At the risk of being a real bitch, I have to say I’ve never known anyone I thought wanted to be overweight, but I’ve known plenty of people who overeat for all sorts of reasons-those who care about their appearance and health do something about it, the ones who don’t give a damn don’t do anything but demand that everyone cater to them.
If someone chooses to be overweight, that is their right, and the nanny government needs to just STFU and leave everyone alone. On the other hand, those overweight people who choose to not lose weight don’t have the right to be accepted, accommodated and never offended, any more than anyone else does-being overweight as an adult is a choice...
Strangely, the only really overweight people you see out here are tourists and other visitors, even in the nearest/biggest town-less than 900 people. I don’t know if it is the dearth of fast food restaurants-Dairy Queen is it-the work people do, etc-but I suspect it is in part because it is the norm to grow as much of your own food as you can.
I still shudder at that obese woman who sat next to me on the plane. She was waddling down the aisle and I just prayed she wasn’t to be my seat mate....yet she was. I got up to let her in and she took up her seat and half of mine...I put the arm rest down and it just squished her in at the waist. There was no room for me. I asked the stewardess to move me and I got a seat in the emergency exit row with lots of leg room. The fat lady sat down taking up my seat, too, and pulled out her feed bag and started grazing. I was slack jawed in shock. Guess you’ve got to eat non-stop to maintain 350 lbs of fat.