What Fat People Do.

My friend, Scarlette Revolver , of Revolver Studios found and replied to this post by a local fitness establishment.

You're more than welcome to read the whole thing in the screen shots, but if you'd rather have the summary - the establishment states that "If you believe you're fat, you'll do what fat people do." And that you don't need any special education about diets, exercise etc., you simply need to think that you're thin, and do what thin people do.

Scarlette handles it beautifully and mentions some of the points that are near and dear to my heart.

There are so many things wrong with that "...do what fat people do phrase." Here's some of them.

1) What, exactly, do fat people do? It is simply wrong thinking to assume that all fat people lay on the couch and watch TV while shoving cake into their mouths. I know a lot of very physically active fat people. And I know a lot of couch-potato, cake loving, thin people. And so what, even if they are fat and a couch potato? There are worse things to be and that is *their* choice, and shouldn't make other people treat them as less-than-human. Those who do so - it says more about the nay-sayer than it ever does about the target. Do you remember the band "Mamas and Papas" from the 60s? They were a group that included 4 singers. One of them, a man named John Phillips, molested his own daughter. But you probably don't remember that, because the main thing that seems to get emphasized is that another of the singers, Cass Elliot, was fat. Well, personally , I think it's worse to be a child molester. But the society we lives in makes more of a big deal out of someone being fat.

2) What exactly do thin people do? Please enlighten me. Because I know some that eat cucumbers and ice and exercise all day, and I know some that eat burgers, cake, ice cream and lay around watching TV , too. So yes. Do tell.

3) Plenty of *thin* people think that they are fat.

4) Personally - I'm fat.

So all those years growing up I didn't know that by simply "thinking thin" I could magically loose weight.

I didn't know that "thinking thin" would magically fix my "Metabolic Syndrome X" AKA "Insulin Resistance".

I didn't know that "thinking thin" would counter act the steroids I had before I was born, because I was born 3 months early and my lungs needed to develop. My parents were told that I may have weight issues during my life on account of this. Personally I would rather be heavy - and have working lungs, than be thin and not be able to breathe.

Now, a lot of haters will say that all of those things I mentioned above are simply excuses that fat people say to make up for their obvious love of bacon and cake and doing nothing except laying down all day.

Alright. So I can accept some responsibility here too.

I like food. Yes, I do indulge in pasta, rice, bread, burgers and pizza.

But I choose not to be on a starvation diet any more. I choose to eat things I like while including fruits and vegetables, and exercise. When I exercise, I do it because I like having more energy and endurance. I like how my body feels when I do it. And, if it's dance, I like the art form. If I loose weight, great. If I don't great. I really don't care anymore.

Liking food isn't the worst thing a person can do.

Being fat isn't the worst thing a person can be, either.

As for not needing to know about about weight loss? I beg to differ. Different diets work for different people, for those choosing to diet for weight loss. I spent about a year trying to loose weight by eating mostly carbs (hey it was the 90s and Atkins wasn't a thing yet) -- because why? Because lots of your carbs tend to have less calories than meats and proteins. I could eat my noodles and cut out a lot of calories by getting rid of the meat. Well I kept gaining weight. Wasn't until a dr. told me that to loose weight with insulin resistance requires you to eat more proteins than you do carbs that I figured that out.

So yes, some education in needed. You cannot simply "do what thin people do" and be thin, because thin people do all different things.

I have no ill will towards the original poster. I just disagree - it was a very uninformed message, and I just don't believe that it's nice to shame people into working out.

If it works for you, and you are provided some motivation like the original poster wrote - I have no ill will toward you, either. I just hope that you know that there are errors in what was written and that you are worthy of basic human respect no matter if you are fat, thin or in between and that you don't need to feel shame for what you happen to look like.

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