Absolutely determined to be offended. I challenge any reasonable person to read this & conclude that I have a problem with fat people and people with mental illness. https://twitter.com/zoupmachine/status/992893213471072257 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You don't mention that it's extremely rare for obese people to lose weight long-term via diet/exercise. What is a life of striving for something likely medically unachievable? It sounds like a set-up for self-loathing. Eat well, exercise, accept.
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Replying to @janewilliams141
That's the only way they do lose it. It's not medically unachievable. Obesity is only an epidemic in countries where there is easy access to high calorie food. I'm not sure there is a difference between dieting & eating well. They should be the same thing. I'm not accepting this
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I didn't mean you had to accept, you do you. Just that for many, a happy life lived fat is likely preferable to a life of self-loathing, which seems to be outcome of unfulfilled striving. To me dieting is restricting, eating well is just that.
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Replying to @janewilliams141
That could be the problem then. If you eat well and not too much, you will lose weight. If you follow diets which make you feel deprived and restrictive, that will be hard to stick to. I lost 130lbs in the year after I came off these meds last time by eating well & not too much.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Are you giving me advice? I'm not trying to lose weight. I am responding to the piece you linked to about acceptance being dangerous, suggesting that there is more than one way of living a good life.
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Replying to @janewilliams141
Not you specifically. But seeing a diet as something you do to lose weight rather than a change of diet which will fix an obesity problem generally.
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And the second bit entirely depends on your understanding of 'good.' My father decided a good life was one where he drank more than recommended and smoked and was probably going to be quite a bit shorter than if he didn't. Of course, people can make the same choice re food.
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