Being Fat is Not OK: How to get the right mindset to finally lose weight and change your life by Martin D.P. Langer

Author:Martin D.P. Langer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-12-16T08:00:00+00:00

“These groups have a lot in common. They all equate their struggle with the civil rights movement. They mistakenly and offensively compare discrimination against Blacks with their own "struggle" to live an unhealthy lifestyle. There's a huge difference between being denied basic human rights because of race or religion and fat people's struggle with being accepted by society for their unhealthy lifestyle choices. If they can't see the difference between being denied the right to vote because of skin color and being ridiculed because of size (which is completely under their control), then there might not be any hope for them after all. In addition to claiming fat acceptance as a civil rights issue, these groups also attempt to justify their obesity in a few ways. They call it beautiful, a personal choice and even healthy.

The most important similarity between the fat acceptance groups is their goal. Their goal isn't to help obese people fix themselves, it's the exact opposite. Instead of improving health and living conditions, they're working to show that obesity isn't a problem and therefore needs no fixing.

Everyone agrees that it would be much easier to live a life void of any exercise or healthy food. Most of us would love to eat junk all day, never go to the gym and totally ignore our health, but living in lala land and pretending that all of that is somehow OK is a disservice to ourselves, friends & family and even society. That's why most of us know that being fat is bad. It's the same reason that smoking, drinking excessively and using recreational drugs is also frowned upon.

The main goal of these groups is to make fat people oblivious to the choices they're making. It's a lot easier to stay fat than it is to accept you're wrong and change. By pretending that fat can be healthy, they're enabling obese people to be lazy, eat junk food and live unhealthy lives. The civil rights movement was about empowering people, not blinding them.

Rather than trying to get society to accept obesity and sickness, these groups should be working to decrease obesity levels. Decreasing obesity levels would help improve the quality of life for millions of people, extend life expectancy and decrease health costs. Instead, these groups are doing just the opposite. They're giving obese people an excuse not to change by convincing them that fat is healthy, beautiful and normal. Being obese isn't normal, it's a condition that causes disease and lowers life expectancy.

The reason that this movement is becoming popular is because change isn't easy. Losing weight and starting a healthy lifestyle is hard, but staying unhealthy is even harder. In the short term, it's much easier to live a sedentary lifestyle and eat unhealthy junk food. Over time, this "easy" lifestyle will turn into frequent doctor trips, a regular diet of prescription drugs and extended hospital stays. You can avoid all of that if you start changing now. Realize that changing your own lifestyle is a lot easier and more rewarding than trying to force society to change its view.

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