People should never be shamed for being overweight, it’s easy to gain a few pounds, but it should never be normalised or desirable either, any more than smoking or binge drinking. It’s not a good way to be. If it happens, OK, but no one should ever be told it’s the right way to be.

The only problem I would have is ‘plus sized’ women being used as role models.
If excessive weight gain is a result of a medical condition, that is absolutely understandable. Otherwise you simply should not be grossly overweight given the many many health problems that it causes. Using phrases like ‘big is beautiful’ does not help a situation where obesity is consistently either the result of or cause of health problems.

There is absolutely no magic to it, I dated a girl one time who would be classified as obese. I remember the more I got to known her it was evident that she ate far too much food. I was always respectful but in the end watching her gorge herself repeatedly was just too much. I think if you have a problem with any substance including food you should seek help. Sadly some people dont want to admit that they have an issue and then cry into their pillow at night because ‘society wont accept them’. People who abuse substances have a hard time accepting themselves never mind what anyone else thinks of them. If you are overweight and this comment envokes anger in you then unfortunately you have proven my point

RTE must serve narcissism in the canteen. Jesus do they love themselves. They keep interviewing themselves and some have a little talent but get lots of work. It’s an incestious place with relatives giving their spouses or lovers jobs.

So people can’t feel bad about themselves for having a fatty takeaway the night before just because they aren’t fat and because they are around her? Feck off.

Lol at the quote from Roz Purcell on the front of the book, high praise indeed.

She’s right though, never thought I’d say it but I’m sick of nearly every single female singer/girl band shaking their arses half naked, it’s so played out at this stage. Will try and tell you then it’s empowering

As a society we are totally obsessed with weight. This is especially true of women. In the last 3 months people I barely know or only know to see really, have commented on my weight loss these last few months. All of them women. That’s aside from my wife, sisters, mother, and female cousins. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest, as I’m neither underweight nor overweight, it just fluctuates quite a bit. I can drop 2 stone in a month or two but never drop below 11.5 stone, I then put it back on but never breach 13.5 stone. This happens once a year or so.

If something as simple as that attracts so many comments for a bloke, who generally, have their weight commented on way more than women to their faces as people deem it perfectly ok to tell a guy about his weight where they’d hesitate to tell a woman, then is it any wonder people feel under so much pressure.

Of course the real nub of all of this has to do with sex rather than health. very few people find fat attractive and that’s the real confidence killer. As the weight goes on, the sex life, reduces usually.

Fat shaming and fat promoting should be equally frowned upon

Skinny shaming is becoming a real problem now too, along with mental feminists dictating how women should act and look like.

Brace yourself for what will be deemed a controversial comment. Her excessive weight likely played a part in her developing cancer. At size 20, her body is overly inflamed putting extra pressure on all her organs, which means it can’t function at an optimum level. Shaming anyone is anyway for their weight is nonsense but lying to them is equally cruel. I say this as a fat person who is currently losing weight. I’ve a way to go before my body can perform at an optimum level but i feel healthier and happier. We should be speaking about healthy and unhealthy bodies, rather than aesthetics and feelings.

Sometimes “fat shamers” get their fingers burned. The Daily Mail, a few years ago, had photos of Elvis Presley’s daughter, remarking on how “large” she had become, and then proceeded to lace the article with “fat facts”. What they didn’t know was that she was eight months pregnant.

No such thing as “fat shaming” if you are fat it’s a fact. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

I recall looking at clothes in a children’s shop in the US a few years back- the XXXXL clothes rack had a sign over them saying ‘XXXXLoveable’ !

I’m shocked at how reasonable journal commenters are this morning, where’s the Katie Hopkins brigade?

I don’t think any of those things about fat people. Usually I think that they should lose weight and I hope that their children are not led down the same bad diet way.

I personally feel like a fat pig whenever I eat a lot of junk food and rightly so. I know that Im not doing my body any favours and if I didnt take responsibility for eating whatever the hell I wanted I would be playing a very dangerous game.

I’d be guilty if I over indulged in junk food the night before to talk about it in work the next day and until I heard Louise comment last night as to how conversations like that make her feel I never gave it a second thought. But that’s the pervading thought process amongst a lot of women and indeed men in a world where bookshelves are heaving with tomes telling us what not to eat, how much etc.
It’s very difficult to eat and enjoy an occasional indulgence, I find personally, without feeling afterwards that I shouldn’t have eaten it, how many calories etc.

Within limits, it is possible to be both obese and fit. Fitness, in the sense of cardio vascular health, is as important as, if not more important, than weight.

Obesity is unhealthy and it is a health risk factor but the crucial objective is to avoid immobility, take vigorous exercise, with occasional bursts of high intensity anaerobic exercise.

Fat is a feminist issue.
Haven’t a clue what that actually means…….heard a woman telling her friend in a coffee shop one day and it stuck in my head.

Has anyone noticed these negative comments about fat is from Men, go cop yourselves on,I don’t care whether people find me attractive or not,I don’t live my life according to the views of other people about me,only my family has the right to say anything to me about my health,(they are concerned) there are many eating disorders that a lot of overweight people have so men don’t be so judgemental just because you don’t find overweight women attractive sexually.

Well done as always Louise

So so brave…..

The hashtag is genius

#fatchance

She’s a bit of a porker but I still would.

Some people just don’t put on excess weight, others do. Some of those who put on too many pounds find it easy to get rid of them, others don’t. We all have a duty to respect the bodies that we were given by the Good Lord and take good care of them. Bear in mind also that Gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins and those who commit it will be severely punished sooner or later. But we must avoid being mean to people whose genes are such that they easily put on weight and find it very difficult or impossible to shed it. Many of them pay a big price for their obesity, especially if their partner is obese as well, because – to put it in rather crude terms – there are few combinations so frustrating as two big bellies and a short you know what.

She used to work for the Journal too. Louise seems determined to put every event in her life out in the media. Does she have an agent as there has been a steady stream of stories in the press about her. Yes she’s right about fat shaming. Her ambition is to get a show on radio 1. She probably will get it.