Meh, I've just eaten...
What I think about the concept of obesity and tolerance in society rides around the following concepts.
If you are obese and you can pull it off - all power to you. If you need a social support group for tolerance for your condition - you are doing everything wrong that you could possibly do wrong.
Reasoning:
1. As Mrs. Anderson of Baywatch fame recently said in another video I posted in here before - "in relationship(s) (implied 'forming'), everyone uses everything that they've got" - and if thats your support group carrying you to social acceptance - you are doing it wrong.
2. As you might have noticed - I can sometimes be a rather anti social individual (and other times a very social one..
) - and in everything support group that isn't steps program related (i.e. getting you removed from an unhealthy habbit or addiction) - I'm firmly against support groups. Especially ones that tell people how great they are - and then take turns. Where is the excellence in that?
3. Being judged because you are overweight is more a social construct than an actual reality - again, there are so many ways around it - to make you something other than "the obese dude/gal" - just pick one, and run with it. Just do it.
And if the doctor says that you have to get weight down, there are inspirational models for that as well. Kevin Smith, to name a dude.
All this said - I'm a little on the chubby side myself (*you dont say, keyboard hero*) but I'd still curse out everyone that would offer me a stepcounter or a gamified app exercise routine - like a mofo.
Because *live in the moment, die young* approach to life. And as a typical hypocrite - I like my women not too chubby. Which brings us back to 1.
Life concepts and plans are freaking different for people. The rest is mostly in your mind. Unless - immediate health issue.
edit: One more thing - the hero of my favourite book series as a child was a little obese. And I'll not ever besmirch his virtual, nonexisting honor - by even thinking that he could have lost a few pounds - not even as an adult.
(Look for Jupiter Jonas in this wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators )