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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does it make you sad?  Unpack that.  [/quote]

Huh? I’m not OP but anytime I see someone who’s health is destroyed it’s sad.

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I am roughly 80 pounds overweight. You’d probably be sad if you looked at me, I guess.

I hiked 9 miles today. I work out hard 4-5 days a week. I eat a healthy and varied diet. My blood pressure is on the low side of normal. My fasting blood sugar and A1C has never been close to even pre-diabetic. I am insulin resistant which is why it’s very hard for me to lose weight and why I’ve always been overweight.

You can’t tell how healthy someone is by looking at them.

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I love how the responses to this are to tell you that you aren’t healthy and that you should diet.  [b]There is no known long term health benefit to losing weight, even for people who keep it off.[/b]  However, many of the diets out there (Keto in particular), are known to increase your risk of heart attack and death.  [b]The extra weight leads to stronger muscles and bones too, which is part of the reason they think overweight and mildly obese people live longer.  
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[b]You sound very fit and healthy. [/b] Don’t be fooled by pop culture and the diet industry.  Keep taking care of your body!

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Is this a joke?

I am one of the PPs who is objectively overweight, and I am all for body positivity and against fat shaming, BUT one has to be honest with oneself. 80lbs overweight is not healthy, and such person would generally benefit from losing extra weight.

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Prove it.  Prove that an active and healthy person with a good diet would benefit from a 50lb weight loss.

I am very willing to believe it, but I can’t find any proof at all.  [/quote]

Because there is no proof.  And the super common argument that diets to lose weight work are FALSE.  If you generally eat healthy, and get moderate exercise, you are as healthy as it gets NO MATTER YOUR WEIGHT.  Starving yourself and following a fad diet is WORSE for your health. This is incredibly well documented.  Diets make people unhealthy in the long run.  Most people gain back weight they lose on calorie restrictive diets.

This ridiculous trumpeting of "smaller bodies are healthier" is not true.  Diets are much worse for people's health than a few extra pounds.

But we have been SO brainwashed that it's true, that people lose their minds when confronted with the fact that fat people can be healthy.[/quote]

But most obese people don’t generally eat healthy and/or don’t get physical activity. That’s the problem.[/quote]

Ok.  But the poster who was 80lbs overweight does eat healthy, hikes, and does intense exercise regularly.  [/quote]

I’m the 80 pound overweight fatty. Yep. I’m active, find joy in moving my body, cook and eat healthy food, have the majority of health markers within the right range. And it’s still not good enough for fat shamers, because the size of my body doesn’t please their eyes or something. [/quote]

I think it’s because, if they say that it’s good enough, then they can’t walk around feeling morally superior to fat people anymore.  In fact, they have to come to terms with the fact that not only did they never have the moral high ground, they have pretty much been d!cks to a lot of people for most of their lives.  [/quote]

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