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5 Harmful Health Conditions That Cause Weight Gain
aka Why You Should Keep Your Trap Shut About Other’s People’s Weight
Today I want to talk about health conditions that cause weight gain. It seems to be something we don’t talk about enough. Whenever I read any post online about body liberation and fat acceptance, people come out of the woodwork to bash fat people. We’re lazy; we’re greedy, and we don’t understand calories in, calories out. This is utter crap, as the majority of fat people have been on so many diets they are a virtual encyclopaedia of calories contained in food and how many minutes of exercise are required to burn them off.
People also try to say fat-shaming doesn’t exist and that the mean comments are designed to help us. This is a lie. People love to feel superior to fat people and feel like they can legitimately bully them because of their supposed “flaws”. I’ll say it again; EVERYONE deserves respect, and other people’s bodies, beliefs, sexuality and gender are none of your goddamned business so just zip it, ‘kay?
However, the point of this post is to highlight, yet again, that there are medical conditions and medications that make it almost impossible to lose weight, regardless of how much you eat and exercise. Let’s take a look at them now.
