Fit to be Fat

Lawdy, I am sick of all those two ton Tessies glaring defiantly in to the camera in all those undies commercials.

Bill Maher talks about it all the time.

I've noticed that there are a lot more fat black women in tv ads than ever before.

When you are young you may be able to carry some extra weight, but eventually it will catch up with you. A co-worker went from heavy to fat to morbidly obese. She retired on disability and now is housebound. Can't drive, can't walk, can't do anything. All because she would not quit overeating.

It's a choice. The facts are there. Obesity is a root cause in type 2 diabetes and many other 'first world diseases'. Choose what you want. I choose to weigh about5 or 6 lbs more than I did in HS. I make an effort to keep ti down to that, but I'm not going to beat up my fat friends about their weight. I'm sad for them when their knees hurt and they can't do things that they used to do - but not my business.

There was a whole thing the other day from a fat chick berating her friends for saying they were just worried about her health. She can’t say we didn’t try.

I am so sick of those who deem themselves medical specialists and judge someone who is overweight. You have no idea what their medical condition is. Yes, many overeat but to say 'diet and exercise' - one size does not fit all. Get off your high horses. We gladly accept drug addicts and alcoholics and feel sympathy for them, but if someone isn't exactly the weight some guy at an insurance company made up, why then lets attack them daily, make them feel bad, oh how fun is that. Why does anyone think over 330 million people all must be the same weight? How would that work?

I am sorry that this made #6 feel bad. Most of us know that fat is not a healthy way of life. Our doctors recommend it. Those guys at insurance companies don’t make up their statistics. They are actuaries who study insurance payouts and the reasons for those deaths. They also work with health insurance and thus have a pretty good handle on what is healthy and what is not. As for “accepting” drug addicts and alcoholics, I have never seen that. But I do feel sympathy for someone who is fat and somehow, for some reason, stuck in that condition. They need help.

#8 should have said of being overweight, our doctors recommend against it.

Being overweight is probably one of the biggest factors why Covid has hit the U.S. harder than any other country. There's a reason Americans are viewed as fat slobs by many Europeans.

I really worry about our young people. As those of us that are older definitely know, the older you get the harder it is to lose weight. Unfortunately, our popular culture is preaching this "love yourself as you are" mentality. Add to that the obsession of young people for electronics and video games keeping them from exercising and moving, I see more and more over-weight people in their teens and 20's these days. If they don't realize the health issues they are condemning themselves to in the not-too-distant future, they are in for a future of health problems that they could easily avoid by getting their weight to a healthy level and exercising regularly now and keeping their weight and exercise routines there as they get older. It is definitely easier to keep your weight down than it is to lose it if it gets away from you as you get older. It's sad!!!

When I traveled in the former soviet states, Russia, Ukraine, and several others for about a decade, it was extremely obvious how seriously overweight the average 18 to 30 year old American woman is, especially compared to the average for women in those former soviet states who was slim. And they dressed up, wore some makeup and fixed their hair nicely, too. Food was abundant, they weren't thin due to starvation, although fast food was less so, but in Moscow and Kiev the McD's was jammed all the time with teens packing down the burgers and fries - but not nearly so fat. American young men have a serious problem, too, but not quite as ubiquitous as the young women. I feel a bit sorry for young women who are overweight, lots of tats, unkempt hair and who dress like a lumberjack or basketball player. They could be so much more attractive with a little effort. But, it is not my choice, but it's a bad one for their health and for their chances of attracting a husband. Of course, that's so old-fashioned, too. Life is all about choices. So many choosing so badly.

I've been on a post-cancer prescription for 5 years. It has given me a thick middle.

Best wishes, #13. There are definite complexities to life. An old friend, a retired Army officer who let himself go to fat, somehow painted himself into a corner between his diabetes and his kidneys. If he ate less, his kidney function went unstable. If he didn't eat less, his diabetes was going nuts. He was a few months from dying. He had a stomach reduction surgery, pretty radical stuff.....and BOOM, his diabetes disappeared. From injecting insulin several times a day to none in a week or two. The pounds started melting off, lots of extra skin, and his kidney function stayed normal. His health rebounded a LOT from deaths doorstep to pretty normal for about 8 or 9 years. Then he moved out to Oregon or Washington state, and I lost touch. About 5 years later I heard he was dying, had only a few more weeks. I never heard exactly what got him. I do understand that sometimes simple dieting doesn't work, but for most of us, especially those youngsters - fat is just from eating too many calories. If I gain weight, it's because I eat too much. Too many deserts, is my weakness. I'd like to lose about 8 or 10 lbs....but can't seem to get the will power together, I do better in the summer when I can bike every day to burn up some calories.

This article is absolutely pointless jabber. Interesting? I can't see how. Why doesn't everyone exercise three hours a day; feel the burn? Lazy... There is always a bias toward anyone "not like me". If I'm a gym rat who counts steps and calories/carbs, anyone with body mass index (BMI) that exceeds 19 is obese...because that's the standard and I'm tolerant. For a healthy woman aged 20-39, "healthy" BMI is 21%-32%...while for a male it's 8%-19%. But then, black women... Have another stick of celery...it's healthy.