i am not thin. i wear a size 8.
i used to be overweight, i initially lost it for aesthetic reasons and then after learning about my family history and risk factors, i decided to keep on exercising and eat healthy.
i don’t condone skinny folks eating like shit because they’re skinny and i call…
Don’t post your ignorance and contempt, then act all surprised when people call you on it. And if anybody needs to grow up, it’s the person who responds to a picture that says “Tiffany finds fat people gross” with a description of candida in the morbidly obese followed by “ugh.” How fucking immature do you have to be to resort to this kind of visceral appeal against fat people?
The saddest part is that you claim you want to help people with nutrition. People you find disgusting? Really?
Please don’t. They don’t need your pity or your disgust or for you to look down your noses at them.
I admire people who want to tackle this issue on the front lines, but you have stated yourself that you find fat people disgusting. That would be like a future doctor saying, “I find gay people disgusting, but I really want to work in inner-city AIDS clinics.”
As important as this issue is, I don’t think we need someone with your attitude and your bias working in this field.
As for your list of diseases, they are associated with obesity, they are not caused by obesity. Learn the difference. I assume you’re familiar with leptin. I recommend you watch this lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, who discovered leptin, and take some time to understand what the genetics obesity really involves, rather than dismissing it as an excuse.
And finally, you say you don’t condone skinny people eating shit. That’s fine, but the difference is that skinny people can eat shit behind closed doors and you wouldn’t know it. You see a fat person, though, and you instantly assume that they eat shit by virtue of his or her weight. You cannot reconcile this disconnect without admitting that you have a bias against fat people.
If eating crap food made all people fat, then the skinny people would not be skinny for long. And if all fat people were simply shoveling in bucket-loads of crap food, then they would continue to get fatter. Well, guess what… obesity rates leveled off for women and children in 1999, and for men in 2003. The entire decade we spent panicking about obesity saw a negligible increase in weight.
Your opinions on obesity are based on stereotypes (as most negative opinions are these days) and if you do intend to help with urban food deserts, I commend you, but I also urge you to learn more about this issue before you do more damage than good.
Peace,i
Shannoni really could reply and talk about (in terms of african americans) about how socioeconomic statuses have a huge role in obesity.
or we could discuss why fruits and vegetables are the most expensive things to buy in the supermarket but you can get a full meal at mcdonalds for 5 dollars.
and we could talk about leptin, how there is a correlation of overweight folks not having receptors so they don’t have the signals not to eat.
but that still doesn’t explain america’s portion sizes.
actually, i really could shit on your whole entire argument and convince you to go to jenny craig and lose weight but i earnestly don’t give a fuck at this point. i’m sick, i have the flu and i just want to drink water, tumblr in peace, and exercise… it’ll get my immune system going.
i never said “ewww, fat people are gross!” i’m sorry that people make fun of you because of your weight, because that special person you want… you overheard them making fun of you because of your weight, but i am not that person, please don’t deflect your issues and hate of people who are thinner than you.
i think being unhealthy is GROSS. that includes but isn’t limited to drinking too much, cigarettes, poor hygiene, lack of exercise, poor eating habits.
no one was saying anything about ideal beauty… the face of beauty changes ALLL the time but the face of health is pretty damn constant. obesity is just one health obstacle people need to tackle. there are a plethora of them..
have a good day and please, lose weight.
You’re so fucking deluded it’s not even funny.
YOU, not me, responded to this photo, the caption of which reads: “Tiffany finds fat people gross” and you added “as do i.”
Now you don’t have the balls to defend your post and you offer this mealy-mouthed response: “i never said ‘ewww, fat people are gross!’” as some sort of response to the fact that you said, in essence, “Ugh, Tiffany finds fat people gross, as do i.”
So go ahead and act all indignant, as though I’ve misinterpreted your crystal clear intent. The fact remains, you think fat people are gross and now you’re trying to twist that into “Unhealthy people are gross.”
I’ll bet anything that if I were to audit your life, I could find some unhealthy habits that I would find gross too. For you to act as though you have the right to express your contempt for fat people without any kind of blowback is pathetic. Your attempts to reframe the discussion are pathetic. Your understanding of the obesity issue is pathetic. And your repeated attempts to portray me as some sort of self-loathing, out-of-control fatty are extremely pathetic.
As a guy, people rarely made hay of my weight the way they do with women, so I don’t have any of the body image issues you assume I do. I’m perfectly confident in who I am and in the body I have, and, unlike you, I don’t need to alter my appearance to improve my self-worth.
Finally, you have yet again betrayed your ignorance of the subject. Leptin deficiency is only one part of the leptin puzzle which real doctors, like Dr. Friedman, are still piecing together. Not only is there the rather rare condition of leptin deficiency, but there is a more common condition known as leptin insensitivity, similar to insulin insensitivity.
Instead of assuming you know all that there is to know about leptin and/or obesity, why don’t you take a fucking minute out of your precious fucking day to learn about the underlying issues instead of making ridicu-fucking-lous assumptions about something you are utterly ignorant about.
You’re not using scientific facts, you’re using thoroughly debunked hysteria to justify your visceral response to obesity.
By all means, continue lamenting the injustice I’ve done to you and your fucking “facts” rather than educate yourself. Oh, and be sure to respond to my comment by, once again, suggesting that I lose weight.
I’ll happily lose weight when you finally decide to go fuck yourself.
I am thoroughly enjoying watching this ignorant, hateful idiot get her arse handed to her by such an intelligent and articulate fatty.
HAHA! Sucked in fatphobe!