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The body positivity movement, at least in the case of women, has been highly promoted by every area of the entertainment media and among social justice activists based on a singular claim: You can be healthy at any size (HAES)


Jamie Lopez, star of the body positivity-based television show 'Super Sized Salon', was an advocate of a "beauty at any size' philosophy, more so than a health at any weight size. However, social justice proponents often held up her example as justification for the HAES lifestyle. She is now dead, suffering from heart failure at age 37.

To be fair to Lopez, she did attempt to lose weight, dropping over 400 pounds in a year.

But, going from 800 pounds to 400 pounds is still not enough to prevent the myriad of health problems associated with obesity. Undoubtedly, body positivity proponents will try to gloss over her cause of death, but the fact remains that health and weight are indelibly intertwined.



https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/star-body-positivity-show-dead-heart-failure-age-37

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Getting to 400 lbs takes lots of work, going up and down. Sad story repeated throughout the country.

Women of Planet Girth

If you can be healthy at any weight why did she lose 400 pounds in a year? Sounds like a fat shamer to me...

Seriously though a sad story, and even sadder that people think they can leave at those weights without serious consequences.

Incredibly hard on the heart. Not just the obesity but yo-yoing up and down with loss/gain of that much weight.

Be fat your whole life but take ONE pfizer shot……

The best thing you can do to protect yourself from death from covid is to maintain a healthy weight. No mask is going to save a 350 lb person.

I'm no doctor but losing 400 lbs in and of itself seems like something that would be taxing on a lot of your organs and bodily systems

Such a waste of a life.

Not it! (re: pallbearer duty)

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The best thing you can do to protect yourself from death from covid is to maintain a healthy weight. No mask is going to save a 350 lb person.

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No mask is going to save any person from the winter of death.
Also, how tall is this 350 lb strawman?

How in the hell does any person reach 400 lbs much less 800 lbs?

I hit 350 lb @ 6'3" and finally became disgusted enough with myself to do something about it.
I just don't see how somebody could weigh more than 2x as much as I do let alone damn near 3x.

I finally stopped traveling and I haven't had a drink in a month now and I've lost 17 lbs. I need to hit 285 lbs to fit into my snowboard pants so I've still got almost 50 lbs to go. Can't imagine losing 400 lbs.

While that's sad....they had it coming for the bs they pushed and how they lived.

What's sad is that if she had had the resolve to work at it and less woke pride, she could have lived a more comfortable life in a healthy body.

I don't understand why people choose to live this way. This is food addiction and needs to be treated as such.

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Women of Planet Girth

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So ****ty… but kudos

One side of me says "don't care. Doesn't affect me in the least"

The other side wants to extend compassion to all these people that have been lied to"

Of course, these days that seems to be the overarching theme on most topics

She used her vice as a pathway to profit from hurting others and paid with her wasted life.

GAC06 said:

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She used her vice as a pathway to profit from hurting others and paid with her wasted life.

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Maybe so.

Maybe she was brainwashed by constant marketing, social media and mass media to think the only way to be liked/loved in our narcissistic society. I can't imagine she had a great childhood.

Im guessing there was some depression going on in her head for a long time, as in since she was a child growing up in the 80s.

Sure she made her choices to let herself get that size but you've got to consider what is going on in her head before you completely throw her under the bus. Depression can create very weird outcomes.

This clip is funny because it's kinda true….

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username fits?

If only she'd worn her mask.

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Women of Planet Girth

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GOLD, Jerry!

Oh, and it's NOT a 'body positivity' show. It's a group of gluttonous, foul mouthed planets that do hair. BEYOND cringeworthy.

She died because people just wouldn't accept her identifying as healthy. You all should feel ashamed!

Sad

Nah… i'm literally half her size or a quarter if you count from her heaviest.

My point was more towards the effect of our culture on people like this. We have a bunch of broken folks (mentally and physically) walking around. Not good for the future of our country.

We need to turn it around.

When you get to the 400lb++ size weight then you're really trapped. You have to diet for literally years if you want to lose weight safely (~ 1lb a week) and you risk injury from your own mass if you try to exercise. Who is going to go 1800 calories a day for 5 to 15 years? Not reasonable.

If she dropped 400lbs in a year then her heart couldn't deal with the fluid shifts.

I remember when I caught obesity.

One Louder said:

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The best thing you can do to protect yourself from death from covid is to maintain a healthy weight. No mask is going to save a 350 lb person.

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back in August 2020 with covid raging all around and hundreds of thousands of dead

I was at Hilton Head and there was a morbidly obese couple on the beach.

no masks

smoking cigarettes

sitting in beach chairs with masses of people walking by them

drinking alcohol

if that isn't a death wish I don't know what one would be.

The masks would have saved them. That and the shot.

agent-maroon said:

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When you get to the 400lb++ size weight then you're really trapped. You have to diet for literally years if you want to lose weight safely (~ 1lb a week) and you risk injury from your own mass if you try to exercise. Who is going to go 1800 calories a day for 5 to 15 years? Not reasonable.

If she dropped 400lbs in a year then her heart couldn't deal with the fluid shifts.

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The only real way to lose weight is by reducing carbs. Carbs are mostly from grains and sugar. There are enormous forces in our society promoting the consumption of grains and sugar. Thus all the many diets promoting everything but the reduction of grains and sugar.

LMCane said:

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One Louder said:

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The best thing you can do to protect yourself from death from covid is to maintain a healthy weight. No mask is going to save a 350 lb person.

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back in August 2020 with covid raging all around and hundreds of thousands of dead

I was at Hilton Head and there was a morbidly obese couple on the beach.

no masks

smoking cigarettes

sitting in beach chairs with masses of people walking by them

drinking alcohol

if that isn't a death wish I don't know what one would be.

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Meh...the only dangers in that scenario were smoking and obesity.

I think some folks missed my initial point. Outside of having some chronic illness that puts you at higher risk for any type of illness, being old and/or overweight were the biggest risk factors for a bad covid outcome. However, the media would have us believe that us wearing masks would protect these "otherwise healthy" people. It was a ridiculous assertion.

LMCane said:

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One Louder said:

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The best thing you can do to protect yourself from death from covid is to maintain a healthy weight. No mask is going to save a 350 lb person.

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back in August 2020 with covid raging all around and hundreds of thousands of dead

I was at Hilton Head and there was a morbidly obese couple on the beach.

no masks

smoking cigarettes

sitting in beach chairs with masses of people walking by them

drinking alcohol

if that isn't a death wish I don't know what one would be.

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Or choosing to live their best life, am I right?

agent-maroon said:

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When you get to the 400lb++ size weight then you're really trapped. You have to diet for literally years if you want to lose weight safely (~ 1lb a week) and you risk injury from your own mass if you try to exercise. Who is going to go 1800 calories a day for 5 to 15 years? Not reasonable.

If she dropped 400lbs in a year then her heart couldn't deal with the fluid shifts.

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I often remind my friends on their weight loss journey that it took years to gain the weight, and it may take years to take it off.

HollywoodBQ said:

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How in the hell does any person reach 400 lbs much less 800 lbs?

I hit 350 lb @ 6'3" and finally became disgusted enough with myself to do something about it.
I just don't see how somebody could weigh more than 2x as much as I do let alone damn near 3x.

I finally stopped traveling and I haven't had a drink in a month now and I've lost 17 lbs. I need to hit 285 lbs to fit into my snowboard pants so I've still got almost 50 lbs to go. Can't imagine losing 400 lbs.

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Need me to put you on a John Matlock program dude?

I lost ~55lb and it took me about a year for the first 40 and 2 more for the last 15. But it was a 30% reduction in body weight.

It takes a long time to get overweight and a long time to make the necessary changes to drop the weight AND sustain it and make it a permanent way of life. It isn't easy, but in my view it is better than slow suicide plus the general miserableness of being obese. Nothing fits, sweating, tiring easily, more body odor (don't deny it), double chins, meds, etc. After fighting back out of that hole, I don't know why so many people tolerate falling into it. I can tell you for me it was a gradual thing and I despised it, but I lacked a mechanism to change it without making major life changes and finding an adequate support structure for the process.

techno-ag said:

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agent-maroon said:

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When you get to the 400lb++ size weight then you're really trapped. You have to diet for literally years if you want to lose weight safely (~ 1lb a week) and you risk injury from your own mass if you try to exercise. Who is going to go 1800 calories a day for 5 to 15 years? Not reasonable.

If she dropped 400lbs in a year then her heart couldn't deal with the fluid shifts.

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The only real way to lose weight is by reducing carbs. Carbs are mostly from grains and sugar. There are enormous forces in our society promoting the consumption of grains and sugar. Thus all the many diets promoting everything but the reduction of grains and sugar.

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Balance is the key. You have to have at least some glucose (from carbs) in your diet or risk the same keto acidosis complications that occurs in an insulin diabetic crisis. BTW - the "keto" in diet plans of the same designation are referring to the artificial keto acidosis that they impose. You'll lose weight quickly but at risk to your overall health.

I would argue that a near (but not complete) elimination of fat in the diet is safer and more effective. Some fat is required to absorb the fat soluble vitamins. Again, balance is the key.