, because that’s stupid and none of your business unless it harms someone else.
It is not always the reason for being overweight, but more often than not it is, at least in the US. I am a stress eater, and that leads me to eat more food than I should, and that has led to a majority of my own weight problems. It's something I have recognized and am now trying to change, but generally people don't realize how much they actually eat until they record it. It also doesn't help that you can find a McDonald's on every block. Easy access to unhealthy, and addictive food.
If there were better regulations on food, it wouldn't all be so unhealthy and addictive. Yes, sometimes it is a conscious choice, but it being that gives us no righteous reason to call people bouncy castles or land whales or whatever name is cool.
It's not the regulations and it's not the media. If you're so unhealthy that you're wearing a 5XL it's your fault or whomever raised you. Sure some people even at a healthy weight will be size L or XL but when your so big you need 3 or 5XL that's nothing more than excessive eating and lack of healthy lifestyle. Your. Fucking. Fault.
No? People weren't so overweight 50 years ago. Here are some reasons https://www.vox.com/2016/8/31/12368246/obesity-america-2018-charts
It's not always malicious on the part of restaurants. I don't blame any "big pharma" or anything. But it would be foolish to deny that things have changed, and it's not because people are lazier. I shouldn't have used caps lock before, but I'm fed up that it seems ok to ridicule people for things that aren't any of their business.
People were also less educated 50 years ago, a lot has changed in 50 years. As you rightly say, the focus on high calorie easy “fast” cheap foods and lack of regulation over what a company can sell for consumption haven’t helped. The casual dinning experience ingrained in American culture didn’t even really exist in most of our parents lives (grand parent for you young folk.) The total climate of economic and social change has created factors where it is just plain easier for many people to eat terribly. That isn’t the sole or even necessarily the prime culprit in obesity, but it’s an issue needing addressed. I understand your frustration because it’s just horrific to see how people think about anyone they see as “fat” and what they think is ok treatment and ok to say. It’s always frustrating to see people who with one little change in life could easily be the thing they hate, talk about it as though it’s soemthing that only effects “subhumans” that aren’t as superior as them.
I'm in a weird spot of not eating being mainly why I'm fat. Previous problems with anorexia and current just plain forgetting to eat regularly cause most days to be like maybe one or 2 meals which sends the body into panic mode and when I actually remember to eat 3 times a day it all gets stored into fat. That mixed with the usual low quality of the food I can afford ends rather unpleasantly.
This feels like the 19th post in a few days like this. How do you become an alcoholic or an addict? Do you not notice your drinking more and fucking off more? How do you let your marriage fall apart, how do you slowly lose your job? How do you break down at work or at home and snap? Don’t you notice yourself getting slowly frustrated? There are a million reasons. Here’s one that hasn’t been brought up much- depression? You know- the thing that can make you load a gun and put in on your mouth? The thing that slowly makes you not notice or care as relationships and your life fall apart, all the while as things get worse feeding that depression and making you feel more and more like there’s no point in even trying to do anything because the worse it gets the worse you feel and the more hopeless it seems you’ll ever get out until you are buried so deep that maybe you do actually pull the trigger this time? So yeah. Maybe they saw the scale tipping and they said “next week I’ll stop”
And every week was a bad week, the wrong week, or maybe they just didn’t give two shits because they’d given up on everything and didn’t care if they even lived let alone how they looked? So they got bigger and bigger and each pound made the last harder to lose and the next easier to gain. And maybe one day they started to snap out of it and felt like they could maybe do something and they weren’t total human garbage and then some dick cheese called them a lazy fucking bouncy castle and suddenly they felt like shit and were spiraling back down a black hole. So watch your fucking mouth and think before you open that shit chute attached to the moldy left over clump of daddy’s worst baby batter that functions as a brain, and realize that big people are people too and you don’t know their life even if you think you do.
I agree, these are showing up constantly on here, and they are just getting tedious. As you said, there are countless extenuating circumstances that contribute to obesity. Personally, I became a shut in after I was assaulted, and eating was the only thing that gave me any kind of comfort, so I kept eating. In 5 months I more than doubled in body weight. I went from 150 at 5'10, to over 300 lbs. It has taken over 10 years to even begin to loose that weight because not only did I have to recover psychologically, but in that time I had a kid which threw my system out of whack, and was diagnosed with a congenital brain malformation which severely limits my mobility and ability to do any kind of exercise. But hey, that all totally my fault because I'm a fat lazy pig who just wants to eat and be catered to.
@celticrose (((hugs))) I'm sorry you were assaulted. You should be really proud of how far you've come as what you've survived. I totally get why you turned to eating because I did the same thing after being sexually assaulted. You feel safer when you have the extra pounds on you because no one looks at you. You feel safer even though you're really not any safer than you were before. I've been working at loosing weight myself and I find it scary because I can't hide behind it anymore. Sometimes, I wish the people who judge overweight people would become overweight just so they may understand it a little more but I actually don't wish ill on anyone, just some understanding, compassion, and empathy.
I think understanding is what a lot of people need right now. There is a whole lot of judgement going on from every side, and it is creeping into every facet of society.
Poverty can mean getting cheaper food, which means preservatives and other unhealthy elements. Sickness can mean inability to cook food, so takeout and pre-prepared food are the only options. I’m talking thyroid issues. I’m talking digestion issues. Sensory issues. Mental issues. Parental neglect. There are loads of reasons and they are valid, you foolish people.
Would you make a post like this about smoking? Like “how can you be addicted to smoking, can’t you just notice you’re buying another pack and stop lol”. No, because that’s stupid and none of your business unless it harms someone else.
It's not always malicious on the part of restaurants. I don't blame any "big pharma" or anything. But it would be foolish to deny that things have changed, and it's not because people are lazier. I shouldn't have used caps lock before, but I'm fed up that it seems ok to ridicule people for things that aren't any of their business.