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AquaticSub -> RE: Forums to lose a regular? (3/8/2009 1:56:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus
The sad stuff is watching the fat parents eating crappy food with their fat kids... it's a horrible cycle of bad health, and so incredibly difficult to break! Getting kids to eat decently is enough of a challenge, I can only imagine how it must be when there's a giant array of junk to tempt them!
I don't really agree with this. I think kids learn to have an unhealthy palate through the food choices parents make for them. If a kid never has candy, is he going to crave it? He'll undoubtedly be exposed to it with his friends, but imagine if the parents of all his friends don't give their kids candy either. My cousin wouldn't allow her kids to have candy. They did have it when they were older, but they never developed a big craving for it. Candy being just one of the many poor choices out there.
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSub
I agree. People turn to food for comfort so when you mock someone for their weight you are actively not helping the problem. No one is innocent of making snide comments but *shrugs* I don't see why people can't be happy that he's lost so much weight and he's working to lose more. Once you start to get fat you start to think it doesn't matter. So you eat more and you gain more weight. And then it really doesn't matter so what the hell. You're already stuck in the plus size stores, might as well enjoy one of the few pleasures you've got left and it gets worse and worse.
I suppose that probably doesn't mean anything to people who haven't been there and have issues with their eating.
Regardless of genetics or any other issues, one can choose to be healthy. Sure it isn't easy, but those who eat to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life are in denial. You either make unhealthy lifestyle choices for yourself, or you get real and make the healthy ones. If people would fully realize just what those food choices and lack of exercise are really doing to their health, they would change. I did.
You think they don't know? They know. They know fully because every single person like you who thinks it's so easy because either they haven't been there or they are one of the lucky few who it easy for takes it upon themselves to tell them. I just lost thirty pounds and trust me - I heard it from everybody. But I wasn't ready.
It's difficult and it's difficult on many levels, particularly the more weight you have to lose. To those who food is a comfort, your scorn simply makes everything worse. It's exactly the same yelling at an anoxoric girl for wasting food. It's pointless, accomplishes nothing and makes things worse.
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