TLDR at the bottom.
Now I am no dietician, doctor or medical professional. I also haven’t been doing this health stuff for very long, so I do not claim to know it all. I do not have the answers, but I am old enough and smart enough to make this point.
As someone who has been on the larger end for most of my life until recently I can understand the impact that someone’s weight can have on them both mentally and physically. I am of the age (30) where we’ve gone from having nothing to everything at the touch of a button thanks to smart phones and social media, and I have seen the boom of Instagram.
The number of actual children posting on this subreddit about their weight is worrying. As a teenager you’re still very much developing and growing, and it’s scary to see the number of under-16’s who are posting about losing weight.
I understand that some are obese and really do need the help, but these are few and far between.
Kids - stop worrying about what you’re seeing on social media, about how your friends look and about getting down to some crazy “ideal weight” because you are putting yourself at serious risk. Unless you are morbidly obese, let nature take its course and once that’s done then start working on things.
TLDR: this subreddit is becoming full of teenagers trying to fit an ideal created by social media and its worrying.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/nxalke/this_needs_to_be_said_and_im_not_sorry/
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