I will never understand why obesity is not considered an eating disorder and why it is classed any differently than anorexia or bulimia.
Delusional shit like this and this are signs of mental health issues just as exist in those two aforementioned disorders.
I say this not to stigmatize obese people but to allow them to be helped, or to help themselves, and not to harm others like their children or friends since delusional thinking spreads. (And it’s especially immoral to condemn your children who have no choice about the consequences of obesity like diabetes and early death.)
We have fat acceptance (alas) and to me this sounds no different than cancer acceptance or heart attack acceptance. In fact in some ways cancer acceptance would make more sense because unlike being fat cancer is something not chosen. Obesity is a choice you make every time food goes in your maw.
Yet the FA movement tells you that obesity just happens, like getting struck by lightning and that miraculously it is totally unrelated to food intake*. And yet the universe has this inconvenient feature called the laws of thermodynamics.
*Yes, most of the FA movement believes this now. I know. I know.