The spectacular failure of fat acceptance

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[@PridelessChickz]

God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven💗☺

[@clonecommando-cn6bo]

Screeched at by miserable fools who intentionally want to stay on board a sinking ship

[@coolerheadsprevail9312]

Teabags 🤭🤭🤭. I know, I'm an infant

[@Sabretooth-gz7pp]

Sydney, you are looking like one of the members of the Misfits from Jem and the Holograms. 😁

[@Wired4Life2]

@@PridelessChickz *"All fat is the Lord's"* (Leviticus 3:16).

[@jarradchapman4271]

"Rich people get Ozempic; poor people get Body Positivity" --South Park, "The End of Obesity" (iirc)

[@Censortubes]

Eugenics self done.

[@aaronharlow2137]

The only part of that episode I saw was the ad for "Lizzo." I laughed way too hard.

[@uppitywoman3647]

So true!

[@Deekay1958]

Back in the late 70s, diet pills contained Methaqualone. Usually known as Qualudes. Best trip I ever had. Scary though, lasted for 3 days.

[@el_killorcure]

And smart people eat in moderation and work out....

[@BB-te8tc]

Gotta love the doublethink of "how dare you get thin and let down your followers" and "its your body your choice"

[@Censortubes]

Same logic when it came to the safe and effective.

[@Tential1]

It's your body, your choice is exactly why I'll draft dodge, while women call me a coward.

[@candlestyx8517]

The movement is nothing but lazy and bitter people who dont want to get in shape; instead they judge others for being healthier and try to normalize dying at an early age.

[@carlrood4457]

It comes down to validation. They became followers because they wanted someone to tell them they were OK, even when they clearly weren't. Now some of those people are saying, "Yeah, that was wrong. I wanna live past 50." and they're not getting the validation.

[@lupinsredjacket3191]

​@@Tential1 Not the sane ones. 😉 It's completely understandable.

[@davidleatherwood6228]

My wife died at 43 due to obesity and I've since gone on a weight loss journey. If that makes me fatphobic, then yes, I'm fatphobic as hell because I'm the only one my son has left and I don't want him to be an orphan.

[@PoopSkoop]

oof

[@aldentepotato]

Im so sorry for your loss, that is tragic. Good on you for trying to better yourself, for you and your son.

[@Jimmeh_B]

@@aldentepotato I can't tell if your reply is a faux pa, or funny in a really heartless way.

[@luvbeinghiswife1148]

I'm so terribly sorry for your loss, I don't know you but I'm really proud of you for taking the initiative to get healthy and continue to be here for your precious boy.💝💐

[@JohnShowalter1]

My heart goes out to you and your son. I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@Jedsa009]

As a person whose obese friend passed away before reaching his 30s, I utterly reject the absurd notion of glorifying obesity.

[@josephschultz3301]

And you should. This movement has literally killed people. Sorry to hear about your friend, by the way. I knew a guy back in high school that everybody just called Bigs. Massive heart attack in his sleep. Life has a way of being cruel, but there are things we can do to mitigate things on a small scale. Had Bigs attempted to lose weight, I'm sure he'd still be here with us.

[@user-kc2fu8iw3v]

@@josephschultz3301 any movement, rejection of which is described as a phobia is just thinly veiled eugenics.

[@obiwankenobi661]

as someone who doesnt have a single obese friend and never has, i reject glorifying obesity.

[@KobraSnake0813]

Before 30?! Jesus..

[@myplaylist7007]

@@josephschultz3301 They where called bigs because he was 600 pounds ?

[@DMH52]

I know as a firefighter/paramedic, I don't like responding to a call and having to evacuate a 300 or 400-lb man/woman to safety or for a medical emergency. It puts people like me or my RIG in further unnecessary danger, but these fat activists don't think about how they affect others. They just don't want society to judge them for their poor choices in life.

[@jessicadesrosiers7467]

Did you hear about the "fat influencer" that's easily 400 pounds and decided to "prove" she could travel without her oxygen tank. She requested a wheel chair to deplane with, the person that was supposed to be pushing said wheel chair was a petite woman that took one look at her and grumbled about her size and then walked to the end of the jet bridge. The jet bridge was on an incline and there's no way this little woman would have been able to push that side of beef to the end. She could have easily hurt herself. So naturally the "fat influencer" made a video attempting to shame the airport employee, crying about discrimination and blah, blah, blah. My point is these idiot are so self absorbed they're incapable of thinking about anything but themselves and the next bit of food they can shove down their gullet. Its just pathetic. Luckily I'm sure we'll only have to deal with this a few more years before they all die off 🤷‍♀️

[@tiffanyr.l.peters4226]

It can lead to back injuries

[@vasilyd8578]

Reminded me one dark news how crematorium building caught on fire trying to cremate one obese person...

[@gosmoothgolight7567]

As a former Volunteer EMS/Firefighter, all I can say is "Yup!" Stay safe out there! God Bless you for all you do

[@darthkaton]

Thank you for your service though. Got a lot of respect for first responders.

[@Joker80808]

imagine hating on somebody because they want a longer lifespan

[@T1hitsTheHighestNote]

They missed that our bodies are “fat phobic” as well. It will eventually kill you for being too fat.

[@waywardhunter8633]

Or to fit into regular person sized spaces.

[@bupkis1445]

They’re a death cult, most of the leftist movements Abortion Fat acceptance dying of health problems Trans kids becoming infertile Drugs and alcohol over consumption Hell in Canada they’ll kill ya if you ask

[@n4ughty_knight]

Imagine hating somebody because of their weight.

[@TwoBs]

@@n4ughty_knight Kinda like how fat people hold major disdain for those that are thin by shaming them and insisting they have an “unrealistic” body type that is damaging the mental state of the youth and everyone else? …. despite millions around the world having that same slender body…. I’ve seen people go out of their way to be downright spiteful to someone just because they were thin and were able to remain thin throughout most of their life - claiming they’re on drugs, have had procedures done, have an ED where they force themselves to throw up their meals, etc. as if no one can ever just be naturally thin. The thing is, no one can be “naturally fat”. There’s no disorder that causes someone to become obese. There’s some that can cause some people to put on a little bit of weight, but not 30lbs+ … that’s due to poor eating habits and lack of movement. There is no such thing as being “big boned”. You can’t “inherit obesity” as if one has no choice. There is no such thing as being born with “bigger muscles, bigger organs, and more fat” because all it takes is having someone go for an X-ray, CT scan, MRI, etc. to see that the majority of the organs, bones, and muscles are the same as someone thin having one done. Some will enlarge due to their gluttonous behaviors (stomach, for example), and one can make their muscles bigger by working out … but the overall view is that the vast majority of things are the same, so one who is overweight/obese can stop using it as an excuse. No one “hates” anyone because of their weight, but I will harbor disdain towards someone who is obese and takes up two seats on a plane that is already pushing limited capacity. I will have disdain towards someone obese on a bus or subway that can’t be arsed to get up to let an elderly person or pregnant woman sit. I will hold disdain towards 10+ people riding around on scooters in grocery stores every time I go because they’re too “exhausted” to merely walk around. I will hold disdain towards someone that tries to tell me they’re totally healthy while demanding someone pushes them in a wheelchair because their legs are so swollen from being overweight and won’t watch what they eat. I’ll also continue to hold disdain towards those types of people who try to tell the youth that being big is totally okay … it’s your body, do whatever with it, all while brushing under the rug the horrible consequences many face from obesity before they even turn 20 due to that mentality. Eventually, the buck has to stop somewhere. It’s not “hating” people for their weight … but it’s time we get back to reality with this stuff.

[@TheExSimp]

Wait, being unhealthy is unhealthy?? How could that be possible??

[@searabeara5328]

I'm underweight, not by choice, and I know it's unhealthy. It's frustrating when people will act like not being able to gain weight is good. Our bodies are meant to put weight on when we eat in excess.

[@dmonat]

In this day and age!??!

[@cromeoid1904]

😂

[@zerocalvin]

@@searabeara5328 can i swap my body with you? i gain weight by eating normally aka 2k calories a day, but i only lost weight when i eat 1200 calories a day which is unhealthy for an adult man, it seems like i got a gene that allow me to gain weight very very easily, which is a survival trait back in the caveman period but a horrible trait in modern period... so in my book, not able to gain weight is good...

[@triecampbell1159]

Unpossible!!!

[@fatefinger]

When I hit 333 lbs I told myself that was it. It took awhile since my metabolism is slow but I am at 214 now. I told myself 300, then 280, then 260, then 240 and kept going. My next goal is 200 and then 180.

[@dogstorme9333]

That’s exactly how to do it. Don’t think I need to lose 100lbs right away, start small, amazing work, don’t ever stop 👍

[@FrankBailey-mg9uo]

Awesome!

[@sanderlmgent]

Baby steps, as long as you keep trying, you will reach your goal. If you try to lose 100 in 1 go it could cause demotivation problems. Seeing fat please in the gym trying to improve themselves is motivating to see and makes me happy. Personnaly, I am trying to gain weight with slow success, I'm taking it 1 lbs at a time. Currently holding a stable 130 lbs (just above underweight for me).

[@aegisrevr7254]

Good luck on your journey! You have come so far and we believe in you :D

[@Weldedhodag]

I've got some broad ass shoulders, I looked my absolute best when I was 240-250lbs. I got 50-60 more lbs to lose. Its had its ups and downs but I've managed to avoid going back over 300lbs at least, used to be 330lbs myself.

[@MonkDarkfyre]

I've been fat most of my life, and it sucks. Anyone who claims to be happy being fat is either delusional or a liar.

[@forgottensage-o5o]

Sorry to hear about this. I would just say don't try to eat less - just add more veggies and fruits. It makes the processed foods a lot less appealing. I hope that helps.

[@MonkDarkfyre]

​@@forgottensage-o5o I don't even like to eat--I find it a chore. Unfortunately, two years ago, I developed a mysterious nerve disease that took away my ability to walk. I've been living in nursing homes ever since and only eat what they serve me (no processed or fast food ever). Even with the controlled diet, I've gained over 60 pounds since I've been here, while my roommate has LOST 60 pounds while eating the exact same foods. Clearly, it's a metabolism issue. But it's MY problem and I don't expect any special rights or treatment because of how I am.

[@stevepierre182]

Same here...being fat is not fun at all, too many health risks come with obesity.

[@drumandbassob0007]

just add more veggies and fruits is what people say but the problem is we are not rabbits we evolved to be a the top of the food chain not the bottom you should eat more meat , you should check out Anthony Chaffee MDs video plants are trying to kill you its a interesting video , i followed his advise 2 years ago and love my life now i am much stronger now and leaner , also not calorie counting i eat when i feel like it and eat till am full

[@michamarkowski2204]

@@drumandbassob0007 Adding veggies (not fruits), limiting carbs, adding exercise is the key from my experience. Doing just that got me lose 21 kg (from 103 to 82 kg) in less than 2 years. Without fancy diets or going to gym.

[@TurdFergusen]

somehow acceptance always ends up as glorification

[@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro]

The moment a society chooses to “tolerate” a bad behavior is the moment that behavior becomes popular. People _love_ to get away with whatever they want without shame, so to excuse it away is to actively enable it. Shame is the single best tool for maintaining proper social practices.

[@forgottensage-o5o]

and acceptance doesn't include h*ting everyone who isn't big like the influencer

[@Hadgerz]

​@@cryptdk2400 'it really seems to be one or the other' Life isn't a binary struggle between 'obsessing over healthy practices and losing your income' and 'inevitably becoming a sedentary lardass because you gotta chase a bag' like you're making it out to be. Buy a standing desk. Do a bit of light reading on home workouts and maintaining a calorie deficit. Weigh yourself daily, or at least weekly. Don't just say 'welp i'm a programmer i'm gonna be fat and there's nothing anyone can do about it'. YOU have agency.

[@TurdFergusen]

@@Hadgerz this is the way. sitting at a desk means its more important to mow the lawn yourself, park further from the store, and to not automate physical tasks that you need to keep from being fully sedentary

[@robinkholmes7127]

I thought "addiction"

[@josephkane2312]

Imagine being so narcissistic that you think somebody else's healthy lifestyle is an attack on you..

[@lainiwakura1776]

I lot of the notable FA influencers display narcissistic traits: Leah/splotchmaker, Marissa Matthews, JaeBae, Lexi, Tess Holiday, etc.

[@mihaitha]

@@lainiwakura1776 name one who doesn't. I dare you.

[@President_Grover_Cleveland]

@@mihaitha You won’t be able to find so much as ONE that are not completely narcissistic and fed up in their own Bullsh*t.

[@humblemarty]

My face would be stuck in the shape of a surprised Pikachu meme every time I witnessed a salad.

[@SomnusLucisCaelum]

Lazy, jealous and envious of what others can do/achieve then wrap it in big words and call it a "Movement"

[@juliajs1752]

"I wish I knew the cost of eating" she said. You did. Everyone did. You don't even need the internet to know that fat people are less mobile, more prone to injuries, to heart disease, to dying young. But when their doctor tried to tell them, they went on tiktok and cried to their followers about the meanness of it all. They knew. They just ignored it.

[@r5t6y7u8]

I wonder how many doctors out there have been yelled at, cussed out, and ripped online that they barely even mention fatness anymore.

[@walinton]

A friend called me "fatphobic" and I told her; "I am 💯 fatphobic. I am scared of not being able to walk/run, I am afraid of not being able to breathe properly, I am afraid of heart disease/diabetes, I am afraid of joint pains, foot pains and everything pain. I am afraid of not being able to wipe myself when I go to the bathroom. And lastly, I am afraid of becoming a burden to everyone around me, especially my family. I am seriously fatphobic, and you should too!" She replied "that's not what fatphobia is". I told her, "that's what it is to me" and laughed😂

[@jlogan2228]

funny how she didnt address ANY of those points you made either

[@nolamama3558]

Excellent answer. Mind if I steal that?

[@clauuvm]

You ARE right, it's exactly what the term means, being afraid of being fat. It does not mean hating a fat person.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

I had a convo like this with a stranger on Pinterest. I said "if not wanting to develop type 2 diabetes makes me fatphobic then so be it." 😂

[@Shade7x]

I've also never wanted to be helpless in an emergency, rare as they fortunately are. If a building catches fire, not being able to shuffle at a reasonable speed could be the difference between life and death, including others dying trying to save you. There's a chilling video where an overweight woman stumbles while unloading her child's stroller and is unable to get on her feet as it's slowly rolling into traffic. Fortunately a passerby (an old man, at that) was able-bodied enough to intervene.

[@Lochlann13]

The craziest thing is that you will _never_ find a person who has successfully lost a ton of weight reminiscing fondly about being fat. You only ever find fat people explaining why being fat is great.

[@houndofzoltan]

Not crazy at all... predictable.

[@jakerocinante1133]

It’s the same as someone who abused drugs says or someone in an abusive relationship. Once they’re out they never talk positive about it

[@laughaway7955]

Too real

[@fenix144]

So freakin true

[@zitorya5786]

it’s because of how fat people are treated! hope this helps

[@danielgilroy8768]

As a 26 year old 5’9 male. I was eating McDonald’s for breakfast, Burger King for lunch, McDonald’s again on my way home from work, and then dominos for dinner. My biggest ever was 230lbs and within 6 months I’m down to 190lbs. I’ve now gotten my diet under control and also going to the gym 4 times a week. It’s not hard to change your lifestyle around.

[@Kometmars]

Keep it up man!

[@DyegoPC1995]

I haven't done half of that type of diet - and I now have high LDL cholesterol with high prediabetic sugar levels at 28. This happened with just some extra pizza slices for dinner every other Friday, and some sweets on the weekends, accompanied with lots of stress from HS teaching and lack of exercise from what I now know was some sort of depression. It also doesn't take much to end up going down the unhealthy road 😢

[@Frostgnaw]

Currently 270 here. I went to the doctor for something and my blood pressure was such a concern, that after the meeting, he brought it up and told me how concerned he was that my blood pressure was as high as it was at my age. Since then, I've been more attentive to my eating habits and stopped going to fast food places every day. It's been about a month and I've lost 5 lbs with mild exercise. I hope he's proud of me come July when I go back for a check up on my blood pressure.

[@chefdeadpool8481]

Very true, I'm 6ft and went to the doctor and the scale read 292...... the doctor told me that I now needed a Cpap machine for sleeping, and I can only get off it if I lost the weight, so after 1 month of dieting, I'm down 19lbs! It's completely doable.

[@cbhlde]

Great stuff; keep on! Support from Germany! :)

[@Ulysses-xl4pv]

I used to be almost 350 pounds and now I’m 290. Nearly 60 pounds down and I haven’t felt this good about myself since Highschool

[@onespoiledpup2019]

Congratulations!!!

[@shibosuru]

Sweet. Congratulations 🎉

[@sanderlmgent]

Congratulations 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 🎉 Keep going 💪🏻😁

[@jontarr7444]

Keep it up, be good to you!

[@mkm7251]

Well done! Keep it up!

[@SirCapsALotTheThird]

Body positivity wasn't for fat people. It was for people who felt shame and embarrassment over things they couldn't control. Burn scars, amputation of a limb, skin disorders. Not being fat.

[@michaelbrittain7445]

Now THAT makes sense. That is what it OUGHT to mean.

[@peterm.4355]

And as everything else that was originally, well, positive, it was taken by certain type of people, twisted and deformed into something extremely toxic.

[@notme9816]

Great comment, thank you sir.

[@notme9816]

And dysphobias like anorexia/bulimi.

[@MsJubjubbird]

Not even particular deformities. It's even "It's ok to not look like a model." (especially as the models don't even look like the models in the magazines). It means, if you're a size 12 (Australian), have big shoulders, are pear shaped, have freckles, have frizzy hair, don't have perfect teeth etc. Those things are all healthy. Particularly in relation to weight, the thing with the body positivity thing is that it's meant to be "you don't have to be the smallest dress size etc.". That doesn't mean you need to go to the polar opposite. It should be for the size 8-14 women who have a few curves but are still healthy

[@DavidLyles]

I used to have an Asian lady as my neighbor. When growing up she would always tell me that I was too thin and would feed me whatever she made, telling me I should grow bigger and stronger. When I was in high school I gained a lot of weight (got a job and bought junk food) so she started making me salads and telling me to exercise more. So I did what she said and she made me a special dinner to celebrate my weight loss. She was a very judgmental person and not very kind with her words but she never had bad intentions. God bless, rest your soul Chan Ming Fu.

[@jacksterling9258]

She sounds like a good person :)

[@NickM_FirstofHisName]

"Some people are good with words and bad with their intentions "

[@CRH-391]

In my experience, that was not her way of being judgemental. How different cultures express things can sound harsh to other people, but honestly it was just her way of saying she cares about you, similar to how a mother, or grandmother would. :)

[@laer.393]

sounds like she genuinely cared about your health even if she didn’t communicate it perfectly. too skinny is bad and so is being too big. gotta find a balance

[@stevesayers6596]

Chew Mo Fat was always telling me to eat more. Then her relative Sum Ting Wong told me I had more chins than a Chinese telephone directory.

[@alejandropacheco7832]

_"Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity"_ *Eric Cartman* 😂😂😂

[@KattMurr]

O o o o o Lizzo...😅

[@llewelynshingler2173]

Sometimes his remarks are deranged and nightmarish, othertimes, they are pretty smart, in a biting kinda way

[@rogert8859]

the easiest way to explain body positivity, misery loves company.

[@sarahgwizdala4468]

I'm overweight. I'm actively working on getting healthier and lose weight. I've recently lost 40 lbs and need to lose a lot more. There needs to be a happy medium between treating overweight people like absolute crap and this extreme body positively movement. Neither of those extremes actually helps us. We need to just treat everyone decently while being honest about the health risks of obesity.

[@lonnyyoung4285]

There is not a disconnect between treating an obese person with the dignity and respect that all people deserve AND caring enough for them that you want them to lose weight so they can be healthier. Certainly, being a jerk about them being obese and needing to lose weight isn't the right way to go about it.

[@jefferynelson]

well said

[@Duchess-of-Camelot]

Well done Sarah.

[@BigPanda096]

I couldn't agree more. You got this. Most human bodies - which is roughly about 98% of them male or female - automatically trend toward a slimmer profile when caloric intake and exhaustion is in proper flux. These levels which is roughly only around 2000 calories for most people dependant upon activity level, are usually wildly exceeded by people without realizing it. A good way to help us to catalogue everything you eat to gain the awareness of what you are eating that sets you back. Remember you don't gotta stop eating the stuff and eat only veggies, as long as you're getting at least 2 meals of something that's a protein, carbohydrates and a green veggie of some kind, you're doing great, and can eat that little snack if you aren't above your caloric level for the day, and don't eat late at night that's like, if I could tell you to only do one thing, it would be stop eating before bed. Try not to eat at least 3 hours before bed but ideally, don't eat past 9 if you can. Well dependant on your schedule really actually.

[@bradsmith4279]

Absolutely 👍

[@blahblah0328]

As someone whom went from 300 in high-school to 155 after, not being fat absolutely makes you feel better. In. Every. Single. Way.

[@beekeeper8474]

Same.

[@CandyThePuppy]

I've never gone over 160 (height: 5'2) but I still agree soooo much. Being even just a little fat can limit flexibility and overall movement.

[@Deridus]

I'm 6'1, 36 years old, and weigh almost 300 lbs. Thing is, I've got a lot of fat over what used to be a lot of muscle... depression does weird things to people. Get fit, stay fit!

[@davemcdonald8481]

"I used to follow this cancer patient, and she got hundreds of thousands of followers for taking us on their journey and showing us that the giant tumour in her brain wasn't going to define who they were.... and then they started chemotherapy and radiation treament! WTF?! How could they get all those followers and then just abandon the cause by trying to get rid of the tumour!? I am so unfollowing them right now, I'm literally shaking...." FFS. This is the world we live in.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

That is disgusting behavior

[@spiderhssstt]

Puts it all in perspective. Thank you dave!😊

[@angelmessenger8240]

Spurious equivalence. Absolutely not the same thing.

[@harrysgf_real]

The 'literally shaking' part is so accurate

[@Spudcore]

Not the same thing, no, but similar enough to illustrate how absurd this is.

[@darkshado124]

I knew a co-worker who was morbidly obese. They required a mobility scooter to do their job and they bitched at management to use. They constantly belittled everyone because of their fatness and needing "acceptance." They died on that scooter mid-shift. The paramedics couldn't resuscitate them or put them in the ambulance. They had to get a truck to move them to the hospital but by that point. It was too late. We now call that scooter "The Lard Slayer."

[@jenniferwoyak3649]

As a former ER nurse who has had to cut diggle berries off an obese man's back side because he couldn't wipe himself is not ok. Listening to obese people saying it is ok no being able wipe themselves makes me sick.

[@Vospi]

dirty ass positivity

[@alemswazzu]

That's awful. How can anyone like that have any dignity. It's only delusion.

[@philanderphillips2309]

YUCK.

[@JoeBlow-d3x]

We thank you for your service. You earned your paycheck that day.

[@cock_sauce8336]

My dad had contracted strep, didn't get any rest and after two days felt better. Then on the third day it started eating his neck spine and caused insane pain in all of his body. So he was hauled into the hospital and his roommate was 140kgs, both legs broken because he accidentally fell forwards when walking and dropped himself on his knees. He was barely able to be taken to the hospital because they couldn't even get him onto the stretcher. I know this because he told my father how he got there. Also doctors came in, told him if he doesn't lose weight he'll die in a very short time because his blood pressure and resting heartbeat were through the roof, his blood tests suggested his cholesterol is clogging up his veins/arteries and the worst of all, he had to do it without using his legs because they needed surgery since he literally crushed his knees into themselves by falling. I myself was 120kgs but in muscles. I couldn't comprehend how much of a size difference there was between us considering we were only 20kgs apart. Him stuck in bed, me running and enjoying life to the fullest. Right now I dropped to 105kgs because of mononucleosis diet and you wouldn't believe how fast I dropped weight after excluding loads of sugar and fatty food. Am a lot weaker even without much muscle loss though. Don't get fat people, especially this much. It's not healthy for every single part of your body. The opposite is also very bad. Doctors should recommend a nutritionist if a person goes to any of those sides.

[@jzayas5698]

Why do people confuse "loving yourself the way you are" with "hating yourself enough to not take care of your body"?

[@CAMarg-zs1xq]

This is well said

[@pattibennett8774]

And loving yourself the way you are doesn't preclude a person from loving themselves while they simultaneously work to do better for themselves. I'm in my 60s. I had some health problems, some caused by being fat, and a couple making it harder to lose weight. I had some blood work done, got some issues straightened out, lost 70 pounds and although I'd still like to lose another 30-40 lbs I feel so much better. I look better too. But the things that are most telling to me are that my knees don't hurt, my blood glucose is much more stable, my HbA1c is now well within a normal range, my cholesterol and blood pressure are returning to normal. I'm no where near my ideal weight, but I'm closer.

[@tinybarabo]

They are in a dismissal, no matter how many ppl tell them what is healthy. They just stuck their head in the sand.

[@selfloveisthekey]

​@@pattibennett8774Good job! Yes, you are closer. You're 70 lbs closer, girlfriend! 👏💖 And thanks for spreading your story! Those people usually hide behind "you wouldn't understand because you're not fat." Yeah, I'm not fat but I was fat. So, if you're fat, just like me, you can become an I-was-fat, rather than just be fat. And it has to be clear that many of us realize that if they're smart and lucky enough to make it to an older age, being within a healthy weight range could be the difference between a fun and vibrant old age and a miserable life full of pain, discomfort and inability to care for oneself. We don't do it to look pretty, you idiots! We do it to feel good and be happy! They can manipulate and change feelings about what's beautiful, but we all know that healthy is healthy. (and it will always be beautiful!) 🙏💖

[@davorzdralo8000]

Most people are fucking shit and shouldn't be loving themselves for who they are anyway, they should be working hard on improving themselves to be someone worth loving in the first place.

[@chronicon5616]

Being able to tie your shoes without passing out has it's benefits.

[@lauramolony]

Or at least bend down far enough to even reach your shoes.

[@notusingmyname4791]

oof... that hit close to home.. I'm a fat fuck who can't tie my shoes (and breathe) at the same time so relacing my shoes is a chore of trial and error. I'm also old so exercise and diet hasn't done the trick (not that I'm giving that up) so yeah I'm looking into other options. hope one of those semiglutate drugs are an option for me.

[@tibiamademedoit6486]

XDD

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

​@@notusingmyname4791you could get a standing bike (I'm not sure what the actual name is, not the peloton, but the small ones you can easily stuff in a closet). It will be easier on your joints and you can pedal while watching TV or something

[@SnorrioK]

its*

[@annekucharz4900]

I lost my father (51) 5 years ago because he was massively overweight for years. Just as tragic as the examples from your video was that he started much too late to change his life, but it was already too late. If you list the health problems he didn't suffer from, you'll be quicker than the other way around. I'm all the prouder that I've lost over 60lbs since last year, after struggling with overweight and obesity since I was a child. I am now at the upper limit of normal weight for my height and am far from the end of my journey. It is an absolutely overwhelming feeling for life that I have already achieved and through my visible success I can also observe how I positively influence those around me. To me that is true positivity...about yourself, about life and the quality that life should have.

[@tuffguydoe7937]

Visiting my uncle was hard the last few years of his life. Meeting for a meal and seeing him in pain to get in and out of restaurants booths. Meeting outdoors somewhere and needing to bring a foldable chair and take frequent break because he was in pain just walking a slow pace. The last trip into town I didn't visit, I heard he lost a leg and bedbound. Unfortunately, the eating habits were passed onto my cousins. I hope they can don't have the same fate.

[@sojinnn]

I always assumed 'body positivity' was just treating people like people, no matter their weight or looks. But putting down others because they want to lose weight is wild.

[@zebedeesummers4413]

yeah, an issue with everything being so tribal and the modern internet showing the most extreme to each other creates insane outliers. Especially the people using it very defensively. As someone who was under instead of overweight I will admit the first step for me was learning to like my body, inspiring me to take better care of and enhance what I already liked. If someone already hates their physical form enough it is hard to imagine any improvement. Noticing the issues of having a deficient diet only mattered to me after I was eating well enough to A feel the difference and B Could see that I liked myself more. In the current state of discourse there isn't room for both accepting where you currently are and striving for improvement. Neither shame nor guilt have ever motivated me aside from feeling indebted to society because of the resources spent on me which isn't quite guilt, its more purpose. Purpose is what is powerful, not shame nor pride.

[@tdylan]

The way it was described to me (which may not be accurate) is that "body positivity" was intended for someone that was "disfigured" e.g. horribly burned, amputation, cleft palate etc. to learn that they're still beautiful in spite of the impairment/disfigurement. It was then co-opted and eventually taken over by "the over weight" and morphed into "fat acceptance." It went from "I'm disfigured due to third degree burns across my body but I've learned to see myself as beautiful" to "I'm over weight and telling me that's bad is you trying to shame me. I'm proud of the way that I look."

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

Anything with "positivity" or "empowerment" is never positive or empowering.

[@CommodoreN64]

Literally it is “You have to accept my choices but I don’t have to accept yours.” 😂

[@DavidDrouant]

Leftist motto

[@CommodoreN64]

@@DavidDrouant well…maybe not all. But certainly the loudest of them 😂

[@DavidDrouant]

@@CommodoreN64 fair enough

[@elijahhayter3026]

That’s just hypocrisy.

[@sugarnumnums6666]

The sad thing about fat activism is that since so many of them refuse to acknowledge the health risks they put themselves in, we could quite literally "wait for it to die out" it's not ideal, but given their mentality, they won't be around as long as they could be.

[@AndrewFishman]

The problem is those they influence on the way to their inevitable end.

[@odindarkll3706]

That's the thing: being obese inherently ruins mental health. Just look at the big people in the video, for example.

[@summerhorse]

They are either lying to themselves or completely deluded and I have never met a (fellow) fat person who didn't either secretly or openly wish to be nice and thin. Problem is you can't go cold turkey on food like you can with drugs and alcohol. And for some the long road is not as attractive as the path to the kitchen.

[@filmandfirearms]

@@odindarkll3706 It's more that they know intrinsically that what they're doing is unhealthy, but they don't want to stop their harmful behavior. It's an addiction. It's the same as a junkie saying "I feel great" as their body is literally shutting down from excessive drug use

[@stevepierre182]

Being obese is not fun and very alarming...when i was obese i'm started having breathing problems and my whole body feels numb, that's when i tried to lose some weight and never looked back...now i feel more light and all health issues i had before begin to disappear.

[@ArtofHunter]

Honestly this healthy at any size has dramatically hurt our society. Heart disease, Lung disease and Diabetes don't care about your positivity. I'll use me as an example. Last year at 34 I had a mild heart attack and I weighed 277lbs. It caused me to have high blood pressure and I was prediabetic. My doctors told me that if I didn't reverse my current lifestyle I would die young because of the stress I was causing my heart it would happen again. Changing what I ate and walked a lot (as I can't do high impact exercise anymore) I am now down to 229lbs and still going. My blood pressure problems are almost non-existant now and I am no longer pre-diabetic. You can change your life and be healthier. All it takes is a little nudge.

[@Louiseonajourney]

That's impressive! ❤

[@triangleDAYS]

That one girl saying it should be illegal for people to go in a weight loss journey …. That’s insane.

[@laylaminrir]

She just cant stand ppl turning their life around and surpass hers

[@believestthouthis7]

She thinks it shouldn't be allowed for someone to change their mind or to maybe feel unhealthy and want to do something about it.

[@mikemontgomery2654]

Correct.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Misery loves company

[@iloveparadise]

That's not what she is saying though. She meant it should be illegal to build your platform on fat acceptance and then begin talking about losing weight.

[@nicholemccann5630]

As someone who was chronically ill as a child I get very angry when people don't care about their health. You have NO IDEA what a gift you have in a naturally healthy body.

[@rosesmith6208]

another assumption that the obese dont care, I cant understand people who worry about others health when they have their own issues, I mean is minding ones own business a problem or something? just asking for a friend by the way I am sorry your had health issues as a kid I can understand I had alot myself

[@nicholemccann5630]

@@rosesmith6208 by virtue of these women being 500+ pounds it is self evident that they don't care. And being a Canadian it is wholly my business because my taxes pay for my healthcare system and they are an unnecessary burden upon it by creating their own health problems and our healthcare is already overburdened to the point of basically no return.

[@Farce13]

​@@rosesmith6208sometimes it's easier to care more for another person than it is to care for yourself.

[@joshcarter-com]

@@rosesmith6208social media is fundamentally at odds with minding one’s own business.

[@rex8255]

Except for teeth, I won the genetic lottery. BELIEVE me, at 62, I'm SUPER grateful. I see other people having health issues that are way younger than me. As I do hamdyman and light construction, I can't afford to he unhealthy. Of course, having a physically active job probably helped as well.

[@lyingcat9022]

My buddy passed at 41 due to obesity related complications. And no one… not one of his family members have lived past 65. They were all overweight. It’s no joke.

[@lauren4078]

That is so tragic. Sorry for your loss.

[@HairyboyZ]

Sorry for your loss man

[@seanlanglois8620]

My mom died at 41 shit is real

[@michamarkowski2204]

Sometimes it's not easy to not be obese or at least overweight. For me and my family it didn't matter what we ate, how often, how much exercise we had. My buddies' family members on the other hand ate like pigs and were thin like sticks. No tapeworms included ;) I've changed my lifestyle and lost 20 kg in 2 years (from ~100 kg to ~80 kg) but then I couldn't keep it up and after next 2 years I'm back at ~100 kg...

[@rey_nemaattori]

41 is waaaay to soon to go man.

[@gingja]

Feel like the biggest issue is that a lot of people think that when you grow and learn and change your view then you are flip flopping instead of the fact that you are adding new information into your mindset. It's not a weakness to change your mind when enough evidence is given but in fact a strength.

[@mkm7251]

And that one woman thinks changing your mind should literally be illegal. Yeah, sure, see how well that works out.😂

[@sandorsbox]

"A fat person talking about trying to lose weight should be illegal!!" OMG!!! Seriously!?

[@disistheway2010]

These people vote 💀

[@re_negado]

This is right there with sentences like “Wendygoon should be ostracized because he has friends with weapons!”

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

These "people" breed....sometimes.

[@spidalack]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Only if they can reach the pieces

[@bradblumhof6917]

​@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I still want to know how they do it, but I refuse to watch a video to learn. I would likely have PTSD and it would ruin my own sex life if i actually saw it.

[@carlrood4457]

I say this as a very overweight man, this comes down to pretty much the same thing as most things on social media. It's small groups on the fringe wanting their choices validated so they don't have to accept responsibility for their choices.

[@kingcosworth2643]

We live in a world of reverse democracy where the minority call the shots

[@Dead_Again1313]

99.9 % women for some reason, I've noticed

[@apoorvak6015]

You’re absolutely right!

[@katiebugster2223]

Body positivity doesn't mean get fatter. It means accept some of your flaws. For example scars, stretch marks, hairy arms...it doesn't mean actively trying to kill yourself!

[@araucanoraptorargentinus3973]

Nailed it.

[@nataliehill4216]

Amen!!!

[@satansshadow2163]

Originally it was intended for handicapped or disfigured people

[@ShawnFX]

Woah there that sounds very fAtPhoBiC!!!

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

I always understood body positivity as being like, if you’re a burn victim don’t be ashamed of your looks. If you’re an amputee, it’s okay. If you have vitiligo it’s fine, you can’t do anything about it. Not. Eat 4000 calories in a day.

[@user-nz4qh2ig3v]

what people miss is that body positivity isn’t about society accepting you, it’s about you accepting yourself

[@wakkowarner7391]

It's about denial.

[@darpmosh6601]

Have you seen that clip of a model who was conventionally thin who actually was kinda attractive being called "plus sized"? Well that was what the movement was for at first before it got hijacked by these land whales LMAO

[@Camsyyy_camsouuu]

​@@wakkowarner7391 that's what people turnes it into. Body positivity was made for people who lost limbs or with disabilities ect..

[@wrmlm37]

For me, as a nurse, it breaks down to: "who can lift/shift you, during an emergency? Who can carry away from fire/flood, carry you downstairs when elevators are out? End of. Own worst enemy.

[@artisaprimus6306]

Amen, I worked at a residential treatment facility. A patient went into shock and passed out on the floor. I'm very fit and another large male tech struggled to pick him up. Dead weight is really hard to deal with. We had to wrap him in a sheet, so four of us could put him on the gurney.

[@Sarahopal]

I went to check on a friend of mine one day and I found her laying on her back porch. She had tripped down a single step and broken her knee. Because she was so overweight she couldn't do anything to help herself. Thank God I had checked on her pretty shortly after it happened. But she did lay there for a while. She could've died there. It broke my heart. The emt had to call in more people to get her moved. They wanted to put her in an old folks home while she healed so I took care of her for a couple months. The entire thing was so sad.

[@williamspitzschuh8167]

passed out person that weighs 340lb is really hard to work with

[@Camille_Anderson]

​@@Sarahopalyou are a very good friend & i hope she knows that. 🙏💚👏👏

[@jennifer-fk3eh]

I'm not breaking my back for an obese person

[@sisco8225]

Someone i worked with was part of the fat acceptance movement. She would take pride in her obesity yet complain constantly about health issues affecting her ability to work. When i bought up taking some action about it she called it a "slim opinion" becuse i was controled by fitness, and i should not tell her how to live becuse i was not fat. So i never did again. She died 16 months later after gaining even more weight and having more emotional outbursts at people who were concerned, it was unbelivable.

[@charongold6532]

It's Kinda ironic... it semester she did try to ignore real health issues untill the very end

[@NickM_FirstofHisName]

You can only help people who want to help themselves!

[@fuzzybuzzy3159]

Entitled drug addicts simply put.

[@lowtierenj4yer414]

Man talk about a bad way to go

[@pikebasss]

It’s the same with any addict. “I need it, but it doesn’t affect me.” “It’s none of your business” etc.

[@hydrokineticpowerhouse]

I remember when I was around seventeen being really embarrassed of my stretch marks because I got large breast very fast, until one day I overheard a bunch of my classmates talking about how they have them too and I was confidently able to wear a bathing suit knowing I wasn’t the only one and it was normal. That’s body positivity.

[@Theduckwebcomics]

Yup. And stretch marks are WAY more common than people think ! I know many, many skinny women with them. Men too.

[@kanucks9]

​@@Theduckwebcomicshaha yeah. I got stretch marks and my girlfriend made me go to the doctor to make sure it wasn't a skin infection or something lol. My weight hadn't changed recently so it wasn't too obvious.

[@SirDavid290]

There is nothing wrong with stretch marks, you go girl !

[@natehill8069]

"...started using plus size models in advertising." And saw sales plummet.

[@acedelta12]

They put so many pluses in their sizes that all they had for their profits were minuses.

[@Trunkslover14]

I remember telling my fat-positive fat-femme friend, that I wanted to lose weight because my knee was LITERALLY starting to crack and pop and I couldn't go up the stairs in the house we JUST bought and they went on a long rant about how that was fatphobic, because it COULD be anything else wrong with my knee, thin people also have bad knees and then started talking about thinness and how it was all about beauty and how fat people are considered ugly. Then proceeded to proudly tell me how they had recently convinced two friends to NOT LOSE WEIGHT even though they had originally wanted to, because 'they made them realise they wanted to lose weight because of looks and how that was problematic'... Anyway, I have lost 10kg and my knee isn't cracking that much anymore.

[@wandpman]

You keep at what you're doing Trunklover, your knees, and heart will thank you for it, stay strong and don't give in to your partner/ friends, remember, misery loves company!

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

Kudos to you! It's a hard road, but so worth it! It's people like you that have been an inspiration to me! Thank Lou for sharing, and keep up the effort!

[@austinv9964]

Lose the "friend" too

[@Trunkslover14]

Well now ya'll just making me cry! In a good way.

[@Trunkslover14]

@@austinv9964 Oh I did, shortly after. I'm too old for that..

[@junkyporpoise4254]

What’s sad is that the original ‘body positivity’ movement wasn’t for fat people, it was for people with serious burns and deformities, people who’d gone through reconstructive surgery after life-altering injuries, people who deserve to be made comfortable in their own skin. Not for fatties who’re too lazy to lose weight

[@Valentina.Montano]

Definitely

[@fuzzywzhe]

Was it? That's a good thing. People can be shocked by deformities and serious injuries. I'm not immune to it. I know a kid in college how had severe burns on his face. I hope he's doing well, that's 35 years ago.

[@99thJediWarrior]

Now there's some body positivity I can get into!

[@rileyswack5402]

If that’s the case how did it get hijacked

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

@@fuzzywzhe It WAS a good thing. The problem is when fat people hijacked the movement and poisoning it in the public conscious to be synonymous with them.

[@Behinddarkness86]

My sister’s sister-in-law has never taken care of her body. She indulges every bad eating habit you can imagine. She was told she had type-2 diabetes but do you think that stopped her? Well, reality is getting ready to stop her. She is now blind, had a section of her foot removed, she gets infections that she cannot fight and now her kidneys are shutting down and dialysis isn’t going to cut it in the long run. She is going to have a miserable death…but yeah beauty at any size right?

[@LadyHoneybee]

That is horrible to hear of; much worse to witness. 😟

[@r5t6y7u8]

And nobody talks about how much all this COSTS. And why health insurance keeps getting more expensive.

[@sleeser44]

I'd say RIP but I'd be lying.

[@Sindrijo]

@@r5t6y7u8 Ozempic is money saver for the healthcare system in the long run, it should be subsidized into the ground, heck it should be free.

[@MisterMick113]

Has she learned anything or is she still in denial?

[@alastname299]

Ive been big my entire life, even eating second lunches in elementary school, i was 300lbs at 18, (5'6) whats crazy to me is no one ever said anything, no one tried to help me even tho it was obvious i couldnt help myself at the time. Im about to be 21 now and im at 243. I knew i would stay miserable forever if i didnt do something quick, i knew id never be able to get those years back because i was already reminiscing on what could have been during school. My goal is 150 and i intend on getting there, even if no one is helping me still ive made it this far by myself and i can keep going, stay strong yall, don't waste your time while you still have it

[@dylanchesher4482]

Just remember, you are worth it. You deserve a better life! Fight on my brother. I don’t struggle with food, but with pain killers. It’s all the same. An emotional hole we try to fill. Keep the good fight brother.

[@alastname299]

@@dylanchesher4482 you too brother

[@liesandy291]

U can't change the past but sure as hell can change it now. do it before it's too late.

[@sebastianhavestad9774]

400 pounds is literally a silverback gorilla's weight.

[@annemiller8227]

Yeah... a TRIM silver back gorilla. I'm pretty sure that the really big ones can weigh in at 800 lb And since THEY can rip off your arms I vote they can be any size they WANT

[@camiloelgueta2213]

New measure system unlocked 😂

[@player1miggy]

Hi trim silverback here, I'm working on it. 😂

[@c.a.greene8395]

​@@player1miggy I was overweight after having gestational diabetes with multiple pregnancies over ten years ( I lost 11 babies but have two adult sons today). I was depressed on top of that... I got sick with stomach AND bowel cancer, two different kinds! After more than a year fighting, I had went from 340 lbs to 89 lbs, at six feet tall...had I not been fat, I wouldn't be here today.... I'm not saying being overweight is healthy, it may have even caused my disease...but had I been a size zero when I became sick, I would not be alive 30 years later... Love yourself, get healthy by changing your diet. Dieting doesn't work because everyone eventually returns to their normal diet. Reduce the size of portions. Remove white bread from your diet, and only eat this as a treat at restaurants or when out, or on a holiday...remove one bad food every week ( so it doesn't hurt so much) Bread Pop - these two items will cause serious weight loss without any exercise, but imagine how much faster your body tones with a bit of weight training, which you can do on your couch with lady weights, canned foods cans, water bottles or whatever you have. Juice Sugar Fried/greasy foods Be happy...learn a hobby, something to occupy the hands and mind ❤

[@wesleythomas7125]

Ook?

[@derkaiser420]

I work in a VA hospital and I see the results of obesity daily. I work with many vets who are/ have lost limbs. Not from war injuries but from obesity and diabetes. First it is a toe, then a foot, then the lower leg, then the upper leg, then the hip gets infected, leads to multiple organ failure, and death. Most of them tell me they wish they took better care of themselves when they were younger. It is a real thing.

[@Ashcattt]

Former vet here. I developed prediabetes about 5 years after I got out of the military. I pounded sugary drinks full of caffeine, ate a shit ton of candy bars, and just treated my body like garbage while serving just to stay awake and function. Lots of service members do. And we typically don’t get fat, but we end up paying the price for it a decade or so after getting out of the military 😩 I’ve reversed my prediabetes but I often regret how I treated my body in my late teens / early / mid twenties.

[@WhatIShayyy]

My late father was a Veteran. Very true, he passed away at 51. The complications he gained from the gulf war only became worse due to his weight/eating habits. Eventually he developed diabetes until it turned into kidney failure. I meet active/in shape ppl in their 40’s or 50’s now and realize that 50’s is still young.

[@ayoisthataspiderbiteonyopp9381]

⁠@@WhatIShayyy My father was also in the gulf war. RIP to your pops 🙏🏼

[@thebug410]

"maybe you're just ugly" thats absolutely projection.

[@justme_gb]

It's possibly the truth.

[@thebug410]

@@justme_gb well the options are shes projecting or theyre both ugly. her not being ugly isnt an option.

[@pkonneker]

I know they say that beauty is skin deep, but ugliness absolutely isn't...

[@bradsmith4279]

She feels betrayed, let down and hurt, she's absolutely projecting and it was sad to see. I disagree with what she said too but still feel for her knowing that her mentality isnt going to help her any time soon and time is of the essence.

[@johnserosanguineous1886]

Sometimes its true though. Just as an aside. God knows men hear it all too often, and women never hear it all. "I'm either ugly or he's intimidated by me... and I know i'm not ugly." *comments disabled*

[@bloodguts6786]

Yet none of them talk about the "Fat Influencers" who have died from being overweight and unhealthy.

[@headlesschicken99]

Body positivity is celebrating your stretch marks and not worry about pigmentation, bum shape OR anything you got by birth. Not accepting and normalising 6 stone of excessive weight!

[@susabobus]

By birth? Ummm You know it's a lot that can happen to you after just because? Like you can be as responsible and proper as you can, but some drunk driver can cause you to be disabled? Or you simply can...AGE? Like... get old?

[@headlesschicken99]

@@susabobus Plus/including anything you get by birth. Which isn't extra 6 stone of weight, is what I meant. Clearly the examples of stretch mark, pigmentation,bum shape (yes, we can add age-related wrinkles and menaupasal body change, gained disability, scarring from burns, etc) are not by birth.

[@susabobus]

@@headlesschicken99 here i can agree, but the original comment was easy to misunderstand, since there's a lot of people who think that bad things happen only to people who "did something wrong".

[@headlesschicken99]

@@susabobus Yes, yes. I see where the misunderstanding might come from. Reluctantly I'll edit original comment by adding a simple "or". I hope that's enough as I'm not the type to over defend position or take back sth already said

[@gregorythomas4470]

The analogy of “a bunch of people trapped in a burning room yelling at those moving for the exit” is SO SPOT ON!!! 💯

[@ViolosD2I]

While trying to undermine the validity of both science and common sense because they suggest that fire is dangerous.

[@user-kc2fu8iw3v]

there are only two unchanging constants in this universe. death and stupidity.

[@antecboy]

When being fat IS your personality, I can see how they would feel attacked when someone else tries to loose weight

[@kcbh24]

*lose

[@theclumsyprepper]

What? Being fat is not a personality type.

[@kcbh24]

@@theclumsyprepper neither is being a Trumper, technically, but have you seen any lately? Loving Trump touches everything they say, do, wear, and live.

[@theclumsyprepper]

@@kcbh24 I don't live in America so don't care about Trump or his supporters.

[@kcbh24]

@@theclumsyprepper it doesn't matter if you live in America or not or what you care about. You completely missed my point.

[@ChristelVinot]

my husband is a thin man now. he grew up being a fat kid and young adult though. he raves about how much better it feels not having the fat. just walking feels better, moving around and doing stuff feels better. now he really makes sure to eat right and make sure he never gets that way again.

[@xyphrean3109]

I'm a fat woman who's trying to lose weight. I don't wanna see my current self as an "influence" on the young minds. I'd rather they see how the Victoria secret models used to be

[@charlee_hotel]

The models themselves were never a problem. The problem was due to a former executive within the company (Ed Razek). *HE* was the one going crazy about _women _*_MUST_*_ look a certain way._ If any, most VS models got the short end of the stick: from being skinny shamed at times to developing addictions or EDs. If you google how Adriana Lima looks now, she gained a bit of weight but still looks healthy (and as beautiful as always). She was a size 4 during her VS era, and now looks like she's around a size 10.

[@megangosiak1489]

Your current self IS an influence. An influence to change, get healthy, and take back your life and health! And I want to applaud your efforts. I am 233# and am trying to get my body back after 5 babies and years of horrible choices and bad habits I've allowed. We got this.

[@Kendro311]

I wish you the best on hitting your goals! Exercise is the key. The first month of regular workouts is tough. But once you start seeing results and start feeling renewed... You'll crave a workout more than any junk food 😎.

[@joshuaedwards15]

Do the work, be strong. More people will support you for doing the right thing. Hope you are on the path of a long and healthy life. 👍😉👏

[@OjsMatte]

@@Kendro311 No food is key, excersise is the topping. Start at the right angle or you will fail. Meat, vegetables and some beans for carbs, make a stew and be consistent.

[@elena7520]

My sister works as a home carer for the elderly and disabled. More than a few of her coworkers have had to take time off of work from injuries caused by clients being too heavy. One hurt her back trying to help an obese man to sit up in bed, another one got her foot broken when an obese man accidentally stood on it. Being fat isn't just something that affects someone personally. It affects everyone who has to look after them, it makes their job harder, and more unsafe. If youre obese and live long enough to see old age, people will inevitably have to care for you one day, whether its your children or home carers, and remaining obese makes the job so much more difficult, and dangerous for everyone else. Fat positivity activists need to realise that it's not all about you and how you feel about yourself. Just because you like being fat doesn't mean your children will like bathing an obese person, drying between all their rolls, applying antiseptic powder between the rolls, because the skin under the rolls constantly becomes infected with fungus, yeast, bacteria due to sweating. If you won't lose weight for yourself, at least lose it for those who will be responsible for looking after you one day.

[@aaronbinns220]

Disabled people (clearly not all, but many) often cannot do the exercise to keep weight off. If they don't have complete control of what food they get to eat, similar to like a child has to eat what their "carers" give them, and this includes elderly in aged homes - they can't fully control their food input quality either. I would love to be benching weight and keeping the kegs away or walking/jogging/running or playing sport again but my own disabilities make it incredibly intensely painful that is when I can do it at all. Please don't make it seem disabled people don't care for and about the people who care for them. Most of us know we would be in terrible conditions but for those angels. We would gladly do whatever it takes to be thin and flexible and fit. We just aren't given that option. I hope you never find out what it's like to have your health taken away.

[@elena7520]

@@aaronbinns220 yeah but being disabled from lifelong obesity is preventable

[@aleija2109]

If someone is so fat you can't left them, someone is bringing them too much calories . Period.

[@elena7520]

@@aleija2109 you're absolutely right. Most of them have families who bring them whatever unhealthy food they want and enable them to stay obese. Its very sad that they think they're being kind to them while actively harming them

[@mysticfaint]

Being fat isn't something you should be bullied for. Striving to be fat is.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Bullied has always been a nonsense term. Normally a "bully" is someone everyone picks on and they strike back at individuals. The movie trope "bully" are the ones that are teachers pets captain of the sports team. They enforce the will of the powers that be. The ones whom didn't get scholarships or actually excell at intelligence become cops and government agents. Being able to continue the bullying in those vocations.

[@acarlo4380]

You're right, bullying fat people shouldn't happen. Yet, here we are, watching 30 solid minutes of it. The least she could do is be clever, she's not even that.

[@homeslicehomeslice]

You reminded me of that simpsons episode

[@bibasik7]

My favorite fat quote from the video was "you're a small fat, why are you speaking over super fats?" Being fat has ranks, and you have to get fatter to climb the ladder (figuratively of course, they're too fat to climb a ladder irl). timestamp: 10:32

[@M1A2_Abrams_MBT]

If anything, we need to bring it back. Otherwise, you get stuff like obesity positivity and alphabet people.

[@tempeaq1821]

I was 302 lbs with a blood pressure of 155/90, and was feeling the effects of my bad habits. I’m all about not feeling inadequate about your body when you’re heavy and not being put down because of it, but you also need to hold yourself accountable at some point (preferably sooner rather than later). Eating whole foods and keeping active, along with the right mindset and motivation is all it takes. 5 months later I’m at 225 with a blood pressure of 110/90. Never felt better.

[@AshCosgrove]

Body positivity should be about accepting and being proud of things that you cannot change about your body. It's not about things you can change, like your weight. Sitting on your butt, eating unhealthily, and waiting for a heart attack is no way to live! I'm reminded of a quote that they give you in AA: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference."

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

Body positivity is, and has been as long as its been a political talking point, about a lack of personal responsibility.

[@prodigaljess]

@@cryptdk2400 I was never an exercise jock. But multiple injuries over the years (included some repetitive strain injuries working a desk job at a computer) showed me that I have to actively take care of my body to have quality of life. Over time, I developed a love of caring for my health and staying strong, flexible and fit. Here's what worked for me. Start small. Get a small set of free weights and learn a few calisthenics (like how to do a good-form pushup). Keep this stuff out in your room. When you get home, do SOMETHING...anything. After a couple years not doing pushups while working on my back and shoulders to correct my posture, I'm finally back to doing them. In good form, currently, my sets are 5 pushups. 5. Terrible. Doesn't matter. 3 sets of 5 it is. Do a little...however much you can. Try and do a little more tomorrow. It's not so much how much you do or how much you ache the next day as that you do something with consistency. Before you know it, you will find your energy improving and exercise will come to be something you love and long for. But it SUCKS at first. It's tedious and seems to scream your shortcomings at you. Keep going. That is REAL body positivity. Loving yourself enough where you are to establish the habits and discipline and push through and keep them going. It will improve your energy, your focus, your sleep, your digestion, your immunity, your healing, your recovery and your resistance to injuries. Start small. Set modest goals. Do a little more each day. Be consistent. Learn and practice good form. Don't forget to warm up before and stretch after. And don't give up. You can do this.

[@Yourehistronic]

​@@cryptdk2400 i can't tell you exactly what will help, but i gotta tell you that it won't happen within a single day or by any great leap or a specific workout - it's just not feasible the "decline" happend gradually, so it's alright if you climb yourself back up with equally small steps.. and there might be some steps backwards/down again - that's alright, just adjust what you expect of yourself accordingly, as long as you strive to better yourself, you'll eventually get better it's more the little things, like trying a different meal with a larger salad or going 15 steps more during a self-imposed break (or before/after driving home) i've been there, the slow change is vastly preferable - you don't want to crash and get seriously sick/burned out for several years

[@Fenrir190]

At my heaviest I was ~310. The threat of having heart complications at 23 didn't get me to stop stuffing my face. Ironically my unwillingness to change at the threat of my life ending pissed me off enough to change my life around. Dropped to 215 and put on a lot of muscle. I failed a number of time over the years but quiting was never an option. I feel so much better now in so many ways. You couldn't pay me to go back to being miserable at 310.

[@jasonmason8413]

That's how its done my man 👍

[@GameUnCrafter]

I'm nearing 30, 6'1", and weigh 307. I had actually gotten down to 215 before i graduated college 7 years ago. Honestly, I'm married, and neither one of us cared about our health. Then we had a kid. I decided to start making changes regardless of what anyone said, including my spouse, and now combined, we're down about 60 pounds. Be healthy for yourself, be healthy for your offspring. In just 3 weeks of not eating and drinking all the sugar i could ever want, I'm down a belt and shirt size.

[@jlogan2228]

hell yes, use playing with your kids as motivation and an exercise. Run around with them, climb with them, bike with them, play a sport with them, make a game out of doing exercises with them.

[@WillFredward7167]

Doing it for your kid was the best possible reason, and motivation, for improving your health. The whole mess covered in this video represents tons of people (pun accidental) who put their own feelings ahead of everyone they could otherwise help.

[@erichoeper6572]

Grew up from about 7yrs old til 18 being obese. Was 345 at my heaviest. I’m 25 now and have kept my weight at a healthy 210-220 (I’m very tall so that’s a good weight for me) for years now and it was the best decision I’ve ever made. My life is automatically better being able to move and live normally. I get to live longer! I have a ton of sympathy for people struggling with weight because I’ve been there but to encourage unhealthy behavior is not a good trend and leads to people dying legitimately.

[@ziekwalt7823]

I currently weigh 350lbs, I started losing weigh at 420lbs, I'm trying to get down into the 200s. I wont say its been easy going to gym 4 days a week lifting, then adding cardio, and now I am adding more cardio cause I've stalled. Controlling my diet and working out, sacrificing my free time to the gym, hasn't been easy, but I'm tired of being obese and not being able to wear normal clothes. I ate my way in and now I have to walk my way out.

[@kaelinreads6748]

Congrats on starting and keep at it!

[@helenjourde9033]

I hear ya! I've lost 45 pounds on my way to losing 100+. Keep grinding away at it.

[@LaughtersMelody]

Congratulations on the progress you've made. That's wonderful! Keep at it, and may God bless you on your continuing journey.

[@HarryHeck2020]

You don't need as much cardio if you go carnivore. Too much cardio is bad for you too.

[@hannahtrauger9653]

I recommend watching Dr Mike Israetel. He has a PhD in Sports Medicine (or something related) and he has a TON of really good videos on weight loss and muscle gain. If you're stalling out, you may just need to do a maintenance diet phase to let your body reset to your new calorie intake, then rest and keep going. You've got this!!

[@chicagolondongirl2906]

I really hate how these fat acceptance people refer to "fat" as an identity, instead of an illness or even just a descriptive word. At my highest weight, I absolutely hated it when these people tried to make my obesity my identity. It never was and it never will be. I've lost over 100 pounds and I am very proud to be leaving my obesity behind.

[@karinisvetcool]

On the one end, they consider it a personality, on the other they're not fat, they're "living in a fat body"

[@believestthouthis7]

Technically being "fat" is just being someone with excess adipose tissue. It can be removed through body recomposition or weight loss and increasing muscle mass. "Being fat" isn't an identity that anyone has to keep. Good for you, for leaving obesity behind because it's not healthy!

[@Crazychickenlady448]

Congrats, 100 lbs, that's amazing! ❤

[@BaddadanMostman]

Good for you 👏🏽

[@danee0123]

Congratulations! Much love

[@JaceyMitchell]

The "Is Ozempic eugenics against fat people?!" thing makes me think of that anime meme where a dude sees a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon.

[@bararobberbaron859]

But did we ever get the answer? Was it a pigeon? ;)

[@robokill387]

Also really offensive to disabled people who have been subjected to eugenics policies over things we can't control.

[@erlandaislund4594]

Only if the extra pounds on your hips identify as separate people. (Now that i think of it... since some pf them carry enough weight for 2 to 4 extra people around that COULD be a valid point)

[@lavenderplanes9053]

As a bigger person whos not looking to get any bigger and is trying to better myself slowly at my pace, the only "acceptance" I'd want is to not be bullied and not be treated poorly by doctors.

[@ThSkBj]

Her logic : "you got famous for your body type, now you don't get to decide over your own body anymore. Your community gets to decide what happens to your body"

[@D_M_Oficial]

[Translated] - It's immature logic. Getting rich off internet obesity and dying before spending your millions seems stupid to me.

[@tonystone3890]

This is a first hand account. I am 52, was married for 18 years, have a 26 yo son and a 19 year old daughter. On December 18 2022 my beautiful loving wife went to er because of adema, caused by non alcoholic Sirosis of the liver due to her being severely overweight. On January 27th 2023 she left me to make heaven a better place. I am a widower. There is nothing bigger than the little things. I miss her laugh, her face, her touch, or just holding her hand. I thought we had more time, but we didn't. Life kinda Snuck up on her. I love my wife and I miss her everyday. So please please take care of yourselves because it just too 40 days to go from 18 years of marriage and 2 kids to planning a funeral. I thought we had more time. So yeah. God bless you and your family. God bless Texas!! God bless the USA 🇺🇸 🙏!!

[@CueTheHorn]

Sorry for your loss

[@Dead_Again1313]

May peace be yours until you are reunited with her ❤

[@lordwife]

I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you find healing. This is why I keep fighting to loose weight, for my children and my wonderful husband.

[@summerhorse]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@alexv3372]

Hope you recover May God bless you

[@JackieOwl94]

Dieting didn’t work for me. Then I changed jobs to something very physically intensive on a farm. I was exhausted at first, going to sleep immediately when I got home and eating constantly. I still have fat falling off me. There’s a darn good reason why farmer’s lunches are so calorie dense-they burn so many calories that it’s insane. This new muscle boosted my metabolism, making macro measuring a lot more effective.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Yes, but counting calories and eating less ultra processed food works, you just need a calories deficit and start replacing garbage food with whole food and replace sugary drinks with water.

[@JackieOwl94]

@@lainiwakura1776at the time, I didn’t have enough muscle mass to eat at a deficit without still feeling healthy. I had basically no muscle, and now that I’m more muscular, it’s easier to eat a more appropriate amount of food.

[@w1975b]

Except humans can't consume or burn calories. We've been lied to for decades on that subject.

[@biazacha]

@@JackieOwl94that’s so true. People really underestimate how the “sitting on a desk for eight hours plus sitting on a car or subway during commute” absolutely destroys any muscle if you don’t put effort to keep it - and I’m not even talking about getting ripped, but sufficient muscle mass to diffuse a the burden from your bones and tendons. Obviously that gets amplified when your body mass is 4x a regular person, the really everybody should take care of their bodies.

[@rhetorical1488]

my grandmother would make me lard sprinkled with bacon grits on rye when working the fields. still not enough calories

[@afmghost1759]

Fat acceptance should be "ok, I'm obese, but I'm still a human person" while trying to increase self-esteem. The problem is that it became cultlike, shaming people for having a healthy body, stuffing their mouths with tons of junk, and expecting the rest of the world to stop what they're doing to accommodate them. If you're fat, I'm going to show you the same respect I'd show anyone else. I will not treat you like a main character, and will not accept disrespect for being a healthy weight

[@grahammcdonald]

Self control is hard. Virtual signalling is easy. Choose hard.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

self control is hard at first, it gets easier by the day. virtual signaling is the opposite, its easy at first, it gets harder everyday as your body becomes unhealthy and you need to take contradicting positions.

[@marcgrundfest1495]

CHOSE TO DO HARD THINGS. Roger that.

[@BB-te8tc]

"Discipline is the ultimate self-care"

[@Yogachic1971]

There will never be anything acceptable about being morbidly obese. As someone who used to be, I've lost 227 lbs naturally in the past three years. My health was going downhill, sore all the time. As I got older, it was only getting worse. So these fat activists really need a reality check, because eventually this unhealthy lifestyle will catch up with them.

[@annemiller8227]

That's amazing and YOU should get applause. Even if you don't remember the applause in your head is the most important one of all!!❤

[@1SpicyMeataball]

Great job! 🎉 And I mean that. It takes work and dedication to lose that much.

[@simspawn]

Oh,it will. It will.

[@leegaul2161]

Notice how they are more focused on things like trendiness and popularity. They aren't angry because they were betrayed. They are angry because they are no longer the hot topic themselves.

[@looseweave6521]

I’m 5ft tall, 100lbs even. I eat healthy and work out 5-6 times a week in the gym (I love running, clears my mind) and I have gotten the NASTIEST comments from bigger ladies. Walking up to me and bluntly asking “do you have an eating disorder?” And walking away. A couple other similarly hurtful incidents. I’ve always been petite. I enjoy exercise. And I eat healthy but don’t deny myself occasional unhealthy food. No, I don’t have an ED. If I did, how would that ladies question have helped anything? And why is it okay for someone to approach a slimmer person like that, but you do that to a bigger person and all hell breaks lose???

[@dreaminez472]

Because they're overwhelmed with jealousy but lack the resolve to better themselves so they resort to delusions and hostility. Most women seem to have given up these days, I respect that you haven't. Wear their attacks as a badge of honor.

[@IRdatank]

Fat Activism is an oxymoron. If people were more active, they wouldn't be fat.

[@dnr2089]

😂😂😂

[@berrymint6384]

AND eat healthy

[@avegen1616]

80% diet 20% exercise is the key to being healthy and not fat

[@chukyuniqul]

God, I wish. If that was the case I wouldn't need to diet as much and frankly I'd prolly have more fun. But it's not. Because sadly, not only do muscles have an upper limit, but so do other bits and just plain ol' time's a problem. So it's more practical and feasible to eat in a deficit than to work off the excess calories. The "problem" with fat loss is that it's simple, but it's not easy. So people hear it's all calories in calories out and when it doesn't work, rather than straight telling that person "change tactic, try again" and working with them on that, because it is fundamentally a failed attempt-even if it's their fault or not (such as if the base metabolic rate being overestimated)-and people don't like failing. So instead they get coddled with these half-truths by dieticians goading them into the healthy habits they failed to understand they didn't pick up, and these half-truths get spread and leave the "hands" of people who actually know what they're saying and can assume the consequences of saying that and gets into the hands of, say, my primary care physician who's a goddamned homeopath too because that's apparently acceptable in my country. No one wants to hear the harsh truth. And if you wanna hear one for you: it's exacerbated by people who say harsh truths in the harshest way possible and derive obvious delight from it. Because it's hard to convince a fat person you know what's best for them when you didn't even try to understand where they're at. Because sometimes, some struggles take precedence over others. So sure, most fatties definitely should lose some weight and are making excuses. But in not trying to understand where they're at, people on this side just hand them the good-enough excuse of "you don't know me".

[@IRdatank]

@@chukyuniqul I see you, man. You're right. Though I also wager you're stronger than you believe and that you can achieve your goals. Be kind to yourself in your failures and take pleasure in your successes. There is more to life than wherever you are, no matter where that is.

[@joshuatheargonaut4412]

I love these people. I see a picture or video of them and suddenly I have zero cravings for junk food. I’m always like “Well, I’m never eating again.”

[@xyenyas]

So true man

[@-Gax-]

When I was like 7, I laughed at an overweight person on a bike, and my dad told me off. He told me that you never insult an overweight person who is trying to better themselves, support them and give them encouragement. He told me you point and laugh at the ones coming out of the bakery or McDonald's with an armful of food while they're panting. Of course, I've never seen him laugh at anybody in that situation, nor have I ever laughed at somebody in that situation, but his point is very valid. And I agree with it.

[@rosesmith6208]

how about we just mind our own business and love our neighbors and be kind no matter what size they are? it is their situation to deal with and we have no right to shame or be mean in the name of helping them, we have no right to do that.

[@robertanderson5092]

Based

[@jlogan2228]

@@rosesmith6208 bc sometimes a person NEEDS to feel shame to finally get their shit together. If your friend is 300 lbs and you see them sucking down pizzas every day, if you really care about them youll tell them i love you, i want you to be around, and i want you to be able to actually LIVE life. Theres more to life than fucking junk food

[@fukkitful]

...An armful of food and a diet coke...

[@thebestcat9601]

@@jlogan2228Caring and loving someone and encouraging them to make choices in alignment with better health is not the same as shaming. Fat shaming does not work most of the time and cause people to spiral further into emotional eating and eating disorders.

[@AndrooUK]

The moment you feel comfortable being fat, or otherwise comfortable doing actively unhealthy things, such as taking lots of drugs, is when you are doomed. Without discomfort and pushback, there's no incentive to ever change, or stop doing something that is harmful/wrong. Same with other psychological conditions that are heavily enabled, and how doing so precludes the likelihood of healthy psychological outcomes.

[@ShemPayne]

I lost 50 lbs and my knees have never been happier.

[@huntz3215]

Didn't we go thru a stage of anorexia, pendulum swung the other way to obese. Neither is healthy, use some common sense whatever your body type is.

[@debanydoombringer1385]

They’re both eating disorders. Anorexia isn’t even really about food just like being morbidly obese isn’t. For anorexia, it’s about control. Everything feels out of control and the one thing you can have complete control over is what you put in your body. For the other way it’s about comfort. They find comfort in food again because they feel out of control. Both require you to address the underlying cause instead of just treating the symptoms they create. I’m anorexic. Just like any addiction you’re never “cured”. You will always get the impulse. You have to learn techniques that let you overcome them. Blaming other people being skinny for my emotional problems doesn’t help people like me. Edit: My 2nd pregnancy snapped me out of it, but still almost 25 years later, when my stress levels start to build I stop eating. The difference is now I realize I’m doing it and why and force myself to eat at least something.

[@defeqel6537]

Anorexia was never as prevalent as obesity

[@JoBlue-t5o]

Besides famine and anorexia, the human creature who loses a stack of weight never regrets it.

[@charlee_hotel]

Like Kate Moss says: _nothing taste as good as how skinny feels._ I love how she found sobriety and family stability with time. And of course, just like with Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber, Kate's daughter, Lila Moss, is also following Kate's steps.

[@scott2452]

Might need to specify ‘losing fat’…bodybuilders are quite sensitive to losing muscle mass. But yeah, your point is a good one

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Yeah having a bad bowel that doesn't allow you to thrive means I am not happy when start losing weight. Blood tests show major amounts of muscle wasting enzymes. I literally have weights next to my bed and no amount of lifting them is improving my muscles.

[@laurendearnley9595]

And if they do regret it, its not like its hard to get fat again

[@JoBlue-t5o]

@@jimijamesjowitt famine is a bitch

[@Iringard]

A friend of mine is overweight. During our friendship, I realized that the only advantage she has over me is that she isn't freezing. The disadvantages are shocking although there are much fatter people than her. She can barely tie her own shoes, walking a few meters leisurely is exhausting for her, even in low temperatures she sweats and gets out of breath. The worst thing is that she can hardly breathe when she sleeps because all her weight is pressing on her lungs. I really can't understand how anyone can be in favor of this.

[@hughconboy4601]

Yes exactly. These fat activists and body posi people think that they are empowering and supporting other women. They are in fact disempowering other people by promoting obesity and all the subsequent health problems.

[@brianmorrow5350]

A few months ago, I had to go to the ER for a bowel obstruction........ I was suffering from multiple hernias due to obesity requiring abdominal wall reconstruction. Talking to the surgeon in the hospital, I mentioned how I needed to keep working, and he said "We're talking about YOUR BODY." So, I decided to STFU and do what the man told me to do. In the process, I lost around 75 pounds, and I feel better than I have in years....... Thanks to my surgeon and to the bowel obstruction for the wake up call! Obesity is not healthy!!!

[@pamfay3834]

Omg!!! That's awesome you're doing great!!!!!

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Yeah, feeling better is definitely a good incentive. As you slowly gain weight, you start feeling worse, but it happens so gradually you don't really notice. But then you lose some weight, and immediately feel way, way better. Anyway, congratulations on your weight loss. I know from experience it ain't easy, case in point: I'm still overweight, bordering on obesity. It's a lifelong struggle. Winter months or depressive moments in life are the times I struggle the most. I know the effort it must've cost you, and I'm impressed by the amount of weight you lost. Good on you!

[@brianmorrow5350]

@EvenTheDogAgrees Thanks, and I wish you all the best!

[@redneckenigma3086]

Awesome!!! Be well!!!

[@davidgray8863]

Can you imagine if people with other unhealthy addictions were on TikTok promoting their alcoholism or drug use and other people were posting comments like... "you go babe", "you're so brave", "ignore the haters you are perfect just the way you are" to people who are killing themselves. That is the trouble with social media, it is an unregulated platform where even foolish ideas can snowball out of control.

[@minnies782]

This actually remainds me of pro ana

[@woodjohnn]

Haha man I love smoking, so I’ve decided it’s healthy now and I’ll tell everyone it is.

[@dracodracarys2339]

Eugenia Cooney is starving herself to death and her audiences are encouraging her.

[@davorzdralo8000]

Oh, they are. A lot of dumb shit is being "accepted" these days.

[@victoriadiesattheend.8478]

​@@minnies782Came to say this. I keep photos of myself off the Internet and I don't take selfies for any use, bc I DO suffer from anorexia nervosa and I don't want to promote it, or use my photos to "body check" myself (or do so myself).

[@seanisabel]

Why is being in shape and being healthy bad? What kind of world do we live in?!

[@summerhorse]

It's only bad to a few people who are fooling themselves.

[@dnr2089]

@@summerhorseYes, deep down they’re jealous of the fit people, and they need someone to justify their laziness and greed.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Ask Gary Jules, he can tell you...

[@crybabychrononaut]

A CLOWN WORLD 🤡

[@headman82]

Lala land

[@EquineDreams3]

Thank you, Sydney, for continuing to be a voice of reason for thise of us who choose to live in the real world and not the delusional one that many ppl do.

[@MH-yd9he]

Love this. 3 years ago I was 145 lbs. and a size 6. I felt great and I was eating healthy. Today, I’m dealing with depression from things that have happened in my own life. I have been eating my feelings and now weigh 200 lbs and have a closet full of great clothes I can’t wear. I only wear leggings and tunics. It’s because of MY choices. Choices I know are bad for my health, and have a hard time changing.

[@Tential1]

Thing with depression is, what helps is working out. So you kinda have to figure out a way to do it, and get the cascading effects. We literally aren't designed to not move, our current structure of life is not natural.

[@jessicatully3929]

​@Tential1 yes, I completely agree 💯

[@dennismokry258]

The very fact that you recognize and acknowledge that your current situation comes in large part from your own choices, gives me a fair bit of faith that you can and will get out of your depression and to a physical condition you are happy with. I have no idea how or when, just the feeling you can and will. Keep it real with yourself and others around you and know even strangers can see your strength to get through it.

[@liannemarie2504]

You are where I was over 6 years ago. I had only a few outfits that I could actually wear and I refuse to leave the house. We have very few pictures of me at that stage and only of my face because I absolutely would refuse to be in pictures. I'm pretty sure I had a meltdown once. Nothing seemed to work and everything sucked and it was an awful spiral. And then I started looking into intermittent fasting because I was working and someone on the comment section mentioned it to me. That was over 6 years ago and I lost over 100 pounds after starting intermittent fasting and more when I felt like I actually could. I recommend reading and seeing as many videos on intermittent fasting as you can! I became ravenous for these videos and when the little bits of weight started falling off, and just fueled me even more. I was over 230 lb and tonight I weighed myself and I was $127 and a half. I usually fluctuate around that weight a few pounds because hormones suck but I pretty much stay around there. I often get on the scale and still can't believe the number I see because I always expect it to be high. And I'm always pleasantly surprised when I look down and it's about the same. Intermittent fasting became my lifestyle and it's just easier for me to live this way. It may not be for everyone but man, it made it so much easier for me to just have to manipulate my eating schedule a little at first and try and eat some good things when I was in my eating window. It was something that was easily sustainable for me and I didn't have to buy a bunch of expensive food or remember certain things. I just hope you don't give up because this fight that you're in is totally worth it and you can do it.

[@user-dd5eh5lu3o]

I gained weight when I was put on antidepressants but I guess you'd say I chose to gain weight. Depression is an illness, not a choice. People do not CHOOSE to lose pleasure in life. And going to a doctor for help just lands you in weight gain land because the only thing they know how to do is push antidepressants on you.

[@billiecampbell6386]

Being 72+ and recently being a dance teacher, I've found it is much better fighting to stop overeating than it was fighting to breathe after just doing "warm-ups"

[@mcbutch83]

On January 1st 2020, at the age of 37, I weighed 346 lb. I looked like crap, I felt like crap, and my health was crap. My doctor was telling me that in a very short amount of time she was going to be prescribing me blood pressure medication, diabetes medication, and if I didn't change things those would just be the start. I've always been fat. I have pictures of me in the third grade, at 9 years old, weighing in at 180 lbs. At 37 I was stretching the limits of 3XL shirts, wearing size 42 pants, and had to buy my shoes in wide sizes because my feet were so swollen and fat. All throughout my teens and my twenties I was just as active as everyone else, and didn't really feel the negative side effects of my weight. Because you don't. Because all of that weight doesn't really start screwing with your health until you are and you're late thirties and early forties. All of these "health at any size" people are still too young to know the damage they are actually doing. Thankfully I was able to pull my head out of my butt, go on a restricted calorie diet, and start riding my bicycle everyday before I died of a massive heart attack or had a foot cut off because of diabetes. Thankfully I never actually got to the point where I was diabetic. In around 8 months I lost 140 lb. I started my weight loss in january, and by August I was wearing size 32 pants, regular men's large t-shirts, and what do you know regular size shoes. I really wish that I could go back and talk to myself when I was 18, 21, 25, 30, or any other time and tell myself how much better life is when you are a normal size person. I am 100% convinced that anyone who is in the health at any size industry is just trying to find a way to justify not wanting to change their lifestyle. I'm not saying that being a normal sized person makes you better than anyone else. Food addiction sucks. I battle with it every single day of my life. But being medically necessarily addicted to diabetes medication, blood pressure medication, cholesterol medication, and all the other pills they put you on to save your life when you eat yourself into terrible health is a whole lot worse. I also really don't appreciate them telling my child that he can gain hundreds of pounds, eat whatever he wants whenever he wants to, and become too big to do normal everyday activities, and have it not affect his health. He saw how shity my life was when I was 346 lb. I really don't need people telling him that getting so big he literally can't fit into normal everyday life is an okay choice to make. Everyone has the right to be whatever size they want to be. You can eat yourself to death. You can starve yourself to death. I don't really care, that's your life. Just don't go around trying to make other people as unhealthy as you will be one day.

[@tbrown6559]

You really wrote a very meaningful comment. I wish your story could be blasted over the internet and media for everyone to hear. I very glad you were able to drop the weight. You make very good points about how young people who are obese don’t realize how hard it is on them, and will be exponentially more difficult to get it under control after age 40. Cheers and keep up the inspiring journey.

[@MrsEKrabappel]

Very inspiring story, sir.

[@666Martioli]

What a real eye opener, you sir, you deserve all the likes! Keep it strong, congrats! Cheers from []

[@F0XRunner]

2018-2024 is going to be remember as a time when everyone collectively lost their mind and decided some really weird things were actually totally normal and healthy.

[@Not_Soundwave]

Some of these girls really call out their sense of insecurity when their main gripe about weight loss is "looking better."

[@redren281]

I workn in an assisted living facility. We have a bariatrics unit..the number of 30 and 40 year Olds that are here and bed ridden is astonishing. They lay in bed all day..shower once a week and are hooked up to breathing machines. They are laying there waiting to do and it's sad.

[@snakejazz]

I don't know a single fat person over age 50 that isn't in a wheelchair with multitudes if health probs.

[@charlee_hotel]

My dad is 56, and he's extremely fat. I think he's the only fat person I know who's over 50.

[@MsJimmysgirl]

I am 55 and 70lbs over weight. The only health problems I have is due to a deficient immune system causing rheumatoid arthritis and IBD and I have never been in a wheelchair. I am not saying it is healthy to be fat, but I have been very lucky. Now for my IBD I did change my diet to a keto diet because it does make me feel better.

[@superscatboy]

I don't even know too many fat people that even made it to fifty tbh

[@lauren4078]

​Lord Jesus, I pray that @cryptdk2400 feels courage and strength through You to live a healthier lifestyle, so they can have a fuller, happier life. Lord God, please help Cryptdk with their desire for alcohol so that they may replace that coping mechanism with something that glorifies You. Jesus please help this person. In your name I most humbly pray. Amen. ❤✝️

[@lauren4078]

​@@cryptdk2400 I wrote a prayer out for you here so Jesus will help you, and KZbin blocked it. How nice. Regardless -- I'm praying for you, dear stranger.

[@benkirkby1931]

Insecurity is at the center of most personal issues these days; victimhood, narcissism, self-delusion, etcetera. Granted, social media and marketing thrive on fueling it, but it's also a very hard thing to look at ourselves and ask if the problem lies with us. What we choose in our actions and mindset defines more of who we are than that which is out of our control, and to deny this is to take power away from yourself. Dragging others down won't make you happy, only lifting yourself up will.

[@Cathmoytura]

First time I heard the term "fatphobia," a woman was condescendingly educating me that being a middle-aged man who's cycling, mountain biking, kayaking and running is ... right, fatphobia. No, it's not enjoyment of the activities. Through her logic maze my active recreation is all about controlling women's bodies and racism and lots more I couldn't keep up with. ... In fairness, she never said she was a fat activist, but as I learned about the movement I realized she used its language and logic.

[@mallorycarpinski1160]

It's giving "I'm the center of the universe" that everyone's choices in life are about them. Just wow.

[@np5246]

"logic"

[@DoctorNumber10]

As a woman who hikes and swims I promise you, you as a guy being active has zero to do with controlling women’s bodies, unless women being active is now controlling other women’s bodies.

[@FJCheli]

There's a significant difference between being overweight, acknowledging it, but not being depressed about it, and trying to convince yourself that being overweight is healthy. Look, I love to eat as much as the next person, but the idea of my mobility being limited to such a finite range because of something that didn't need to happen is just mind boggling.

[@JohnLamp-g5d]

Instead of giving people hard time, just lose the weight and be proud of yourself. Some years ago, I went from 330lbs to 170lbs and nothing positive is lost after that!

[@Strobobel]

Wow that’s incredible! Great job! That takes hella dedication and discipline!

[@fatefinger]

I was at 331 and I’m down to 214. My goal is 180. I’m getting there.