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Why have the good people of the USA, UK and China been getting so fat? How can we stop this health crisis before it gets uncontrollably bad?

Anecdotes:

• I gained 20lbs in three weeks by eating fast food and not exercising.
• I lost thirty pounds and got a six pack after my Ex girlfriend fat shamed me.
• I lost all my cellulite after three days of fasting (eating no food).
• Exercising lets me snack more without weight gain.

I know that my efforts used to be fairly inconsistent when I was younger but I've been putting in a lot of time & effort to improve at the things I care about and I can proudly say that I've been putting in daily effort with exercise & art for over a year since the pandemic started (I've been working on many other things as well)

With that being said, the progression has been pretty slow and I find that a little demoralizing because of my age. I'm almost ready to start performing music live again now that things are starting to open up where I'm from but I still lack the ability to put on a compelling show solo (I have hard time singing & playing an instrument simultaneously) so lucky I'm working with another person and I can focus on just one or the other when it comes to live playing.

My fitness and health has improved, I lost a lot weight and toned up since the pandemic started. I've been getting some compliments from guys and girls I know but still haven't achieved my body goals and as well (embarrassingly enough to admit) I still struggle with getting dates even with my improved shape and current physique.

I could name other examples of areas of improvement but I'll stick with those - my point is that I'm putting in all this time & effort into these things & besides the little fulfillment I get from maintaining & accomplishing these tasks I'm still not truly succeeding or getting what I want.

So it's got me questioning my time & effort because my patience is being tested, I know I don't have forever but I can't improve fast enough, I still feel powerless as if what I'm chasing after is forever outreach and slipping away.

I don't know what else to do other than try harder but I keep coming up short.

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.