This is a good perspective. Also, I agree somewhat with the first comment.
I am exploring my feelings about obese people and trying to come to a place where I am more compassionate. Though, I am an average, fit person who has led a life of being extremely active physically and I eat very healthy, I find myself on the receiving end of mild insults from obese people (who are mostly in my family) when I would not have dreamed of saying such things to them.

Lately, I find people pushing an agenda that is promoting an acceptance of obesity and trying to paint it as attractive. I find this dishonest, since so many who do this are actively trying to lose weight. And they are not losing it for me.

It should not be wrong for someone to say they are not attracted to overweight people. It is not a control measure. It is a personal preference. Someone is gay, I support that. Someone likes more weight on their significant other, fine.

I understand the backlash to stop fat-bashes, but seriously, to blame it all on the government for supplying crap food is kind of over-simplifying. People have a choice. I don’t have much money, but I eat healthy meals. I do not let myself buy soda and chips and other unhealthy crap because I would eat it and feel unhealthy and bad about myself. So, if you DO buy crappy food and gorge on it, then expect society to fawn on you and tell you it is okay, you are so out of luck.

The government does promote obesity and stupidity in this country. True enough. But, people have a choice. They do.
We are all exposed to the same information. And this is usually a controllable thing, not a thyroid problem. It is a poor decision making problem.

Go ahead. Make poor decisions. But don’t expect society at large to lie and pretend it is not a problem, and that it is beautiful. It is not. Gluttony is considered one of the big sins. We judge people for doing other things where self-control is required. Why not this?