Media Makes It Worse

You’ve probably seen a trend over the years exemplifying the phrase “fat is beautiful,” either in direct statements just like that, or in photographic/video representations in media. This is a trend known as “body positivity” trying to combat the alternative: “body (or fat) shaming.” Well-known clothing manufacturers have made adjustments in their offerings to allow for large/plus sizes, at a higher cost passed along to you. In fact, many designers are specifically catering to the obese public, because it’s becoming increasingly harder to market to “skinny people.” I’ll cover this in greater detail in other posts, but I just want you to be aware that the media is influencing your cycle of accepting something you feel you have no control over. The more you are made to accept your lot in life, the less motivated you’re going to want to make personal changes because this requires sacrifice, and sacrifice is necessary. Don’t allow someone to tell you 2+2=5 when you know that’s not true. Being obese does so much damage physically, mentally, and financially, to you and those who love and care for you. People who profit off your poor health will do or say anything to keep you where they can make money from you.

Shown is a billboard of a popular rapper (22 years old in this pic) named “Chicka” and this is sadly glorifying a deadly obesity illness. This glorification is disgusting for 2 reasons. First, it gives you the motivation to accept obesity as normal, when in fact it is killing our population faster than anything else. Second, because this woman is 22 years old. She should have another 60-80 years ahead to live, but the statistics prove she won’t make it to her senior years, and she certainly won’t make it without prescriptions and doctor intervention. What you don’t see on her inside is the amount of visceral and pericardial fat literally suffocating her organs. I’m not calling her ugly, I’m not shaming her. I’m saying she is very unhealthy, and her life expectancy is not in her favor.

I’m only saying what I am here because there’s so much more to our weight issues than just the physical appearance. We have horrible moods, we get depressed, we lose hope, and we become angry. We are angry at ourselves, and soon that turns outward to others. You begin to “hear” things differently. What was probably a non-conflict statement you will hear as full of angst. You’ve heard of rose-colored glasses? How about dark-colored hearing? It wasn’t said with a negative tone or using negative words, but that’s how you heard it. This is where physical activity becomes important because your mental stress has nowhere to go except to seek comfort food from your pantry. Your body is representing what’s in your mind and spirit. This needs attention before anything else! The beautiful thing about losing a little weight, which helps you gain confidence, is that now you can do physical exercise, and reap all the benefits of clearing your mind, pushing out that stress in other ways, and starting to feel great.

We’ve really gone down the rabbit hole here, and gotten a little sidetracked. It’s important to focus on how drugs have come to take precedent in our daily routine. Do you understand now how you begin with one drug to combat something going on in your life, only to take another to combat the side effects of that first drug? If you begin to think of all these sugary processed seed-oil-infused foods as drugs, then things really begin to come into perspective. The first drug you can control is the food going into your mouth. That begins the elimination of the prescribed drugs, and the welcoming of a new mental outlook and love for yourself, then others.