I'm all for people being happy with the skin they are in. If you are OK being overweight, that's your choice. I spent a good 2 or 3 years between 250-270 as a 6'1 man, which is obese. I got down to 205, but I currently still struggle between 220-230, and still consider myself 20 pounds over weight based on my frame. And it isn't genetic, or disease related. It is eating crappy food related.
To say there is automatically a surge in health and genetic related weight gain is just straight up BS. Look at people in the 40's. 50's right up to the 80's and 90's, and people were generally a lot thinner. I even remember the 80's. Being over weight was the exception, not the norm. Why? More people cooked for themselves. McDonalds, Wendy's etc was a treat. I work with people that literally eat Mcdonalds every single day, sometimes twice. And surprise... they are fat. The girls here that are the Yoga queens, eat salad and greens for lunch, are in rocket shape. Why does this surprise anyone?
People are simply lazier, and addicted to fast food, and junky pre-made crap from the grocery store, and I am equally guilty. Crappy convenient food is more accessible than it's ever been, and it's what gets me every time. The second I cook fresh food, myself. Control sauces, oils, butter, cut the meat down to 2-3 servings a week etc.... I can drop 20 in 2 months.
It isn't insensitive at all to point out a fact that someone is living a lifestyle that is a potential time bomb. My mother of all people fat-shamed me into complete humiliation until I decided to make the choice to change, and I thank her for it. I just wish I was even more disciplined, maybe its time for her to start calling me revolting again, so I can dump that last 20.
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