Anonymous #5 16w

I agree to an extent. Specifically with children who have irresponsible parents who feel them junk. It can get tricky with medical conditions though

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Anonymous OP 16w

I get what you are saying but extremely rarely is because of a medical condition that couldn’t be prevented, and I’m mostly talking about adults, aka anyone not considered a child

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Anonymous #4 16w

It’s definitely less common to be medical conditions. With adults I usually just feel bad because weight gain can be an effect from mental illness and if you’re not in the right state of mind it can be hard to be motivated to make healthier choices. Nobody enjoys being large, but they still deserve to love themselves.

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Anonymous OP 16w

I think it’s okay to love yourself, but things like body positivity for morbidly obese people is stupid and encourages people to shorten their life. But in my opinion loving yourself includes wanting what’s best for you, and being obese is not how you live yourself ever

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Anonymous #4 16w

I agree. I don’t think it’s good to encourage or enable it, but people being mean about it won’t help anything either.

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Anonymous OP 16w

yea when it’s a kid in that situation where the parents are extremely irresponsible or even neglectful and the kid gets morbidly obese it’s quite similar to when people overfeed their pets and then do nothing about it and treat it like a non issue

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Anonymous #6 16w

people who aren’t young children are a different situation and not equivocal to what this post is saying

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Anonymous #9 16w

Depends on the circumstances. I don’t care if someone is overweight, their life not mine. Still a human being who deserves respect regardless. But when it’s someone taking care of someone who can’t care for themselves or enables it, is when I have a bigger issue with it

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Anonymous OP 16w

Do you think the state should take care of its citizens- encouraging/ enabling healthier lifestyles?

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Anonymous #9 16w

And also investing in mental health resources in the case that it could be that?

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Anonymous #9 16w

I don’t think It necessarily has to be a state thing, it’s not hard to not eat the amount of food a family of 4 can eat in 2 days

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Anonymous #9 16w

But also a big reason some people don’t eat healthy is due to low income with high expenses, and unfortunately it’s expensive to be healthy, but also even if you eat McDonald’s everyday, you can eat a moderate amount and exercise a bit

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Anonymous #9 16w

I definitely think there should be more options for people who want to live healthier lifestyles, obviously nothing forced. The individual has to want it for themselves.

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Anonymous #9 16w

Definitely. The problem is that there are plenty of mental health resources, they just aren’t as accessible to everyone. Food addiction specifically is also something that many may not realize they struggle with nor want to help themselves.

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I agree it is 100% America, aside from the food issues, the American culture supports being fat and makes it a socially acceptable thing to barely fit in a car or to only be able to walk a few hundred feet. In other countries their culture/media looks down on those that are obese, here in America its basically encouraged

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Anonymous #4 16w

And those countries have low obesity rates, while yes the have better access to health care, health care isn’t the issue in its entirety, people are shaped by the environment they grow up in, and unfortunately some people grow up in a really fat pronating environment

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Anonymous OP 16w

It gets tricky when the individual doesn’t want things in their best interest, interesting convo though

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Anonymous #9 16w

Yes it’s a long convo that is interesting and has many viewpoints, but in the end everything falls on the individual regardless of circumstances

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Agreed, it’s just not something that will ever happen in America because of large corporations and a government that could care less about

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Anonymous #4 16w

protests

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it may be now but it wasn’t when you were young. your parents hold a lot of responsibility for where you started

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Truth be told, you would lose weight easily, I’m not saying it is easy it’ll suck, but like starving yourself wouldn’t help, it’s just eating habits and time is all it takes

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Anonymous #4 16w

It’s not that hard I have lost over 80 pounds

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Anonymous #4 16w

“easily” is not at all true. possible, yes. feasible, probably. *easy*? no

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Anonymous #6 16w

I mean it wasn’t easy but not that bad

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Anonymous #5 16w

Well I know it’s not hard, just takes discipline and rewiring your brain, I’ve lost a bit of weight as well, by no means was I ever fat but even then it wasn’t a struggle

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Disagree I changed

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Eating one meal a day isn’t the answer, your body will slow your metabolism if you barely eat, and make sure you burn as little fat as possible

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Anonymous #4 16w

You have to eat smaller amount of good food full of things your body wants

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If you eat 3 meals a day of moderate portions and get cardio and or gym time in for a month, I guarantee you’ll lose weight easily

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Anonymous #4 16w

It’s the excuses like “I just am fat and can’t do anything about it” that are preventing you from really trying

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Anonymous #4 16w

No human body wants to be 300 pounds

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The point is not to not eat, it’s to trick your body into boosting your metabolism so you burn fat and whatnot

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It’s like I’m arguing with a brick wall full of excuses more or less, the convo is pointless and will never go anywhere because you gave up ok yourself and have no desire to change

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If you are 300 hundred pounds unless you are eating like 4000 calories a day, you will lose weight

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It’s a simple fat

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Anonymous #4 16w

Yo #7 the dude or girl just erased all their shit, lmao but to be fair you can’t tell me you weigh 300 and can’t lose weight…

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Track it then, track everything drink and snack, the macros, and you’ll see this is not the case, you are 100% gaslighting yourself

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That is scientifically impossible unless you are eating in a calorie surplus

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Me neither but this is the stuff that makes me mad, you can’t possible be that big and somehow think “if I eat less and exercise more I will never lose weight”

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I’d imagine they are having a big sub which can easily be 1500 calories, plus maybe chips which is another 300… like dawg, this person does not understand what they are eating, 1 meal a day doesn’t matter if you have 3000k calories in one sitting

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Try eating more but healthier, have a fruit in the morning to kickstart your metabolism, and eat a small amount of food 3 times a day, fruits, veggies, protein rich meat… a sub sandwich is far from what your body wants

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Anonymous #4 16w

Also from what I’m picking up you do not exercise regularly if at all, which is the best way to burn fat

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Well, a bag of apples and a few things of fruit is maybe 10-15 dollars at best in the summer

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So basically your lifestyle is what ain’t allowing you to lose weight, not because you can’t, but the choices and circumstances don’t allow it, this is a valid reason that people can understand. It’s also the truth. Me and #7 talked about this earlier

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Instead of lying to yourself that you can’t loose weight this reasoning is much closer to the truth

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Best of luck I suppsoe

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Anonymous #4 16w

Hearing you guys patronize this person and the way you’re so degrading legit makes me as a fat person want to kms. It’s just disgusting the way you people talk about other people, and act like you’re coming from a place of compassion. It quite literally does not concern you what other people look like? Do better.

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Anonymous #11 16w

Fat people don’t need compassion… they did it to them self, and they inserted themself into the convo… so it was deserved they deleted all their comments tho to make it seem like we are the bad guys

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Anonymous #4 16w

You’re disgusting please do better. Learn empathy!!!

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Anonymous #11 16w

He’ll no, these people are doing the equivalent of self harm because of zero discipline or self respect for their body

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Anonymous #11 16w

Why would I respect somebody who can’t even take care of themself, even it means they can live a lot longer

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Anonymous #4 16w

And why does that have anything to do with you? Do you say the same thing to people who actually self harm and cut theirselves, etc? It’s just so weird how obsessed you seem with another persons health or weight.

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Anonymous #4 16w

Why do you give a single fuck how long somebody else could potentially live lmao it’s so weird. And if youre going for the route that you “care”, you quite literally don’t if you can’t even respect somebody else that you don’t find attractive lmao it’s just so weird.

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Right, but some people actually don’t have control or access to resources and even education about eating healthy, exercising, etc. Not to mention eating disorders, diabetes, endocrine diseases, metabolic disorders, etc. Regardless of that patronizing people does not help anybody want to do better. I also think that perhaps those people are replacing is very hard with will not lose weight. I just can’t believe that this is what people choose to bitch like this w their free time

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I can completely agree with that as well.

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