JustPearlyThings - This Is Why Americans Are Fat

00:00:00.000 So my first question is just a general question. Do you think body positivity is a good thing?

00:00:06.080 Yes or no? Starting here and then go around. Absolutely. I think body positivity benefits

00:00:12.080 everyone and it's an individual thing that you have to cultivate within self

00:00:15.880 and it manifests for other people to perceive positive win-win all around. All right. What

00:00:20.740 do you think? I definitely agree and I think that you need to be comfortable within your

00:00:27.120 own body as well and if you can be positive and love yourself then you can you know accept

00:00:33.780 everybody else as well. Okay. I think it's a good thing maybe in a way but then if you maybe look

00:00:42.300 at the health side then maybe sometimes body positivity might not be such a good thing.

00:00:48.860 Okay so what do you mean by that? Just you know I think that

00:00:56.200 being body confident you know you can come in you can come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes

00:01:00.880 but if you're at a point where you might be at risk of certain health issues then you have to bear that

00:01:09.420 in mind that's a subject that also needs to be incorporated into that. Okay what do you think?

00:01:14.860 I think the word body positivity can be used quite loosely. I think there's a lot behind it and I think

00:01:21.900 it's really about becoming a better version of yourself and through that there are many channels

00:01:27.160 so I do believe in it and I believe it's important for self-love. Okay. Is body positivity a good thing?

00:01:37.160 Well I mean when I look at body positivity I just see a bunch of marketing directors getting together

00:01:41.380 like how can we trick people into over consuming and label it as something nice. So I'm a big

00:01:50.020 proponent of having good mental health and I think that you can't have good mental health if you're

00:01:56.340 sitting around thinking of yourself in a negative way and definitely in regards to your body right.

00:02:01.840 You can't sit there all day looking in the mirror and being like I'm disgusting I'm this I'm that

00:02:07.860 because that's just going to wreak havoc on your psychological health. However I also do believe

00:02:13.340 that it is up to us individuals because there are certain biological components of life that are

00:02:18.420 irrefutably true in regards to maintaining a healthy body weight and I think that in my personal opinion

00:02:25.200 everybody should strive to be as best as possible. A life of self-improvement and being physically fit

00:02:31.800 is one of many components of that but I don't think I think the body positivity thing

00:02:36.960 is not this nice thing that they're putting it out to be. I think there's a nefarious agenda

00:02:42.440 behind it which is just like yeah over consume yeah you can do whatever you want this kind of

00:02:47.320 YOLO lifestyle but people are starting to wake up to the fact that like especially with the recent

00:02:52.060 you know situation that happened in 2020 that we can't even talk about without getting trouble

00:02:56.520 here on YouTube but I think a lot of people became more health conscious about that at that time

00:03:01.560 so I think you know these corporations corporations and governments they never have your best interests

00:03:08.680 at heart it's always in their interest and their interest is more power and more control directly

00:03:15.700 over you so when I hear body positivity like I get it you shouldn't hate yourself like and men have

00:03:21.760 body positivity issues like men men women they both look like they want to be better than they are

00:03:26.160 and it's a struggle as a human but I do think that overall the body positivity movement I think on the

00:03:33.040 surface level it looks good but I think behind it it's not what they're saying it is that's my short

00:03:39.780 answer the subject body positivity is actually really personal to me because I'm someone who I always like

00:03:50.380 to treat people nicely and I treat people well and my size unfortunately always like people would just be

00:03:59.760 rude to me or disrespect me I am 21 stones now the biggest I've been is 28 stones and I've had loads of

00:04:10.600 people like things happen to me so body positivity for me is just accepting the way you look the way the way we were

00:04:23.820 made and that's how I see body positivity now people have different definitions some people think body positivity

00:04:32.860 is changing your body which is fine changing your body but some people think that then like

00:04:40.300 basically they express how they're unhappy with their body which is fine but then they say their body

00:04:47.180 positive by changing their bodies but for me it's just really literally accepting yourself looking

00:04:53.940 yourself in the mirror and saying this is who I am this is how I've been made this is how people have

00:04:58.640 seen me my whole life and if they've been seeing me my whole life like this I should just accept me and

00:05:05.820 yeah I'm body positive okay so I'm just raise of hands overall body positivity good thing raise your

00:05:12.080 hand overall good thing like more good than bad okay that's what I and she's like half okay so I think

00:05:19.140 body positivity is a horrible thing I think it's trying to normalize bad habits and I don't think it's a

00:05:25.060 good thing for society so I want to know why you guys disagree with that because personally I just don't

00:05:32.660 think I don't think we would put a a crack addict on the cover of a magazine and in the United States

00:05:38.720 obesity is the number one killer and I just don't think it's a good thing that we are normalizing 1.00

00:05:42.920 bad habits that's my opinion on it it's number one killer of pets too you know that no way yeah it's

00:05:48.740 the number one reason animals die in America is from obesity but yeah you guys it's yeah go ahead I

00:05:54.680 think I get I see where you're coming from I really do and it's sad and with most things everything does

00:06:02.540 become about money for example I'll give you a perfect example plus size women's it's booming all 1.00

00:06:10.680 the ever all the plus size influences are getting fun like they're getting funding or they're being

00:06:16.100 invested in but with plus size men there's been clothes that are being sold for big men but the models are

00:06:22.840 small so again for I have a friend who did that where she like they put on made her wear like a 0.93

00:06:28.240 fat fat suit where she was actually smaller and they made her bigger yeah they do so for that reason 1.00

00:06:34.420 yeah I see exactly where Pearl is coming from because it upsets me that it is it has become a

00:06:39.760 money-making thing a kind of a trend to kind of get get in the views and getting that but for people

00:06:46.340 who actually have had issues and with me but honestly I will share my story one day but I can't share it

00:06:52.460 like until I reach my goals and and I think and I think what he is saying is spot on like they're

00:06:59.920 ready to roll out the red carpet for women but it really it kind of again goes back to like that

00:07:06.060 kind of nefarious agenda of making money yeah you know because they're catering to women because 1.00

00:07:11.620 like who can name some uh plus size models right now like Tess Holiday for example a huge name right 0.80

00:07:19.440 can any of you name a male plus size model my friend James Corbyn he's a supermodel but James

00:07:26.220 Corbyn is not exclusively known for being an oversized no yes yes he's been in vogue no no no no but he's

00:07:32.660 known mainly for being a talk show host no James Corbyn is uh Corbyn James if it's James Corbyn

00:07:40.900 but he's he's a plus size model he's from London and he's someone who just um he's plus size

00:07:48.380 so basically there's a plus that's my mistake then so basically there's a plus size model from

00:08:03.320 the UK called James Corbyn and he talks about body positivity and um he's making a difference for the

00:08:10.500 plus size community and he's not promoting obesity I don't promote obesity I tell people try and stick to

00:08:18.160 natural foods because you may be big but at least if you're big you're gonna have goodness in you

00:08:22.620 you're gonna have a lot of like strength and yeah because some people's bodies are just the way they

00:08:28.240 are Pearl you don't know girl I I juice I even have a ninja creamy like I make my own lime grapes like all

00:08:35.780 these things I actually care about my health but my size I'm telling you like I'm also would you do

00:08:41.920 like I I just don't that doesn't make sense to me like I I think if you did like a training plan

00:08:47.540 with me for a week you would lose weight but I I really I really do like I think you would so um

00:08:53.640 that's the thing because I have medical issues as well I can't really openly speak about but I have

00:08:58.760 stuff like gout flares up that flares my hands up and all that so there's always an obstacle that comes

00:09:06.760 in front but all my life I've battled I've always said good food and get out exercise never be that

00:09:15.620 reason don't ever let anyone give you that reason to say you're fat and you're lazy because that's

00:09:21.800 the stereotype that the world has of plus size people I think there's something that we're not

00:09:26.360 addressing here and it's that obesity and being plus size but really it's obesity it's a clinical term

00:09:32.900 it is what it is it's a symptom of something else though I agree with you if I were to work out

00:09:37.680 with you or with a personal trainer I absolutely could lose the weight and so could most other

00:09:41.480 people but obesity is a symptom of something else she's right nine times out of ten yes yes yes yes

00:09:46.160 get someone in the gym put them on a three-month training program and say lose this weight even

00:09:50.940 if they do lose it what's to stop them from putting it back no good so I'm saying shouldn't we fix that

00:09:57.560 problem then so if it's emotional let's figure out what it is and fix it and promote that instead of

00:10:02.180 obesity on the cover of magazines she's she's spot on and the number one way that people cope 1.00

00:10:06.800 with anxiety the most common way people cope with anxiety is by eating yeah exactly you know you eat

00:10:12.100 too much so yeah and you're you're a thousand percent correct that goes back to like you know your

00:10:16.340 subconscious mind and how you perceive yourself because a lot of these people too adding to what

00:10:21.900 you said they will lose the weight they'll lose like 100 pounds 200 pounds 150 pounds but the

00:10:28.760 subconscious version of themselves in their mind is not that skinny healthy person and they'll

00:10:33.640 self-sabotage back up to that weight so what she's saying is a thousand percent correct it's not that

00:10:39.960 oh I mean I think I'm people and I'm from America but like where fat people were made and so

00:10:45.320 and so like in America I think that the American people are grossly undereducated on the foundational

00:10:54.220 principles of having a diet carbs proteins fats they don't even know that those are the three

00:10:59.880 different calorie source and then alcohol if you want to add that but and they don't know about

00:11:03.720 having high protein diet and managing your calories and all that stuff but in addition to that right

00:11:09.800 because we grew up in America thinking like cereal was a healthy thing to eat as a child which is

00:11:14.420 just sugar-corded carbs right yeah now I only eat that if I smoke weed in Miami but you know the this

00:11:23.880 she's a thousand percent correct when she says it is absolutely a symptom of some greater problem

00:11:30.460 that's occurring psychologically because this is it's a manifestation of something

JustPearlyThings - August 22, 2023

This Is Why Americans Are Fat

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