{"id":1629,"date":"2010-12-13T07:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2013-03-12T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:52:50","slug":"call-me-crazy-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/call-me-crazy-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Crazy, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1583\">previous post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>So one day last week, I notice TL\u2019s status update and comments are as follows.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Obesity is not a disease\u2026.its a condition commonly associated with laziness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female commenter #1: <em>AGREE<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Male commenter #1: <em>So true Big <\/em>[TL]<em>. I can\u2019t feel sorry for fat people unless they have some kind of gland condition or something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Male commenter #2: <em>Laziness and overeating. Don\u2019t forget overeating, <\/em>[TL]<em>.<\/em> [Pretty sure, this comment was made by <a href=\"..\/..\/?p=1314\">this guy<\/a>.]<abbr title=\"Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 8:20pm\"><\/abbr><\/p>\n<p>Female commenter #2: <em>I agree too. It just seems really socially irresponsible to let yourself get to that point. Not talking about a few extra pounds here, like from having kids or something, but real obesity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s stop there for a second, and\u2014ahem\u2014digest.<\/p>\n<p>OK, first off, Male commenter #1, the one who is incapable of \u201cfeel[ing] sorry for fat people unless they have some kind of gland condition\u201d\u2026how the hell would he know who does and who doesn\u2019t? Does he stop fat people on the street and go, \u201cHey, listen, I was just wondering whether to feel <em>sorry for you<\/em> or <em>judgmental of you<\/em>. So could you tell me if you have a gland condition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, actually, Male #2 (who I\u2019m going to infer was begotten to two skinny parents, who were begotten themselves to four skinny grandparents, and who has probably never felt the urge to overeat in his life) was the closest to being right on this. Broken down to its most elemental, obesity is almost always a result of overeating. There are lots of reasons people eat more calories that their bodies need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>being marketed ridiculous portion sizes<\/li>\n<li>high-calorie crap-food being cheaper than good-for-you-food<\/li>\n<li>having a disordered relationship with food<\/li>\n<li>it tasting really damn good<\/li>\n<li>it being a holiday<\/li>\n<li>having a hard day at work<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But basically, the vast majority of obese people don\u2019t get obese because of \u201cgland conditions\u201d; they get obese by eating too much.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to the Body Mass Index calculator, I am obese. (According to my dad, I\u2019m a vision of Baroque loveliness. Potato-potahto.) I\u2019m not quite 5\u20192&#8243;, and last time I went to the doctor I weighed 176 lbs. That gives me a BMI of 32.4. Over 30 is obese, thus I am obese. I am obese because I consume more calories than are required by my body. (More on this subject later.)<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not fucking lazy. I get up and go to work every damn day. I keep my house in, well, <em>decent<\/em> condition. I go to the gym and <a href=\"..\/?p=1237\">lift heavy objects over ma head<\/a>. I walk my dogs to the dog park. I go hiking.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I try\u2014I don\u2019t know this dude, or his friends\u2014I try, but I just\u2026can\u2019t\u2026keep\u2026my mouth\u2026shut.<\/p>\n<p>Me: <em>Wow. Sorry, but this is some of the most ignorant shit I\u2019ve read in a long time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Probably could\u2019ve been a bit more diplomatic. Whatevs.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/call-me-crazy-part-3-2\/\">continued<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[continued from previous post] So one day last week, I notice TL\u2019s status update and comments are as follows. Obesity is not a disease\u2026.its a condition commonly associated with laziness Female commenter #1: AGREE Male commenter #1: So true Big [TL]. I can\u2019t feel sorry for fat people unless they have some kind of gland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/call-me-crazy-part-2-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call Me Crazy, Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}