[Rant] Countering some common fat lies -"I can't lose weight no matter what I eat!  I have bad genetics/medical conditions!" Your weight is your responsibility.  It comes from the choices you make on a daily basis, regardless of any special conditions you may or may not have which many fat people are using as an excuse.  Whatever conditions you have, you are not exempt from calories in vs calories out.  You cannot gain weight without eating and drinking more food than you need to.  It is impossible.  Likewise, you cannot maintain all that extra fat without eating more calories than a person of your height and weight needs.  That means you have no excuse to be eating 4000 calories a day while you sit around and do nothing.  Whatever your genetics are and whatever conditions you have, you still have no excuse for being a fat fucking hippo.  EAT LESS FOOD. -"Why do you care?  My weight doesn't affect you!" Your weight doesn't just affect you.  It affects others.  Here is a list of ways your weight affects other people: Your smell? The extra cost of gas to your friends and family when you hitch a ride? The overall higher ticket prices on planes and trains everyone has to pay? People being suffocated by your rolls of fat spilling over into neighboring seats? The extra wait times for medical treatment caused by your fat related issue visits? The additional environmental impact of all the extra shit you consume? The injuries people (especially nurses) get when trying to handle your gargantuan ass? The financial cost to your family from all the extra food, medication, and treatment you need? The shame and embarrassment people feel from being associated with you? Your decreased ability to be productive in many jobs? The impact caused by your premature death? The extra difficulty in moving your lifeless body? The insane fire danger involved in cremating your blubbery corpse? I made that list in response to another poster who brought up the subject.  With all the societal damage that the obesity epidemic is doing, what with the obese fucks who can't perform their various jobs (especially military and police) well, and the over half a trillion dollar estimated annual cost of obesity in the U.S., and the damage to the generation of children being raised overweight and who are supposed to be the future of the country, obesity is slowly weakening the country. -"You don't care about my health!  You're just fatphobic!" What is fatphobia?  A phobia is a fear.  I don't know a single person who is afraid of fat people.  We are disgusted by fatness because most sane individuals recognize that it is not advantageous to be fat.  It is dangerous to be fat in survival situations, and it has many real health consequences.  Disgust is not fear. If you're fat, then I personally do not care about your health as it pertains to your own life.  However, I do care as far as it affects the people around you, including myself.  See above. -"Just because I'm fat doesn't mean I am unhealthy!" You're missing the point.  A smoker can be healthy too, but their smoking puts them at a much greater risk for all kinds of associated illnesses.  Likewise, so does being fat.  Incidentally, being obese is actually worse for your health than smoking is. -"I can be fat and beautiful at the same time!" No you can't.  Sexual attractiveness is biologically driven.  Fat destroys common markers for sexual attraction.  This includes youth in women masculinity in men.  From an evolutionary standpoint, fat itself is naturally selected against for attractiveness because it negatively affects female fertility and it produces excess estrogen in men as well as making them more susceptible to predation and less able to defend their self, their children, and their mate from attacks from their rivals.  This means that selection pressure would typically have been against those who chose fat mates. In short, the vast majority of people will find you unattractive.  You are not beautiful.  You are ugly.