Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking

Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by Waterluvian on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:34PM (#18718670)

It's complicated. On one hand you don't want to foster mental health issues by constantly reinforcing to people that their weight is wrong and bad. On the other hand, you probably don't want to excuse a physiologically unhealthy condition by calling it "healthy".

I don't have an answer. I was fit until I hit university and now I'm struggling with my weight constantly. I'm committed to trying. Losing weight. Getting in a healthy habit. Relapsing. Dozens of times in a decade. But what I don't ever want to do is declare that I'm just healthy at any size and therefore throw in the towel.

The grim reaper doesn't give a crap what I think healthy means.

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Re:Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking by Afton on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:40PM (#18718742)

I think you are seeing what I'm trying to say. It's not like most fat people are not aware that they're fat, and not aware that that is a problem. They are just exhausted with trying to change it. Particularly for people who have "always" been fat.

Consider that being fat might be better for you than alternating between eating disorders and being fat, which is the choice that a non-trivial number of fat people are faced with.

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