I wonder how much delusional attitudes like this alone are responsible for the obesity epidemic.

Hard to isolate scientifically, I know, but certainly it plays a part.

I want our societal attitude about fat and general body changes to be just that. It’s inevitable. Therefore you might as well embrace and celebrate it.

It’s so bizarre to me, this attitude that your body just changes as if by magic. Like you had nothing to do with it by consuming more calories or failing to exercise. That fat is just deposited on you by aliens with anal probes in the middle of the night.

Perhaps it’s because I’ve been extremely ridiculously fit and then fat, and saw how both were the direct and irrefutable results of my own actions, that it’s so easy for me to repudiate the “Weight gain is magic from the heavens!” nonsense.

How do people believe this stuff? Not living on the same planet as I am, that’s for sure. And what is it with all the mooks who want to celebrate — and think we should all celebrate on their behalf — eating themselves into an early grave?

You get out of your body exactly what you put into it. And yeah I did intend the ambiguity of that statement.