Landwhale is too fat for Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios
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There is actually a physiological process wherein being obese as a kid makes it objectively harder to lose weight as an adult. Letting your kid get fat permanently ruins them by way of generating excess adipocytes, which do not go away unless they're physically destroyed. It's not impossible to lose weight in this state, of course, but it is significantly more difficult.
There is no excuse for being so goddamn fat you can't get in an amusement park ride, which is already designed to accommodate fat people. I don't care how many extra fat cells you have, you starve yourself in an empty room for a few weeks if that's what it takes.
Good news, your body hates maintaining "useless storage" and if you keep them empty, your body won't replace all the dying adipocytes ( they get replaced every few years ) so you will have fewer of them.
Keeping the now-useless adipocytes in the same number is a waste of energy ( fatties have a much higher basal metabolic rate than a non-fattie of the same age, height and genetics would ), and wasting energy like thst used to be very disadvantegous for survival.
Conversely if you keep overeating, your body will make more even into adulthood. It's a vicious cycle up to each person to make the effort to break.
It dosen't change the fact a caloric deficit will make a fattie lose weight, but it will influence how much hormones adipose tissues secrete to try and influence the fattie to eat more.
Harder to the mind, but won't change the numbers involved, despite what proponents of Cosmic Fat Osmosis claim ( the "fat people don't eat more, their body just holds onto fat" crowd ).
Thankfully humans have a brain capable of delaying gratification and make the choice to endure discomfort now, for better outcomes tomorow.
I used to be alot more sympathetic to the idea of government intervention to manage people's food consumption, but after 2 years of pseudoscientific sanitary circus :
For the love of God never give another inch to the government or they will make everything miserable for everyone because somewhere, a fattie will overeat if people are allowed to make their own decisions.