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Hello, I'm 20 and I have a full time job. At my workplace, I really hate it for many reasons. 1. My boss is a bitch. She downgrades people in the office, tells people they're going to amount to nothing, calls people fat, sometimes tells people, and has no respect for others. for example, she told me I was fat and I was wasting time at the gym. To put it in perspective, she weighs more than me and is shorter than me. I've caught eating fast food multiple times and she said I tried to lose weight but kept quitting. She also denied me a promotion at work based on her insecurities that she had. She demands respect from all of us because we're not in a authoritative position and one time someone did talk back and they ended up receiving more work and came in at a late time stayed later than all of us. She has been blaming us for all of the problems at work because we're not achieving standards that we have. It's mostly because she focuses on one thing that has nothing to do with the standards and also attached an unrealistic goal with it as well. She usually makes us stay late we have to work from 6:30am to 6pm. We used to leave at 4:30pm but changed once she came in. A lot of people have already quit the job for these reasons. I have felt very burnt out from this job and I barely have any free time and I do part time college as well and I only get paid 30k a year.

Yes, I get that some people will say "they should've never gotten fat to begin with" or that "normal weight people don't get praise for not getting fat" and all that jazz. The thing is, it's EXTREMELY F*CKIN HARD TO LOSE WEIGHT.

Despite what some armchair nutritionists may think, it's not just simple math of starving yourself at a caloric defecit and eating next to nothing for a month or more until the pounds shed off. Actual experts will tell you starving yourself doesn't work, and that weight gain isn't as simple as gluttony. There's a ton of factors that contribute to weight gain, with one of the biggest ones being mental and stress. This may be an assumption on my end, but most overweight people don't seem very happy. (I sure wasn't, my entire life.) Stress is a heavy contributor to weight gain, even if you avoid fast food and have a pretty vanilla plain diet.

So while I'm not saying it's "heroic" to lose weight, I don't see what the point is on sh*tting on people trying to turn their life around. Same with people coming off drug addiction, or other problems in life. If people are going to be assholes to them regardless, why even bother to improve themselves along the way?

So I ask, do people who lose a lot of weight or otherwise improve their bodies deserve kudos and respect for turning their life around?

This one is going to be controversial, I'm sure.