[PhoenixAzul]

as someone who is overweight and has been much more overweight than I am now (recently lost 20 lbs), it kills me when people come up with "simple" solutions to weight loss. "Why don't you just ride a bike?" "Just get off your ass and do something" "Just stop eating" "They don't have self control" "They don't want to lose weight". People oversimplify and it comes off as ridicule. No one WANTS to be called fat. Being fat in high school was TORTURE! I know what it is like to be called fatty, thunderthighs, earthquake, blubber, etc. And while people simplify that by saying "that should make you want to get in shape"- it doesn't. It makes you want to hide away from the world and not come out.

Meh, it's a sore spot for me. I want to seriously hit any girl who thinks that a size 6 and up is "plus sized". Bullshit. I get so mad I get tears in my eyes when I hear a girl a size 0 saying "I need to lose weight wah wah wah".

What I think is that we need to teach our kids that it is NOT OK to make fun of kids who are overweight. No matter what you think you're not doing them any favors. It's not OK to make fun of anyones appearance, PERIOD.

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