Why lose weight when it's easier to just sit on them?

I constantly post that Oprah clip about The Gift of Fear - I am such a firm believer in listening to our body's ability to respond before our brains even know what's going on. The hair standing up on the back of your neck or just the feeling that something is off... we owe it to ourselves to hone those senses. I've…

Oh, my dear. You and I are eerily similar and it makes me feel warm and calm, but also slightly sad... because it's such a pity that anyone else has to suffer the same feelings as I do.

No one.

Daft Spunk

Wow, you're super funny and hypocritical.

You're the worst. How DARE you tell people that their fat and your shitty health are somehow related. You're funny because you think you're original and have important things to say. You're just a former fat person who still hates himself and can't stand any fat person who doesn't feel like shit.

I'll be honest: years ago I was that person who said, "I don't get it? Why don't people make better choices?" I was stupid and uneducated about the system and how it was really the cause of everything. I actually then started reading about the subject, and learned that the system was failing people. It's hard to…

I think the problem here is that people are equating disliking the system and how society encourages behaviors with "hating the people." I mean, I hate that emissions output are likely to cause significant climate changes beyond our ability to reckon, but that doesn't mean I hate people who drive cars. I hate Philip…

Basically, the difference is that I'm not going to spare everyone's feelings because I think this system is so fundamentally broken that it's worth being the "bad guy" to a few people.

Let's be clear. I don't give a shit about your health or your body. The people I worry about are the people who are underserved by our food infrastructure and unhealthy because they've never been educated about how to maintain a balanced diet or what actual food even looks like.

People who prefer to wallow in their own…

I feel you. I'm on a journey back from the land of huge myself (gained sixty pounds during my pregnancy, just got back to my pre-preg weight a few weeks ago). I ate everything I craved during that nine months from hell (because I was tired, miserable and suicidal) and a lot of it was pretty bad. I now feel so guilty…

Dude, that NY Times Article is my jam. I'm hoping Lustig can save us all!

Teaching children how to make responsible choices for themselves is the whole point you fucking nitwit

RAWR! Let the rage floooooow! Yessssss!

• There've been numerous nannyist experiments performed to try forcing poor people to eat fresh food, forcing children to eat health food in schools. They failed

Honestly, for all the hand-wringing on this and other sites about accepting body types, I think a better goal would be to make sure that the large minority poor who can't get access to real goddamn food might be able to actually eat a decent meal.

It's taken a lot of work to try and shake loose my self-esteem from my appearance. My husband has been an enormous help. I asked him once why he married a fat tired old woman (I'm five years older than him). He looked at me and said, "Why did you marry a tall skinny guy?" He cares that I'm not killing myself trying to…

Virtuous? VIRTUOUS? Are you serious? Did you really just use that word? And, according to you, "being overweight is to due to choosing what is easy and comfortable over what is hard and virtuous"?! Um, being virtuous has NOTHING to do with your appearance. A person who helps the poor is virtuous. A person who…