• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    554·
    11 months ago

    I’m glad it worked for him, but if someone did that to me, I’d probably get fatter just out of spite.

    • phorq@lemmy.mlEspañol
      29·
      11 months ago

      According to the questionable celebrity health statistics website I found… Danny DeVito is 70kg, which is 11 stone… So it’s more like the chef lost almost 1.9 Danny DeVitos. We Americans may have weird measuring systems, but we take them seriously!

    • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      592·
      11 months ago

      r/fatpeoplehate

      They were so toxic that the site got noticeably better within 24 hours of them being banned.

      They all migrated to Voat. Later, people from r/The_Donald also tried to join voat, but the fat hate people were too toxic even for them!

      Yeah, they were awful, awful people.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
        2812·
        11 months ago

        I too have been struggling with my weight for most of my life (the worst was 135 kilos at 189cm height, usually sitting around 95-100). I have been occasionally made fun of as a kid for it too, so I’m happy treating fat people like shit isn’t that acceptable any more.

        However, I actually feel society has gone too far in accepting it, being overweight is very unhealthy and at a certain point even a burden on everyone around you and the healthcare system. It should not be normalized like this.

        Fat people don’t deserve to be ostracized, but they sure as shit don’t need to hear that they are healthy and okay to remain as they are, because it’s a blatant and dangerous lie. For the vast majority of overweight people it is a symptom of their poor lifestyle and not an actual medical condition.

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          152·
          11 months ago

          I personally don’t struggle with my weight, but whether I do or not is enitrely irrelevant. Body shaming is a big problem, and such conversations need to be kept between a medical provider and the patient. Someone’s weight should not be up for discussion on a public platform.

          Also, I do think it is good for people to love and accept themselves, no matter what their weight. In fact, in most cases this is the first step toward resolving health problems and addictions, which is something I am experienced with. When I felt ashamed of my addiction, I was caught in a circle of guilt from which I would never have become sober. It wasn’t until I learned to accept myself where I was at that made it possible for me to heal.

          But I’m not applying my experience to everyone else. This may vary by individual, which is why it is paramount that these discussions happen on an individual basis between the patient and provider.

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
          1613·
          11 months ago

          For the vast majority of overweight people it is a symptom of their poor lifestyle and not an actual medical condition.

          It is? This sounds more like a moral judgment based on nothing but perception and the way fat people os portray in media and exactly wat the fat acceptance movement try to fight against.

          • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            173·
            11 months ago

            Everyone can shut the f%# up about fatshaming, does someone have scientific evidence that shaming people for being fat does anything other than needlessly hurt people? I am betting that it makes it FAR more likely that the shamed person will spiral into more negative behaviors that result in their health worsening.

            People need to stop pretending the glee they feel in judging others when fat shaming as also somehow a genuine concern for their health. Save your judgement for your own extremely flawed self.

          • hamms@lemmy.world
            44·
            11 months ago

            Hi, fat guy here. I can’t speak for others and I certainly don’t know statistically whether or not I represent any kind of majority, but I do know that for me my excessive weight is entirely the result of poor lifestyle decisions.

          • waz@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I can’t help with the metric, (2.2 lbs a kg?) But for the 21 stone thing, multiply by 14 to get the US standard way to describe weight.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    He lost a lot of weight and all it took was daily malicious bullying?! How inspirational.

    • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      71·
      11 months ago

      It’s not necessarily malicious – given general humour in this country, it’s likely he wanted to lose weight and asked his friend to text him that daily as a form of motivation.

      Edit: however, I’d like to point out that consensually being sent that by a friend is fundamentally different to having abuse thrown at you by a stranger on the internet for your body shape.

  • xploit@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 months ago

    Well it’s UK so I’m guessing now the friend goes: “skinny fuck” every day?

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yes very much so. There was this bakery I would go to when I was a teen who had the best chocolate chip cookies ever. The woman behind the counter stood taller than pretty much any woman I have ever seen and her obesity made me wonder how she could even stand.

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
    174·
    11 months ago

    So were those stones ugly? Or just too much for his furniture? Why is this so anti-stones?