gaining weight is even harder if you have a fast metabolism like me and no fucking body will congrats you if you do unless you gained muscle mass in that case bitches will be all over yo dick

100% correct This post should have been the end of the thread.

Because if you aren't struggling with your weight/health, then you don't have to overcome it. Being healthy may just come naturally. You don't really deserve praise for your own nature.

Whereas if you are struggling with your health and weight, you have to constantly be aware of what you are doing and eating, etc. Losing a significant amount of weight is not exactly easy, so when people do it they deserve praise.

For some people, eating healthy and exercising regularly is not all that difficult, so it does not really merit attention the way significant weight loss does.

The deal is that self-improvement is what is praised. If you have always been healthy, you haven't really improved so to speak, so you don't get praised.

I see the point you are making, that these people that have always been healthy ought to deserve praise/attention. I would say that they do, in a sense, because the unhealthy people strive to be more like the healthy people, like role models. That's praise enough in my book.

You can tell a skinny person to eat a sandwich, but you get chastised if you tell a fat person to put the sandwich down.

Fuck double standards.

it's jsut like gays.. someone says there gay and a big deal is made about it calling them brave and they get in the news..... who cares just let them say there gay and move on.. if someone says there straight its just cool.

     This  man gets it..

What the other posts said and also we aren't born the same at all. We're individuals genetically and we're only similar to people that share a good portion of our dna like our close family.

Also like other people said, there's a problem with double standards, why shouldn't a skinny person be praised for working out? It's as hard for him as it is for a fat person,in fact sometimes is much harder simply because no one cares and no will praise that person.

It's socially acceptable to be fat, so if you're a fat guy, no one bats an eye. It's not socially acceptable (at least, not completely) to be gay, so it is "brave" to come out. Because the mere notion that a person is gay makes that person a 2nd class citizen in the eyes of many.

Apples to oranges

fat people discuss me... but I believe its just about supporting others to live healthier and besides it takes dedication to lose a lot of weight. It shows focus and motivation.

People have different genetic dispositions.

I've been munching away at food my entire life and I'm still skinny.

We AREN'T born equal!

(this applies to things such as talents or what we're bad at as well, OP)