Ashfordian wrote:Clariman wrote:You ask a fair question and make a fair point. My answer is that if it were easy to change habits of a lifetime and make a permanent change to one's weight, then there would be no obesity. It is really hard.
Who is doing that? I alone am responsible for my weight. I think some of the issues I have with food and eating have carried over from when I was a child, but I am an adult now, so the responsibility is mine. I have never "ignored it", not least since Covid. However, making a significant impact on it in the short term is impossible, making a temporary difference in the medium term is do-able, making a permanent difference in the long term (which is what is needed) is incredibly difficult - and being judged by others doesn't make it any easier.
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This board would judge someone who isn't vaccinated.
This board would judge someone if they had Covid and left their home for work or social reasons.
This board would have judged someone who didn't wear a mask in 2020/21 (those on the extreme end still judge those not wearing a masks today!)
This means that the millions of selfish/feckless/lazy people who are obese or overweight will also be judged because of the extreme measures that were introduced to lower their risk of catching Covid, when they have not made any long term changes to their lifestyle(s) to decrease their risk when they catch Covid.
Someone has reported your post - not me - and probably quite rightly. If another Mod sees fit to delete it as a personal attack then I have no problem with that decision. I am equally happy with it being left in place, because it says more about the author of the comment than it says about the decent people who live a life-long struggle with their weight. Equating "overweight/obese" with being "lazy, selfish or feckless" is in itself a "lazy" and often repeated trope that isn't helpful to anyone.
Why should others be expected to restrict their lifestyles going forward when a certain cohort of society don't make their own sacrifices?
Have I asked you to restrict or change your lifestyle? No. How ironic, then, that you are demanding that I and millions of others change ours. As I said, I think this all says more about the author than the important issues at the heart of it.
Best wishes
Clariman
Moderator Message:
I have seen the report (prior to seeing this post) and i have deleted the original post as well as a couple of posts responding to it.
I will leave this post as I think it makes a good point.
However, further discussion of the deleted post will be off-topic in my view and likely to be deleted. (chas49)