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Date Posted: 09:04:38 06/26/00 Mon
Author: Budge
Subject: IF Shame and blame were taken out of weight control
In reply to: Jane 's message, "Re: Very well stated (and a rant of my own ;-))" on 06:47:36 06/26/00 Mon

it would help everyone even thin people who worry about the last 5lbs. I know dieting stinks and if a new SA group was started they would need to focus on allowing people to choose their own lifestyle. I dont think even this new SA should say you have to diet! But I do think something with out all the denial would help. I think weight should be a free choice. The problem is and one reason I feel this country is getting fatter if indeed it is and I have my own suspicions about that is that the condemnation and shame has ruined healthy living. ALL THE JOY has been taken out of it! Fat people are even made fun of at gyms and such!! Even thin people consider it to be a drudge. I dont think humans were meant to live this way. If they made healthy living exercise and eating right a joy instead of a miserable YOU HAVE TO DO this activity to be accepted, more and more people would find health an easier thing to find. Course then maybe people may demand cheaper food that doesnt have tons of corn syrup and or salt in it! Maybe people would demand recreational activities>...imagine the possibilities. The shame and blame put on fat people is destroying the health of everyone in my opinion. I also think that weight loss advocates well the mainstream ones, are very poorly educated in how the human body functions, most expect almost the impossible and then they blame the person when the inevitable failure happens! This is how people are not able to have honest at all and how fat hatred affects everyone negatively. I know lets say if I went to U of M and said put me on your 800 calorie diet, I wouldnt last two days. Id be on the ground, shaking with the most severe migraine in the history of the planet....how do I know this? Well Ive tried to restrict my eating many times. But try and have a diet program person admit the real physiological things behind the failure of diets and you never get an honest answer.

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I agree, Budge -- Rosie, 09:34:05 06/26/00 Mon