>>In American culture, it’s bad to be fat
Pretty sure it’s bad to be fat, no matter what culture you are in.
There is no such thing as being fat and healthy. Doesn’t mean everyone should be anorexic either - but if you are carrying around the equivalent of a small child in excess weight, you are unhealthy. Period.
Want to be fat? be fat - I have the same struggles as everyone else - but just admit you are fat, and unhealthy - don’t try to convince everyone is it’s just a perception problem - it’s not.
But don't expect me to have to pay for your healthcare.
Well said.
Being fat is bad. Bad for your health. Bad for your life expectancy. Bad on the eyes.
We don’t have to make judgements about people for being overweight, but it is far worse to try to convince people it is not only okay, it is beautiful.
I know grossly overweight people who have beautiful minds and beautiful personalities, and that is what I judge them on, but I find it repellent when entities try to make us believe that being fat is physically beautiful.
It isn’t.
Making resolutions is all about will power.
But will power alone is not enough. Seek out revelations about how the body REALLY stores fat, and obey the findings of those revelations. Then apply the will power, to compel yourself to continue to observe the sanctity of those findings. The practice of yoga is a good way to set the mood.
A kind of self-hypnosis to shift the paradigm.
qwerty1234 wrote: “There is no such thing as being fat and healthy. Doesn’t mean everyone should be anorexic either - but if you are carrying around the equivalent of a small child in excess weight, you are unhealthy. Period.”
I lost 80 pounds. Gained 20 pounds muscle mass. My dietician recommended that I add some fat back, I was to lean for my age.
“...but just admit you are fat, and unhealthy - don’t try to convince everyone is it’s just a perception problem - it’s not.”
The appearance of being overweight is not the perception of the person of size, it is the perception of the person critical of the person of size. It is the same problem with many different, so called, problems in our society. If a person is a color, then perception from some, many times too many, is that they are radicals and want to cause pain so they should be feared. If a person is a religion, then they are to be feared. If a person has a different political belief, then they are a threat. There are many more but each one is a conditioning, not necessarily a reality.
We come out of the womb a blank slate. We don’t see race, wealth, or political belief any more than we see that pooping in our diapers is wrong. We are taught what to fear rather than embracing the possibility. So, it isn’t even our perception, it’s someone else’s.
There is no standard of anything that is not controllable. And there are many things that aren’t that people still have strong opinions of. Health is one. We are taught that health is the key to happiness...along with money, power, and control of life. (Sounds like God, doesn’t it) But happiness is a perception that should only belong to the person in question and is personal. So what other people feel about me, for instance, matters very little.
“don’t try to convince everyone is it’s just a perception problem - it’s not.”
We each have our own perception along with opinions, don’t we? If I don’t attempt to force mine on you, thus making no difference to you, then why is your perception of my happiness an issue with me? I lived my life. Now I settle down with my memories and my content or unhappiness. Either way, it matters little to anyone except me. So whose perception are we working with?
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