Why do many fat people complain about their weight but yet don't do anything about it?

[Anonymous]

I am not talking about the fat people that don't complain and I am not talking about the fat people that complain but do, do something about it. I am only referring to the fat people who complain about their weight but don't do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

How do you know which fat people haven't tried to lose weight or aren't trying to lose weight? Are you only talking about people you know and you've spoken with?

I complain about being fat sometimes. I'm not currently "doing anything about it" in terms of extra, stricter control of my calories and exercise. But I have done calorie/portion control in the past and I always struggle with losing weight. My mom put me on a pill to increase metabolism in high school and I lost 40 pounds but when I stopped taking it, I gained it all back. Losing weight is very very difficult, especially if you're actually "obese" or very overweight. Body chemistry is everything as well. I don't think its fair for slimmer people, who have never had to go out of their way to be slim and can generally eat what they want without gaining much weight, to comment on what I "should be doing." At certain points of my life, I eat way healthier than most slim people I know. My skinny roommates could tell you that. They eat like monsters and they're still thin.

I also complain about society's attitude toward "fat people," which I would do regardless of my weight, due to the fact that I have a functioning brain and I like to analyze our cultural trends in how we criticize and demean different people. It affects me personally, to an extent, but to be honest I haven't experienced direct teasing about my weight since middle school. Well, there was this one girl in college. My friends told me she was an asshole, and her psychologically damaged ass snapped on me after I corrected her on something she should know. She mentioned my weight and said she'd get a better personality after I lost weight. I was like, well you're going to be fucked up for a while then, crazy bitch. Oh and there was one really unattractive woman in my last internship who was kind of jealous of me and she commented that I didn't have the body type to be a stripper. I was like, okay... I can live with that.

[Asker]

Well I am talking about the people that can lose the fat easily and won't have trouble with it and those chicks are bitches

[Opinion Owner]

I really don't know any really fat people who can "lost fat easily." every single person I know who has gone from my size to a small size has had to fight their way there emotionally and physically. So I can't say I've ever met such a person, personally.

[Opinion Owner]

You can guarantee in life that if something is very easy, people find it very easy to do it. If its very difficult, the culture doesn't support it, the education on nutrition and health isn't well communicated, and body chemistry affects different people differently... it's by definition "not easy" to do it. I would have to eat an entirely different diet and exercise way more than my skinny roommates, who eat all kinds of takeout and rarely cook their own food and never exercise, to be their size. And I would never be that size most likely. Also, I've read some research that shows being very overweight kind of changes your body chemistry somehow and it makes it harder to keep weight off when you actually do reach a lower weight than people that weight who have never suffered from obesity. Educating yourself about things before judging people makes you look so much better. I wish the burden of knowing things wasn't just on those of us who aren't skinny.

[Anonymous]

They do try. It is like having an addiction. Try telling an alcoholic to walk into a bar and have one drink. The will be likely to relapse with that one drink. Unlike alcohol, food is something that you can't avoid. So they face their additional daily.

The unnatural food we have today wrecks having on people's bodies. Fortunately for some it doesn't effect everyone the same way. The food companies have invested a lot of money to convince people that fattening food is healthy. So there is also a lot of misinformation about diets and health.

[Klaatu51]

because some people cannot lose weight easily you know

[TeraKira]

Because complaining is easier than taking your damn head out of the feed trough!

[Anonymous]

What if they are just pointing out the obvious because it takes effort to change but they could not have the motivation to start.