re: The obesity epidemic

This is the results of an emphasis on feelings, not facts.

My older brother and sister have always been thin (or at least at a healthy weight). I was always thin until about the 4th grade when I got chunky (relatively speaking). While school shopping ahead of my 4th grade year the regular pants did not fit and I had to get a "husky" size. My mom absolutely flipped her shite. Did it hurt my feelings then? Sure. But that shame caused me to make changes to get back down to a healthy weight. Same for when I gained too much weight in college. The "healthy at any size BS" didn't exist then. I was fat and didn't fricking like it. So I did something about it and haven't been fat since (over 20 years).

Not being fat takes a little bit of effort. It's not always "fun". Sometimes you have to pass on the ice cream after lunch AND dinner. Sometimes you eat grilled chicken over the much tastier fried chicken. But we have many in our society that don't want to do those "hard" things. However, they also don't want to be ashamed of their fat asses. So the solution? Make having a fat arse "beautiful". The irony is that mindset is horrible for their well being...not mine.

To this day I am so glad my parents "shamed" me as a kid in thinking being fat was not a good thing....because it isn't!