from my own experience, shaming has only led fat people to become more recluse; which isn't exactly a healthy thing.

Just keep encouraging those who are severely overweight around you, to pursue their own ideal body weight ratio. Rather than shaming, I usually will try to tell people what worked for me in fat loss (obviously reducing calories is a huge part of this) and promoting a more active lifestyle relative to the one they are in.

When it comes to body shaming it's not just fat people who are affected. Even if you shame people for being fat it brings out other insecurities in people (height, body shape, even skin color in some cases) because the bottom line is ridiculing them. FWIW I didn't give a shit about body image when I was overweight and only lost it because I personally would feel sick eating too much (not to mention the taste of my diet also started to sicken me to a degree).

No fat people in nursing homes LOL.



Metabolism too. I can do the same thing as ten years ago and drastically different things happen.



Nobody glorifies it. There is a movement to put real human women in commercials and stuff but that is it.



Ugh more YouTube famewhores. This is YouTube's fault.

This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 17 2016 01:50pm

with record breaking levels of obesity i'm not so sure you can say this is a fringe group - they exert quite a bit of influence on the obese members of the population steering them away from sound medical advice by labeling it fat shaming



funny enough, most of the people in my family are too skinny for their own good and i insist that they hit the gym and eat better or they're gonna have health problems later

with regards to encouraging obese folks to lose weight if they're not family i have no business addressing their weight directly though i do have no problems talking about what i'm currently doing and if it rubs off on em then that's great


there's a tv show called my big fat beautiful life, i'm not making this up

This post was edited by duffman316 on Aug 17 2016 01:57pm

There are some groups glorifying it. Thank god they're not mainstream.

wait till americans reach the 60% obesity mark and you might see some real crazy stuff come about as the movement gains support

I do not see what breaking levels of obesity have to do with a fringe group being a fringe group. As far as I know, they mostly seem to exist only in your imagination or as .jpg-pictures from who knows where.


To quote you from your previous post - "with the fat acceptance culture we now live in". I'd imagine that they'd have already gained support if it's a fat acceptance culture that we're living in.

Regardless, what's at the root of this obsession of yours?

So? Reality television is just modern day freakshows, without the tents and much less creativity. Nobody aspires to be Honey Boo Boo. I think you are misunderstanding what is happening with shows like this, or Repo Wars, or Housewifes of Atlanta or whatever.

I'm glad I don't have cable.



I think Americans are sick of being a fat joke.

This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 17 2016 02:11pm

after i made a switch to a healthier life style i started noticing these people who knock working out and healthy eating while praising lazy gluttonous lifestyles

i find everything they stand for to be repulsive, that's pretty much it

A reality show about one woman with PCOS exists for people to gawk at her like a freak show, it's pretty obvious that fat acceptance has gone too far

Here is a film about a world where Duffman is supreme dictator:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits



This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 17 2016 07:05pm