<story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkbarkar</author><text>Id say its not the lack of empathy that you feel, but maybe the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity that is met with hostility.&lt;p&gt;We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;We gain nothing from villanizing people that suffer from it either.&lt;p&gt;I personally have never suffered obesity but as the years go on, my body seems to want to put a ludicrous amount of fat in places it never used to.  
I maintain muscle mass by regular resistance training mixed with cardio and HIIT and that helps a lot with the otherwize natural loss of muscle over 40.   Personally this is where excercise definetly helps me.&lt;p&gt;Also now at 50, I dont have insulin resistance or high blood pressure as many of my fellow 50 year olds are falling prey to.&lt;p&gt;Even the healthy weight 50 year olds around me are starting blood pressure medication.  
This is where I beleive the excercise regime I follow has worked wonders.  
Not so much for weight loss as many seem to think.&lt;p&gt;It gets harder every year though to maintain physique and low body fat.&lt;p&gt;Excercise has tremendous benefits for your health and looks but for great weight loss is a matter of nutrition and what particular combo suits your body, economy and culture.</text></item><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Thank you for sharing. I often have the feeling that something that, to me, seems like a complex of issues around emotional regulation, impulse control, sensation seeking, etc is seen by most people as something much simpler.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s simple math, calories consumed versus calories burned&amp;quot;, and the solutions are correspondingly simplistic. Eat less, work out more, or both.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&amp;#x27;s like saying that poverty can be solved by people either working more or spending less. Well, perhaps, but it&amp;#x27;s not the core of the issue.&lt;p&gt;The widespread lack of empathy for people in the high BMI ranges freaks me out. The absolute majority of people WANTS to be healthy, happy and safe.&lt;p&gt;This post really did a great job breaking through the stigma and humanizing this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>&amp;gt; the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity&lt;p&gt;Now, different cultures I&amp;#x27;m sure, but do you really experience &amp;quot;fat acceptance&amp;quot; proselytizing in real life, as opposed to in news articles linking to some bizarre part of Tumblr and its terminally online relatives?</text></comment>
<story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xkbarkar</author><text>Id say its not the lack of empathy that you feel, but maybe the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity that is met with hostility.&lt;p&gt;We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;We gain nothing from villanizing people that suffer from it either.&lt;p&gt;I personally have never suffered obesity but as the years go on, my body seems to want to put a ludicrous amount of fat in places it never used to.  
I maintain muscle mass by regular resistance training mixed with cardio and HIIT and that helps a lot with the otherwize natural loss of muscle over 40.   Personally this is where excercise definetly helps me.&lt;p&gt;Also now at 50, I dont have insulin resistance or high blood pressure as many of my fellow 50 year olds are falling prey to.&lt;p&gt;Even the healthy weight 50 year olds around me are starting blood pressure medication.  
This is where I beleive the excercise regime I follow has worked wonders.  
Not so much for weight loss as many seem to think.&lt;p&gt;It gets harder every year though to maintain physique and low body fat.&lt;p&gt;Excercise has tremendous benefits for your health and looks but for great weight loss is a matter of nutrition and what particular combo suits your body, economy and culture.</text></item><item><author>andrelaszlo</author><text>Thank you for sharing. I often have the feeling that something that, to me, seems like a complex of issues around emotional regulation, impulse control, sensation seeking, etc is seen by most people as something much simpler.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s simple math, calories consumed versus calories burned&amp;quot;, and the solutions are correspondingly simplistic. Eat less, work out more, or both.&lt;p&gt;To me, it&amp;#x27;s like saying that poverty can be solved by people either working more or spending less. Well, perhaps, but it&amp;#x27;s not the core of the issue.&lt;p&gt;The widespread lack of empathy for people in the high BMI ranges freaks me out. The absolute majority of people WANTS to be healthy, happy and safe.&lt;p&gt;This post really did a great job breaking through the stigma and humanizing this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>&amp;gt; We should not celebrate morbid obesity as normal and beautiful.&lt;p&gt;I would swap out the &amp;#x27;beautiful&amp;#x27; for &amp;#x27;healthy&amp;#x27;. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all.</text></comment>