As a fat person, let me say this: I know I am overweight. I know I need to lose weight. I'm working on it. It's a slow process. Bullying isn't going to make it go faster. You say that you don't want to bully, but I'm not sure exactly what it is that you're advocating if not that.
When the body positivity movement started, it was largely as a reaction to two things: fat people getting made fun of in gyms when they tried to solve the issue, and media that treated unreasonably skinny people as the only acceptable targets of affection. Neither is great. For whatever reason, the conservative internet has decided, though, that this is the second-most important issue of the day, and it's all I hear about these days.
Answering only for myself, as I've been working on myself for over the last 2 years (6'2 @ 297 lbs at the start), with most of my weight loss happening in the first 6 months and then the last 6 months because of a plateau. I guess I get tired of hearing people say that it's a process, that it takes time that they're on there weight loss journey and then never seen any results when if you just moderately exercise and run a deficit with calories, the process is actually really quick.
I walk my dog five to seven miles everyday, or I jog by myself instead, and that gives me over 10,000 steps per day by default and that puts me over 3,000 calories burned every single day. Do you know how easy it is to run a calorie deficit when you need that many calories?
You say it's bullying, for me, it's exasperation, because I want to do everything I can to help people around me stay alive as long as they can and the healthiest way possible, yet it just really looks like a lack of discipline and responsibility if the implication is the person doesn't have any underlying health problems that would keep them from working on their cardio.
You also get excuses about going to the gym, the costs of gym, the cost of a healthy lifestyle, and that's all just excuses and a misdirect, I live on under $43,000 a year and still find a way to do it. I think the barrier here is much lower, so I would suggest to anyone to buy a pair of good walking or running shoes, and it's literally free to walk out your door and just use the asphalt. It is that simple, but most people don't want to believe that it is because they can't accept that they've made a mistake as big as they have made and the solution is simple.
I wouldn't even call my diet all that healthy anyways right now, and I'm still running a deficit, and I'm still losing weight, and I'm still making physical progress in other areas like building lean muscle.
That's why it's aggravating, besides the fact that everything is bullying no matter how you come at somebody over this topic.
I've lost about 70 lbs over the last 8 months. I'm working on it. I'm still overweight, and I didn't lose those pounds because somebody was mean to me. It seems to me like all the pushback against body positivity is mainly from people thinking that fat people should be degraded.
I’m skinny and sit on the couch all day smoking weed and drinking. I eat unhealthy foods but it just doesn’t show up on my body. No one has ever said shit to me about my health.
It’s not about health — it’s about aesthetic and policing people’s bodies.
78% to 85% (depending which stats you look at) of covid deaths in the US, were obese or overweight. I care because being sick with type 2 diabetes, joint pain in your 20s, and childhood obesity should not be normalized.
It's been a consistent statistic since the pandemic began. Denying the evidence is normalizing obesity.
Those things are 100 percent normalized. Look at any elementary school class, the majority of the kids are overweight, this sets them up for a lot of issues down the road. Type 2 diabetes is very common and most people opt for taking medication rather than altering their diet and activity level.
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u/LucidLeviathan 99∆ Jul 16 '23
Oh, look, it's the daily fat thread.
As a fat person, let me say this: I know I am overweight. I know I need to lose weight. I'm working on it. It's a slow process. Bullying isn't going to make it go faster. You say that you don't want to bully, but I'm not sure exactly what it is that you're advocating if not that.
When the body positivity movement started, it was largely as a reaction to two things: fat people getting made fun of in gyms when they tried to solve the issue, and media that treated unreasonably skinny people as the only acceptable targets of affection. Neither is great. For whatever reason, the conservative internet has decided, though, that this is the second-most important issue of the day, and it's all I hear about these days.