Lifestyle tips

Everybody keeps asking this, but no one has a crystal ball. Some fat people live a long healthy life, others die early. It's just like anything else that can be risky, such as skydiving or race car driving.

Yes, I'll certainly drink (and eat) to that!

I just come back from an interview for a call center - a heaven for those who like SSBBW. One BBW by the standards here but SSBBW for the standards of my area did climb two set of stairs and then down again without an issue.

If we land the job (actually if she does) I would ask her number.

It seems there are two very loud groups on the Internet, both extremely stupid.

One is commenting to youtube videos of even just slightly chubby people with rants like "you will die soon you idiot" and attack the fat acceptance movement for promoting a "deadly" disease. Ironically, they themselves might have unhealthy habits like smoking or doing drugs, but they are just so focused on "saving the lives" of fat people (by screaming insults at them) that they never realize their own hypocrisy.

The other is often found on this very site, claiming that being obese (even extremely so, like at or near immobility) has absolutely no health risks whatsoever, and everyone who disagrees has just fallen for the evil conspiracy of the diet industry.

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The answer is obviously somewhere in-between. And of course it depends on lots of factors, including genetics, activity level, the types of foods consumed, and many more. Some can start having health problems by a relatively small increase in weight, others can get extremely fat and suffer only very mild negative effects. However, we should not lie to ourselves: getting to the size where mobility is severely impaired, does have significant health risks. If you plan to reach such a size, or plan to support someone else reaching such a size, you should be well prepared to honestly answer the question whether you accept those risks, instead of lying to yourself and pretending those risks don't exist at all.

You could be a fit healthy person who runs marathons but that’s not good for your heart either, live life how you want to

Everyone should also remember that obesity researcher's first priority is stay employed. They have called obesity a disease in order to get more funding. They have called it an epidemic to get more funding, and they have gone as far as saying obesity is communicable to get more funding. In other words, the worse they make it sound, the more job security they have.

Doctors always tell you that being overweight is bad and unhealthy. But it is inactivity that really is unhealthy

Health At Every Size haescommunity.com/

And The Obesity Paradox haescommunity.com/

"dozens of studies have confirmed the existence of the paradox. Being overweight is now believed to help protect patients with an increasingly long list of medical problems, including pneumonia, burns, stroke, cancer, hypertension, and heart disease. Researchers who have tried to show that the paradox is based on faulty data or reasoning have largely come up short. And while scientists do not yet agree on what the paradox means for health, most accept the evidence behind it. “It’s been shown consistently enough in different disease states,” says Gregg Fonarow, a cardiology researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles."

This is a lot like smoking weed. People against it say it's gonna give you an IQ of 5. People for it think it makes your big brain even biglier. When in reality it's not that harmful for you but it for sure is not healthy.

From research I’ve done, barring preexisting health issues or other unhealthy habits it seems the most important predictor of health at any weight is having a balanced diet and moderate exercise, and to not gain or lose weight too fast.

I think it would be difficult to get really fat that way, but if you managed to then you would probably still be pretty healthy unless you were dealing with other factors like drug use or preexisting health issues. There’s a reason a lot of studies show average size and slightly overweight people to be healthier than either underweight or obese people on average, a balanced lifestyle like that will usually make someone average sized or slightly overweight instead of very skinny or very fat.

Being too skinny can be very unhealthy, too, I have nearly been hospitalized for it in the past and I have long term health damage from it even now that I’m in the normal range. I’ll probably never fully recover from some of it, particularly the damage to my bone density. I think that most of the time, the point at which your weight itself (and not just the potentially unhealthy things you do to get to that weight and maintain it) becomes a big risk is when you go extreme, like when I got down to 90 pounds or when someone is so fat they’re near immobility.

Things like eating lots of junk food or being sedentary are of course bad for you even if you don’t gain any weight from them. So are a lot of other things people do all the time, though, so I think what’s most important is to keep an eye on your health and clean up your lifestyle if your health starts getting worse than you think is worth it. I think unless you have naturally very low blood pressure, that’s probably the most important number to keep an eye on for most people.

For me, gaining weight rapidly and eating junk food is worth it even though it is not good for my health. Right now, it’s safer for me than not trying to gain, because when I don’t pay a lot of attention to increasing my daily calories I sometimes end up only eating a few hundred a day and then I lose way too much weight very fast and get sick. I do not enjoy eating aside from as a tool to gain weight, I just really dislike the taste or texture of 99% of foods, and so it’s difficult for me to motivate myself to eat at all if it won’t make me gain. I do keep an eye on my bloodwork, blood pressure, how I generally feel, etc, so that if anything starts looking really bad I can make changes.

If you want to gain weight in as healthy a way as possible though, it’s safest to gain slowly by eating a balanced healthy diet with just enough calories to make you gain 1 or 2 pounds a week while also doing a little exercise. Maintaining or losing weight in a healthy way is the same, too, just with the amount of calories adjusted accordingly.