sogood wrote:winstonw wrote:I am sure if fat people can organize a savvy govt funded lobby group, they'll soon be effective in repressing the facts regarding health risks of being overweight, getting the term 'fat' banned from the media, and having fatness censored on bicycle forums!
Fortunately, no "fat" people would accept they are "fat". So that's just a dream! LOL
Most people are aware of the fact that they're fat, because they feel self conscious, they eat loads of food when nobody is around, they eat out of the garbage bin. How do you get to eating out of the garbage bin? Well, you buy a heap of bad food and feel guilty for eating it because you're unhappy, the people at work are being mean or you don't earn very much and trying to eat healthy can be expensive, you throw that half block of chocolate in the bin, but five minutes later your ravenous hungry because the burger and fries from Macca's are filled with something that turns some dial in your head that tells you to eat eat eat (I've been there).
You know that loud fat girl whose the centre of attention, turns out that when she's a size twelve she's actually pretty quiet and motivated, she's even somewhat confident, will wear a bathing suit and hit the pool for laps three days a week, she'd go to the beach but she hates the sand.
But you know we're told things like, "Your just big boned," and people justify your size by saying, "oh but you have such a pretty face."
The words, "Your big boned," translate to, "Your fat.
The words, "You have such a pretty face," translate to, "your fat or you have some other problem."
Then when you develop the self-realisation to accept that you're fat and to make changes in your lifestyle to lose that fat you have people say things to you like, "Oh, you don't need to lose weight, you're perfect as you're." What they mean to say is, "I'm skinny, your fat, it's the whole reason why our friendship works, because I'm fitter and prettier than her."
Or you get dragged into HR, "We're really concerned that you've lost too much weight..." which translates to, "Your going above and beyond what everyone else is doing and you're making the rest of us look bad."
If you want to lose weight, you need to surround yourself with fit, healthy and motivated people. Not those skinny fat people, who do no exercise and maintain a skinny body, but the size 12 chick who works her but off who used to fit into a size 24.
The world we live in has an image problem, especially when a gorgeous size 12 model is called plus sized, when things like 'thigh gap' dictate your level of hotness (don't know what that is? Google it). You fight fatness by putting size 2 models in magazines, magazines that are available for ALL ages and you create the other problem, you create Anna's.
Losing weight and keeping it off isn't as easy as taking a pill, I find myself judging fat people all the time, then I realised that not only was I one of them, that I will always be one of them. I will always have to think about what I eat, I will always have to think about how much I exercise. Fat women are judged more than fat men.
If you have never been fat, then you have no idea what its like to be represented as a lazy slob who perhaps has self esteem issues that they don't know where to start fixing.
If you have been fat and you're juding the fat person on the bus like I did the other night then we need to go and check ourselves because that's rude.
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. Fresh is tasty but it hits the wallet.
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