I've finally witnessed the consequences of being obese So the other day my fraternity participated in our university's fall cleanup, which is a volunteer service that goes to elderly people's homes, a spot in the community, or someone who can't clean themselves, and cleans their yard for them or the area. About 1/4th of us each split up into different groups to go to seperate spots. Once our group contacted the house owner and said that we'll be there at xyz time, we started to head over. Except this lady kept calling us every 5 minutes to ask where we were and to hurry up. When we finally got there, it all made sense: she was massively obese. She wasnt even that old, probably in her mid to late 50s. She was so big that she literally looked like a pumpkin. Her yard was a mess, so we got started raking all the leaves. Meanwhile, this lady starts barking orders at us while we were getting everything done. Sitting down of course, because she couldnt stand for more than 15 seconds. We all thought we were going to just get rid of leaves, but no. It basically turns out to be a full fledged landscaping job. Cut this, cut that, cut that exactly 1 inch from the ground, etc. She sat there and oversaw us like we were slaves in a cotton field. Then she has us cut down the trees in the backyard. At this point were all getting irritated because we've done more work than expected and just want to leave. According to her, we later found out that she had stage 4 cancer. I don't doubt that she got cancer from her obesity. You could just see how miserable she was. Her body couldn't withstand doing basic things, like standing or walking. She couldn't even load some of the tools we used back into her car, or walk up the porch steps and into her house ffs. She's probably not going to live much longer. This made me realize that obese people only create less work for themselves, and more work for others. I don't understand why they don't just fucking lose weight. The work you put in the gym is nothing compared to dealing with cancer. But hey, HAES.