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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-08 06:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #2379 ]


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Re: Ugly

(Anonymous) 2013-07-09 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
In as many different ways as there are obese people. Personally I started self-medicating with sugar at about age six to deal with problems arising from what I now believe were/are probably mild autistic tendencies, and have never been able to break the addiction or get my weight down and keep it down. (Don't think I haven't tried, and sometimes temporarily succeeded. It's much harder to keep weight off AFTER you've gained a lot and lost it than it is to never gain it in the first place.)

I had a friend who was a healthy weight until she injured herself in boot camp, was bedridden and unable to exercise for some time, fell into a depression and ate to comfort herself. My husband used to be very thin until his metabolism crapped out on him in his late 20's/early 30's. He's worked a couple of strenuous jobs and each time lost a lot of weight when he first started, but always gains it back when his body adjusts to the new circumstances.

So yeah, I won't argue with you that it's unattractive, but please don't assume that it's something that's always trivially preventable or fixable. When you've got more pressing problems on your mind, or food is the only thing that makes you feel better, or if you've never had a problem with it before and then suddenly you do, or you keep having to crank up your activity more and more just to stay the same weight, it can be very hard to keep it where it belongs.