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In reply to the discussion: Fat shaming is deplorable and this board is littered with it. [View all]Duppers
(28,120 posts)I was not obese but really overweight some yrs ago. I was angry as hell and kept eating to stuff that anger down. Yes, I knew exactly what was wrong, why I was angry and with whom.
My husband went with me a doctor's appointment and complained to my doc that I was over-eating. My doc told him to stop and never complain about my weight again. I could have hugged her. He never mentioned my weight again!
A yr later I was almost 50lbs lighter. From a size 16 to a size 8/9. I knew what was healthy & what wasn't; it wasn't information I was lacking it was serenity and motivation. Stress played a major role in my weight problem, I think proving, in most cases: Fat shaming doesn't help the person.
But yes, it bothers me to see a rather homogeneous population pretending nothing is wrong with gobbling down tons of greasy, sugar-filled foods, seemingly without a care in the world and acting as if their choice of foods is normal. There are regional norms. Can they all have psychological problems? Probably? Or is it just their regional values? Their ignorance? Go back a couple of generations and I don't think you'd find the same values.
I know some inner city populations don't have access to healthy foods, fresh veggies, etc. But why are these weight problems now so prevalent in middle-class Americans?
This doesn't happen so much in European or Asian countries. Why?