So This Just Happened......

Post written:  1-5-19

All of a sudden, authors are up in arms over a rant by a cover artist, and blocking him from their FB feed, or unfriending him altogether.  Why?

The man dared to express his honest, no-holds-barred opinion on obesity.

Ladies, he's a body-builder.  The man works hard to keep his body in shape, so women will snap up our books, no matter what the title.  So yeah, he's a little 'in your face' and crass.  He's just speaking the God's honest TRUTH!

"Do I really have to even write anything here?!?! My post says it all!🤦🏻‍♂️ And it is disgusting!🤮
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Yes, disgusting how lazy Americans are! How little self-control, discipline, and care for their health they have. Especially when I see fat kids... That is “child abuse” and it really irritates me😤
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And so tired of seeing posts or write-ups about how “big is beautiful”, telling other obese/severely overweight people that they should just love themselves as they are...
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NO THEY SHOULDN’T! Stop encouraging them to be lazy, and unhealthy!
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- Don’t act like you don’t fly on a plane because you’d rather drive... You hate trying to force-squeeze yourself into the seat and embarrassed that you can’t even buckle the seat belt as it won’t reach.
- Same for why you don’t go to the movie theater...
- Or on amusement park rides.
- You hate not being able to be on your feet for that long due from the pain of all that weight your feet, ankles and knees have to hold up.
- Having only stretchy wasted pants and XXXL t-shirts for the majority of your wardrobe.
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All of those who say they love their large body, in a MILLISECOND would say yes to being able to snap their fingers to be in great shape!
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Unmotivated people need HARD CORE, IN YOUR FACE reminders like this post of how unhealthy they are at their size, and NOT “so called” friends not saying a word to them about it, afraid they will hurt their feelings!... F THAT!... So this is merely one of those wake-up calls.
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Do you think I enjoy going to the gym? Hell no! I did the first 15-20 years working out. But when you have been doing it for almost 34 years, it is DRAINING, time-consuming & HARD WORK! Especially at my level, where I push harder and further than most do or can, as it is now innate to me and I don’t feel the OMG/WTF feeling of exertion until I stop my last rep, where then I am dying out of breath, about to fall over/pass-out.
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And no, I can’t lift easier. That is like telling a cheetah to run slower, or a hummingbird to flap its wings less, or dynamite to explode gently!
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And now before all you haters come on my post trying to claim obese people can’t help being that way, they have health issues...

“According to the CDC, 63% of teenage girls become overweight by age 11.”😡

“Obesity in the United States is a major health issue, resulting in numerous diseases, specifically increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, as well as significant economic costs.”...
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That said “RESULTING IN”, not what made them obese!!

“Obesity has continued to grow within the United States. Two of every three American men are considered to be overweight or obese, but the rates for women are far higher. The United States contains one of the highest percentage of obese people in the world.”

“An obese person in America incurs an average of $1,429 more in medical expenses annually. Approximately $147 billion is spent in added medical expenses per year within the United States. This number is suspected to increase approximately $1.24 billion per year until the year 2030.”
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This causes everyone else to have higher health insurance rates!!!😡

“It is estimated that 3/4 of the American population will likely be overweight or obese by 2020.”
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So save your hate comments for when you are talking to yourself about your own obesity!"

Last year, I was rather appalled by a plus-size author posting pics in her bikini.  I found it rather offensive, since I stopped wearing bikinis after the birth of my 1st child, even though I'd finally lost all my 'baby weight'.  I didn't like the way I looked in it, and didn't feel the need to inflict my flabbiness on the general public.  I went back to tank suits.

After hitting my highest weight, I hated putting on bathing suits unless I had shorts on.  This past year, I bought a tankini, with a flared skirt for a bottom, to cover up my 'thunder thighs'.

I APPLAUD what the man said!  I'm trying to lose the pounds I put on from 2011-2013, and even if I don't achieve my total goal, I'm doing it for ME....so I'm healthier.

I get that some of it's genetic.  Some people, no matter what they do, just can't lose the pounds.  But at least TRY?  If you've tried everything and your metabolism just won't cooperate, that's one thing.  But to lie to yourself and say 'Big is beautiful'?  Again, if you're healthy, that's one thing.  If you have HBP, diabetes, and other health issues, listen to your doctor and try to drop some pounds?

*****UPDATE*********

Boy howdy, has the sh*t hit the fan!  Authors are blocking him, having their covers changed, and even cursing him out on his page.  Only TWO people have stood up for him....and, you guessed it....been slammed.  I messaged one of them privately and told her I was on my side, but couldn't afford to be 'black-balled' by my fellow authors.  She understood.

JT even responded today with this:

"THE TRUTH (because for writers and readers you are all illiterate!)...

I never said obese women were disgusting. I said obesity in America is disgusting. The issue of obesity, not individual people. The issue of obesity means you allow yourself to get obese. That doesn’t say you as a person are disgusting. It says you not doing anything, or much, or enough, about it when you can is disgusting. The “act” is disgusting not the person.

But you all don’t want it to be that actual truth of what I really wrote. You want it to be like I’m body-shaming you, as you all LIE and say I’m directly insulting you personally and every single overweight person to ever walk the earth, and that I hate all women🙄

That way you can be mad at me instead of yourselves for being lazy and not doing something or enough about your obesity.

And lazy does not mean exercise. Lazy means anything of a forward action to do something about your obesity. And you ALL can, but lie and say you can’t. You all can eat less and the right foods. It is a very very small percentage of people that have diseases where it makes it very HARD (not impossible) to lose weight via diet. There is not one single disease that makes it “impossible” to lose weight, and causes you to continue to gain weight like you all claim.

A disease can’t make food go into your mouth. So a disease cannot make you gain weight. Only the food that goes in your mouth can cause you to gain weight. How your body reacts to food because of very rare diseases is something different. Which can still be controlled, and is a tiny % of the population, not everyone of you hypocritical liars. Only 16% of people have a thyroid problem, and that includes the ones that make you LOSE weight.

If everybody who was overweight and obese were actually trying to do something about it, the obesity rate wouldn’t be 2/3 of America, with next year it going UP to 3/4 of America! So you are all a bunch of liars!

You could’ve all easily commented by saying...

“I know, I know it’s just so hard to have self-control to not eat more when I’m hungry, and I’ve tried various diets and can’t seem to stick to them or can’t seem to get results from them. Do you have any suggestions for me, because you’re right “obesity in America is disgusting” and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”

But nobody will say that, as you are ashamed to admit it. But see how easily your moronic attitudes could’ve prevented all this? 

None of you are even on here to defend body shaming, because just about EVERY ONE of you have been non-stop body shaming myself and my girlfriend. That PROVES you are not defending body-shaming, as YOU body shame! It proves you are hypocritical lying trash!"

Yes, he could have been a little more tactful in his delivery.  I get that.  But the point he's trying to make is America has a weight problem.  Some commenters tried to point that out, but apparently everyone else saw this post as 'Plus-Sized Women Are Disgusting and Have No Self-Control'.

Ummm....no, that's not what he was saying.

I don't dare post this for a few months....