BLAME IT ON THE TOBY.

Food, love it or hate it it is a necessary part of life, but let’s face it most of us really do love it, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, the rabbit food, the carb heavy and carb light, fast and slow food, pub food, moms or pops home cooked. Yeah truth is tarin has, for the most part, no idea about foods and stuff, he just eats it, but on we go.

So according to the news on the wonderful space known as the World Wide Web, yeah that thing that we all call “the internet” but is actually not, “Loose Women” presenter, Janet Street-Porter, got a little loose with her lips trying to sink that Toby ship on Monday, when she said that Toby Carvery, a well known and, might tarin add, a well loved eatery, is the reason for Britain being obese.

tarin thinks he needs to educate the Janet Street-Porters of this country, no, this world.

Firstly Britain , isn’t obese, countries, to tarins knowledge, can’t be obese, however if you are trying to imply everyone in Britain is obese, you are wrong!

Tarin spent lots of time looking over statistics from all sorts of sources and he found some quite differing numbers, but on the whole, the amount of people Obese compared to the amount of people merely overweight, well, the truth is there is less “obese” people than there are overweight people, so basically that means that some people are being told they are obese, (by fools like Janet Street-Porter, who have no certificate to practice medicine, nor are they professional dietitians, to tarins knowledge), are more likely, actually just overweight.

Secondly, being overweight or obese is a problem, absolutely, tarin agrees, being obese himself, tarin knows this, and yes, he is aware of the problems this can cause, such as heart problems and diabetes, tarin in fact has type 2 diabetes, mostly because of his weight. but that doesn’t give jerks like Janet Street-Porter the right to be mean to people because of their weight, to body shame them and basically tell a whole country “You are all obese, you need to stop eating and going to places where you have a wide variety of food to choose from!”. That is basically what Janet Street-Porter seems to be saying.

Thirdly, being overweight or obese isn’t caused by over-eating alone, there are other things, other variables and those variables could have variables too, for example eating and not getting enough exercise. now the reason tarin says “eating” here and not “over-eating” is because you don’t have to over-eat to get over weight by not exercising, the problem may be something as simple as the foods you consume may have more fat/carbs or whatever it is, than you can actually burn, either due to disability or ill health or simply not enough time to get out and get that exercise. Lets take a look at an example with some variables.

Your diet may be great, but you may be agoraphobic and unable to do lots of meaningful and effective exercise at home, so right there you have the first variable of eating healthy but not getting the right calorie consumption/calorie burn balance because of, variable 2, lack of exercise, because of, variable 3, agoraphobia, because of variable 4, a trauma in your life that caused the fear of going out, and because, variable 5, the space you do have and you can be in, is not really built for meaningful exercise to be effective in solving the issue of the calorie consumption/burn imbalance.

These are not excuses, these are reasons. medical, psychological and understandable. and there are a whole bunch of other, medical, psychological and other understandable scenarios, so many, and they are all reasonable and relatable reasons for being over weight and it possibly leading to obesity!

Yet we are still cursed to have judgmental, body shaming people like Janet Street-Porter, who do not consider even illnesses or disabilities, let alone the other variables!

This is because they are narrow minded and stupid, and worse of all, this kind of stupid is more widespread than COVID ever was, because of people like Janet Street-Porter only throwing around insults and half arsed comments on things they know nothing at all about, except what the “social media” or some other celebrities, (some who actually do have a clue), are saying, and jumping on the band wagon of the rest of the celebrities, wanting to either look cool or pretend they care about a topic, just to cling on to their popularity and fame until the next “I’m A Celebrity and I Care!” fad comes along.

Fourthly, as far as tarin is aware, Toby Carvery do not say to people “Come in and fill a 1m squared plate with everything you see.” tarin was sure there are some rules about how much you eat, like some limits due to supplies etc. and even if there aren’t, don’t they offer unlimited free veg and also healthy options, including for breakfasts some 500 cal thing? it seems to tarin Toby Carvery are heavily focused on trying to stuff your mush full of more veg and healthy stuff than anything else, or at least as much of it. Add on to that the fact, do people really go and stuff themselves silly all day every day? Tarin finds it hard to believe that Toby Carvery is the reason for the nations weight issues, and as a quick reminder more people are over-weight than are obese here in Britain.

Finally, to Janet Street-Porter and her sheep and clones, tarin thinks there is something else you might consider too, many of us who are over-weight or obese are ashamed of ourselves as it is, some, more than others, some, less, even though most of us have no reason to feel shame.

For many of us being overweight or obese is due to medical or mental health issues and so we shouldn’t feel shame, we try hard to lose weight, we have difficulties, but we try, our emotions, our mood, our fears, they can all play a part for better or worse in our fight to lose weight, that is nothing to be ashamed of.

And while there are others who just don’t care, or who actively chose to be overweight because it’s just “one of those things with age” or “I’m happy so it’s whatever, screw the nagging nancies.” sort of people, they shouldn’t be made to feel shame either.

Bottom line is body shamers are part of the problem, their words and actions hurt, they stop people wanting to go out, wanting to try, because people, especially emotional people with things like E.U.P.D and other emotional disorders they can’t help, and not just people with emotional issues either, it’s a horrible thing to go through anyway, you body shamers send us back indoors, you make us despise you and at the same time fear you and fear being around you. You think with your cruelty you are being part of the solution? You think being mean is going to make everyone suddenly become slim and trim? You think your high and mighty “I’m slim therefore I am…way better than you.” attitude is really going to make a change for the better? Yeah right that is really part of the problem the shaming, (that includes you Janet Street-Porter) you are part of the reason people in the nation are over-weight and obese. If you want to be part of the the solution so badly, support don’t shame.

Truthfully at the end of the day, the body shamers are the shameful ones, they are the ones who should feel shame for treating people badly just because some people don’t have the perfect figure…in the shamers eyes.

For Toby Carvery, you are not to blame for the nations figure and tarin will be ordering from you soon.

that’s all. thank you for reading.

tarin.