JustPearlyThings - The MATRIX Want to Normalize OBESITY

00:00:00.000 Would you say health is a priority to you?

00:00:03.960 Yeah, 100%.

00:00:04.860 1,000%.

00:00:06.300 100%.

00:00:07.800 1,000%.

00:00:09.000 In theory.

00:00:11.340 What does in theory mean?

00:00:13.540 Yes? No?

00:00:14.860 Well, it's a loaded question.

00:00:15.960 I can say that health is a priority.

00:00:18.660 But I think I have unhealthy habits that I'm not actively addressing.

00:00:22.800 Some of them I'm trying to.

00:00:23.940 The progress is slow, but it's there.

00:00:26.560 So, yeah, I'd say it is a priority, but there are levels to it.

00:00:32.560 Okay.

00:00:33.360 What about you?

00:00:34.140 Is health a priority?

00:00:35.320 Yeah, I think health is a complete priority,

00:00:37.160 but I also don't think that that totally relates to body positivity.

00:00:40.400 Okay.

00:00:40.940 If that makes sense.

00:00:42.460 Okay.

00:00:43.860 Explain that more.

00:00:45.420 So, for me, health is a priority.

00:00:48.620 It's something I struggle with.

00:00:50.580 If I could press a button and be the healthiest weight in the world,

00:00:53.460 of course I'd push it in an instant.

00:00:55.140 And I think anyone would be lying if they said that they wouldn't push that

00:00:57.400 button to just be a healthy weight instantly and have all these things.

00:01:01.000 But for me, I struggle with it.

00:01:03.100 And I don't think that that makes me a bad person.

00:01:05.040 I don't think that means I should think less of myself for that.

00:01:07.740 And that's why I don't really associate that with body positivity because I

00:01:10.260 don't hate myself for it, even if it's something I should aspire to.

00:01:13.880 Okay.

00:01:14.600 I think the girls had long answers there.

00:01:17.260 A lot of the guys in the room immediately go 100%, 1,000%.

00:01:21.880 And then for the girls, it's like, ah, it's complicated.

00:01:24.620 It's a long answer.

00:01:25.700 Yeah.

00:01:26.300 I just feel like, is it a priority or is it not a priority?

00:01:28.740 It should be an all-around priority.

00:01:31.500 Yeah.

00:01:32.840 Health is 1,000% a priority.

00:01:34.660 That's the reason why you wake up.

00:01:35.760 That's the reason why you get off your bed and walk.

00:01:37.980 Like, you have to be healthy to be able to live, right?

00:01:40.820 So, who here would you say is actively trying to lose weight?

00:01:47.400 I am.

00:01:47.940 You are?

00:01:48.180 100%.

00:01:48.740 You are?

00:01:49.320 Yeah.

00:01:49.540 And what have you guys done?

00:01:51.040 Is it like workout, diet?

00:01:53.460 Yeah.

00:01:53.840 Gym membership, going to the gym, trying to be more consistent with it,

00:01:56.780 and making adjustments to eating habits, but also mindset as well.

00:02:02.760 Okay.

00:02:03.420 What do you mean by mindset?

00:02:04.560 Not seeing working out and, you know, the steps towards prioritizing my health,

00:02:11.400 which are admittedly quite difficult, some of them more than others, as punishment,

00:02:15.820 but seeing it as a reward.

00:02:16.880 I think health is a reward for discipline and just loving yourself a little bit more.

00:02:22.480 But if you see it as punishment, it becomes something that you don't want to do.

00:02:25.920 So, yeah, changing my mindset to reward as opposed to punishment.

00:02:30.280 That's good.

00:02:30.820 Um, King, could you turn up the headphones a little bit?

00:02:35.080 I'm just having a hard time hearing people.

00:02:37.880 Um, okay.

00:02:39.940 Thank you.

00:02:42.140 Um, okay.

00:02:43.240 So, next question.

00:02:45.040 Do you guys think that body positivity promotes healthiness?

00:02:49.600 Promotes health?

00:02:51.240 Depends what aspect they're looking at it from.

00:02:54.140 Um, body positivity.

00:02:57.600 I know in the last, last week, we had this discussion about body positivity.

00:03:03.320 And for me, it's not about me being on a big magazine or people like me being promoted.

00:03:09.560 It's more about, um, like, for example, being accommodated for in, in public services

00:03:17.840 and being mistreated just because of the size.

00:03:21.480 Now, I understand, um, I am the size I am, but at the end of the day, people with disabilities 1.00

00:03:29.640 are also my size.

00:03:31.260 And people, how, how do you know if I don't have a hidden disability?

00:03:34.640 No one knows.

00:03:36.240 So, I'm just saying that's why to me body positivity is important so that people don't get mistreated.

00:03:42.540 Um, I think that body positivity isn't important in terms of mental health.

00:03:47.680 I think there's a lot of people that really hate themselves because of their weight.

00:03:51.020 And I personally, like, on my socials, get a lot of comments from people saying that

00:03:55.240 they are so happy to see somebody my size, comfortable with themselves and happy and

00:04:00.080 posing in bikinis and things like that.

00:04:02.080 Like, all of my last Instagram posts have been me in bikinis.

00:04:04.600 And I've got so many comments from people being like, wow, I wish I could wear that.

00:04:07.620 Or I am gonna wear that because you wore that.

00:04:10.180 And it makes me feel like I can.

00:04:11.720 Which I think some people would take as a backhanded compliment.

00:04:13.720 But for me, like, as somebody, I'm trying to lose weight.

00:04:15.920 I'm trying to be healthier because I know it's a priority.

00:04:18.100 I know it's something I need to do in my life, but it's not my reality right now.

00:04:21.480 Like, I'm not at my full health.

00:04:22.880 I'm not the best I could possibly be.

00:04:24.960 But I'm still, I don't hate myself for that.

00:04:27.360 And I think that, um, the fat shaming movement and, like, just being like, these fat whales, 0.99

00:04:32.560 like, what the fuck are they doing? 0.99

00:04:33.440 Who would say that? 1.00

00:04:34.160 What are they doing?

00:04:34.940 That's, like, horrible.

00:04:36.000 Your whole chat right now.

00:04:37.280 Who would?

00:04:37.940 Who would say that?

00:04:38.280 Everyone in the chat right now that's like, in fact, Doug MPA.

00:04:42.000 Hey.

00:04:42.540 Hey.

00:04:43.340 He's always like, that ginger whale. 0.96

00:04:45.420 I'm watching you, Doug.

00:04:46.640 I've seen you.

00:04:47.120 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:04:48.100 I only, I say the whales.

00:04:50.440 No, but I don't think.

00:04:51.600 Unless I am insulted or attacked, then I will.

00:04:53.820 I don't think that fat shaming helps anyone lose weight.

00:04:57.020 And I think the way that.

00:04:57.620 It helped me lose weight.

00:04:58.380 The way that I have been, though.

00:04:59.640 It helped me lose weight.

00:05:00.340 Is I'm, like, I've gone online and I've said, like, I want to lose weight.

00:05:03.160 And I've held myself accountability, like, online.

00:05:05.620 Really?

00:05:05.960 Like, yeah, I made a video.

00:05:07.060 How much weight have you lost?

00:05:08.500 So since I made that video, I've lost a stone.

00:05:10.640 Okay.

00:05:11.080 That's great.

00:05:11.640 Yeah.

00:05:12.020 How much is a stone?

00:05:13.220 I don't know either.

00:05:14.340 14 pounds.

00:05:15.680 14 pounds.

00:05:16.460 Like, seven kilos.

00:05:17.120 Okay, okay.

00:05:18.060 Yeah, so I made a video because I wasn't allowed down a slide that I wanted to go down.

00:05:22.800 And that was, like, a moment for me where I was, like, oh, like, I should be allowed down

00:05:26.000 this slide.

00:05:26.500 You know, like, that was a moment where I felt, like, okay, I need to do something.

00:05:30.180 And it wasn't because I felt shame or whatever.

00:05:31.640 It was just, like, a bit of a, like, oh, the average person can do this and I can't do

00:05:34.860 it.

00:05:34.980 So I was, like, I need to lose weight.

00:05:36.900 But it doesn't mean I don't respect anyone less for being overweight.

00:05:39.980 I understand what it's like to be overweight.

00:05:41.140 I've been skinny.

00:05:41.760 I've been overweight.

00:05:42.500 And I just, I do think the body positivity moment is important for people to like themselves.

00:05:47.520 And I think the best way to lose weight is by liking yourself because you're doing something

00:05:50.360 good for yourself.

00:05:50.940 I actually think that, for me personally, when I lost weight, it was because I didn't

00:05:55.820 like myself.

00:05:56.660 I didn't like the way I looked.

00:05:58.120 And then it motivated me to lose weight.

00:06:00.860 So, and actually, it was funny because when I did lose weight, it was because someone, I

00:06:05.880 mean, they didn't bully me directly, but they were talking about how they would never date

00:06:08.920 a girl over 200 pounds. 0.98

00:06:10.940 And I was like, no, I'm over.

00:06:12.740 Yeah, I thought he was cute.

00:06:13.580 So I was like, no.

00:06:14.640 Well, Pearl, baby, there's everybody for everybody.

00:06:17.740 What?

00:06:18.320 Pearl, baby, there's everything for everybody.

00:06:20.320 If you're overweight, you're 30%, you're 30%, as a woman, you're 30%, you're 30% less 0.92

00:06:26.400 likely to get married.

00:06:27.160 Girl, you need to stop following statistics because you got, listen, you don't know the

00:06:31.560 power that big women have. 1.00

00:06:33.560 They captivate men.

00:06:34.900 I've seen it happen.

00:06:36.000 Wow.

00:06:36.540 I've seen it happen.

00:06:38.080 I'm not even joking.

00:06:40.240 It's true.

00:06:40.560 You're also six foot though.

00:06:42.020 I would say 200 pound on you would look very different on five foot four, 200 pound.

00:06:45.500 Oh, it's not to say like, I know that's why they were making fun of it.

00:06:49.600 They didn't know how big I was at the time, but, but no, I was still overweight.

00:06:54.740 So it's still like, I was still overweight when I looked at like my numbers.

00:06:58.720 So, you know, but it helped me.

00:07:01.000 Like I ended up losing like 30 pounds at the time.

00:07:03.700 So, and I never gained it back.

00:07:05.520 So you seem like a person who's well adjusted and quite mentally stable though.

00:07:09.660 And I don't think that's the case for everybody. 0.96

00:07:11.220 And I think when you tell a lot of fat people, like you're overweight and that's disgusting, 0.97

00:07:14.900 they'll comfort eat. 0.89

00:07:15.780 And if you don't comfort eat, that's never been in your nature.

00:07:18.140 You're never going to do that.

00:07:19.360 Well, yeah, but I think the solution would be to maybe stop comfort eating and like figure

00:07:23.680 something else out.

00:07:24.580 Comfort eating is a coping mechanism that people do that makes them overweight, you know?

00:07:28.940 So when you tell someone like you're a fat cow, they're going to be like, oh, I'm fat.

00:07:32.060 So I'm going to comfort eat.

00:07:32.740 I think we change the definition of body positivity because what body positivity is, to me, is numbers.

00:07:40.020 If you step on a scale and you see some numbers and then you become a better version of yourself

00:07:45.420 every single day, week or month, and you see numbers that improve, that's a positive result.

00:07:52.880 So body positivity is becoming better every day.

00:07:58.580 Yeah, but I feel like the question was, does body positivity promote health?

00:08:03.800 And it's not.

00:08:05.020 It does, yeah, exactly.

00:08:05.700 If you're telling people it's okay to be at a heavy weight or okay to be obese, then that's not healthy.

00:08:12.420 By the science, it's not possible to be healthy.

00:08:15.300 So to answer Pearl's question, it doesn't promote health.

00:08:18.580 It doesn't promote positivity.

00:08:21.080 I would say it promotes mental health, not physical health, no, because that's not the aim of the game.

00:08:26.860 But in terms of mental health and making people feel guilty about themselves and likely to make good choices about themselves, I don't.

00:08:32.080 I just would think the first step with mental health is your eating still.

00:08:35.360 Because they say sugar affects your brain.

00:08:37.440 I could pull up the research on it, but I know there's like negative mental health effects from sugar.

00:08:42.100 This is true, but I think the point of body positivity is not to say that it's okay to be fat and to encourage people to be fat.

00:08:49.020 Yeah.

00:08:49.160 In answer, I completely agree with you.

00:08:51.540 Body positivity does not necessarily promote health, but it promotes not hating yourself while you look like what you look like.

00:08:58.020 Don't waste a perfectly good day inside feeling like you can't go to that party or, you know, you can't go to work and being a shut-in because you think people are going to take the mick out of you because you're fat.

00:09:09.480 Like, don't waste a perfectly good life because you're not where you want to be right now.

00:09:14.740 Like, absolutely, the body positivity movement, you know, it should focus on health a little bit more.

00:09:21.480 But I think for the individuals concerned, it's about not hating themselves and, as I said, not punishing themselves for not being where they want to be.

00:09:28.040 Well, she's saying mental health, but wouldn't it be better, like in Pearl's case, to get bullied and say, hey, you're getting a bit pudgy, you're getting a bit fat, maybe lose the weight, and that'll promote better mental health.

00:09:41.520 And, you know, you're more comfortable with how you look, you're feeling healthier.

00:09:45.640 I'm not saying I'm for bullying, but if it gets you to a better place and more comfortable with how you look, I think it's the right way to go, especially when it comes to your physique and how you look.

00:09:56.240 And how would you know that?

00:09:57.220 I also think people misplace body positivity with mental positivity.

00:10:01.580 So what we're talking about is mental positivity, like what you just explained, is more in control of the mind than the body.

00:10:08.200 Because when you think about body positivity and that we're promoting obesity or fat, then it's not positive.

00:10:14.700 It's more going into the negative zone.

00:10:17.020 And statistically, numbers would show that.

00:10:19.940 Wouldn't you rather have someone that pulls you aside and say, hey, I think you're getting a little bit unhealthy, or hey, you're putting on some weight.

00:10:25.780 Maybe you should hit the gym, eat healthier.

00:10:28.660 I'd like to have someone in my life like that pulling me in check. 0.59

00:10:31.840 But, like, you know if you're fat.

00:10:33.980 Like, I've been skinny and I've been fat, and I've known I'm fat.

00:10:37.640 I don't need anyone to tell me that I'm fat.

00:10:39.320 Like, I can see the numbers on a scale.

00:10:40.800 I can see why my clothes don't fit like they used to.

00:10:43.180 Like, you don't need someone to tell you you're fat.

00:10:44.160 I don't know.

00:10:44.720 It's like, because every Christmas at my grandma's house, I would just know there's that one relative that if I came back fatter, they would say something to me.

00:10:52.820 And it kind of motivated me every year, because I'm like, I don't want that ant to, you know.

00:10:57.020 But you know if you're fat.

00:10:59.180 Like, and sometimes people talk to fat people like they're not self-aware.

00:11:02.260 Like, they know.

00:11:03.260 You know, I know when I'm overweight.

00:11:05.040 I know I've been in incredibly good shape before.

00:11:07.380 Like, I was in drama school where I was working out 12 hours a day.

00:11:10.240 But, like, now I'm not.

00:11:11.320 And I'm fat.

00:11:11.920 And I'm aware that I'm fat. 0.58

00:11:12.700 I don't need anyone to tell me that I'm fat.

00:11:14.160 And bullying, like, I mean, for me, it doesn't really work, because I just phase it out.

00:11:17.780 I mean, I'm, like, I've been online for a long time, so the things that people say don't affect me.

00:11:22.100 But for most people, bullying, famously, does not work.

00:11:25.700 Like, it doesn't make me people feel good.

00:11:27.100 It doesn't make them work harder.

00:11:29.200 I don't know.

00:11:29.940 You guys are speaking.

00:11:31.180 I don't know.

00:11:31.540 What I have to say is body positivity is, to me, just really accepting the way you look.

00:11:39.420 And, for me, ain't gonna lie, I agree with, to some, I do agree with a lot of what you're saying.

00:11:46.960 And, but when you, when being overweight has been an issue your whole life, and then people are also, people also make comments as an adult.

00:11:57.260 Like, people have always just targeted you for that.

00:12:00.900 And, to me, to be honest, it just scrambled my head.

00:12:04.920 And it wasn't good for me.

00:12:06.480 Um, so body positivity, to me, is basically accepting the way you look.

00:12:13.720 And, to be honest, I hated, I wasn't happy with my body, Perl.

00:12:17.920 I really wasn't.

00:12:19.260 And, uh.

00:12:20.240 Are you talking with it now?

00:12:21.500 I am.

00:12:22.080 Okay.

00:12:22.400 Okay.

00:12:23.000 Firstly, I'm, like, I am what I am.

00:12:26.560 But I make, I make conscious decisions, like, to eat healthy things.

00:12:31.580 Yeah.

00:12:31.800 And I'm also not gonna lie and say I'm the most healthiest.

00:12:35.100 Because.

00:12:35.900 Well, last week you were saying.

00:12:37.180 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:12:40.360 Yeah, but today is about, is we're here in a room with personal trainers.

00:12:44.280 Yeah.

00:12:44.920 Of course, I love chicken and tits and certain things.

00:12:50.300 Um, and I can't help it.

00:12:52.340 We too, by moderation.

00:12:53.480 No, no, it's not about moderation.

00:12:55.140 My weight is old weight, but I actually.

00:12:57.740 I get it.

00:12:58.060 I can't have it in the house.

00:12:59.280 Otherwise, I'll just eat the whole box.

00:13:00.340 No, but I don't eat in the house.

00:13:02.620 My, my dad actually has cancer.

00:13:04.280 So, in my house, everything is, there's no processed food at all.

00:13:07.900 And that's why it's just literally you have to, if you want to drink, drink, drink, you

00:13:11.820 have to juice it yourself.

00:13:12.840 If you want to get ice cream, you want to, you need to make it yourself.

00:13:15.440 And that's full of Vitacocos, like boxes.

00:13:18.440 So, that's how it goes.

00:13:20.560 And then there's not even a microwave at home as well.

00:13:23.220 So, I can't actually heat my food.

00:13:25.400 Like, everything is basically in the best way that I can cook.

00:13:29.560 And what about the people out there who are maybe in a similar situation to you where they

00:13:33.520 don't have access to processed or unhealthy foods at home, but they still seek those things

00:13:39.340 when they're out of the house?

00:13:40.440 What, what would you say to those people who actively seek unhealthy food?

00:13:45.440 I'd say, my advice honestly would be, you don't want a heart attack.

00:13:52.740 You don't want to die early.

00:13:54.620 You want to survive.

00:13:56.220 You want to build some memories.

00:13:57.880 You want to be a grandmother or a grandpa.

00:14:00.560 And it's important to actually think.

00:14:03.020 And that's what I mean.

00:14:03.820 You need to.

00:14:05.140 But wouldn't that be a better message for the body positivity movement to say rather than

00:14:09.400 love yourself?

00:14:10.800 100%.

00:14:11.240 Like what you just said.

00:14:12.720 You just hit the new.

00:14:13.940 You could, you could get cancelled nowadays for what Sugar Puff just said.

00:14:17.720 Because it's like, you know, if like Lizzo comes out and says, hey, I'm, I'm, I'm, I want

00:14:22.860 to start losing weight.

00:14:24.120 All the fans start coming for her.

00:14:26.020 And, you know, she, she just wants to better herself and get healthy. 0.96

00:14:29.000 It's like, if you're saying, oh, you're going to die soon.

00:14:32.160 And you're getting too obese.

00:14:33.140 I don't think it's like that.

00:14:34.920 For me, it's literally, I am not delusional with myself.

00:14:38.860 I am big.

00:14:40.160 I know I'm big.

00:14:41.600 But at the end of the day, I don't promote.

00:14:44.760 The reason why I'm for body positivity is because people literally get mistreated.

00:14:49.560 And I'm against that.

00:14:51.740 And especially with.

00:14:53.220 How do you, how do you think that?

00:14:54.580 How do you, how do you think people get mistreated?

00:14:57.940 Well, I was 28 stones.

00:15:00.320 I was at my biggest.

00:15:02.120 Now I'm 21.

00:15:03.440 And, and like I said, I've been eating healthy and I've actually actively been trying.

00:15:09.000 Yes, I'm not on it with the exercise, but you are.

00:15:12.340 We could be, remember?

00:15:13.540 Yes, we could.

00:15:14.540 We could.

00:15:15.140 We could.

00:15:15.260 I actually want muscles, you know.

00:15:17.480 I actually do want muscles.

00:15:19.060 But that's why body positivity is important.

00:15:21.820 The representation is important.

00:15:24.320 Now I understand.

00:15:25.340 But what about like smoking?

00:15:27.580 Smoking?

00:15:27.920 Like, what if we wanted to normalize smoking and put smoking on the covers of magazines?

00:15:31.880 At the end of the day, smoking is literally, it's a different method.

00:15:36.280 Smoking is.

00:15:38.340 That's what smoking is.

00:15:40.640 And eating is you're using your mouth, you're using your teeth, and your taste buds are working.

00:15:46.760 With smoking, it's just.

00:15:48.220 Well, my point is like normalizing something that's, I would say obesity.

00:15:52.300 Like, yeah, it's an ill.

00:15:53.540 I mean, I don't know if I'd most of you say illness.

00:15:55.460 I don't even think it's about normalizing.

00:15:57.960 People just need to gain some respect and know that people are individuals.

00:16:03.260 Now, if you really want to make an active difference, if you guys really want to make an active difference, when you see a big person, you'd be like, come on, man.

00:16:11.420 Let's run or let's play a game or let's do something that actively make a difference.

00:16:15.720 I would challenge you as well to find me like a body positivity movement that's like, eat junk, do whatever you want.

00:16:22.440 That's not what it is.

00:16:23.560 Yeah, well.

00:16:24.060 It's not promoting unhealthy eating.

00:16:25.540 No, I see girls do it all the time. 1.00

00:16:27.200 They do what I eat in a day.

00:16:28.520 I just reacted to one the other day.

00:16:30.140 Really?

00:16:30.400 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:32.160 Yes.

00:16:32.500 That's a lot of eating.

00:16:33.180 Yes.

00:16:33.480 It's like 4,500 calories.

00:16:36.700 What?

00:16:37.560 Yeah, that's what I said.

00:16:39.000 4,500 calories in a day.

00:16:41.320 They do like, this is what I ate today as a fat person.

00:16:43.700 Yeah, I think this is what.

00:16:44.520 See, I'm against that.

00:16:46.040 And I'm like, to me, that's like, this is how I smoked, right?

00:16:49.340 I don't think we should normalize it.

00:16:51.300 With that, like for me personally, I would never show that because I don't want to promote unhealthy things.

00:16:57.640 And the same way that if I smoked or vaped, I wouldn't show me smoking or vaping on my page because it's not something that I would be proud of, you know?

00:17:04.980 But like, I wouldn't support that.

00:17:07.460 And I wouldn't call that the body positivity movement.

00:17:09.300 For what it means to me is people just accepting themselves for who they are, wanting the best for themselves.

00:17:15.140 And I don't think there's anything wrong with that, whether you're fat, whether you're skinny, whether you're anorexic.

00:17:18.960 I think that the body positivity movement applies to you.

00:17:21.300 I think it's just enjoying who you are and not letting that hold.

00:17:24.180 If I thought too much about what I look in a bikini, I would never wear one, you know?

00:17:27.340 But I don't care.

00:17:28.100 So I just wear one and I enjoy how I feel.

00:17:29.680 Hey, I'm pro modesty, you know what I mean?

00:17:32.240 Yeah, but I mean, you can have a modest bikini, pal. 0.59

00:17:37.180 Can I tell you what's wrong with the world?

00:17:39.920 I'll see what's wrong with the world.

00:17:41.560 Big statement.

00:17:42.620 Okay, no, that is a big statement.

00:17:44.360 CP can tell us.

00:17:44.980 No, I'll take that.

00:17:46.340 Go ahead, go ahead.

00:17:47.980 It's a pod. 1.00

00:17:48.780 You can talk shit on a pod. 1.00

00:17:50.100 It's a pod. 1.00

00:17:50.880 This is what we're here to do.

00:17:51.920 Come on.

00:17:53.340 Everyone has an issue with everyone.

00:17:56.140 Everyone is like, no, they should be like this.

00:17:59.140 They should be like that.

00:18:00.340 Everyone just needs to simply mind their own business.

00:18:02.980 And when I say that, I don't mean in a bad way.

00:18:06.220 It's like, for example, you said, I don't know if you said it.

00:18:10.520 Did you say fat shaming works?

00:18:11.940 Is that what?

00:18:12.480 Yeah.

00:18:12.720 Okay.

00:18:12.980 So, for example, fat shaming.

00:18:14.700 Now, imagine an unhealthy person like me.

00:18:17.920 And I try and be healthy.

00:18:19.800 Yes, but it is what it is.

00:18:21.200 And I'm body positive because I, honestly, I've learned to love my body now, Pearl.

00:18:26.380 And I'm sticking with that.

00:18:27.960 But if I can lose weight, I would as well.

00:18:29.920 But that's a contradiction.

00:18:31.620 No, no, no.

00:18:33.220 It's body positivity.

00:18:34.540 No, no, no.

00:18:35.480 Sorry.

00:18:35.640 Body positivity is all about just accepting the way you look and being happy.

00:18:41.100 And actually just be like, yeah, this is how I look.

00:18:43.940 I think we should always be trying to get better.

00:18:45.960 No, yes, we can get better.

00:18:47.300 We can get better, but it doesn't mean we can't be fly and look off and press ourselves.

00:18:54.580 I was just to your point, though, Sugar Puff, right?

00:18:57.700 You said, what's wrong with the world?

00:18:58.660 People are saying you should live this way.

00:19:00.160 You should live this way.

00:19:00.780 But it's not.

00:19:01.880 It's say it's the body positivity movement saying, hey, we should be comfortable as this.

00:19:06.980 Where realistically, what if that's killing you?

00:19:09.040 And then to your point as well, what Pearl's saying, if it's like smoking, smoking is an addiction.

00:19:14.540 You brought up comfort eating and that's how people cope.

00:19:16.900 That's an addiction.

00:19:18.480 So you can treat it the same as smoking.

00:19:21.100 We're going to promote smoking as it's all sweet.

00:19:24.000 You know, if you're comfortable smoking and you're happy smoking, keep doing it.

00:19:27.480 We're not saying you should live that way.

00:19:29.140 We're just saying, not even we.

00:19:30.480 It's not even we.

00:19:30.920 I think rational people are saying, if you're going to keep going down that route, you're probably going to die.

00:19:36.520 You're going to lower your life expectancy.

00:19:37.860 That's not.

00:19:38.320 Okay.

00:19:38.680 So imagine.

00:19:40.140 That's just the truth.

00:19:40.860 Imagine, look, you're a fit person.

00:19:42.920 You're fit.

00:19:43.460 You exercise.

00:19:44.280 I can see that.

00:19:45.060 You take care of yourself and that.

00:19:47.420 Now imagine, yeah, there's a big person and they're already kind of suffering.

00:19:52.600 We know they're unhealthy.

00:19:53.680 They're suffering.

00:19:54.780 They've got knee problems.

00:19:56.160 They've got all sorts.

00:19:58.040 And now they ain't even, they're not even surviving.

00:20:01.000 Like they're finding it hard.

00:20:01.960 And I'm talking about an unhealthy big person. 0.92

00:20:04.220 And now you're saying, ah, you're fat. 0.91

00:20:08.040 Ha, ha, ha. 0.97

00:20:08.900 Blah, blah, blah.

00:20:09.640 Never do that.

00:20:10.040 Never do that.

00:20:10.600 Who does that?

00:20:11.680 Who does that?

00:20:12.240 I just want to.

00:20:12.620 People do.

00:20:13.280 And that's what I faced.

00:20:14.780 I have faced that, Pearl.

00:20:16.320 That's the sad thing.

00:20:17.060 I faced it.

00:20:17.740 So when you, I'm sorry.

00:20:19.820 Obviously, you may not do that, but people do that.

00:20:22.180 That's it.

00:20:22.700 Okay.

00:20:25.700 All right.

JustPearlyThings - June 28, 2023

The MATRIX Want to Normalize OBESITY

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