Is obesity ever a person's fault

[riderinthestorm]

157. I dunno. Do monster doses of daily prednisone plus 3 other daily steroids for severe asthma count?

If today's weather conditions mitigate "exercise" and the asthma is horrifically severe (ie, I can only work 12 hours doing heavy labor at the farm vs my usual 18 hours) so I'm overweight is the weight gain still "my fault" because I have a health issue or is this "what I put in my mouth"? Let me reiterate, I exercise DAILY, 12 hours at least.




Can you clarify if I am "good fattie" because I have a medical excuse that my doctor and I have dealt with (daily), or a "bad fattie" because you want this to be simply about calories in/exercise out?

FWIW, my pulmonologist, allergy specialist, and personal physician would find your OP simplistic and flawed, as do I. The level of steroids I take means I'm typically holding 20 - 30 lbs of fluid at any given time. I "look" overweight for sure. But that simply means I can breathe. Daily. Do you understand? The weight gain means I can breathe and survive.

There are some medical conditions that defy easy judgements. My sister is a double kidney/liver transplant survivor. The meds for her transplant have caused her ENORMOUS weight gain - all of it approved and supervised by her first rate Stanford CA transplant team. She has a STRICTLY monitored diet but the drugs she's on are designed to facilitate fatty cell growth to ease her organ grafts. She eats 1200 calories/day but she takes meds that PACK on the pounds via other means.

Its impossible to judge folks. Your OP comes across as judgemental. YMMV.