This is a guest blog submitted by a Healthkicker Reader**Healthkicker does not promote Anorexia or any other eating disorder.** 
I’ve been reading Healthkicker for some time now and I’ve noticed that a lot of “overweight” people love bashing anorexics. There were a few posts that went up earlier about it and most of the comments were against anorexia and how they don’t appreciate their bodies.
What pisses me off about all these people, mostly women, is they should look in the mirror before judging others. These overweight commenters talk about eating healthy but they eat mouthfuls of food everyday, and then bitch about trying to lose weight on their Healthkicker/Xanga pages.
All you bashers could take a page from these anorexics (not that I’m for anorexia). They may suffer from an eating disorder, but they have the determination and will all you overweight people lack.
They’re able to lose weight if they want to; you sit and complain about losing weight but don’t do anything about it.
You want to live healthy? Cut back on those donuts for breakfast, fast food for lunch and frozen dinners. Learn to cook, or learn to go out for a run. Spending thirty minutes a day running or light jogging, it might help your heart from clogging from all the crap you put into your body.
Overweight people also complain, anorexics don’t know they’re hurting their bodies because of their mental disorder. If anything you have a mental disorder too. You know you need to lose weight but you don’t do anything about it. Instead you hurt yourself by stuffing your face with food. Losing weight is not hard people, you just make it hard on yourself by sitting back and doing nothing.
So next time you see an anorexic post something about their weight, you better be in optimal health before leaving a comment or judging them.
Should overweight people take care of their own bodies before judging others? Can over eating be a mental disorder since many can't stop eating? Why or why not?
Comments (730)
Wow, you're a hypocrite. You bash someone else for bashing people.
If you're neither anorexic nor obese, you have nothing to say about EITHER topic because you've never experienced it.
It also disgusts me that so many people commenting here agree with this person. Oh, it's TERRIBLE to judge anorexic people but fat people, fuck that, you can judge them all you want. Real classy.
LOL and your post wouldn't be in the least triggering to someone who actually had an ED? I can hear the words turning in a vulnerable person's head right now, "I still feel overweight. I could have more discipline. I could exercise more." Is this place "I'm healthier than thou" or is it here to help people both overweight and ED who need help to be healthy?
Losing weight isn't necessarily easy. Poorer people tend to be overweight because healthy food is expensive!
I'm neither overweight nor anorexic, but I've never been able to lose weight. I refuse to cut food groups because they exist for reason, and I eat moderately. I could stand to exercise more, but even when I've exercised regularly, I never lost any weight. I think my body is happy where it is, honestly, even if I don't like it.
Over eating is definately a disorder, just as anorexia is.
Of course that is not the case with every overweight person, just like not every thin person is anorexic.
Personally I choose to stay out of everyones "weight business", although sometimes its hard with people who constantly complain about their weight.
i've been thin, overweight and thin again. it's easy to make generalizations and judgements (i know b/c i do this myself) but just b/c it's easy doesn't make it true or right. there are plenty of overweight people who are very disciplined. when i was at my heaviest i was a single mother working/going to school fulltime...there were days when i literally did not sleep because i didn't even have time. i hardly ate anything but my body was so screwed up from all the stress. i also would fast for long periods of time and it was very frustrating to hardly see any results over weeks and weeks of denying myself anything but fruits and vegetables. i also experienced being skinny and unhealthy - where I still felt bad about myself and was doing very destructive things to my body. My advice is to try not to make assumptions about any group of people in any condition. One of my pet peeves is how people judge the homeless, for example. My plea is that we all please not assume that every overweight person is undisciplined or bitter towards anorexics or whatever else might seem logical. We're all individuals. Just as not all women think alike, not all anorexics, overweight, white, black, asians or hispanics think alike either. We don't know what other things people are dealing with. likewise do not assume every anorexic is insanely driven by superficiality. I've known girls who weren't even motivated so much to lose weight as to have control over one area of their lives. some girls came from very dysfunctional families and were crying out for attention whether they knew it consciously or not.
Okay, I agree with you... mostly. I mean really I think the lesson is not to judge anyone. Why should you care what I do, or why should I care what you do? You wan't to be unhealthy? Fine. I'm not going to judge you on either extreme.
Okay- yes. There are some overweight people who eat badly and never exercice- these people do need a wake up call, like you say. But please, please, please, PLEASE don't judge every overweight perosn as some lazy ass who never tries. ------------My father had been of doctor- observed diets for over ten years. He goes to the gym 3-5 days a week, for 1-3 hours each time. He eats healthy, anywhere from 700- 1200 calories, depending on what his doctor recommends. He is not lazy. He is not what many of you sterotype overweight people to be. But I am sure that if you saw him on the street you would think he was some lazy fat sob who needed a wake up call, when really, he has been trying so hard and gotten no where.
All I am saying is that you guy's shouldnt judge to either extreme. Everyone is different, and everyone does self destructive shit. Why do you care? Focus on your own life- when you are pefect- maybe I will litsen to you.
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A bit harsh but that's freedom of speech.
Thank you for making them not so perfect too.
What do you consider overweight? Someone who isn't anorexic?
Also...bashing people is wrong is should not happen. This means talking down to people in rudeness and arrogance, NOT just saying that they are wrong for their ideas and actions. There is a difference. The weight of someone should not be a determiner in their behavior toward others, so I don't agree that "overweight" people should stop bashing, but rather that people should be kind to each other, regardless of weight.
I am not "bashing" when I say: Anorexia is wrong and unhealthy and should be discontinued.
Wow. People with anorexia have the "will and determination" that overweight people lack? Yes. They do. They have the will not to eat and to make JUST AS UNHEALTHY decisions as the people who do overeat. They are choosing to harm their bodies and potentially kill themselves, too. Anorexia is just the flip side of people being overweight. Both sets of people have low self-esteem and usually want to do something about it. Anorexics are JUST AS OBBSSESSED with food as overweight people are. They think about "not eating" just as much as overweight people thing about eating. They are both concerned with their size, and BOTH sets of health problems could be considered mental disorders.
I agree that overweight people shouldn't bash anorexics and visa versa, but as a group, both sets of health disorders are wildy concerned and consumed with thoughts of their weight. And just as anorexia isn't always about losing weight, the same can be said for overweight people. There can be and usually are deeper reasons for a person to gain weight.
So, before you go bashing and standing on one side of the line with your finger pointed, you should try to understand both points of views.
woohooooo, thank you so much :)
lol
@poltron78@xanga - actually they are both pretty damn dangerous. Sure you might not die as quickly but I'm pretty sure you can get more health complications from being overweight than being anorexic.
Wow, ouch.
Talk about overthinking a comment.
Thankyou.
I'm not anorexic but i do have disordered eating. I hate how someone genuinely anorexic is constantly told to eat and pressured to put on weight. You would not go up to an overweight person and say "You're so fat! You've gained so much weight, stop eating!"
I agree. It's hilarious that in both instances there a double standard yet overweight people still have the upperhand. Everyone wants to be thin and fit into social norms. Countless people desire to be thin and few really desire to be overweight and will make fun of overweight people in whatever way, but at the end of the day anorexic people are somehow treated way worst. Like no one will just up and make a post about how overweight people need to stop eating so much and go to the gym out of the blue like they do saying anorexic need to eat. Sure someone will maybe snicker to their friend at the obese person walking down the street, but I know anorexics who have had strangers walk up to them and tell them to their faces
"what they should do" and "how
ashamed of themselves they should be". People will go out of their way
to make anorexics feel bad about themselves thinking that that will
somehow change something, but the amount of overweight people in
America and the world is increasing my the second. In a country where
the costs for treatment for anorexia per day is equivalent to a year of
private college tuition that is usually not covered by insurance while
the treatment for obesity can be as simple as cutting 500 calories from
a diet in which ever way, eating less, exercise or both, whats an
absolute shame is that people have the nerve to treat anorexics the way
they do and act like they do when few out there are unwilling to take
the time to actually help them.
agreed.
@persuasion__usa@xanga - Agreed. Healthiness ftw!
Despite the fact that the author sounds like a whiny kid, this article does make a good point. Overweight people shouldn't judge anorexics for their eating disorder. This wouldn't seem so bad, except for anorexic blogs are notorious for calling others fat. The hypocrisy is on both sides.
As someone who weighs a little more than I want to, I've read anorexic blogs for inspiration.
"Hey, this fourteen year old with emotional problems can limit herself to 300 calories a day, why can't I, as a stable 25 year old successful male, limit myself to 2000? I've got to have more willpower than THAT!"
I completely agree with you. If your overweight && have something bad to say about anorexics,shut your mouth...for once lol.
OH && There is a eating disorder for over eating.
Its called Binge Eating Disorder. 6 out of 10 overweight people have it,i guess.
Some people who are overweight do not over-eat or eat junk food. Some of us DO exercise and have medical problems with weight nonetheless. This does not mean we are not healthy, only slightly less healthy and through no fault of our own. We can still struggle with our weight and look for the support of like-minded people.
And that willpower you talk about annorexics having? That is a mental illness. What they need, is the willpower to force themselves TO eat, which most of them cannot do even if they want to. I am ready to support anyone who is trying to be healthy, but I can Never support any website glorifying an illness, and that is what most ana blogs on xanga do.
Nobody should minimize any person's legitimate struggle to be healthy by calling them names and degrading them, that includes those who are underweight AND overweight.
ummm anorexia nervosa has nothing to do with will power and determination. Trust me, if you have an eating disorder, it takes 0 will power to not eat. It's more a matter of giving in and surrending. It's a complete lack of control as with any other addiction.
Of course over-eating is a mental disorder. It's called compulsive over-eating. Bashing people is not the way to go no matter what side it comes from. It shows a complete lack of the ability to empathize with someone. This post is just as ignorant as the posts from people who know nothing about eating disorders yet chose to write about them.
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