Why do fat people never take responsibility for being fat and blame genes/others?

[Repefe]

I think that learning about proper diet and exercise should be one of the main topics in high school. Not sure how many ppl realize it, but be it a plummer or software architect, being in good condition helps you tremendously to do your job well.

[Jazara]

If you wanted to feel better about yourself by blaming and bashing others that you consider even more miserably and faulty, Why don't you just watch some reality TV or something?

Hahaha when I'm feeling bad about my body I go on YouTube and watch a clip or two of Honey Booboo. Suddenly, I feel like a million bucks.

[Deleted]

Well i am fat, and i do not blame others for that, that is due to i do not work out a lot and l love food and candy.

BUT Mister duch bag on a stick, if you had ever EVER listen in biologi, you would know people due in fact have diffetent metabolism(THIS IS A WORD) yes i know, go wikipedia it, it is why some people do can eat pizza and drink cola all day, while others if they eat any of the sort will gian weith much faster. So if you had every listen in school you would know, That it is partily can be because of their genes. But i would agree on many, MANY fat people blame it to much on the genes, and have not had chess in their meals for 2 years.

I do not blame it on my genes, not in anyway, i know why i weigh what i do but matter of fact is you are ...(i am gonna stop it hear, i could go on, and PLEASE reply to this, would love to what you have to say to this, since you, most likely will not)

[Pull My Finger]

Hahaha when I'm feeling bad about my body I go on YouTube and watch a clip or two of Honey Booboo. Suddenly, I feel like a million bucks.

Oh, wow. I didn't know what that is and googled it. Seriously disturbed now. This totally ruins my day ...

[wxcopy]

Cheaper foods are higher in fat and calories....

Eating fat doesn't make you fat.

[Jazara]

Oh, wow. I didn't know what that is and googled it. Seriously disturbed now. This totally ruins my day ...

Hehe sorry. I don't watch the show but I've seen references to it so I checked it out on YouTube and it made me feel like my family is the most healthy, educated, and classy family around.

[Rickarus]

Sure 210 is a healthy weight, if you're 6'8" tall

I am 6'0 and 150, but I don't even look twiggy

I look a bit more built than this http://oi50.tinypic.com/2d8jtld.jpg

This is simply terrible misinformation. Most UFC fighters in the light heavyweight division (205lbs at weigh-ins, usually go into fights around 225 or higher) are around the 5'11 to 6'3 range, would you consider them at an unhealthy weight?

If someone is is broad bodied (broad as in side to side, not necessarily fat), they can be far heavier at a certain height than many other people, while actually having less fat on their body.

If you look at the BMI scale, practically EVERY pro athlete, be it football, basketball, baseball, hockey, MMA, boxing, etc, and many amateur (including olympic) athletes would be considered overweight or obese. Remember that muscle weighs more than fat.

[The Small Hours]

A young life with no girlfriends, barely any friends, anti-socialism, difficulty in every day tasks, low self confidence, the list could go on and on if I allocated the time.

You must be an emotional eater, society makes you feel depressed because of they way you look so you eat more as a way of dealing with depression. In a way others are making you look the way you feel?

[Letmesleep]

What a silly original post. "Never" and "always" are words children use to describe how they see the world. You can't go around making blanket statements like that because tons of people take responsibility for their obesity. Do some make excuses? Sure. I personally know more people who just admit to being lazy and lacking in will power though.

In my early college years, I was obese myself. I got sick to death of being fat, so I did something about it. I didn't blame anyone else, I just bucked up stopped eating crap. First I dieted, then I started exercising. It took awhile to get back in shape, but now I bench my body weight. The point is plenty of people don't play the blame game. Some decide to lose the weight, and some simply recognize that being overweight is their fault. You can be overweight and still recognize it's because of your own choices. It's not either in shape and taking responsibility, or obese and in denial.

Sometimes it "is" because of a thyroid problem, birth control or other medications for weight gain. However I agree, most people just blame everyone else than themselves for how much they weigh. Either curb how much you eat, or get out and move (or both)!

A thyroid problem is one of the easiest things to fix. It's literally just a blood test and taking a small pill. It's not really a valid excuse for obesity. However, some psych medications do indeed cause significant weight gain in some people. I was on one when I was a kid where I gained 80 pounds. I had been skin and bones for most of my childhood, but all the sudden I just became a blimp. Since then I will only take weight-neutral medication. Not everyone has that luxury if the other benefits from the medication are too important to go without.

[Flaks]

I dunno. I eat about the same thing for dinner as she does, but the stairs on my campus keep my weight pretty consistent.

It's lack of exercise in conjunction with bad eating that lead to fatso-dom.

This. I'd maintained a pretty shitty diet and a pretty consistent weight for a while. Then I stopped doing any exercise outside of a few sets of push ups and sit ups a day with zero cardio. Now I'm a fatass. And I know it's cause I don't get off my lazy ass.

[Keltas]

I weigh 220 and it's my own damn fault.

If I hadn't wasted tons of money eating junkfood and actually exercised, I wouldn't be having to do it now :l

[Deleted]

Same time when anorexic /bulimic people stop wasting medical resources by being rushed into hospital because they refused to eat properly and having excuses mad for them, "oooh they cant help it, they see themselves fat, blah, blah blah" Eating disorders come in all sizes (pun intended). that "fat person" who eats so much may suffer from Prader-Willi Syndrome where they never feel full, or that they comfort eat due to other factors.

Either look at everyone with eating disorders the same way as a whole, or stop being discriminative to one section of the group simply because you don't like the looks of them.

[Alvito]

Why do ppl use blanket statements trying to explain the actions of random ppl as one mind?

[The Small Hours]

I heard on my radio the other day that they were planning on banning "junk food" and soft drinks in the UK? Is this true? Does anyone that stays there know? This would be great in terms of fighting obesity. The most practical solutions are removing the substances being abused.

[Alvito]

Eating fat doesn't make you fat.

More often then not it certainly doesn't help.

[Simca]

I agree that the "I'm fat because of X" excuse is used far too often (specifically "bad genes", which is a really bad way to put it).

While being overweight has tons of possible causes all working together in sometimes mysterious ways, in most cases none of those causes outweigh the actual actions of the individual.

In fact, the people who do have legitimate reasons and deserve the sympathy are shrugged off because most people will think they're just making an excuse.

[Gandrake]

I think a better question is why do you care so much to make it someone's fault?

I mean, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure fat people are already treated like they are abominations. You're pretty deluded if you think that they actually need to be brought down a notch to put them in their place. That's like beating a dead horse.

You get that far down the line, and you've been that way long enough, you don't really care whose fault it is. Maybe you should have everything you know about fitness wiped from your mind and see what it's like to be a fatass for 10 years. You'd probably think someone was full of shit if they told you that you could drastically change the shape of your body in the course of a year or two by changing your diet towards more wholesome foods or taking a pill.

Honestly though, with some of these people who get to the point that they do, I really don't think that they can be completely responsible for what's happened to them. They are responsible for what they shoved down their throat, but I don't think that I can say that they are fully responsible for what drove them to do it in good conscience.

I'm willing to assume that most fat people are fat, because eating is one of the very few things in life that they can enjoy without being bullied, and they don't do anything about their problem even though they wish they could, because they don't know how to do anything about it.

I mean, just because you're fat, it doesn't mean that you watch oprah and weight watchers. You don't get a flyer in the mail explaining the science behind weight loss.

[schwarzkopf]

In fact, the people who do have legitimate reasons and deserve the sympathy are shrugged off because most people will think they're just making an excuse.

I'd much prefer some practical assistance, rather than an infinite supply of sympathy.

[rayvio]

there are genuine reasons a person can have little to no control over their weight, some biological and some psychological. unfortunately their existence also makes it easy for people to assume or to pretend that they suffer from those conditions whether or not they've been diagnosed with them
few, if any people consciously chose to become overweight, and most who try to lose it struggle a great deal so some, rather than maintain the struggle, find it easier to assume difficult means impossible and that it must be out of their control. others don't care too much and just place the blame on a convenient and difficult to disprove (without medical/psychological testing) excuse

personally I'm somewhat overweight and struggle to lose weight, partly because it's hardly the easiest thing in the world to begin with and also because the anti-depressants I'm on for anxiety, depression and PTSD have the rather unfortunate side effect of weight gain but refraining from taking them isn't an option. I still take responsibility for my weight though and do what I can to control it, but I can understand how some would give up

[Tradewind]

Why do these threads always start with a gargantuan ad hominem?

"My fat friend is a fat slag and eats everything, therefore all fat people are like them."