Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person

[liberalmike27]

103. Addictions

While it isn't popular these days to make fun of heroin, cocaine, or weed addicts, or prescription pill junkies, or even alcoholics, food addiction is still in the category of an addiction,of which we're allowed to poke fun. I've said before it's the worst addiction there is, because you can't just quit eating. You've got to moderate eating. Ask any smoker if they can stop two packs a day, and just smoke six to eight cigarettes a day, for the rest of their lives. Most of them will laugh at you, as it's virtually impossible.

Worse, while losing weight is not easy, but often possible, at least when you are young, it's incredibly hard to keep it off, to stay slim. Your chances are <2%. See, fat cells don't just disappear. They shrink. And they emit chemicals into the bloodstream, to tell the brain you're hungry. The more deflated cells there are, the more that chemical tells the brain you're hungry. So you're in a perpetual state of hunger, even when you've eaten.

And man, I'm so with you on the seats. I actually complained at the Olive Garden, and she brought a chair without rails--I hate those rails on the side, as they cut into my legs, and I have to eat the whole time, while I'm in pain. The great thing about it?--they actually replaced all of their narrow chairs with armrests, with just regular straight-back chairs. It was a little embarrassing, but when you get older, you just get tired of putting up with this kind of thing, and it's harder to get red-faced about stuff.

The best solution is to not get fat--parents, heed this advice. Get your kids out running around, playing. Try to implant the idea in their minds to eat "enough" food to sate hunger, and don't ask "Do you want more? More?" I had a grandmother who was like that--I think she enjoyed me partaking of her handiwork, and she was a brilliant country-cook. It's a lifetime of damage you're doing, making for an awkward child, that will likely be socially backward, and unhappy, be promoted less often, and not progress in life being held back by their obesity.