• Heart disease and strokes. …
• Type 2 diabetes. …
• Certain cancers. …
• Digestive problems. …
• Sleep apnea. …
• Osteoarthritis. …
• Fatty liver disease. …
• Severe COVID-19 symptoms…

Some of you reading this might want to argue about this, but there is no legitimate study in existence which would validate that obesity is not the cause of the above listed ailments. The only people who will validate fatness are the social media influencers who are raking in tons of money through bogus advice, mukbang videos, ASMR eating videos, and other platforms where they pretend to enjoy their obesity for your enjoyment. You can bet your last dollar that none of them are happy with their bodies no matter how happy the income stream might make them.

There are many body positivity videos on TikTok and Instagram, and even the ones where it appears that healthy living is what they are promoting, the truth is that even those you see who might appear to be the example of good health are not always what they appear to be. If you think that some of their bodies look too good to be true, you’d be correct. A good size percentage of these people have used drastic diet schemes, drugs, surgery, and good camera filters to take care of the blemishes that would otherwise be obvious to the eye.

I wouldn’t even mention the body positivity influencers who look like the perfect human body, whether male or female. The reason I mention these people is the fact that many people get so discouraged when attempting to achieve perfection that they throw in the towel and move over to the fat acceptance crowd. You just need to know that the fat acceptance influencers on social media only want you to swirl down the drain with them. Misery loves company is what I’ve always been told.

Obesity is considered by health care professionals to be a chronic and progressive disease!

Obesity might be considered a chronic and progressive disease – however, it is entirely preventable. No one has to remain obese for any reason.

Yes, I know the struggle through first hand experience. And I know that losing weight is not an easy task. I have been there too!

It can be said that behaviors conducive to becoming obese can be influenced by societal and environmental factors beyond an individual’s control. For example, availability of healthful food at reasonable prices may influence food purchasing behaviors. If this is your excuse – it’s a terribly lame excuse.

You are not able to control the environment you live in? Guess what. you are more capable of controlling the societal and environmental factors than you know.

We often have people lamenting about the cost of healthy eating. “Healthy food’s is too expensive for my budget” they will say. If you wouldn’t go to the grocery store and make a beeline to the cheap stuff, you would discover that the price of the fresh produce that you speedily by-passed is actually quite reasonable. Here are a few points to remember about what you spend on food:

• When  you eat healthy, your body is being provided all the nutrients it requires for good health. And this means that you will not experience being “hangry” between meals. A well nourished body does not suffer from the cravings which come from eating crappy foods that are highly palatable, high in calories from simple carbs and fats, while being low in nutritional value choices.
• For the cost of loading your grocery cart with soda pop, cookies, cakes, ice cream, and processed foods, you can buy quite a bit of healthy choices instead. Saying that you can’t afford to eat healthy is a lazy and lame excuse. You are better than that.
• The money you might save on cheap, low nutrition foods is going to get spent. As soon as you get a bad craving and there is nothing in the house that looks good, you will head out the door in search of your next fix of junk food.
• The money you might save with your buying habits will be spent on unnecessary and preventable medical expenses. A recent study, which measured the metabolic health of more than 17,000 respondents, showed that overweight people who exercise regularly and consider themselves “fat but fit” still had a 28% increased risk of heart disease, when compared to those are fit and trim. As well as being linked to diabetes, obesity can also be responsible for osteoarthritis, gout, breathing problems, high blood pressure and other conditions. While being thin won’t automatically grant you a clean bill of health or a long, smug life of squeaky clean arteries, there’s no denying that health risks are higher for obese people.

From Mayo Clinic

Although there are genetic, behavioral, metabolic and hormonal influences on body weight, obesity occurs when you take in more calories than you burn through typical daily activities and exercise. Your body stores these excess calories as fat.

In the United States, most people’s diets are too high in calories — often from fast food and high-calorie beverages. People with obesity might eat more calories before feeling full, feel hungry sooner, or eat more due to stress or anxiety.

Many people who live in Western countries now have jobs that are much less physically demanding, so they don’t tend to burn as many calories at work. Even daily activities use fewer calories, courtesy of conveniences such as remote controls, escalators, online shopping, and drive-through restaurants and banks. (1)

Buying into the craziness of the fat acceptance movement can, and will, diminish the overall quality of your life. Obese people will get to where they can not participate in physical activities they used to enjoy. Other weight-related issues that may affect your quality of life include:

• Depression.
• Disability.
• Shame and guilt.
• Social isolation.

It’s not fine to be fat. Celebrating obesity is irresponsible!

Medications, mental health, social deprivation, self-esteem and genetics all play a role in our ability to control our weight, and judgment is never a constructive approach. But suggesting that being a size 30 is just as healthy as being a size 12 isn’t a body-positive message either – it’s an irresponsible form of denial.

Let me get real with you here!