People use excuses that healthy food is expensive. If you grow your own fruit and vegetables or buy fruit and vegetables at discount prices from fresh markets, you can eat at prices much cheaper prices. People also use excuses that exercise takes up too much time, is hard to stick to and gym memberships are expensive. Instead of the video games, TV or driving the car, get out and walk, jog or cycle instead. Make the changes and eventually you will see results over time. Stop looking for quick fixes and taking short cuts. No more excuses, wake up people. Through exercise and healthy diet and a positive attitude, most of you can get back to a normal healthy body weight.

First of all, there's no equivalence between the "discipline" of staying thin if you're already thin and the "discipline" of becoming thin when you were fat beforehand. It's like a person who never starts smoking complaining that it's not really that hard for a person to quit smoking, on the basis that it wasn't hard to not start smoking. And this is from a guy who, although not particularly lean through his life (getting there now, though), would never have been called "fat", and also who has never smoked.

Also, we're not all pretty much born on the same level playing field. Each person's body reacts differently to various inputs. Some people are naturally thinner than others. It's not birth defects, but natural variation. You may have heard of "endomorph", "ectomorph", and "mesomorph" - these are broad classifications that demonstrate my point.

And third, the reason why they're treated like "heroes", etc, is that doing so (that is, treating them like heroes) can help motivate others to also lose fat.

Also note the difference between "weight" and "fat". It's an important distinction, and are unfortunately used interchangeably too often.

Finally, since when have people who are in great shape been "kinda ignored"?

Even so its fucking bizarre that because of this gays seems to need more respect and understanding than straight... and someone being proud of being straight is deemed as homophobic.

I don't know... why do we praise alcoholics and druggies that check themselves into rehab?

who cares about the guy that showed discipline. that makes for boring T.V. People like the guy that turned his life around type story. that's the difference. It's the underdog type thing.