Brief:
Did you know that weight is related to air pollution and environmental damage around you? Do you know what a weight set point is? Did you know that weight is related to our subconscious, emotions, major life events, etc.? Do you know the relationship between weight and circle of friends?
Today we will talk about an eternal human problem - weight.
Too fat is unsightly, too thin to be human-like, and the numbers on the scale are too big or too small to see. I vividly remember that actress Reiza appeared at the airport wearing a camisole and was frantically attacked for "being so fat and daring to wear suspenders"; Liu Haoran was under pressure for a while, losing weight and losing weight, and netizens said that he was again.
The examination of the weight of ordinary people in life is also everywhere. It is like a hanging sword of Damocles, making us afraid to eat the food we want to eat, forcing ourselves to do exhausting exercises...
Maybe you've also failed to gain (or lose) weight N times and feel like a failure?
Don't be afraid, today's article may enrich everyone's perspective on weight. Like what:
Does air pollution have role:
Did you know that weight is related to air pollution and environmental damage around you? Do you know what a weight set point is? Did you know that weight is related to our subconscious, emotions, major life events, etc.? Do you know the relationship between weight and circle of friends?
I hope this article can help you make our relationship with our own weight more flexible, more energetic, and more empathetic.
Whether it's "too thin" or "too fat", I believe that most people have experienced physical humiliation at some point in their lives. In those moments, our dignity is reduced to the numbers on the scale, as if we were nothing but those few numbers.
Social discussions about weight:
One of the reasons why social discussions about weight make us feel annoyed or anxious is that they tend to reduce the multidimensional topic of weight to a single-dimensional topic, that is, "calorie intake, calorie output".
From this single dimension, the social narrative tells us: "If you have a strong enough personal will, then you should be able to control your diet and you should be able to maintain a standard weight." In other words: "substandard" weight is recognized by society as a failure of individual will.
The personal will here is not just qualities such as "perseverance" and "persistence" as we usually understand it. Personal will refers to the mechanism by which a person's desires are chosen, i.e., a person's mental capacity to choose a desire from a variety of desires when making a decision.
We usually think that this is a multiple-choice question of personal will.
This problem requires Jennifer to conduct a rational analysis of the calories she ingests and the calories she consumes, requires her to have a sufficient understanding of society's expectations of appearance, and a moral judgment on which choice is the right one.
Thus, personal will is associated with one's rationality, understanding, and moral capacity.
That is to say, the weight level that is linked to personal will is never just about physical evaluation, it also involves society's evaluation of our ability, character, and what kind of person we are.
Social thought about fat person:
If a person is considered "too high" or "underweight" by relatives, friends or strangers, he will be considered a person who lacks self-control and self-management, or even an immoral person - because society tends to simply and crudely attribute the "weight non-standard" to the cause, that is, the inability to choose the right amount of food and exercise among various desires related to weight.
However, weight is never a one-dimensional "calorie intake, calorie output" problem (Hall & Guo, 2017). In other words, the logical premise of the so-called "non-standard" weight = insufficient willpower = low moral competence – is wrong from the start, or rather, inadequate.
So, what other dimensions are linked to our weight?
1. Weight is not only about the individual, but also a public health issue and an environmental issue
The calorie-based social narrative condenses the weight issue into a personal choice issue, effectively exempting the food processing industry, the 996/007 overtime system (pressure makes people fat), the film and television media industry, and other areas of public responsibility.
It is no exaggeration to say that we live in an obesogenic environment (Geary, 2020). The realization of the desire of all members of society to maintain a reasonable weight in a real, long-term and effective manner must require changes in the industry and society, and the efforts of each individual alone are not enough.
2. Weight is not only about calories, as long as there are ups and downs in life, there will be ups and downs in weight
Our old article (click to see why do you always rebound after losing weight?| It may be that you have a psychological defense against getting thin) once explained that weight is related to 👉 factors such as our subconscious, emotions, major life events, thought patterns, and sense of identity.
In some cases, weight is just a signal of our life and state of life, it is a manifestation that appears on the surface. How to deal with the ups and downs of life should be our primary consideration, and these more core problems often require more fundamental efforts to solve.
Because of this, when others do not understand our lives and have not experienced similar experiences, we do not need to pay attention to their judgment of our bodies, let alone let their words and actions affect our sense of self-worth. Conversely, judging the body of a person at will is not a good deed.
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