Are You Aware of Your ‘Thin Privilege?’

[Origanalist]

Aw, shucks. Now I have to wait for the wizards of smart in Big Science to help me find a better made-up disorder.

Be proactive HB, do some lobbying.

 

[Origanalist]

If you don't mind a few dicks, we can hook you up.

Somebody rep this guy.

 

[eduardo89]

I would hate to be fat.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

What amazes me is the establishment pushes a healthy look to look like a bulimic crack whore.

Thanks for ruining sleep for me... as well as the next couple week's worth of meals. I'll probably lose weight as a result of viewing that unsightly image. Must find something to burn it out of my brain...

 

[James Madison]

Thanks for ruining sleep for me... as well as the next couple week's worth of meals. I'll probably lose weight as a result of viewing that unsightly image. Must find something to burn it out of my brain...

Danke can help with that.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I see myself as a multi-billionaire. I'll just drop into the local bank and demand a million dollar loan.

Million? Loan? AHAHAHAHA!

 

[I<3Liberty]

I don’t feel privileged, I feel sad over the fact that myself and every other healthy-weight American is now part of the minority. I have a BMI of exactly 18.5 and WHR of .7 because I actually eat right and exercise. It’s not rocket science or something only a few elite "thin privileged" people can do.

What drives me nuts is when people that slam healthy weight people to make overweight and obese people feel better (like the in the Tumblr page the author linked in the article) and this idea that the thin are privileged and sources of intimidation. Someone on FB said that this model’s legs http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc777gtzYi1r0hkv5o1_250.jpg were too thin and went on this rant about why Chanel shouldn’t use thin models because it could leave body image and eating issues for overweight women. OMG #StupidityOverload I seriously cannot go more than like 2 minutes on FB without face palming.

Another person I know that's always posting body image quotes and fat acceptance stuff on FB is 350 pounds because she eats a ridiculous amount of food, a disgusting amount of alcohol, and never exercises. Oh and, she’s an extreme lefty and believes the government should pay for all of her healthcare.

 

[oyarde]

I am aware of this privilege. I also have handsome, charming, and brilliant privilege.

I just have to rely on my charm . I know of no real privilege for not being fat ..... you are maybe more likely to live longer and thus pay more taxes , you are probably less likely to get front row parking , and , maybe you are less likely to see normal , healthy woman as attractive ...

 

[oyarde]

They way I have eaten and drank , I probably should have been obese , but I was probably over 40 before I was ever 10 lbs overweight . Probably a lifetime of hard work is all that saved me , LOL

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Someone on FB said that this model’s legs http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc777gtzYi1r0hkv5o1_250.jpg were too thin

Yeah, I can see what they mean. That woman is absolutely hideous. When I first clicked on that, I thought it was a picture of an ostrich.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Thanks for ruining sleep for me... as well as the next couple week's worth of meals. I'll probably lose weight as a result of viewing that unsightly image. Must find something to burn it out of my brain...

Look at the bright side-it will help you with the Lenten fast. :o

 

[GunnyFreedom]

What amazes me is the establishment pushes a healthy look to look like a bulimic crack whore.

That's disgusting

 

[Origanalist]

Million? Loan? AHAHAHAHA!

What? After all, I'm a billionaire. I'm good for it.

 

[oyarde]

What? After all, I'm a billionaire. I'm good for it.

That is too much for me , I would have to hire someone to look after it , I would be too busy hunting and fishing . I only need about three million . I would find someplace to put it to get at least 3 percent off of it ea yr , just live on that and leave the rest alone .

 

[helmuth_hubener]

For the most part there's nothing stopping people from becoming thin other than discipline and hard work.

Mountains of weight-loss research says otherwise.

Does Oprah Winfry lack "discipline"? Is she unfamiliar with "hard work"?

Dieting is not an effective application of willpower. The body rebels. The weight will be gained back, plus more. It will be harder to lose next time. This is survival. The body does not appreciate being starved via "discipline".

The lesson that comes out of decades and decades of research on dieting and weight-loss:

Never go on a diet.

Do not attempt to apply willpower and discipline to the problem of being overweight. Do not count calories. Do not ever make any attempt to eat less than your body desires. It will not work. It will back-fire.

Changing the type of food you eat, on the other hand, can work. Just don't restrict your calories. Don't make yourself feel hungry for extended periods of time (weeks and months on end; occasional fasting is fine). The body seeks homeostasis. It doesn't really want to be fat. But neither does it want to die from starvation. Eat as much as you want, just eat the right kind of nourishing food you were designed for.

In summary:

Fat people aren't fat from lack of discipline.

Using discipline to lose weight, in fact, does not work at all.

Fat people are fat because the body's mechanisms seeking a happy equilibrium are being short-circuited somehow.

Allow those mechanisms to work by eating a more normal human diet, and the body will eliminate its excess fat stores.

 

[Blueskies]

I don't get your point, Hubener.

Eating the right foods and cutting out the junk will inevitably result in fewer calories consumed and therefore weight loss.

Eating 3,000, 4,000 or more calories per day is pretty easy when your diet consists of potato chips, cheesecake, fast food, ice cream, etc.

But it's virtually impossible to eat 3,000 calories when you restrict yourself to wholesome foods. A 3oz chicken breast, for example, has about 130 calories. A McDonald's Big Mac meal with fries and a large soda has over 1,000. Just about anyone can scoff down that McDonald's meal, very few people can eat 8 chicken breasts and a glass of water.

 

[acptulsa]

I don't get your point, Hubener.

Eating the right foods and cutting out the junk will inevitably result in fewer calories consumed and therefore weight loss.

Eating 3,000, 4,000 or more calories per day is pretty easy when your diet consists of potato chips, cheesecake, fast food, ice cream, etc.

But it's virtually impossible to eat 3,000 calories when you restrict yourself to wholesome foods. A 3oz chicken breast, for example, has about 130 calories. A McDonald's Big Mac meal with fries and a large soda has over 1,000. Just about anyone can scoff down that McDonald's meal, very few people can eat 8 chicken breasts and a glass of water.

His point is that what you're saying works. Fasting does not.

Is this another case of liberal problem-->reaction-->solution? Because last I checked, it was liberals who were harping on fat people for driving up health care costs and making their dream of socialized medicine more difficult to pull off. Now that they've marginalized the overweight, they're setting themselves up as the protectors.

What's wrong with this picture?

 

[donnay]

Mountains of weight-loss research says otherwise.

Does Oprah Winfry lack "discipline"? Is she unfamiliar with "hard work"?

Dieting is not an effective application of willpower. The body rebels. The weight will be gained back, plus more. It will be harder to lose next time. This is survival. The body does not appreciate being starved via "discipline".

The lesson that comes out of decades and decades of research on dieting and weight-loss:

Never go on a diet.

Do not attempt to apply willpower and discipline to the problem of being overweight. Do not count calories. Do not ever make any attempt to eat less than your body desires. It will not work. It will back-fire.

Changing the type of food you eat, on the other hand, can work. Just don't restrict your calories. Don't make yourself feel hungry for extended periods of time (weeks and months on end; occasional fasting is fine). The body seeks homeostasis. It doesn't really want to be fat. But neither does it want to die from starvation. Eat as much as you want, just eat the right kind of nourishing food you were designed for.

In summary:

Fat people aren't fat from lack of discipline.

Using discipline to lose weight, in fact, does not work at all.

Fat people are fat because the body's mechanisms seeking a happy equilibrium are being short-circuited somehow.

Allow those mechanisms to work by eating a more normal human diet, and the body will eliminate its excess fat stores.

I agree with most of what you wrote, but I will go further to say overweight people are overweight due to lack of knowledge of nutrition. Fast food and processed food is bad, but you have to know why it is bad for your health. Certain medications will make people pack on weight too--but you have to know why.

People do not need to go on a diet per se, they need a life-style change.

 

[acptulsa]

I agree with most of what you wrote, but I will go further to say overweight people are overweight due to lack of knowledge of nutrition. Fast food and processed food is bad, but you have to know why it is bad for your health. Certain medications will make people pack on weight too--but you have to know why.

People do not need to go on a diet per se, they need a life-style change.

There are also such things as 'compulsive eaters'--people for whom hunger is irrelevant to whether they are eating right now, but are as likely to be eating because they're nervous, or stressed, or bored. Making these people more neurotic over food--be it through calorie counting, or food groups, or whatever--is counter productive. The lifestyle change they need is a complete change of habit. They need a new outlet.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I don't get your point, Hubener.

Eating the right foods and cutting out the junk will inevitably result in fewer calories consumed and therefore weight loss.

Eating 3,000, 4,000 or more calories per day is pretty easy when your diet consists of potato chips, cheesecake, fast food, ice cream, etc.

But it's virtually impossible to eat 3,000 calories when you restrict yourself to wholesome foods. A 3oz chicken breast, for example, has about 130 calories. A McDonald's Big Mac meal with fries and a large soda has over 1,000. Just about anyone can scoff down that McDonald's meal, very few people can eat 8 chicken breasts and a glass of water.

There is a very wide variety of opinions on what constitutes "wholesome." Most of those opinions appear to be wrong, based on the complete and utter failure of dieting. The research is clear.

If you focus on "number of calories in" and try to reduce that number through willpower, or (even worse) if you focus on "number of calories out" and try to to increase that number while keeping the calorie intake the same, via willpower, all the data shows that you will certainly completely fail.