The paradox of "evil diets" combined with "addiction" arguments So I was thinking.... Fats have two super common arguments about why being fat and losing weight is hard. One: diets are an evil part of an oppressive industry that says you should not eat delicious foods and only eat boring rabbit food. No more cake, substitute it for salad. Two: food addiction is soooo hard because you need food to live and can therefore never quit. There's no escaping food the way you can escape drugs. I often hear these two complaints back-to-back but if you think about it, combining the two issues creates its own solution. Fat people often eat a lot of takeout, fast food, instant or frozen meals, etc. It's fast, cheap, effortless, and terrible for you. They say they have no choice because they're poor or busy, but any shitizen with two jobs or a kid or long commute or low income know that those are excuses. So, fast food is their drug. They're addiction is to quick easy shitty food. Just as an alcoholic ends their addiction by drinking non alcoholic drinks instead of alcohol, or a meth addict visits a pharmacy each day for an ever-decreasing disease of methadone koolaid instead of doing straight meth, a fatty can simply eat "rabbit food" instead of junk food. The "oppressive diet culture" is to fatties what "coffee/water/soda/juice" is to an alcoholic. It's the alternative to their addiction, it's the solution. Addicted to junk food? Eat a carrot. No fatty I know is equally as addicted to carrots as they are to cake. Just as there are different kinds of drinks (alcoholic vs nonalcoholic) so too are there different kinds of foods (junk vs healthy.) Yes it's hard wah wah wah. But you guys see my point; fatties complaining about food addiction and diet culture at the same time is the equivalent of a meth head desperately wanting to quit meth but then yelling angrily at their local pharmacist for supplying methadone koolaid as an alternative to their addiction which they want to end in the first place. For any fatties reading this who still don't get it: you're screaming at us to give you the answer to 2+2 but also screaming that 4 is an oppressive number. Make up your fucking minds. Just goes to show that fatties will use anything as an excuse, and it's only ever an excuse.