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LeopoldBloom You have no idea how many health care workers I've known with massive back injuries - some that are now disabled themselves because people think it's cute to PURPOSELY eat themselves into obesity and beyond!!!! When you have experience with it, you will not find it cute, sexy, funny, or excusable in any way shape or form. If you actually bother to read her post you will see she isn't trying to lose weight she is TRYING TO PURPOSELY GAIN. It is detrimental on so many levels. If it stopped with only being detrimental to her, I would give a shit less whether she ate her self to death or not. But it affects others and those affects may be life altering. So no. I am not showing concern for her health - she has already decided to fuck that up on her own but I will however point it out in case it makes her stop and think. I am concerned for others, like me, who work in hospitals, and care facilities and who have to take care of them, lug them up and down, transfer them from one place to another, try to catch them when they fall, scoot them up in bed over and over and over, all of which puts our health at risk for nothing more than stupid fetish games. People who have true medical problems resulting in weight gain - ie thyroid, pituitary, diabetus 1, Cushing's disease, CHF, etc or people who take medications like steroids, some seizure meds, etc - that's an entirely different ballgame. Those things cannot be helped. Those people did not ask for these problems. People who PURPOSELY do it to themselves - that's quite another situation entirely. I really don't care if I sound like a self righteous scold because I myself have dealt with a back injury from crap like this - someone who thought it was cute to gain as much weight as possible. Luckily my injury wasn't permanent but I was off work for an extended period of time until it healed. I will not apologize for my opinion. It is based in fact! As for your unrelated question about people who engage in dangerous activities - go right ahead, I could care less as long as they don't take anyone else down with them. I have said all I will say on this topic thread. I have stated my opinion and the valid reasons why I feel and say what I do.
