Quoting parisintheautumn from 14:25, 4th May 2006
Why should you expect people to be supportive, people have always picked on others flaws, I am not saying it's right but that's the way it is, so why let other people control how you feel?
This thread is quite astonishing in its ignorance.
Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, over-eating, binge-eating) are all, in part, fuelled and exasperated by what other people think and say. Those of you who say 'you're fat, exercise' have all the sensitivity and humanity of a four-day-old sandwich.
Eating disorders are psychological disorders, as has been pointed out previously, over-eating can be comfort-eating, it can also be destructive eating.
Those of you who are devoid of issues with food- well done, clap yourselves on your not-too-skinny-not-too-fat-but-just-right backs, but please accept that everyone is not.
For some unfathomable reason those who judge people who are fatter than than them generally come to the conclusion that the fat person is weaker because they can't control themselves when it comes to food- well, people aren't that simple.
And for the record, for a good while, I stopped eating, exercised like mad, looked like an Auschwitz victim- one of the things I remember when I was at my most delusional is being absolutely repulsed by fat and fat people. It's not normal to set so much store by how we all look- if someone is overweight, you can bet there will be some emotional reason behind it, and to mock that, I can only conclude that you're a bunch of heartless, compassionless bastards.
To Big X who asked the original question: I presume in your asking it, that you're not fat? Well, what do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you perform a narcissistic self-appreciation ritual every morning revelling in the fact that you are not fat?
There are worse things to be in life than overweight, and I think you've demonstrated that with flying colours.
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