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littlefuzzy wrote:99% of people CAN lose weight if they work hard enough at it. It isn't just crash diets, those actually make you gain weight in the long run. You need to completely change your eating and exercise habits, and stick with those changes.

And yes, I'm heavy myself, and have always been so. I love good food, and my activities are all sedentary - movies, video games, reading, surfing the net, and so on.

Trust me, I know all about crash diets and how they don't work, lol. I also know about lifestyle changes.

I am asthmatic and thus have trouble with exercise from time to time, but even at my most active (swimming a mile every day or walking five) I was overweight, and even though I literally eat half the food and make much healthier choices than my boyfriend does, I'm still bigger than him (and we're not talking about height). Hardly seems fair, does it.

Anyway, more of my point is that regardless of the reasons behind why people are the way they are, they're made to feel bad about themselves if they're overweight.

I think this film has a positive message of being happy with who you are as opposed to the whole "shame on you for not taking care of your body" we constantly get from the media.

I just wanted to clarify that the reason I find it offensive is the message of the movie is a good one and then they go against it to me when they are shown rubbing whipped cream and chocolate all over their faces and bodies.

I believe it was Slave2moonlight who said something about overweight people always being shown eating, but I felt this movie took it to the extreme. Also, the fact that it is children actors doing this stereotypical behavior is bothersome to me.

Bothersome enough to write a letter, nah, just enough to complain about it on the internet.