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jammies · 06-11-2014, 04:41 PM

I'm not interested in shaming fat people, but I'm not interested in enabling their obesity either. Nobody (well - maybe SebC) is proclaiming open season for mockery, but feeling aggrieved because "nobody understands how hard it is" is quite simply wrong: some of us do understand, and what we understand is that your desire to be a healthy weight is less than your desire for food and disinclination to exercise.

I personally have chronic pain issues when I work out, and a long history of really crappy eating habits which had me around 245 lbs (I am 6'3"), yet somehow I've manage to stay in the 185-195 lb range for years. I know it's hard, but if you think you're a special case who just has it so much harder than anyone else, then you're very likely wrong. It's very rarely a case of people being incapable of doing it - like never being able to do calculus because you're just not mathematically inclined - but more that people don't see the pay-off as being worth the extraordinary effort.

06-11-2014, 04:41 PM	#211
jammies Basement Chicken Choker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants. Exp:	I'm not interested in shaming fat people, but I'm not interested in enabling their obesity either. Nobody (well - maybe SebC) is proclaiming open season for mockery, but feeling aggrieved because "nobody understands how hard it is" is quite simply wrong: some of us do understand, and what we understand is that your desire to be a healthy weight is less than your desire for food and disinclination to exercise. I personally have chronic pain issues when I work out, and a long history of really crappy eating habits which had me around 245 lbs (I am 6'3"), yet somehow I've manage to stay in the 185-195 lb range for years. I know it's hard, but if you think you're a special case who just has it so much harder than anyone else, then you're very likely wrong. It's very rarely a case of people being incapable of doing it - like never being able to do calculus because you're just not mathematically inclined - but more that people don't see the pay-off as being worth the extraordinary effort. __________________ Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.