Why are people more accepting of obesity than anorexia?
Both are going to kill you, involve very unhealthy eating habits, and as someone who has been obese and later dealt with anorexia, suck.
But if all bodies are good bodies, then why are anorexics forced into rehabs but the obese aren’t forced into a fat camp?
I understand anorexia is a mental illness but watch 600 pound life or any regular obese person (there is also BED, which doesn’t even get taken that seriously tbh) and tell me that there isn’t some mental disturbance. I know when I was my fattest, I was the most depressed and going through a lot of abuse. Food was my coping mechanism for my pain, and I guess some kind of switched turned in my head and I turned to restriction to cope.
But I’m sure if we added this picture to the post, there would be an “issue”.
Certain communities have very high obesity rates and there is no stigma in those communities Some cultures are more accepting of obesity There are some that don’t think it’s unhealthy to be obese
@AthrillatheHunt thanks mark, you too, yeah my parents paid for my music lessons, encouraged me to be a doctor, bought me lots of books, helped me study.
@pianoplayingsteve you seem well equipped to have a successful and happy life You also pay it forward and express gratitude too I’m sure You are a quality human
Hmm ok but perhaps we are in danger of getting a bit judgemental there, and forgetting that actually MOST obese people DON'T die from it.. and not ALL obese people eat unhealthy junk food, and SOME people have medical reasons why they are overweight.. e.g. while obesity increased likelihood of heart problems and diabetes.. there are zillions of thin people who have those things and not all obese people do.. only some..
Whereas, anorexia isn't generally caused by any of those - and it has a very high probability of killing or seriously damaging the body.. anorexia IS an illness, obesity isn't.
My point of this post was the fact that one body type that could have been caused by mental illness or poor habits it’s completely fine and dandy and the other gets treated like a dirty little secret. One unhealthy lifestyle isn’t any better. Like I’ve said, I’ve been on both ends. My eating disorder started at BED. I was no more stable when I was binge eating than when I was restricting. Except I was fat, so no one bothered to take my mental health and disorder seriously until I got dangerously thin (and at that point with anorexics, they don’t even want to change). @Adaydreambeliever
@666Maggotz I think the American diet is pretty bad with all the fast food and all. So it's too easy for people to put on extra weight. But it's a fact that the dangers of obesity increase at an exponential rate once someone is morbidly obese.
I don't the no all anorexics are "forced into rehabs". A lot of sufferers and their family are desperate but can't get on a waiting list for help and going private (I'm in the UK)is far too expensive for most.
@Fluffybull I think you see my point. People treat anorexics like something that needs to be fixed, we are not allowed to exist and be a part of the whole body positivity movement. But another sick group of people are- the obese.
@666Maggotz Oh, yes, anyone who eats their way up to 30 stone is endangering their health and something should be done about that too. Not too long ago there was talk of taking obese children into care as it was suggested that letting your child become that fat was a form of child abuse.
Because people, especially in this weakened generation, just can’t get enough of their instant gratification in every form they can, and so they want to pretend there is something good about eating that gratifying food enough to become obese. And from some obese people I spoke to when I started losing weight, they’d bring up ‘you are going to become anorexic’ whenever i mentioned I wanted to eat something healthy to lose weight. I think this talk about anorexia is more to do with simply creating an excuse to not try and slim down, because they don’t treat obesity with the same fear.
@pianoplayingsteve to an anorexic, that is actually a compliment. I always felt joy when people told me I looked too skinny or sick. Anorexics aren’t like the obese, we love the attention our extremely thin bodies gets us.
@Fatboy nope. I can say that you don’t with confidence after seeing that picture xD. I workout every day, eat clean every day and have a very expensive skin routine. I’m a public performer and so keep myself looking Chad tier as it comes with the trade. But you keep telling yourself that your pot belly sat with your curry looks better.
