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I Hate Body Shaming

I started a whole new diet and exercise regime to lose weight I gained when I was bedridden. Once you get into your new plan and step into scale to see you dropped a half kilo, you start to feel good about yourself. You're even more determined when you say no to fried snacks at your office canteen but all that good feeling is lost when your 'matured' co-worker decides to ask why do you not want to eat that, don't you want to get fatter? What's wrong with these people?

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Khenpal1 · M

cultural thing, you would be jobless if you lived in Japan.

JBird · F

@Khenpal1 that's an exaggeration.

Khenpal1 · M

@JBird ask the Japanese women on here

JBird · F

@Khenpal1 I have seen not so thin people in Japan

Khenpal1 · M

@JBird yes mostly guys , women are scorn when fat

JBird · F

@Khenpal1 it's hypocritical. Men can be ugly and fat but women cannot. Although I don't think it's a cultural thing. Fat shaming is prevalent everywhere

Khenpal1 · M

@JBird its more heath issue in Japan as they are much aware of it.

JBird · F

@Khenpal1 in Japan as I see, people need to be size zero. You don't need to ultra thin to be healthy. For a person of 156 cm, their healthy weight is 50-60kg. But that's too much to be a size zero. Their standards seem to be too extreme.

Khenpal1 · M

@JBird Genetically they are small , but the idea is if you are fit you are more productive and less sick. Although actual paperwork as they have it is total waste of time. If you noticed in many places in Asia collective thinking and behavior is seen a lot.

JBird · F

@Khenpal1 yeah, it's easy for them to be thin. For Western standard, I am small. But it comes to Asian, I come between medium to large.