I am married, and my wife watches what she eats and she exercises regularly, and she is in good shape. My 18 year old daughter takes after me, which means she can eat as much as she wishes and not put on weight, which is from my non-Anglo heritage. My past mistress was gorgeous: tall (170cm), size 10, curvy, worked out at the gym three or four times a week, careful with her diet. I think of her when I see younger overweight women.
Exercise is the key more than eating, although both fit together. To keep fit and to manage my diabetes, I swim two or three times a week. How many size 14 women on this site would jump in the pool and swim 2,000 or 3,000 metres every couple of days? I can tell anyone if they do this, they will get very, very fit, and not have too many problems with weight either.
I find fat unattractive. First, because it puts people at risk of serious health consequences, and working in healthcare I see these overweight people after time has passed and the weight has taken it's toll. I am astounded at the number of gtts we run, to confirm type 2 diabetes. Dozens each week, men more than women. Second, I find fat unattractive because all it takes is effort with diet and exercise to get into shape again, and stay in shape too.
I wrote and had published a novel set in the 1920's. To get the scene right I went to the National Library and studied hundreds of photos of the time. What astounded me was that there were no fat people. I saw individuals, couples, groups, crowds of people like us, only three generations ago, and no (hardly any) fat people. They were mobile, they walked to the train to get to work, they walked to shop, they walked a lot. They didn't vegetate in front of the TV, drive the car to the carpark 10 metres from the office, they were mobile seven days a week just to survive. I think we can all learn a lesson from that.
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