Being fat is something to be ashamed of.

Dude no one is putting the blame elsewhere. The problem is these bullshit assumptions that you’re making about people based on their weight. There are so many skinny people out there who eat absolute garbage and they don’t get harassed and criticized the way fat people do. Stop hating fat people and give it a rest

And just to let you know who you’re taking to: Im a person who’s overcoming an addiction with food. I work out regularly, eat and cook for myself and sometimes I have days where I can’t control myself and I eat shit. The next day I wake up, function through the crushing guilt, and go to the gym and keep it pushing. That’s not laziness to me, that’s fucking perseverance.

I’m fat because I’ve always been fat. I was born overweight to a skinny mother, and always overate ever since I was a baby. My mother fed me milk until I shut up, and I was a fat and round baby until I grew up. When I was a child, I was neglected by my single and still skinny mother and was left home alone with a house full of unhealthy food because that’s what was quick and easy for me to eat. Its what didn’t require much time or effort. My skinny mother cooked what she knew: fried pork chops, rice and beans and I always ate that shit until my stomach hurt and I never thought anything of it or that I was harming myself. I wasn’t allowed to play sports in high school because my single skinny mother needed a babysitter for my little brother and since I was a girl, I didn’t need sports anyway. So throughout high school, I did what I knew and I stood home, ate, made sure my brother was cared for and watched television.

It took me until I was 20 years old, eating out every day during college when I working two jobs, to realize this was something that I couldn’t control before but now I can.. by then I was already in the deep end. Now that I’ve had e-fucking-nough and hate myself because of what people like you have to say about people like me, I’ve come to realize that I WAS a victim, but I don’t have to be a victim anymore and that’s what you’re not understanding.

People can go their entire lives eating a certain way and feeling the way that they do after they eat and not even thinking about the harm that they’ve caused until it’s too late. Until people are looking at them funny and calling them lazy for living a life that they’ve known forever. A life they never really thought twice about because all they know is to keep moving forward. When I was a kid I wasn’t like “oh I shouldn’t eat that kid cuisine because it’s not healthy” I was like “omfg I should eat two of them because they’re so good and wtf else am I gonna do”... I was home alone. when I was a teenager in highschool I wasn’t like “oh shit maybe I should get a bacon egg and cheese with an iced coffee in the morning cause it’s unhealthy” I was like “well I need to eat something because I don’t have time to make/eat breakfast”... when I was a young adult in college I wasn’t like “oh maybe I shouldn’t go to that restaurant because their food is oily” I was thinking “okay I need to eat now because I only have an hour to kill before my next class”.. I certainly wasn’t cooking for myself and I certainly wasn’t thinking about my nutrition because I wasn’t taught to think about those things, that shit is on the back burner. That’s what I mean to say when I say no one chooses to be fat. Now you can read what I said and be like “oh you made the choice to eat bad food” or you can remember what it was like growing up, eating whatever was available in your pantry and understand what I mean. I’m not going to continue arguing about this shit because I don’t have time to entertain fat hating garbage. I know what my life was like in my experience and I would NEVER look at another fat person and be like “damn you must love being fat and lazy”..

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