Apparently, 10% of Singaporeans are obese.
Apparently, they don't like us to be fat.
Welcome to the epitome of what it means to be a fat girl (or person) in a skinny world.
I get that being obese is u n h e a l t h y, but does anyone out there really believe that a governing body of a country can make (read: force) people lose their weight? Especially by releasing statistics on the percentage of obese people in the country?
Shouldn't an obese person decide for him/her-self that they want to lose weight? I mean, it's not exactly like all these people telling them what to do are going to be the ones lifting the weights, eating less or doing all that cardio!! It's not like anyone's paying for a free gym membership!
Already, people in Singapore think being just a little bit fat is a sin. To even mention the word obese in front of anyone is a cardinal sin. I prefer not to think of what it means to actually be obese.
I read the Editor's Note in the ST's Mind Your Body insert, and the editor wrote that there are "no excuses for a few extra kilos".
Someone tell this woman that she's missing the point completely! A few extra kilos does NOT equal obese! We're talking kilos upon kilos upon kilos of extra kilos here! We are talking about the difference between a healthy heart and one that could decide to stop at any moment.
Singapore is probably the worse excuse of a skinny country ever. We hate on fat people, throw looks of disgust at obese people and yet at the same time we are all gluttons, stuffing our faces and calling ourselves foodies. More like pretentious idiots with the wrong idea.
You can't eat everything and not expect to gain weight.
Oh, and I'm sorry but, not EVERYONE wants to spend hard earned money on diet pills that will just restrict their sleep patterns!
If you're a little on the chunkier side, I say, embrace it. It's Y O U R body. Don't let a statistic make you feel inferior. We should all exercise because we want to lose the pounds not because we don't want our country to have a prevalent rate of obesity.
Yourself before others ok?! It's your health and in the end you are footing the bills. So who cares what anyone says!
And this whole 10% obese thing is causing some sort of nation wide distress. Like, who cares! At least people here can eat. There are people who don't even have 3 meals a day and can't even secure 1 meal!
Be grateful for what you have. And LIVE YOUR LIFE.
Peace lovies.
Til the next post!
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