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> Fat shaming is like going up to each smoker you see on the street and screaming "eww that stinks" in their face. I'm not pro fat shaming, but spending time i
by JCharante 6y ago
> Fat shaming is like going up to each smoker you see on the street and screaming "eww that stinks" in their face.
I'm not pro fat shaming, but spending time in East Asia and getting called fat publicly (even by close friends, but especially strangers) has led to lifestyle choices that have me down 50 lbs from when I first came. I saw that society here (in this unspecified country, not trying to make a blanket statement about East Asia) views fatness very differently, and that I needed to assimulate.
Being fat in the US, where I grew up, is viewed very differently and is normalized.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoI accept your own experience but realise that this isn't necessarily the whole truth. For example, in Canada I found myself accidentally ordering a large out of habit. What arrived was invariably more than I could eat. Easily one and a half times your daily calorie requirements in one meal. In Spain I don't even remember a large being an option.
- JCharante 6y agoAh that's true. During a layover in Amsterdam I was "frustrated" at how a bottle of coke was only 350ml at a restaurant compared to the 750ml you'd find in the US "in the worst case". I didn't order another because I realized that I was probably consuming excess amounts and should instead take this opportunity to realize that optimally I wouldn't even be consuming it.