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Fuel guzzling. The greater your girth, the more likely you are to hop in the car instead of walking or riding your bike. And the more you drive, the more gas you use, meaning more oil drilling and more carbon emissions. Obese people also have lower fuel efficiency because they tend to need bigger vehicles, plus their cars have to work harder to shuttle the extra weight. One recent studyfound that Americans are burning almost 1 billion more gallons of gas each year due to their expanded waistlines than they did in 1960. Not only that, but the fuel needs and carbon emissions of airplanesand other forms of public transportation are also on the rise as people pack on more pounds.

Studies show that people who watch more TV and pursue other sedentary pastimes like surfing the Web or playing video games tend to weigh more. Thus, it’s probably fair to assume that overweight people are at home more and using more electricity to power their electronic entertainment. They may also crank up the air conditioning a few notches higher in warm weather due to their extra body insulation. Of course, all that added padding could balance things out a bit in winter with lower thermostats.

Obviously eating too much and obesity go hand in hand. In fact, obese people consume about 20 percent more at mealtimes than leaner populations. All this additional food generates additional carbon emissions from agricultural operations and during transport, as well as the need for heaps of additional fertilizer, pesticides, farm land and water. Plus, obese people also tend to consume more packaged junk food, meaning higher mountains of Styrofoam, cardboard and plastic.

It is PC approved to say that appearance doesn't matter and OF COURSE we shouldn't "fat shame" anyone. That means that you aren't supposed to have any negative thoughts or feelings towards anyone just because they weigh as much as a baby elephant. That's a wonderfully exalted and elegant theory of the way things ought to be but it simply fails to account for the real world.

For real people, appearance is a big factor in physical attraction. I am attracted to some women and not others; I like petite, diminutive women who have a cute face. I am not attracted to significantly overweight women. You can send me to a PC re-education center and have me sit through sensitivity training classes until the cows come home

and I still won't be attracted to seriously overweight women. I have dated women who were 10-20 pounds overweight but that is the limit for me. I never told a girl that I did not want to date her because of her size, but I never dated a girl who I thought was abnormally large.

Fortunately, none of my partners in long term relationships ever gained any substantial weight while we were together. I'm not sure that I would have left them because of that. I probably would have talked to them, inquired about possible depression, medical conditions causing weight gain, offered to help them with dieting and exercise, etc. But I don't think I could stay in a relationship with a woman who was 5' 4" and 190 pounds.

Could you do it? Could you stay with a partner if they gained a significant amount of weight?

(SJW's: If you don't like what I said, I don't want to hear from you! Save you opinion for someone who actually cares about what you think.)