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<blockquote data-quote="AdamJames" data-source="post: 1784278" data-attributes="member: 459333"><p>That seems to be a problem for my sister. She's older than me and quite a bit heavier but not T2, but is trying to lose weight. She <em>loves</em> swimming, and if she had a private pool she'd be in there all day, but when I ask her why she doesn't go swimming on her days off work she says it's because she hates the thought of being 'looked at' judgmentally as she enters the gym / pool.</p><p></p><p>How ironic that the main obstacle to doing something to lose weight is the fact that she is overweight. If you removed judgemental people from the equation there wouldn't be that obstacle.</p><p></p><p>I like to think that [USER=196960]@ickihun[/USER] is right however, and people who work at a gym, or go to a gym, should surely be the least judgemental, and most encouraging of anyone going there to try to improve their health. I really think they probably are, but I doubt I could convince my sister that because we do live in such a fat-shaming society.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AdamJames, post: 1784278, member: 459333"] That seems to be a problem for my sister. She's older than me and quite a bit heavier but not T2, but is trying to lose weight. She [I]loves[/I] swimming, and if she had a private pool she'd be in there all day, but when I ask her why she doesn't go swimming on her days off work she says it's because she hates the thought of being 'looked at' judgmentally as she enters the gym / pool. How ironic that the main obstacle to doing something to lose weight is the fact that she is overweight. If you removed judgemental people from the equation there wouldn't be that obstacle. I like to think that [USER=196960]@ickihun[/USER] is right however, and people who work at a gym, or go to a gym, should surely be the least judgemental, and most encouraging of anyone going there to try to improve their health. I really think they probably are, but I doubt I could convince my sister that because we do live in such a fat-shaming society. [/QUOTE]
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