A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity
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A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity
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#2This was almost me at some point. Thankfully I got out but it's a constant struggle.
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#3I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more).
But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can wash your (who, judging by your pictures are at least obese herself)? The only thing that comes to my mind is "fucking loser" or "whiny bitch". Food was the only thing that didn't reject you, other than the nice girl you are eating two icecreams with?
No the only thing that rejected you was you.
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#4I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more). But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can was…
You don't get to 600 lbs without some sort of mental illness or deep unwellness. Do you look at people who commit suicide with contempt? Its similar.
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#5I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more). But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can was…
Such empathy.
Do you feel the same way about people with a substance abuse problem?
To get to that kind of weight, it's more than just being lazy and not tracking calories. It's a serious psychological or physical problem. It doesn't happen just by deciding not to skip dessert.
I've always been thin, but I can still empathize with someone in that predicament. Do you think that he didn't want to lose weight and get some control over his eating habits? Read the actual article. He in fact did gain control over things for a while, through a regimented routine, but the surgery put him off it, and he lost control again.
You're calling him a "whiny bitch", but this guy, who has a family that was obviously supportive and loved him, had a serious medical issue that ultimately resulted in his death.
Try imagining them as an actual human being and not some cartoon caricature.
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#6obesity, even if not at this levels, is an understated problem, and seems to me the US is one of the worst hit.
If you can, I'd recommend watching "Fed Up" [0], a documentary which tries to show that the problem is a bit more complex than just people being lazy ("light" food being effectively worse, complete lack of food education, lobbying at it's worse etc). As many documentaries, it has a rather clear agenda, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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#7I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more). But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can was…
You don't get to 600 lbs without some sort of mental illness or deep unwellness. Do you look at people who commit suicide with contempt? Its similar.
I do. I've contemplated suicide many times, when life was very tough on me. And then I think of people who love me and what my death would do to them. It's the most selfish act ever. Other ways of getting out of suicide wishes is watching videos of actual horror in the news. If beggars on the street who have nothing and no one manage to stay alive, who the fuck am I to kill myself "because life's too hard".
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#8I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more). But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can was…
Such empathy. Do you feel the same way about people with a substance abuse problem? To get to that kind of weight, it's more than just being lazy and not tracking calories. It's a serious psychological or physical problem. It doesn't happen just by deciding not to skip dessert. I've always been thin, but I can still empathize with someone in that predicament. Do you think that he didn't want to lose weight and get so…
Calling him names wasn't necessary, but his point remains. You don't eat at McDonalds and drink DrPepper when you want to get thinner. This guy didn't want to get thinner. He didn't want it more than death. And so he died.
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#9I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more). But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can was…
Such empathy. Do you feel the same way about people with a substance abuse problem? To get to that kind of weight, it's more than just being lazy and not tracking calories. It's a serious psychological or physical problem. It doesn't happen just by deciding not to skip dessert. I've always been thin, but I can still empathize with someone in that predicament. Do you think that he didn't want to lose weight and get so…
Indeed this is, quite literally, a substance abuse problem.
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#10obesity, even if not at this levels, is an understated problem, and seems to me the US is one of the worst hit. If you can, I'd recommend watching "Fed Up" [0], a documentary which tries to show that the problem is a bit more complex than just people being lazy ("light" food being effectively worse, complete lack of food education, lobbying at it's worse etc). As many documentaries, it has a rather clear agenda, but…
What do you mean by understated? Whenever I see stuff about it, it's called an epidemic or a public health crisis. And it is often accompanied by statistics.