So, I was fat recently. I weighed close to 300 lbs and it wasn't muscle. I had high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and was taking 5 medications just to address the issues. So I decided to start eating healthy and exercising in an attempt to lose weight and after finding the Keto diet and starting to go on 20-30 mile bike rides twice a week I dropped 100 lbs I no longer require the medication and my levels are better than normal. I was never really bothered by what other people thought of my image, but I suppose people notice the change because they are constantly telling me that I look better and I feel better overall - so I guess that's a good thing.
So it sort of makes me sick to my stomach when I came across this opinion piece on CNN that is basically saying that being obese is okay and trying to justify not losing weight due factors like that going to a gym (which isn't required to lose weight) might embarrass you or that actually trying to change your lifestyle would be too hard for the average person. The article is about stores now displaying obese mannequins instead of the normal skinny ones. I'm not sure how long some of you have been around, but when I was growing up people would notice the obese person in the room as they were very rare to come across. Now skinny people are the rarity. While there are some exceptions to being big and healthy (like body builders), simply being fat, eating a poor diet and not exercising isn't healthy and it was literally killing me and will do the same thing to you. I don't see how this article that tries to justify this kind of negative life style and bad choices people are making is in any way helping the situation.
I agree that being as thin as the normal mannequins is probably an unreachable goal for most people in the past or currently, but being obese and promoting acceptable and tolerance for it is just wrong. I understand that some people have disorders, but most of their disorders are caused by being obese and if you remove that sole factor the disorders are no longer disorders. Only a few rare people have actual physical disorders that make them no be able to lose weight - the rest are simply fat fucking lazy people who don't give a shit about their own body or health and are going to die young and I don't think that this is okay or should be supported just because it makes someone feel bad? How will you feel when you're dead?
Once again, another brilliant CNN article. /s
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/opinions/nike-new-mannequins-thomas/index.html
So it sort of makes me sick to my stomach when I came across this opinion piece on CNN that is basically saying that being obese is okay and trying to justify not losing weight due factors like that going to a gym (which isn't required to lose weight) might embarrass you or that actually trying to change your lifestyle would be too hard for the average person. The article is about stores now displaying obese mannequins instead of the normal skinny ones. I'm not sure how long some of you have been around, but when I was growing up people would notice the obese person in the room as they were very rare to come across. Now skinny people are the rarity. While there are some exceptions to being big and healthy (like body builders), simply being fat, eating a poor diet and not exercising isn't healthy and it was literally killing me and will do the same thing to you. I don't see how this article that tries to justify this kind of negative life style and bad choices people are making is in any way helping the situation.
I agree that being as thin as the normal mannequins is probably an unreachable goal for most people in the past or currently, but being obese and promoting acceptable and tolerance for it is just wrong. I understand that some people have disorders, but most of their disorders are caused by being obese and if you remove that sole factor the disorders are no longer disorders. Only a few rare people have actual physical disorders that make them no be able to lose weight - the rest are simply fat fucking lazy people who don't give a shit about their own body or health and are going to die young and I don't think that this is okay or should be supported just because it makes someone feel bad? How will you feel when you're dead?
Once again, another brilliant CNN article. /s
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/opinions/nike-new-mannequins-thomas/index.html