fat shit

The words we associate with fat people, more often than not, are negative. Listed are a few examples: fat short and lazy, oily, disgusting, oily, glutton, clumsy, stupid, stretch marks, flabby, spare tyre (i.e. beer belly), smelly and the list goes on. Which of the following actually looks positive to you? So what if my guy is fat? He's more agile than me, smarter than me and sometimes i think he smells better than me. So get off my back and stop telling me he sucks, whoever is better or try to hint that he might have body odour. *ahem*

The worship of the thin body is as prevalent here as elsewhere. And so is the stigmatization of the voluptuous. To get around this is difficult but not impossible as long as we keep these in mind:

1. Acknowledge the difficulty of losing weight. There are more than 1000 diets and weight-loss strategies on the market. If it was easy to lose weight as all of them say, we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic
2. Forget about the "ideal" weight. Much of what you see in the media are computer edited bodies beyond what is achievable in real life. Also, there is such a tremendous variation in physical characteristics, that measuring one's height and coming up with an ideal weight number is an oversimplification.
3. Fit is more important than fat. Overweight people can be fit. And when they are, they are also healthier than unfit thin people.
4. Focus on behaviour, not scale. Eating right and exercising will invariably improve one's health and reduce one's risk for disease, even if that change doesn't register on the scale as much as one would wish. Once obsessed with the number on th scale, it becomes easier to lose motivation than to lose weight.
5. See through the kilos. You love your loved ones (parents, spouse, children) even though you probably do not like some of the things they do. Why discriminate against a fat person for just one little flaw? (no pun intended)