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(09-07-2015 01:24 AM)samsamsam Wrote:  

Some person commented on the fat chick's reply.

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Yeah, losing weight is more complex than just putting down the fork for a lot of people. There can emotional and psychological issues tied into that behavior which often need to be addressed before real progress can be made and maintained.

Now I have heard this before, and I actually agree if your are emotionally out of control, I think you do all sorts of shitty destructive things to yourself and others.

But why not seek treatment and help? Not treatment and help to accept being fat. There is plenty of that bullshit.

Seek treatment and help for the issues that drive a person to eat too much and not exercise?

I don't think #healthybody or #bodyacceptance is the right campaign if these people are truly trying to get healthy.

Shouldn't it be #healthymind #findsanity #don'tgiveup?

I do think people reach a point and they just say fuck it and they never recover from that. Well 99% don't. We need people to stop reaching that moment of saying fuck it and then diving into a million calorie carb binge.

Ironically, for a lot of these people, the treatment for their emotional/psychological issues would be diet and exercise. Actions follow feelings, but feelings also follow actions. Sometimes the motivation to workout is the result of simply getting under the bar and doing your reps, and not something that necessarily appears before. You have to will yourself sometimes, and then you get the motivation afterwards. It's like the movie Three Kings, where George Clooney's character says to the one guy " you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and then you get the courage to do it". The guy, confused, replies, "shouldn't it work the other way?" In a perfect world it should, but it doesn't always. It's a cycle that they simply need to break by doing something, anything, that is a step in the right direction.