To think that “fatphobia” is sometimes just discomfort with the truth about health?

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MeasuredOnyxSwan · 29/10/2025 08:40

Not always but sometimes. We’ve turned every health comment into oppression. When did personal responsibility become offensive?

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MyLimeGuide · 02/11/2025 22:28

Pugslug · 31/10/2025 14:18

Sorry to hear we had similar parents
Mine put padlocks on the cupboards,they counted choc ices in the freezer,they left drinks in the fridge that my step dad had weed in and told us after we drank it as we weren't allowed.
I had no autonomy over what I ate because it was all locked away ..it was eat the microwave meal she made at lunchtime after school ,or starve , because the cupboards were locked ,the food in the fridge was counted .
So I would steal food out of other childrens lunch boxes at school..
Some parents..mine ..should never of had children..
I can remember eating a bowel of cereal around age 5 and panicking she would see the empty bowel in the sink ..so I hid it under my bed ,with my hidden wet sheets ..this was when she was leaving me home alone locked in the house ..
I could go on...
Point being..I think everyone who ends up overweight has some baggage,and being accepted as we are and treated with kindness goes a long way to healing it

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Well said! And poor you. You have just reminded me that my parents used to have a padlock on the cupboards too!

Pugslug · 03/11/2025 04:53

MyLimeGuide · 02/11/2025 22:28

Well said! And poor you. You have just reminded me that my parents used to have a padlock on the cupboards too!

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Thankyou ..I'm fine though ,I feel nothing talking about it .I left home at 18 and hardly went back .
Plenty of people had it much worse than me x
Sorry to hear your food was under padlock to .

BeanQuisine · 04/11/2025 01:50

childofthe607080s · 31/10/2025 14:05

It’s my business because I end up forking out for health care for people who didn’t take care of themselves

if we didn’t have the soaring rates of diabetes ( and heart disease, many cancers , hip and knee replacements ) the health service would be in a lot better state - imagine it getting a 10 to 20% uplift on funding?

it’s my business because ill health costs this county and reduces tax incomes - that are needed to pay for fat related problems

so yes it is my business - it is societies business to have a healthy population

smokers resisted the smoking bans, giving up was too hard yet as a result of taxation, grim messaging , and legislation, smoking rates have dropped and lung cancer

we can’t afford to have an overweight nation

And I have to fork out for your health costs too, but I don't pretend that I'm somehow the only taxpayer and the rest of you are leeches who "don't take care of yourselves".

It's a laughably dumb attitude.

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