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I’ve seen a lot of people poke fun at this pony because she is fat, and I kinda find this unfair because she didn’t really do anything in the episode to deserve it. Hell, when she asked for the dress and they said no, she just shrugged and walked off to look around the store. She smiled and genuinely seemed happy. So I wanted to give her some love, cause whether big or small, a happy pony is a happy pony.
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*headcanon
Yes, and the movement overall is that.
It’s wrong to mock people for being different, and it’s unhealthy to hate yourself for being different too. Because self-loathing actually makes it a lot harder to motivate yourself to get healthier.
I think fat acceptance should focus on it being wrong to mock people for being different and not attempt to claim being obese is healthy
And in that, letting yourself get fat and then finding excuses to justify it or force others to accept it as more than what it is, is more of a lack of love for oneself.
it outta be common.
At the same time is this demeanor no excuse to stop improving oneself.
You can love yourself AND strive everyday to be better than the you of yesterday.
Work, mostly! Summer’s over and I’m back to being perpetually busy.
I still post sometimes though.
Greg. your back!
Why were you gone for so long?
For me the hard part was the anxiety over starting in the first place, and feeling like I’d just put it off indefinitely, not the actual exercising (which I feel nothing about while I’m doing it since I’m focused on doing it)…
So I started small by just doing as many pushups as I could (5-10 initially, now at 55 almost a year later) and then immediately going into the shower. Made it a lot easier to stomach.
Never heard of the “HAAS Movement”, and the way it sounds, I can’t agree to that.
On the other hand, I have read that a little fat pad isn’t to bad and as unhealthy as many people would say. So it really is about how much is too much. To be a bit chubby is ok I think. But the pony above is out right morbidly obese, and that really is to much.
Does that mean she can’t live a happy live? No! But it sure isn’t a easy one.
I don’t eat healthy. I eat a lot of meat, a lot of sweet foods, and a lot of comfort foods. I don’t really give a crap about what I eat, though I do somewhat prefer foods made of “real ingredients” over “industrial ingredients”. My diet is very unhealthy.
I’m 6 foot 2 1/2 inches tall and around 193 lbs. That’s considered healthy for someone of my stature, and I’d say that I’m all around very healthy (scratch my weak arm muscles). This is because I exercise at least once a day, and do lots of outdoor activities like camping and backpacking.
It’s my opinion that one can be healthy from unhealthy diet, if they exercise enough.
I think you’re confusing the fat acceptance movement with the “healthy at any size movement.”
Fat Acceptance = Respect all people regardless of their weight.
HAAS Movement = “Lol, obesity is totes healthy! Heart disease aren’t real!”
Fat acceptance is a good thing, because - again - overweight people generally need to like themselves to want to engage in any kind of self-improvement. Constantly being told they’re worthless/ugly/weak-willed/etc. is going to seriously fuck with their self-esteem, which in turn hampers their motivation.
Of course, the HAAS philosophy is the other extreme, telling overweight or even outright obese people that to deny health risks associated with their weight. This should be combated, absolutely. I’m overweight and I’m saying unequivocally, that the HAAS movement is pure quackery that flies in the face of medical science or basic health. Fat acceptance and it should not be conflated, though, since fat acceptance is about accepting people rather than accepting obesity.
I really don’t approve of “fat acceptance” on some levels. I get the whole not being a total dick to fat people just because they are fat. I’m on board with that.
But saying being obese is healthy and normal is bullshit. I usually direct such people to educate themselves, specifically on the scourge of our generation: fructose. (worth every second of your time to watch the whole thing)
I often find such people (fat people who are also proponents of fat acceptance) are unwilling to accept new information, or anything that puts their views in jeopardy. I can only conclude they are just trying to justify a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet any way they can. This is the point where I start being a dick to them. Not because they are fat. But because they are willfully ignorant.
There is also a deep society-wide misunderstanding of just how fat is fat. Thanks mainstream media. Luckily there are things like Matt Blum’s Nu Project (NSFW) Like, #1 and #3 at that link are perfectly normal. They aren’t even chubby. They are normal. Yet, most people I know would call them fat. What the fuck happened?
And don’t even get me started on BMI. Luckily, Penn and Teller’s Bullshit episode on obesity covered that pretty well.
But one thing is certain. This pony is morbidly obese. The animators give her jaundiced eyes even. They went out of their way to portray her as having an unhealthy weight, even if she has jovial demeanor.
@Keith Mowz
There is significant evidence that fat people who exercise regularly are often healthier than skinny people who are sedentary.
Dieting and exercising for someone who is prone to obesity is grueling and miserable. Its rarely a matter of “eat slightly less and spend a few hours a week on a treadmill”. You need to tightly control both what and how much you’re eating (which if you’re someone who doesn’t like many kinds of food to begin with makes the act of eating miserable) exercise on a set, regular schedule multiple times a week for hours at a time, and you need to do this for months if not years before you achieve significant results. And if you stop, you’ll slide right back into obesity.
Unhappiness?