" I disagree with accepting being overweight or obese. However, I cannot blame everything on the individual. I just came from nutrition class, so bare with me: there's many factors to being overweight and obesity other than an individual's lack of discipline. poverty is one. cheap food/fast food is high in fat, sodium, sugar, not nutrients people actually need, yet it is very convenient. going to a grocery store, buying ingredients, and cooking them yourself (the overall healthier way to approach food) costs a little more and takes work. If you're poor, you're not worried about getting the right nutrients, you're worried about filling your stomach and paying the bills. you can then link that to education. not everyone knows exactly what it means to eat healthy and live a healthy lifestyle. another is environment. are the people around this person eating healthy and helping them to become healthy as well? or are they overweight/obese as well? Obesity is unfortunately an epidemic. Almost 1/3 of the US population is overweight/obese. The environment we're surrounded by is not helping. fast food is in every street corner. ads for unhealthy foods on tv. the grocery store to fast food ratio in cities leans towards fast food. Most jobs today require little physical movement, and thus is not a source of exercise at all. Exercise is something people avoid because in the short term of things, its painful, and requires time and effort which some people may not have. As for education, not everyone goes to school. And those that do, nutrition is not necessarily taught in all schools. Obesity is becoming more common in minors. Most likely their parents are obese as well. Parenting is a factor. Lastly and most importantly, is the individual. If you do have the education and know what you need to do to be healthy, I'd say go do it. You'll feel a lot better in the short terms of things. you're stress will decrease, and your depression/anxiety will as well. Long term-wise, you'll start to look better/perhaps more attractive and more importantly, live longer. Unfortunately, most people don't even begin to try. People rely on medications to keep themselves from dying (to put that bluntly). Ironically, medications cost way more than buying and cooking healthy food/exercising. Obesity, when you're young, may seem benign, and its possible that you feel completely fine. But it's best to change that while you're young because when you're older, the problems will manifest and it's really not worth tolerating. Healthcare unfortunately is expensive and should not be completely relied on to stay alive. No one wants to be admitted into the hospital. No one wants to be bothered with constant medication. Best to prevent it from happening or at least postponing it (some diseases just cannot be avoided when you get older). Obesity leads to many complications: high blood pressure which can lead to stroke and kidney failure, diabetes which can cause acidosis (your body becomes acidic and you can go into shock and die) as well as eventual permanent blood vessel and nerve damage to extremities (worse is when it reaches your eyes =blind), atherosclerosis or build up of fat/cholesterol in blood vessels can lead to heart attacks as well as strokes. Development of cancer is also linked to obesity. SO TO DEAL WITH BEING OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE IS TO STOP BEING OBESE OR OVERWEIGHT. Now if you don't want to deal with it, then that's your choice and just accept your situation. hiding it with clothing is not going to do much. "
terrific post.. for someone who doesnt give a shit about leading a healthy life, that really got me worried about my health ! very good points made in this post, if only the structure was a little better formatted. that was painful to read! 
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