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Well I got up feeling soo down..

Hey! I'm only 44!

I want at that concert but I was doing a lot more acid, mdma and dancing all weekend.

Not so much these days!

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Normal size is now skinny.

Let's also just ignore all the food and economic reasons why it's so much easier to eat better and stay skinnier in other countries and just blame the people

In my area specifically only 32% of the population isn't considered overweight or obese. It's very depressing.

It's a public heath crisis that's being completely ignored.

We have an abundance of energy dense processed foods that we use inactive transport to purchase in bulk that we then overconsume and waste vast amounts while plenty of people go hungry in a daily basis.

The result is that we have health systems at breaking point (especially socialised healthcare systems outside the US) with an increasing dependence on pharmaceutical or surgical solutions to deal with the symptoms but never the root cause.

I beat my primary fat shamer so badly I caused a TBI. Spent a week in jail and some time out of school. Upon my return, no one had a negative thing to say about me, let alone my weight. Since I was no longer stressed worrying about bullies, I started doing more activities, making friends, etc. lost a bunch of weight. No diet change.

Beat the fuck out of bullies.

Could also be the enshittification of our food and culture including:

• Demonization of "fat" in foods leading to "fat free" foods being considered healthy when fats are actually good and necessary in the diet which leads to over consumption. (Don't get me started on the sugar and corn lobby)

• Hyper processed food removing micronutrients necessary for our brains to tell us we're full.

• Hyper processed foods being cheaper than whole foods

• Hyper processed foods being super addictive and unwilling at the same time.

• Food deserts making fast food and convenience store food the only easily accessible food in many areas.

• The lack of knowledge/skills with respect to home cooking and the deemphasis of "home economics" type knowledge in general...

• The lack of free time required to both cook and pass on those skills

• The growing understanding of how perfluorinated materials (PFA, PFOA, PTFE) fuck with our body chemistry including contributing to obesity. Don't get me started on how much companies like DuPont hid and lied about that stuff (and still are).

• Sedentary lifestyle...

• There's more but I hope you get the point

Basically what I'm saying is people were fat before "fat shaming" was looked down upon and late stage capitalism is frequently pulling the levers behind the curtain in many areas including this. You're also talking about "fixing" the outcome instead of preventing the cause which is several orders of magnitude more difficult. The US has abundant wealth but that hasnt specifically translated to better health outcomes. And do you really think middle schoolers have evolved to the point where they don't bully fat kids? There are very few obese people (both children and adults) out there who don't feel shitty about how they look regardless of who tells them they should feel that way.

The point of trying to inhibit fat shaming and bullying of all kinds is so people don't become reclusive and anti-social, pick up bad habits (such as drug addiction and eating disorders), kill themselves, decide to kill others in mass shootings and the like. Also, just don't be a cunt and make fun of people.

Ah, so fat shaming was the positive force for good all along