What an odd thing so many seem to have so much conviction about.
Fact: you can be overweight and have zero health issues from it.
Fact: you can be overweight and have better health than someone who isn’t.
Fact: Being overweight is NOT healthy, neither is being underweight or “within the recommended range.” No weight is healthy. Some weight ranges carry higher percentages of certain risks than others.
Being “overweight” puts stress on your body, your joints, etc.
So does high impact sports and things like being a body builder. Many activities carry higher risks of injuries from torn ligaments to fractures to sport “specific” injuries and repetitive stress injuries.
Most athletes are “overweight” as “healthy weight ranges” don’t account for body fat percentages or muscle mass. Pick a pro footballer- they are probably overweight.
No one cares about health when we talk about olympians. Training until you go blind or pee blood, causing permanent long term damage to your body in pursuit of an athletic peak do they? I don’t see people shaming and harassing olympians and line backers etc. saying “it’s fine to do this if you want but the fact you’re proud to be so unhealthy isn’t ok…”
Get over yourselves and work on your issues. Go lobby for prohibition of alcohol or having freeways torn down and replaced by foot and bike paths if you’re so worried about everyone else’s health. The truth is that 9/10 times it isn’t about health when people start aiming at overweight or “fat” people, it’s about your own issues and how you need to project them onto others to feel better.
And for the record, no, I am not presently overweight. I have more fat and less muscle than usual as I haven’t been working out seriously in a year, but normally I clock in between 10-20% body fat (I’ve been in single digits here and there) and I fall well within healthy weight for my height.
I was fat when I was young, and I was not proud or happy about it. I hated everything about it except the eating. I was teased and made to feel like crap and it actually DID eventually motivate me to change that. However it wasn’t necessary to get me to change, so all that suffering may have motivated me but it wasn’t the only thing. Like training a dog to behave- you CAN hit and yell and punish it or you can offer praise and rewards and use kinder ways to get it to act a certain way. Either method can generally work but the one we choose says more about who we are.
Fact: you can be overweight and have zero health issues from it.
Fact: you can be overweight and have better health than someone who isn’t.
Fact: Being overweight is NOT healthy, neither is being underweight or “within the recommended range.” No weight is healthy. Some weight ranges carry higher percentages of certain risks than others.
Being “overweight” puts stress on your body, your joints, etc.
So does high impact sports and things like being a body builder. Many activities carry higher risks of injuries from torn ligaments to fractures to sport “specific” injuries and repetitive stress injuries.
No one cares about health when we talk about olympians. Training until you go blind or pee blood, causing permanent long term damage to your body in pursuit of an athletic peak do they? I don’t see people shaming and harassing olympians and line backers etc. saying “it’s fine to do this if you want but the fact you’re proud to be so unhealthy isn’t ok…”
Get over yourselves and work on your issues. Go lobby for prohibition of alcohol or having freeways torn down and replaced by foot and bike paths if you’re so worried about everyone else’s health. The truth is that 9/10 times it isn’t about health when people start aiming at overweight or “fat” people, it’s about your own issues and how you need to project them onto others to feel better.
I was fat when I was young, and I was not proud or happy about it. I hated everything about it except the eating. I was teased and made to feel like crap and it actually DID eventually motivate me to change that. However it wasn’t necessary to get me to change, so all that suffering may have motivated me but it wasn’t the only thing. Like training a dog to behave- you CAN hit and yell and punish it or you can offer praise and rewards and use kinder ways to get it to act a certain way. Either method can generally work but the one we choose says more about who we are.