#Obesogens

[obesogen]

garbage disposal

Some of us in this life are only meant to be a massive, fat, fuckpile–

wobbling uncontrollably and constantly fucked on all sides,

by dicks of all kinds,

slippery between the rolls with cum and lube,

Eating anything given to you indiscriminately

and undeniably

Sow and Pig and Hog

-like

The food is all the perfectly good food that no one in the apt. building wants,

It slides towards you from a hopper above into a funnel around your fat little face,

connected to a collar that has a radio to call out to your feeder,

sitting in the dark of the basement eating and eating and eating all the remains,

And if you don’t eat fast enough that blubbery mug will be

Suffocated

in leftover sandwiches and half-eaten slices of birthday cake.

You love all food you aren’t picky where it comes from,

Belly swollen and spread out in front of you on a pile of mattresses,

groaning and perspiring.

But now suddenly,

you feel the food piling up above your head inside the cone faster

You sense for the first time in so long, fear,

You scream out, not that loudly –

because you can hardly breathe

“hey im too full still! I— ccc-aan’t eat all this!! Please!”

Your feeder pretends not to notice you

You feel the massive expanse of your back get cold with dread

You can still feel the faceless others fucking you, grunting, uninterested in your plight

And you just start eating your way out,

and silently pray your stomach doesn’t burst

[maretriarch]

i hate every dipshit dumb motherfucker whos ever droven a car im going to start spreading a rumor that every time you press down on the gas pedal a slow muscle twitch fiber in your hamstring misfires and drains the testosterone levels in your balls and also compresses your height one millimeter

[rodrickheffley]

have to do a reading for my anthropology of food class that ik will trigger meeee

[transmutationisms]

@annevbonny yeah so first of all there's the overt framing issue that this whole idea rests on the premise that eliminating fatness is both possible and good, as though like. fat people haven't existed prior to the ~industrial revolution~ lol

more granularly this theory relies on misinterpreting the causes for the link between poverty and fatness (which is real---they are correlated) so that fatness can be configured as a failure of eating choices and urban design, meaning ofc that the 'solution' to this problem is more socially hygienic, monitored, controlled communities where everybody has been properly educated into the proper affective enjoyment of spinach and bike riding, and no one is fat anymore and the labour force lives for longer and generates more value for employers

in truth one of the biggest mediating factors in the poverty-body weight link is food insecurity, because intermittent access to food tends to result in periods of under-nourishment followed by periods of compensatory eating with corresponding weight regain/overshoot (this is typical of weight trajectories in anyone refeeding after a period of starvation or under-eating, for any reason). so this is all to say that the suggestion that fatness is caused by access to 'unhealthy foods' is not only off base but extremely harmful; food insecurity is rampant globally. what people need is consistent access to food, and more of it!

and [loud obvious disclaimer voice] although i absolutely agree that food justice means access to a variety of foods with a variety of nutrient profiles, access to any calories at all is always better than access to none or too few. which is to say, there aren't 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' foods in isolation (all foods can belong in a varied, sufficient diet) and this is a billion times more true when we are talking about people struggling to consume enough calories in the first place.

relatedly, proponents of the 'obesogenic environment' theory often invoke the idea of 'hyperpalatable foods' or 'food addiction'---different ways of saying that people 'overeat' 'junk food' because it's too tasty (often with the bonus techno-conspiricism of "they engineer it that way"). again it's this idea that the problem is people eating the 'wrong' foods, now because the foods themselves are exerting some inexorable chemical pull over them.

this is inane for multiple reasons including the failure to deal with access issues and the fact that people who routinely, reliably eat enough in non-restrictive patterns (between food insecurity and encouragement to deliberately diet/restrict, this is very few people) don't even tend to 'overeat' energy-dense demonised foods in the first place. ie, there is no need to proscribe or limit 'junk food' or 'fast food' or 'empty calories' or whatever nonsense euphemism; again the solution to nutritionally unbalanced diets is to guarantee everyone access to sufficient food and a variety of different foods (and to stop encouraging the sorts of moralising food taboos that make certain foods 'out of bounds' and therefore more likely to provoke a subjective sense of loss of control in the first place lol)

but tbc, when i say "the solution to nutritionally unbalanced diets"---because these certainly can and do exist, particularly (again) amongst people subjected to food insecurity---i am NOT saying "the solution to fatness" because fatness is not something that will ever be eliminated from the human population. and here again we circle back to one of the fundamental fears that animates the 'obesogenic environment' myth, which is that fatness is a medical threat to the race/nation/national future. which is of course blatant biopolitics and is relying on massive assumptions about the health status of fat and thin people that are simply not borne out in the data, and that misinterpret the relationship between fatness and illness (for example, the extent to which weight stigma prevents fat people from receiving medical care, or the role of 'metabolic syndrome' in causing weight gain, rather than the other way around).

people are fat for many reasons, including "their bodies just look like that"; fatness is neither a disease in itself nor inherently indicative of ill health, nor is it eradicable anyway (and fundamentally, while all people should have access to health-protective social and economic conditions, health is not something that people 'owe' to anyone else anyway)

the 'obesogenic environment' is a liberal technocratic fantasy---a world in which fatness is a problem of individual consumption and social engineering, and is to be eliminated by clever policy and personal responsibility. it assumes your health is 1) directly caused and indicated by your weight, 2) something you owe to the capitalist state as part of the bargain that is 'citizenship', and 3) something you can learn to control if only you are properly educated by the medical authorities on the rules of nutrition (and secondarily exercise) science. it's a factual misinterpretation of everything we know about weight, health, diet, and wealth, and it fundamentally serves as a defense of the existing economic order: the problem isn't that capitalism structurally does not provide sufficient access to resources for any but the capitalist class---no, we just need a nicer and more functional capitalism where labourers have a greengrocer in the neighbourhood, because this is a discourse incapable of grappling with the material realities of food production and consumption, and instead reliant on configuring them in terms of affectivity ('food addiction') or knowledge (the idea that food-insecure people need to be more educated about nutrition)

there are some additional aspects here obviously like the idea that exercising more would make people thin (similar issues to the food arguments, physical activity can be great but the reasons people do or don't do it are actually complex and related to things like work schedules and exercise doesn't guarantee thinness in the first place) or fearmongering about 'endocrine disruptors' (real, but are extremely ill-defined as a category and are often just a way to appeal to ideas of 'naturalness' and the vague yet pressing harms of 'chemicals', and which are also not shown to single-handedly 'cause' fatness, a normal state of existence for the human body) but this is most often an argument about food ime.

[fatfables]

Farmhouse Five, or The Gainer Crusade: Vore Wars 9

A science fiction force feeding and vore-infused anti-gaining gaining story heavily inspired by Kurt VonneGUT's classic post-modern novel. (Why? Because it's the internet).

A sixth generation Swedish-American now living in easy circumstances in Minnesota [and still eating too much] who as a fat man's son, as a prisoner of the farmer, witnessed the fire-bombing of his own physique, a long time ago, and survived to grow and tell the tale.  This is a story somewhat in the obesogenic manner of the tales of the moon of the Surplus, where the galaxy’s biggest bellies come from. Eat.

All this happened, more or less. But mostly more. The gaining parts, anyway, are true. One guy I knew really was tube fed to death for refusing to breed with the Lord of the Pigs. So it grows. I returned to the farmhouse with an old gainer buddy of mine, to where we were kept for weeks. There we met a farm boy who was grown fat by the Surplus. We asked him how it was to live under Gainerism. He said that at first it was hard as it took time to get used to the strain of constant weight gain but now that he was used to it it wasn’t so bad. He was impressed with his belly and the way that it bounced over his belt when he walked. He liked how round it looked and how soft it felt. He was looking forward to seeing it be further accentuated by his dungarees. His brother was fattened till his heart exploded. So it grows.

I look neither forwards nor backwards, only waistwords. My Name is Billy Bondgaard. I’m writing this from my home in Minnesota, in this year. For thirty years I have worked, non-consecutively, as a gastric bypass salesman despite my own size. This has provided for me well and I have continued to gain all my life. I am now comfortable, fat and old, but I will not remain so. I have two chunky sons who follow in my footsteps. Soon they will be unborn again. My husband is dead from a car crash. So it grows. I look waistwords to seeing him again.

I am in the farmhouse with Jerry. My nerves are shot to hell. We are hog tied by our britches waiting for him to return. I am only 246 lbs. Jerry is hungry and delirious for action. He salivates whenever he hears footsteps. He appears to take joy from his captivity. He yearns to increase his capacity. My boxers are tight and stained, unsuitable for the task. I know that I will soon be forced to feed again and I am ill-prepared. I know that I will rely on Jerry to bear some of my burden and that he will resent me for it. He will get cross with me and will blame me for his situation. I will do my best but it won’t be good enough. I am out of my depth and I know it.

He enters, the farmer. He is six foot six and broad in the shoulders. Kind of Dutch looking. His wet black hair sticks to his head from the pouring rain outside. He speaks gruffly, “Hello, Piggies.” Jerry says hello. I remain silent, in trepidation. He weighs us. As is normal. Jerry weighs 387 lbs, he has the right mindset. I was never meant to be a pig, yet at the same time I always was. He starts with soup and bread, a gentleman farmer. Eighty fluid ounces of potato soup and half a loaf of farmhouse white. Jerry embraces the challenge but my stomach already aches and I begin to lack strength and struggle only half way through. “What the hell is wrong with you, Billy?” He shouts at me, “I hope you don’t expect me to pick up the slack again?” “No,” I say, one hundred percent aware that he will.

Roast beef and gravy follows. The gentleman farmer is treating his pigs well. This will not always be the case, there is plenty of swill to come.

My stomach bag is pounding harder and faster than my heart. I count the rhythmic convulsions that play a solid beat while I am forced to eat. Jerry has already finished his main course but I am no where near finished. A slab of half chewed beef falls from my mouth. “What a bad piggy!” The farmer states; “You know the rules, everything has to be eaten!” He picks it up from the ground and places it in between Jerry’s lips. Jerry looks like he wants to kill me, because he does. He swallows the beef and the rest of my main, and my dessert, along with his own. His belly is so swollen that it looks like it might burst open. It’s super distended and hanging low like the globular ball of fat that it is. I look down at my own overweight gut, it’s round and bloated and howling in pain. I really don’t know how Jerry does it? He is the one with the constitution for this. We will both grow fatter at the Farmers bequest but I will never be a real pig like him.

The farmer calmly states that it is time for my punishment. Jerry once more looks at me with daggers. I know that he wants to be punished but my pathetic performance never allows for it. The farmer approaches me from behind. I brace. And I am gone.

My sons, Edgar and Albert are returning from camp today. It has been their first summer away and my husband is excitedly cleaning the kitchen in anticipation of their return. He has prepared five large cakes for them. They will be very pleased but will fight over the odd number. They will feel bad about it when he is dead. My sons don’t believe me about the farmhouse. They think it is just a myth. That I am insane. They don’t believe that the Surplus would ever do that. They are true believers. I know better. I know not only where they have been but where they are going. I have been there. So it grows. I try to stop Edgar from punching Albert over the final cake. I am back there.

The Surplus moon is a strange place. Bland and hectic at the same time. The beings here don’t experience weight yet they are obsessed by it. They are in love with it but don’t feel it. Nothing is linear here. Only expanding. They say that it is the beginning and the end of everything. Everything is circular and after a while I say that I agree. “I agree.” They say that the universe is theirs to consume and that nothing that any of us does matters. I fear they are correct. I am circular. I am a zoo exhibit. They look at me with wonder. I am prehistoric, an artifact. They have never seen one so small. The first seven years I fell into a depression. Then he appeared. Kyle California. The boy from my dreams. The boy from my computer screen youth. At first he wouldn’t look at me. Or them. He was petrified. Snatched from his last moment. Another car crash. Chased by a representation of his own ego. So it grows. He always returns. Returns to me. After the first six months he accepts me and the crowd roar in appreciation when we perform the beast with two fat backs.

In the farmhouse he is here. The one. Like an apparition. I have only met him once but so many times. I know he is real. As real as the minced cow that engorges me. I am fifteen again. I will soon be 600. He comments on how well my belly is pushing against the floor. I knew he was going to say that. I also know what he is going to do next. He always does that. And Danni laughs. Through the pain I see the other. At least I think I do. I always think I do. Half man, half lizard. The warrior. I like him. One day he will save me.

Edgar has knocked one of Albert’s teeth out. The fifth cake is in pieces on the floor. As is Albert. At least he can reach it from down there. “At least you can reach it from down there,” I hear myself say. Albert starts to eat the cake despite the blood in his mouth. He is a good boy. I look at Edgar. He is pretending to be pleased with his victory. He goads his brother. He is my son. I see in his eyes that he knows he really lost. He will never admit it. No matter how many times it happens. Always the same. Always the fattest son who gets the cake. 

They tell me how much they enjoyed the camp. How they are both over 200 up. I am so proud of them. They look magnificent. They will return next year. I ask Edgar if he saw where the farmhouse used to be. “Edgar, did you see where the farmhouse used to be?” He gets angry with me. He says there never was any damn farmhouse and that I should give it up. “There never was any damn farmhouse. Give it up.” I give it up. Though I know that he is wrong. Jerry died there. So it grows.

Kyle is about to have his last ever conversation with me before his date with an intersection on the outskirts of Monterey. He seems unaware. He is always unaware. Why do I remember? “Are you satisfied with our life here on the Surplus moon?” He asks me. Next he will ask me how I possibly can be when we are trapped like overfed lions in a cage. “How can you possibly be when we are trapped like overfed lions in a cage?” I tell him because I know that I won’t always be there. “Because I know that I won’t always be here.” He asks me if I love him. “Do you love me?” I tell him a hundred times over. “I love you a hundred times over.” He seems satisfied. Then he is gone. So it grows.

I am totally alone. The giant lizard man is back. I ask him why I remember. “Why do I remember?” He smiles at me as his giant jaw begins to dislocate. His belly swells. Everything goes black. Danni screams. I am unstuck.

The oversized coffin is pushed down the church aisle on a trolley. It’s far too heavy for anyone to carry. I am back at my husband's funeral. So it grows. I look waistwards to seeing him again.

www.fatfables.com

[azspot]

‘There are at least 50 chemicals, probably many more, that literally make us fatter,’ says Leonardo Trasande, an environmental health scientist at New York University in the US. An obesogen is a chemical that makes a living organism gain fat. Notable examples include bisphenol A, certain phthalates and most organophosphate flame retardants. They can push organisms to make new fat cells and/or encourage them to store more fat. Almost all of us often encounter such chemicals every day.

[fuckyeahilike]

The emperor's new clothes

Robert Lustig became internet famous some 14 years ago, when his lecture Sugar the Bitter Truth went viral - at least, among those looking for a dietary solution for their health issues, the "wellness" community.

His whole idea is that the reason why people don't lose weight when they follow the standard medical advice of eating less and exercising more is because theirs is not a moral problem of just being too gluttonous and slothful; rather it's not the amount of food they eat they should be monitoring but the quality of the food. I.e., the Standard American Diet (SAD) of highly processed, refined, denatured food prepared for you in a factory, depleted of nutrients and fiber and chock full of sugar - that's where the problem lies. However little you eat of this poor quality food your body won't be able to process the energy you get from it in a normal way and you end up listless and fat no matter what you do.

The solution is to get back in the kitchen and back to the days when we prepared meals from scratch from natural ingredients, eaten raw or simply cooked - a diet that is by definition the polar opposite of the SAD, one full of fiber and quite low on sugar. Then the fat should just melt away effortlessly and you should find you're exercising again unprompted because now you finally have the available energy to do so.

All this sounds completely reasonable, to be honest. There are only two problems:

1 - No one has ever disputed this. He's not inventing the wheel here.

Please, do go right ahead and show me the nutritionist / dietician / general physician who has ever said, ever, that the way to go on a slimming diet is to eat chocolates and cakes and ice-cream and candy, as long as you're keeping it low calorie because all that matters is calories in calories out. Who has ever prescribed this diet to any fat person?

On the contrary, doctors always tell you to not go on dangerous fad diets and instead to make plans for the long run. Find the one perfect diet and stick to it. So, no chocolates for breakfast then, I guess! Instead, they recommend eating grilled foods with little to no fat with a side dish of salad, water, and no deserts. No fast food, no crap food, no take-aways, eating at home preferred so you can control your portions and the content of your meals.

Am I making anything up? Am I lying? This is what the real standard medical advise is and has been for many decades now.

So, it's not true that doctors don't know that some foods are just inherently more obesogenic than others, and any doctor would whole-heartedly agree with Robert Lustig's recommendation of piling on the vegetables (full of fiber) and leaving out the deserts and sodas (full of sugar).

Which means that right from the get go Dr. Lustig's whole shtick of painting himself as some sort of rebel who is going against the establishment is just a conjuring trick for suckers who have never been gaslighted before. He's a great actor.

2 - However, there are some things that even the greatest of thespians can not accomplish, like hide a belly full of fat when he is supposed to be playing a thin character on stage. Not that he ever was an athletic-looking guy, but 14 years have passed since that first famous lecture that he has by now repeated actual hundreds of times with little to no change in content, and he is now quite literally obese.

I do not demand from an elderly man with a sedentarian, intellectual job that he emulates Jack Lalane, a physical fitness expert who at the age of 80+ could still do push ups on the tips of his fingers. Possibly only Jack Lalane could ever be like Jack Lalane.

But I do expect a physician specialized in obesity to at least be able to keep a normal weight, or to have the honesty to admit that he simply doesn't know how. Physician heal thyself. Case closed. I don't ever want to hear about this fraud ever again.

It's just so astonishing how he keeps cradling that belly as if by doing so he could hide it. Is he a child? Is he going to start using actual smoke and mirrors to hide in next time he's on stage?

I can't even begin to imagine just how shameless and intellectually dishonest a man has to be to walk up on stage in public to lecture other people on how to lose weight while being himself the fattest guy in the room. I guess it's the same cognitive dissonance that makes people still invite him in the first place.

On the same day I found this video of Dr. Lustig's beer belly, I listened to yet another success story of a guy who healed all his diseases and lost all his extra weight by following a carnivore diet. The best part of the interview is when he recalls the moment he explained to his doctor how he had all by himself accomplished this miracle when his doctor never did anything for him (the miracle being that he was a suicidal invalid stuck in a sofa and became a guy who is finally healthy and functional for the first time in his life, both physically and mentally). All thanks to a rather strict carnivore diet of just meat and animal fat (No salads! No fiber! How does he do it? Go figure!)

At which point his doctor - who had never expressed any concern throughout the years when his patient ate nothing but the Standard American Diet that made him and everyone sick - chose to express grave concern over this new fangled all meat diet... that he could see with his own eyes had saved his patient from a living hell. That's when the guy laughed in his face and gave up on ever seeking this doctor's help again.

Sometimes you just have to be truly anti-establishment, the real way that involves observing reality and acknowledging it, not the fake Robert Lustig kind of way of being a total fucking fraud.

[bestmethodking]

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[diwangpalaboy]

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[blsm-m]

If you live in a larger body, sometimes it feels like you can’t win. If you don’t lose weight, people will criticize you for being “lazy,” “unhealthy,” or “lacking willpower.” But if you take medication to help you, you’ll be criticized for “cheating” or “taking the easy way out,” even if you’ve tried for decades to manage your weight through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes (sometimes extreme ones). In this article, we’ll be talking about a highly contentious group of medicines—GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus) or tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound). And people have lots of opinions about them. But the opinion that matters most? Yours. At PN, we’re medication agnostic. We’re not here to judge whether a person should or should not take medication for weight loss. Ultimately, that’s a choice left up to you, with the guidance of your primary care physician. Either way, we’re here to support our clients and elevate their results. Whether you take medication or not, a coach can help you optimize nutrition and satiety with the right foods, find exercises that work with your changing body, and help you navigate the emotional ups and downs that come when you attempt to tackle a big, meaningful, long-term goal. However, we also understand that if you’re debating the pros and cons of beginning (or continuing) medication, you might have mixed feelings. If you’re not sure if these new medicines are right for you, we have your back. In the following article, we’ll give you the honest, science-backed information you need to make a confident decision. You’ll learn… Why it’s so hard to lose (and keep off) fat Why taking medication isn’t “cheating,” nor is it the “easy way out” How GLP-1 drugs work, and the health benefits they can have (aside from weight loss) How to determine if you’re at a “healthy weight” (it’s not just about BMI) What actions you can take to minimize side effects and maximize long-term health, if you do decide to take these medications Let’s begin. Over 150,000 health & fitness professionals certified Save up to 30% on the industry's top nutrition certification Help people improve their health and fitness—while making a great full-time or part-time living doing what you love. Learn More First, why is it so hard to lose fat? Fat loss is hard. Period. But for some people, it’s harder still—because of environmental, genetic, physiological, social, cultural, and/or behavioral factors that work against them. Here are a few of the contributing factors that can make fat loss so challenging. We live in an environment that encourages a caloric surplus. Imagine life 150 years ago, before cars and public transit were invented. To get from point A to point B, you had to walk, pedal a bicycle, or ride a horse. Food was often in short supply, too. You had to expend calories to get it, and meals would just satisfy you (but not leave you “full”). Today, however… “We live in an obesogenic environment that’s filled with cheap, highly-palatable, energy-dense foods [that make overeating calories easy, often unconsciously],” says Karl Nadolsky, MD, an endocrinologist and weight loss specialist at Holland Hospital and co-host of the Docs Who Lift podcast. “We also have countless conveniences that reduce our physical activity.” Of course, even in such an environment, we have people in lean bodies, just as we have people who struggle to stop the scale from continuously creeping up. Why? Genetically, some people are more predisposed to obesity. Some genes can lead to severe obesity at a very early age. However, those are pretty rare. Much more common is polygenic obesity—when two or more genes work together to predispose you to weight gain, especially when you’re exposed to the obesogenic environment mentioned earlier. People who inherit one or more of these so-called obesity genes tend to have particularly persistent “I’m hungry” and “I’m not full yet” signals, says Dr. Nadolsky. Obesity genes also seem to cause some people to experience what’s colloquially known as “food noise.”

They feel obsessed with food, continually thinking, “What am I going to eat next? When is my next meal? Can I eat now?” Physiologically, bodies tend to resist fat loss. If you gain a lot of fat, the hormones in your gut, fat cells, and brain can change how you experience hunger and fullness. “It’s like a thermostat in a house, but now it’s broken,” says Dr. Nadolsky. “So when people cut calories and weight goes down, these physiologic factors work against them.” After losing weight, your gut may continually send out the “I’m hungry” signal, even if you’ve recently eaten, and even if you have more than enough body fat to serve as a calorie reserve. It also might take more food for you to feel full than, say, someone else who’s never been at a higher weight. Being in a larger body often means being the recipient of fat stigma and discriminatory treatment. Until you’ve lived in a larger body, it’s hard to believe how different the world might treat you. Our clients have told us stories about being bullied at the gym, openly judged or lectured at the grocery store, and otherwise being subjected to innumerable comments and assumptions about their body shape, health, and even worth. Even in medical settings, people with obesity are more likely to receive poor treatment.1, 2 Healthcare providers may overlook or downplay symptoms, attributing health concerns solely to weight. This can lead to delayed- or missed diagnoses or just plain old inadequate care. All of this combined can add up to an incredibly pervasive and ongoing source of stress. This stress—in addition to being socially isolating and psychologically damaging—can further contribute to increased appetite and pleasure from high-calorie foods, decreased activity, and poorer sleep quality.3 Which is why… Taking medication isn’t an “easy way out.” In 2013, the American Medical Association categorized obesity as a disease. And yet, many people still don’t treat it as such, and rather consider obesity as a willpower problem, and the consequence of simply eating too much and moving too little. (The remedy: “Just try harder.”) In reality, people with obesity have as much willpower as anyone else. However, for them, fat loss is harder—for all the reasons mentioned above, and more. So, just like chemotherapy or insulin isn’t “the easy way out” of cancer or type 1 diabetes, medication isn’t “the easy way out” of obesity. Rather, medication is a tool, ideally used alongside healthy lifestyle behaviors, that can help offset some of the genetic and physiological variances that people with obesity may have, and have little individual control over otherwise. What you need to know about GLP-1 drugs In 2017, semaglutide (a synthentic GLP-1 agonist) was approved in the US as an antidiabetic and anti-obesity medication. With the emergence of this class of drugs, science offered people with obesity a relatively safe and accessible way to lose weight long-term, so long as they continued the medication. How Ozempic and other obesity medicines work Current weight loss medications work primarily by mimicking the function of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), a hormone that performs several functions: In the pancreas, it triggers insulin secretion, which helps regulate blood sugar (and also helps you feel full). In the gut, it slows gastric emptying, affecting your sensation of fullness. In the brain, it reduces cravings (the desire for specific foods) and food noise (intrusive thoughts about food). In people with obesity, the body quickly breaks down endogenous (natural) GLP-1, making it less effective. As a result, it takes longer to feel full, meals offer less staying power, and food noise becomes a near-constant companion, says Dr. Nadolsky. Semaglutide and similar medicines flood the body with synthetically made GLP-1 that lasts much longer than the GLP-1 the body produces. This long-lasting effect helps increase feelings of fullness, reduce between-meal hunger, and muffle cravings and food noise.

Interestingly, by calming down the brain’s reward center (the part of the brain that drives cravings and even addictions), these medicines may also help people reduce addictive behaviors like compulsive drinking and gambling, says Dr. Nadolsky. Note: Newer weight loss medicines, for example tirzepatide, mimic not only GLP-1, but also another hormone called gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP). Like GLP-1, GIP also stimulates post-meal insulin secretion and reduces appetite, partly by decreasing gastrointestinal activity. Other drugs soon to come on the market, like retatrutide, mimic a third hormone, glucagon. How effective are GLP-1 drugs? Researchers measure a weight loss medicine’s success based on the percentage of people who reach key weight loss milestones of 5, 10, 15, or 20 percent of their weight. These medicines are still evolving, but so far, they have shown to be quite effective: About 86 percent of people who take GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Wegovy lose at least five percent of their body weight, with about a third of them losing more than 20 percent of their body weight.4, 5 And newer generation versions of these medications—such as tirzepatide, and the not-yet-FDA-approved retatrutide—are only getting better, with up to 57 percent of people losing more than 20 percent of their body weight.6, 7 How do weight loss medications compare to lifestyle interventions? In the past, weight loss interventions have focused on lifestyle modifications like calorie or macronutrient manipulation, exercise, and sometimes counseling. Rather than pitting lifestyle changes against weight loss medicines or surgery, it’s more helpful to think of them all as compatible players. With lifestyle modifications and coaching, the average person can expect to lose about five to 13 percent of their body weight. When you add FDA-approved versions of GLP-1 and other weight-loss drugs to lifestyle and coaching, average weight loss jumps up another ten percent or more. 8, 9, 10, 11 Fat loss often comes with powerful health benefits For years, the medical community has told folks that losing 5 to 10 percent of their body weight was good enough. Partly, this message was designed to right-set people’s expectations, as few lose much more than that (and keep it off) with lifestyle changes alone. In addition, this modest weight loss also leads to measurable health improvements. Lose 5 to 10 percent of your total weight, and you’ll start to see blood sugar, cholesterol, and pressure drop.12 However, losing 15 to 20 percent of your weight, as people tend to do when they combine lifestyle changes with second-generation GLP-1s, and you do much more than improve your health. You can go into remission for several health problems, including: High blood pressure Diabetes Fatty liver disease Sleep apnea That means, by taking a GLP-1 medicine, you might be able eventually to stop taking several other drugs, says Dr. Nadolsky. Experts suspect GLP-1s may improve health even when no weight loss occurs. “The medicines seem to offer additive benefits beyond just weight reduction,” says Dr. Nadolsky. Research indicates that GLP-1s may reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events (heart attacks and strokes) in people with diabetes or heart disease.13, 14, 15 In people with diabetes, they seem to improve kidney function, too.16 The theory is that organs throughout the body have GLP-1 receptors on their cells. When the GLP-1s attach to these receptors in the kidneys and heart, they seem to protect these organs from damage. For this reason, in 2023, the American Heart Association listed GLP-1 receptor agonists as one of the year’s top advances in cardiovascular disease. What even is a “healthy body weight”? Many people say, “I just want to be at a healthy weight.” But what does that even mean? At PN, we believe your healthiest body composition / weight is one that: Has relatively more lean mass (from muscle and healthy, dense bones), and relatively less body fat

Emerges from doing foundational, sustainable health-promoting behaviors (like being active and eating well), rather than “crash diets” or other extreme measures Is relatively easy to maintain with a handful of consistent lifestyle choices, without undue sacrifices to overall well-being (or what we call Deep Health) Allows you to do the activities you want and enjoy, with as few limitations as possible Keeps your health markers (like blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar) in safe and healthy ranges as much as is reasonably possible Feels good to you This is not a specific size, shape, look, body fat percentage, or category on a BMI chart; A “healthy” body composition and/or weight will vary from person to person. … Which can be both freeing and frustrating to hear. Without a specific number to aim for, it’s harder to know if you’ve “arrived” at your healthiest weight or body composition. However, we like this way of qualifying what a healthy weight is because it takes the pressure off a number on the scale, and puts the focus on behaviors you have more control over, and more importantly, how your life feels. 7 strategies to make weight loss medicines more effective—and improve long-term health Here’s what we believe: Weight loss medicines don’t render lifestyle changes obsolete; they make them more critical. When GLP-1 medicines muffle food noise and hunger, many find it easier to prioritize lean protein, fruits and veggies, whole grains, and other minimally processed foods. Similarly, as the scale goes down, people often feel better, so they’re more likely to embrace weight lifting and other forms of exercise. Indeed, according to a 2024 consumer trends survey, 41 percent of GLP-1 medicine users reported that their exercise frequency increased since going on the medication. The majority of them also reported an improvement in diet quality, choosing to eat more protein, as well as fruits and vegetables.17 This is great news, because it further reinforces the idea that medication isn’t simply “the easy way out.” (Of course, sometimes drugs are used as “the easy way out”; After going on medication, people can continue to eat poor quality food—just less of it. This increases the risk of losing critical muscle and bone, and losing less—or even no—body fat.) When used correctly, weight loss medication is a tool that, as mentioned above, can make healthy lifestyle changes easier to accomplish, making both the drugs and the lifestyle changes more effective, and enhancing both short- and long-term success. If you do decide to take weight loss drugs, use these strategies to get the most out of them—and preserve your long-term health. Strategy #1: Find ways to eat nutritiously despite side effects. The slowed stomach emptying caused by GLP-1 drugs can trigger nausea and constipation. Fortunately, for most people, these GI woes tend to resolve within several weeks. However, if you’re experiencing a lot of nausea, you’re not likely going to welcome salads into your life with open arms. (Think of how you feel when you have the stomach flu. A bowl of roughage doesn’t seem like it’ll “go down easy.”) So, try to find more palatable ways to consume nutritious foods. (For example, fruits and vegetables in the form of a smoothie or pureed soup might be easier.) Dr. Nadolsky also suggests people avoid the following common offenders: Big portions of any kind Greasy, fatty foods Highly processed foods Any strong food smells that trigger your gag reflex Sugar alcohols (like xylitol, erythritol, maltitol, and sorbitol, often found in diet sodas, chewing gum, and low-sugar protein bars), which can trigger diarrhea in some Strategy #2: Prioritize strength training. When people take GLP-1 weight loss medicines, about 30 to 40 percent of the weight they lose can come from lean mass.18, 19, 20 Put another way: For every 10 pounds someone loses, about six to seven come from fat and three to four from muscle, bone, and other non-fat tissues. However, there’s two important caveats to this statistic:

1. People with severe obesity generally have more muscle and bone mass than others. (Carrying around an extra 100+ pounds of body weight means muscles have to adapt by getting bigger and stronger.) 2. Muscle and bone loss aren’t inevitable. (As Dr. Nadolsky puts it, “Muscle loss isn’t a reason to avoid treating obesity [with medication]. It’s a reason to do more exercise.”) To preserve muscle and bone mass, aim for at least two full-body resistance training sessions a week. In addition, move around as much as you can. Walking and other forms of physical activity are vital for keeping metabolism healthy—and can help to move food through the gut to ease digestion.21, 22 (Need inspiration for strength training? Check out our free exercise video library.) Strategy #3: Lean into lean protein. In addition to strength training, adequate protein consumption is vital for helping to protect muscle mass. You can use our free macros calculator to determine the right amount of protein for you. (Spoiler: Most people will need 1 to 2 palm-sized protein portions per meal, or about 0.5 to 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight per day.) Strategy #4: Fill your plate with fruit and veggies. Besides being good for your overall health, whole, fresh, and frozen produce fuels you with critical nutrients that can help drive down levels of inflammation. In addition to raising your risk for disease, chronic inflammation can block protein synthesis, making it harder to maintain muscle mass. (Didn’t know managing inflammation matters when it comes to preserving muscle? Find out more muscle-supporting strategies here: How to build muscle strength, size, and power) Strategy #5: Choose high-fiber carbs over low-fiber carbs. Beans, lentils, whole grains, and starchy tubers like potatoes and sweet potatoes do a better job of helping you feel full and managing blood sugar than lower-fiber, more highly processed options. (Read more about the drawbacks—and occasional benefits—of processed foods here: Minimally processed vs. highly processed foods) Strategy #6: Choose healthy fats. Healthy fats can help you feel full between meals and protect your overall health. Gravitate toward fats from whole foods like avocado, seeds, nuts, and olive oil, as well as fatty fish (which is a protein too!)—using them to replace less healthy fats from highly-processed foods (like chips or donuts). (Not sure which fats are healthy? Use our 3-step guide for choosing the best foods for your body) Strategy #7: Consider coaching. It may go without saying, but the above suggestions are just the start. (There’s also: quality sleep, social support, stress management, and more.) While many people choose to tackle these strategies on their own, many others find that the support, guidance, and creative problem-solving that a good coach can provide makes the whole process a lot easier—not to mention more enjoyable and more likely to stick. And that’s the real gift of coaching: A coach doesn’t just help you figure out what to eat and how to move; They help you remove barriers, build skills, and create systems and routines so that habits become so natural and automatic that it’s hard to imagine not doing them. Then, if you do want to stop taking medication, your ingrained lifestyle habits (that coaching reinforced, and medication perhaps made easier to adopt) will make it more likely that you maintain your results. References Click here to view the information sources referenced in this article. 1. Phelan, S. M., D. J. Burgess, M. W. Yeazel, W. L. Hellerstedt, J. M. Griffin, and M. van Ryn. 2015. “Impact of Weight Bias and Stigma on Quality of Care and Outcomes for Patients with Obesity.” Obesity Reviews: An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 16 (4): 319–26. 2. Tomiyama, A. Janet, Deborah Carr, Ellen M. Granberg, Brenda Major, Eric Robinson, Angelina R. Sutin, and Alexandra Brewis. 2018. “How and Why Weight Stigma Drives the Obesity ‘Epidemic’ and Harms Health.” BMC Medicine 16 (1).

3. Tomiyama, A. Janet. 2019. “Stress and Obesity.” Annual Review of Psychology 70 (1): 703–18. 4. Wilding JPH, Batterham RL, Calanna S, Davies M, Van Gaal LF, Lingvay I, et al. Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 18;384(11):989–1002 5. Garvey WT, Batterham RL, Bhatta M, Buscemi S, Christensen LN, Frias JP, et al. Two-year effects of semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity: the STEP 5 trial. Nat Med. 2022 Oct;28(10):2083–91. 6. le Roux CW, Zhang S, Aronne LJ, Kushner RF, Chao AM, Machineni S, et al. Tirzepatide for the treatment of obesity: Rationale and design of the SURMOUNT clinical development program. Obesity. 2023 Jan;31(1):96–110. 7. Jastreboff AM, Aronne LJ, Ahmad NN, Wharton S, Connery L, Alves B, et al. Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jul 21;387(3):205–16.. 8. Leung, Alice W. Y., Ruth S. M. Chan, Mandy M. M. Sea, and Jean Woo. 2017. “An Overview of Factors Associated with Adherence to Lifestyle Modification Programs for Weight Management in Adults.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14 (8). 9. Jastreboff, Ania M., Louis J. Aronne, Nadia N. Ahmad, Sean Wharton, Lisa Connery, Breno Alves, Arihiro Kiyosue, et al. 2022. “Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity.” The New England Journal of Medicine 387 (3): 205–16. 10. Jastreboff, Ania M., Lee M. Kaplan, Juan P. Frías, Qiwei Wu, Yu Du, Sirel Gurbuz, Tamer Coskun, Axel Haupt, Zvonko Milicevic, and Mark L. Hartman. 2023. “Triple–Hormone-Receptor Agonist Retatrutide for Obesity — A Phase 2 Trial.” The New England Journal of Medicine 389 (6): 514–26. 11. Maciejewski, Matthew L., David E. Arterburn, Lynn Van Scoyoc, Valerie A. Smith, William S. Yancy Jr, Hollis J. Weidenbacher, Edward H. Livingston, and Maren K. Olsen. 2016. “Bariatric Surgery and Long-Term Durability of Weight Loss.” JAMA Surgery 151 (11): 1046–55. 12. Ryan DH, Yockey SR. Weight Loss and Improvement in Comorbidity: Differences at 5%, 10%, 15%, and Over. Curr Obes Rep. 2017 Jun;6(2):187–94. 13. Marx N, Husain M, Lehrke M, Verma S, Sattar N. GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for the Reduction of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. Circulation. 2022 Dec 13;146(24):1882–94. 14. Lincoff AM, Brown-Frandsen K, Colhoun HM, Deanfield J, Emerson SS, Esbjerg S, et al. Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2023 Dec 14;389(24):2221–32. 15. Kosiborod MN, Abildstrøm SZ, Borlaug BA, Butler J, Rasmussen S, Davies M, et al. Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2023 Sep 21;389(12):1069–84. 16. Karakasis P, Patoulias D, Fragakis N, Klisic A, Rizzo M. Effect of tirzepatide on albuminuria levels and renal function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis. Diabetes Obes Metab [Internet]. 2023 Dec 20 17. N.d. Accessed May 21, 2024. https://newconsumer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Consumer-Trends-2024-Food-Wellness-Special.pdf 18. Ida S, Kaneko R, Imataka K, Okubo K, Shirakura Y, Azuma K, et al. Effects of Antidiabetic Drugs on Muscle Mass in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2021;17(3):293–303. 19. Wilding JPH, Batterham RL, Calanna S, Van Gaal LF, McGowan BM, Rosenstock J, et al. Impact of Semaglutide on Body Composition in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: Exploratory Analysis of the STEP 1 Study. J Endocr Soc. 2021 May 3;5(Supplement_1):A16–7. 20. Wilding JPH, Batterham RL, Calanna S, Davies M, Van Gaal LF, Lingvay I, et al. Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 18;384(11):989–1002. 21. Gorgojo-Martínez JJ, Mezquita-Raya P, Carretero-Gómez J, Castro A, Cebrián-Cuenca A, de Torres-Sánchez A, et al. Clinical Recommendations to Manage Gastrointestinal Adverse Events in Patients Treated with Glp-1 Receptor Agonists: A Multidisciplinary Expert Consensus. J Clin Med Res [Internet]. 2022 Dec 24;12(1).

22. Tantawy SA, Kamel DM, Abdelbasset WK, Elgohary HM. Effects of a proposed physical activity and diet control to manage constipation in middle-aged obese women. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2017 Dec 14;10:513–9. If you’re a coach, or you want to be… You can help people build sustainable nutrition and lifestyle habits that will significantly improve their physical and mental health—while you make a great living doing what you love. We'll show you how. If you’d like to learn more, consider the PN Level 1 Nutrition Coaching Certification.

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Increase in Prevalence of Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases According to the World Health Organization (WHO) March 2024 report, in 2022, one in eight individuals globally were living with obesity. Additionally, in 2022, 2.5 billion adults aged 18 and older were overweight, with 890 million classified as obese. Factors such as obesogenic environments, genetic variants, and psychosocial factors contribute to obesity. This trend has also led to an increase in cardiovascular diseases and other conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, thereby increasing the use of home fitness equipment.

Technological Advancements in Home Fitness Equipment The advent of advanced fitness apps with digital content has significantly transformed the fitness industry. Modern home fitness equipment can monitor various health aspects, including diet, sleep, movements, and metabolism. These devices are equipped with sensors to collect user data such as heart rate, step count, distance covered, and running speed. They can also connect to mobile devices or computers for easy data storage, perform weekly/monthly analyses, and create personalized exercise plans based on user performance. These technological advancements are expected to drive the market.

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Convenience and Ease of Access Propelling the Shift to Home Fitness The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the fitness industry’s focus from outdoor to indoor workouts. Movement restrictions led many individuals to adopt home workouts to stay fit, a trend that has continued post-pandemic. Increased health awareness has led people to prioritize fitness goals, habits, and active lifestyles, making home workouts a popular choice due to their time-saving and advantageous nature. Consequently, major market players are promoting and developing products to facilitate affordable and convenient home fitness. This significant shift from gyms to home workouts is expected to positively impact the market.

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You introduce yourself to someone

"Hi, so-and-so, I'm ..." and you think that you say your name,

but your plump hands, slightly sweaty,

and your swollen forearms, encroaching on small wrists,

your upper arms role-poly like the Michelin man,

and your wide, sloppy, drooping gut,

which is in theory fully covered by a shirt

barely tho;

your deep, wide belly button visible through thin fabric, stretched taut, 12x getting too small,

and let's not forget your double chin,

your soft pillowy neck roll,

your dewlap, a perfectly closed collar of squishy fat that

your tiny features sink into–

these things say

hi so-and-so,

i'm super obese, morbidly obese, obese class III,

i'm permanently disabled by how fat i have become

i'm the fattest person you have ever had to speak to

i'm the fattest person you have ever seen in person

and not on the tv freak show

hi so and so, i'm severely mentally ill

hi so and so, i'm traumatized

hi so and so, i am addicted to food

hi so and so, i have no impulse control

hi so and so, i'm ... what's your name again?

you are no one, nothing,

all you are and all you can ever be is gloriously obese beyond the frenzied imaginings of our starving ancestors who carved the venus of willendorf

you are stuffed to the point of near-bursting; even the backs of your neck rolls are frosted with stretch marks. the body always finds somewhere to store fat, and with all the usual spots so filled to the brim, you notice eventually even your forehead is fat; a deposit of soft tissue that furrows above your brows, like a sharpei.

Not long after you got a second mobility aid for out in public, a powerchair with a capaciity of 1100 pounds and hydraulic suspension and tread on its 8 tires like a tank, you started using your old one around the house, always on the verge of breaking down under the additional 200 pounds you carry beyond its rated 500 pound capacity. Not long after, unthinkingly, you just stopped walking, out of sheer bone-idleness. You couldn't say when your last day on your feet was, you surrendered sooner than that day came, comfortably dependent.

Months later, you dimly attempt to recall when you last moved, standing, from one point in space to another. Until the last month, you could still, barely, haul yourself up using a bar to support and balance yourself. From being pushed up out of your powerchair with a forward lift, to the belly gathering momentum and sliding down, to you standing shakily and taking one shuffling step to reposition your body so you can transfer from one big chair to another big chair, and from one big chair to the big motorized bariatric hospital bed.

Now, just 20 pounds later, you can't move your blob body hardly at all below your greedy mouth with its greasy, parted, mouthbreathing lips and beyond your wriggling sausage link fingers. You cannot move any other part of your body without needing help. You are not to your knowledge paralyzed really in any way, you just shamelessly became too fat to lift your own arms, you press a button on a remote that must be attached to your fat hand since if you drop it you couldn't even retrieve it with a string, you are just that weak– so thoroughly inhabiting how obese you are through the total abdication of all decisions.

Once the support bar began to gather dust and was eventually packed away- you become adjusted to transfering from place to place using motorized cranes and winches, your fat slab form filling huge slings with tough straps, prone and helpless, drowning beneath countless rolls, lovingly oiled machinery creaking as it hefts your megafat body.

Your muscles are so weak and your limbs are so heavy. You still have the urge to to struggle and sweat to lift another treat to your bottomless pit of a stomach. You are estimated to be able to hold several gallons in there before feeling sick from fullness.

Most days you simply lie expectantly and grunt with your mouth open, eating everything you are given by any of your staff or acolytes, and sucking melted ice cream sludge from one tube, or chugging diet coke or (regular) mountain dew from 2 different (fountain) tubes.

Turns out there's more than irony to research suggesting artificial sweeteners like aspartame provoke intense cravings for actual sugar.

You are fat beyond reason. Only the most depraved massive, disabling, immobilizing obesity fetishists could find your tremendous doughy body, with a belly so outsized you must be buckled into powerchairs and scooters and even the shower chair. If you don't endure the humiliation of being buckled into the modern day litter which drags your fat around, your unwieldy pannus threatens to upset your vehicle, tipping you forward and pulling you down– you know you would be left on the floor gasping, unable to even sit up, defenseless, amorphous.

And besides,

you forgot your name anyway

years ago,

dont you remember? my

pitiful

swollen

hog.

[maretriarch]

obesogenic aint that the pussy doctor

[i-wish-they-had-stevia]

Daily Foods I eat

My goal are to have a 10-15% body fat, anti-aging regimen, and be physically fit.

Below are foods/supplements I eat every day to for my goals :P health.

I am increasing my protein intake mostly for weight loss and muscle building, so that's the vibe rn.

FOODS + Reasons

300g Greek Yogurt

Satiating

high protein

Good for digestion

Apparently the probiotic can help with micro/nanoplastic toxicity (this is new research so there needs to be an RCT but it look interesting

2 servings Vegan protein powder

I do 1 serving of the Owyn chocolate sugar free which is the best I've tried, its a bit more expensive than Orgain but honestly its so worth it

And 1 serving of the Myprotein vegan tiramisu flavor and it tastes kinda good

I usually do it with water, but with really good with unsweet soymilk

this gets me 50g of protein

Both are made with pea and pumpkin protein so its a full and digestable protein. I have nothing against soy protein but I already eat lots of TVP and tofu, and too much soy can potentially be bad

Fiber supplement with a mix of things

Flax: hypertension, omega 3, brain health, increasing insulin sensitivity, lignans can help with cancer, literally so important and should be part of everyones diet. Just make sure you crush them

wheat germ: has high amounts of spermidine, which is a longevity molecule increases autophagy (eating of dead cells) which is like the cleaners of your body, so more autophagy = less cognitive disease

psyllium husk: weight manaemenet, satiety, cholesterol,

amla: highest anti-ox food great for fighting against metabolic syndrome

Black cumin: same as amla but anti-obesogenic

wheatgrass powder: Vit A, D, C, K and its a leafy green

Apple: an apple a day keeps the cardiometabolic diseases away

Supplements

Astaxanthin 12mg

Sunscreen in a pill

The molecule embeds itself in your epidermis helping combat UV and oxidative damage, anti-inflammatory

gives you a very light tan golden hue type shit

it tints your lips slightly red

Also helps with skin care

Polypodium leucotomos 240mg but a 10:1 extraction so like 2400mg/capsule

Helps repair DNA damage from UV

downregulates inflammation in the dermal layer

Can also help with acne

but this is experimental

Vit D 1,000 IU

Everyone should be taking this its good for everything including weight loss, energy, and mental state

like periodt

multivitamin with no Iron

mostly to get my B vitamins and minerals

Iron is actually not good for you cause its very oxidzing and can cause lots of issues but idk how true that is. I get like 500-600% of iron from the tofu TVP and protein powder so I try to avoid it

Magnesium

Again, literally everyone should take this. Mg in use in so many reactions and most Americans are defiencet

Milk Thistle

To combat the too much iron and antioxidant

[transmutationisms]

i have a name for that sort of "restating the obesogenic environment thesis while being superficially a dissident of diet culture/structural fatphobia/societally mandated restriction" situation. i call it the broccoli problem. its where you say structural fatphobia is bad, and racialized, and classed, but your analysis stops at the endgoal of everyone having more access to broccoli

ok i may adopt this phrase, because.... many such cases

[shadowstarkanada]

In my parents' house, the easy food option is the high calorie, high sugar, candy option. No wonder I'm gaining so much weight. How could anyone not gain weight? Go to the fridge for a quick snack, and all the healthy things require preparation. There's meat, there unwashed salad, there's a sad pickle. But look, there's donuts, and cheesecake, and cookies, and multiple types of ice creams, and chips! There's a few different loaves of bread. Jam is right there in your face. Two refrigerators, a freezer, a pantry for canned foods, and almost all of it is highly processed and high calorie.

When I was in California, those were the hard options. I made those the hard options. I didn't keep them in the house. If I wanted ice cream, I could walk my ass to the grocery store and buy a single serving. (I can't even walk to the grocery store here because it's farther away, plus the weather is almost always bad for walking, too hot and humid or too cold... in California, I walked for my lunch break.) If I wanted a quick snack, I had carrot sticks and frozen fruit as the first things I saw if I opened the fridge.

So how do I replicate that in my parents' house? How do I make the extremely obesogenic environment into one that is... less so? Because it's so uncomfortable to be fat. It's so energy draining and tiring to be fat. The heat and humidity makes me so uncomfortable because I'm fat. And yet, in this environment, the easy thing to do is always to eat something that's high calorie.

I'm going to have to do a fast this weekend, I think. Black coffee and tea. If I do that for a few days, it might at least reset my hunger levels. I don't know. I just don't have a solution for any of this. There's so much garbage in this house. If I asked, there might be less around for a few weeks, but then it just goes right back to where it was. It's fucking impossible.