As someone who will soon have a BA in exercise Science I will put in my two cents. Ok first of all, yes being obese is extremely unhealthy. It Drastically increases your risks across the board on countless avoidable diseases. It also causes other degenerative chronic issues, meaning back problems, wearing of the knee's, and just overall joint break down. Many lately in the media and pop culture have tried to purport that obesity is genetic. Well it is not, you can be genetically predisposed to store more fat that others. However, your eating habits, activity, and overall lifestyle is still what decides if you are obese. You cannot be at a maintained 2k calories a day and gain weight, it is impossible. to explain how weight gain occurs I will break it down very simple for everyone. Lets say you are eating 3k calories a day, and you are 20lbs over weight. Now let's also say you have eaten this 3k calories a day for 2 years so no matter what you will not gain or lose weight at this time. You will remain at 20lbs over weight. Now let's say your drink of choice is a coke with every meal and you eat 3 times a day. That is 140 calories X 3 = 420 calories. Now if we were to replace that coke in one meal a day for a year lets figure out how much weight you would lose. To do this I need to explain what a lb of weight is equal to in calories. 3500 calories= 1 lb Ok lets move on. Ok you have removed one coke from your diet for 6 months that is 140 calories a day gone for 180 days. Lets see how much weight you may have lost. 140 calories X 180= ok that is 25,200 calories. Ok lets divide the 25,200 by 3500 calories which if you recall equals 1lb. We get 7.2, that is 7lbs lost by removing a single coke from your diet for 6 months. What if this theoretical person removed all three cokes and only drank water? 420 cals a day, 75,600 calories in 6 months, or 21.6 lbs. This person is no longer over weight by simply making a better beverage choice in only 6 months. If anyone has a question feel free to PM me or ask on here.

The more I hear from people like you, the more this comic makes sense.

Oh hey look! An insensitive piece of shit!

genetics

I think you could have something a lot less immature and rude. For all you know you could have just sent someone over the edge and commuted suicide. No one should ever strive to be skinny, but to be healthy. Please try to be respectful before you say some thing that could kill someone, and make you a killer

I do not approve of the way you live your life so I'm gonna make it hell until you conform to my worldview. Because my worldview is obviously the best because I am objectively right. Not always but DEFINITELY IN THIS INSTANCE.

She ain't a lady unless she's 280 [spoiler]more cushion for the pushin[/spoiler]

In America, you can draw disability for being over...what was it...300 pounds? 400 pounds? Somewhere in between. You can even draw disability for being an alcoholic!

[url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url]

This is stupid and every argument here is one-sided, leaving a mile-wide gap for someone to come in and say OHNOYOUDIDNT -Being overweight is not necessarily a bad thing. There are people that are quite comfortable with being overweight and they are respectful to themselves and respectful to others and demand at least some respect in turn. Sure, they realize that they could be a bit slimmer but they shouldn't hate themselves over it. -Then you have overweight people who believe their big body is perfect and ain't nobody ought to disagree with them. Even slightly hint in any way that they're big and they go all out HELLNOWHATYOUSAYBOUTMAHWEIGHTYOUDIDNTJUSSAYTHATBOUTMAHMYBODYISPERFECT these are the kind of ignorant people who I believe give obesity a bad name. These are the people that I believe insults are intended for, but those insults just come off as so generalized that they target ALL overweight people. But hell even then these ignorant people shouldn't be insulted to begin with because that's just provoking a fight. just ignore them please.

Fat female complains about how males care about looks more then personality, how males are shallow. Meanwhile............. Fat male attempts to get a girlfriend, fat male is shamed by attractive females about how being fat is gross, unhealthy, Attractive females see fat female complain about men being shallow Attractive female sides with fat female (PHOGOTH) and bash males about how shallow they are. First impressions are important. The very first thing you see when you meet someone new is their appearance. Fat,large,heavy, overweight is an indicator of a unhealthy lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits, lack of exercise and for some and very unfortunately a medical condition that hinders them from loosing weight. If You see two females, Female 1... Fit, works out/ runs... Has a toned body, round ass, perky boobs that are circular Female 2. Fat, eats junk food all day, does not exercise the slightest, soggy and flappy ass, saggy boobs, multiple chins, Don't forget they have the same traits. Very positive minded, caring, compassionate, helpful, understanding, not a pushover, yet not stubborn, they are loyal, empathetic, very sexual, What female would you choose? If you choose female 1 then you are shallow... Why? Because that entitled fat female( not female 2, talking about real life fat female) said so. She is too lazy to change her life and feels that she just deserves Mr Chad Mc Thunder Cock. Btw to all females, we see why most of you wont date an fat guy, so start seeing eye to eye with us why most of us won't date a fat girl. Annoyed by any of my spallling errs. Get over it.

Ehem, shut up and tolerate people. Haters gonna hate But I don't care anyway So just leave it there And click away To another thread While I feel no regret For what I say [spoiler]I'm really bored :-:[/spoiler]

Question for OP, do you feel this way with people who are just "chubby" not too overweight or anything just a little chubby.