I put on 40kg after an injury and everyone kept telling me that it was fine.. it wasn’t until my own mother told me I was fat and my health is at risk until I did something about it. Now I’ve dropped 50kg and healthier than ever

Tom is great! He is sensitive to how difficult the process is and it's not one fix for everyone. Bravo Tom!

I'm a clinician and I don't agree with fat shaming. But being nice is the key. It works for most of my patients. But I also had a patient with a few diseases, I told her whether she was thinking about healthy living lifestyle e.g. exercising, eating healthier food, in a way where she doesn't get annoyed. She said I'm sick and tired of doctors telling me that I have to lose weight, I'm happy with my size!!! These people don't understand that we are not trying to give them body dysmorphia, we are here to educate our patients. We can only do so much i guess. It is the social media that is trying to normalise it because rich people are running it. It isn't normal,it is also destroying the NHS!

Tom's so right! I was obese for a long time but being bullied and fat-shamed didn't make me want to lose weight... it made me want to die. For a person to decide to lose weight, something needs to click inside them. Piers seems to think that fat-shaming will trigger the click in anyone who's overweight, he's wrong. Hopefully he drops that belief.

I kinda get where Piers is coming from but this guest articulated the problem and solution 100x better than Piers ever has.

As someone who’s fat themselves, it does work when you get a reality check although it can be extreme

Thank you, Tom Kerridge, for acknowledging that not everyone's situation is the same. And not everyone responds the same to criticism. And some weight problems need to be addressed from more than one or two areas to be solved succesfully. Kudos to you, sir.

I still remember playing football at 10 years old and everyone shamed me for being too soft...my coach brought out that anger in me and i then became one of the most feared linebackers in my division state

On the opposite side, I was skinny shamed as a child.

Agree with everything Tom said 💯. 👍😁

Having lost over eleven stone, I can honestly say that body positivity is a dangerous journey. I'm not into fat shaming, but some honesty is needed. Really enjoyed this interview.

What’s a pleasant surprise seeing Tom Kerridge here, discuss/sharing his experience with Piers. Provided fews useful informations for the audiences. Looking forward to see Tom back as your guest again Mr.Piers. Tom life’s story is quite amazing & very inspiring. Thank you for this interview. I sure have learned something new. Sincerely wish both of you in a good health. Have a nice day🙂everyone.

Fat shaming worked for my son, he gained weight when he hit puberty, I blamed it on genetics, but when his peers started mocking him, he stopped eating chips, sweets, drinking fizzy drinks, started jogging twice a day, joined a gym. Now he’s 16, skinny, no longer goes to the gym, busy at school but does lifts and crunches at home, gorgeous, the center of attention, herds of girls are chasing him. You can moan or act!

Any person who is 5’ and weighs 300 pounds is a walking health scare Its only a matter a time How that tattooed woman got on the cover of Cosmo is beyond me!

I used to be very fit and now in my 40s I developed truncal (although not morbidity obese) when I couldn’t keep up with the exercise routine I used to. I have never been upset when I’ve been fat shamed, in fact, it reminds me that people notice my pot belly and should work harder in keeping it down.

Stop interrupting piers. Let your quests finish their sentences please 👍🏻

The way that I see it is that losing weight permanently or the incentive to just start I feel ought to come from a place of genuinely wanting to get it done for the reasons that mean the most to you, not anyone else. For me it came from a place of wanting to be healthy and not being in pain = covert reasons that no one else can know unless I tell them.

That’s not really what Brendan is saying, he’s not saying obesity is good, he’s saying let’s just be kinder to each other and more understanding

Fat shaming only made me want to end my life. My mum wouldn’t even let me call her mum in public because she was so ashamed of my weight. She starved me for the first 17 years of my life so I wouldn’t get fat like the rest of her family. I became obsessed with food. I started stealing and hiding food and eating it under my bed covers when I was about 14. I developed this horrible relationship with food and my eating became so disordered. I’d be thinking about my next meal while eating my current meal. My mental health got so bad that I ended up in the psych ward. Then the meds they put me on made me so fat that I got diabetes. I ended up getting a gastric sleeve and I’ve lost 32kg (70lb, 5.4 stone) my relationship with food is a little better, but still disordered. I don’t talk to my mum anymore because she made me so unwell. All my friends are so supportive and loving and that’s what I needed…not fat shaming from someone who was meant to love me.

good to see Bill Burr on the show

Always on point Piers👋👋

For me it was when l turned 50 and had menopause, now l just can't shift the weight because my physical health has declined, l used to walk miles every day, now l have COPD l can't , l can't afford to swim, and don't have a car and don't drive. l don't drink AT ALL. l would give anything to have my fitness back, but when your a post menopausel woman lt's bloody tough. l'm at the heaviest ive ever been at over 12 stone l hardly eat anything. Fat shaming would push my mental health over the edge.

As a child in the 60s we were never overweight, we used to be out all the time playing or doing something energetic. Todays youngsters are stuck indoors playing on their play stations , x boxes and the like. The6 need to get out a do something, even if it’s only walking, cycling or even running.

Tbch, fat shamming made me severely anorexic and on edge of dying i was literally less than 25kg… to be fair i was 14 at the time so I was a sensitive ass teenager … anyway my point is that fat shamming definitely doesnt work with everybody and on some it can cause severe damage… u can always give people feedback on their look without being mean

Guess what fat shaming accomplishes for the majority of us?! Low self esteem, extreme shame and hatred towards oneself, depression and in some cases suicide. Now tell me again fat shaming is good.

I am overweight. When people say that I am fat I always tell them that I can loose the weight but that they will always be dumb and a asshole.

Fat shaming does work but unfortunately we live in a pussified world where we have to protect people’s feelings and not tell them the truth!😡😡😡

Talk TV has very interesting guests that´s a pleasure the hear, go Piers!

Piers, u r always a dreamboat,great reporter, I'm from Brunswick ga, America,

Great chat!!!

do they not upload the full episodes any more?

He's constantly trying to bring the conversation back to shaming 😂 and the other guy just wanted to discuss obesity... Lol

Very interesting and yes it is important to make a good decision and stick to it. I also avoid alcohol and do not miss it.

Many different things can contribute to weight gain, including hormones, medication, genetics, not necessarily over-eating, eating the wrong foods, or lack of exercise. Fat shaming is cruel and ineffective & likely to lead to poor self-esteem and depression.

I like how this person not just wants to look cool in front of media like just telling people to eat healthy, going to gym, or some shit about dominant narcisict person. Rather, he just telling people to self conscious, balance ur life, do what you enjoy most, and most important thing he understand how all people has their own problem and different set of mind

Here’s a tip to anyone watching. Don’t go to the gym when you want to. Go to the gym regardless of how you feel. Problem is, people are too busy living their lives based on how they feel at the time. That’s a recipe for a mediocre life.

Shame does work. I know how much energy and focus I have when I take care of myself. Overweight again, I’m going to put in the work to get it back off.

Losing weight with large busts is near impossible. A woman can be a size 10 but have large bust. The weight of that bust is huge. A woman can be a size 10 or 12 from the waist down, but be a size 16 in a blouse or dress. Many people need to get educated!

I’m obese, everyone in my family is obese and I’m sure it’s partly hereditary. For me the other parts are due to health problems, medications I have to take and also bad habits with food. The body positivity movement in the USA is toxic. I’m for being accepting of who you are in the moment because you can’t fix the weight over night. Obesity can be hereditary, access to poor food, mental and physical trauma. There’s so many things. I’m for encouraging people to be healthy and loose weight but I am completely against shaming people.

West Country warmth 👌 good for you Tom Everything you said was spot on

Agree with Piers again.

The responsibility of another persons' body is not collective, its each to their own. The only one who can say if we afe healthy or not is our physician. You cant tell by looking at another person if they are healthy or not. Many times we praise skinny people whrn in actuality they lead a way of life that is detrimental to their health. Some body types cannot be as skinny as society views visually as healthy weight. We must understand this in order to combat obesity, too. We cant just cherry pick and make false claims and mobilize people to just become mean to others when WE CAN NOT KNOW WHAT IS HEALTHY FOR THEM. I learnt this at age of 7. There was a girl in our class who had a poor liver which lead her to have a bigger body. So it was healthy for her. Another kid at our school got treatment for his leukemia (he passed away) but with each cycle of treatment he gained so much weight, and then lost it all. So, just by looking at someone WE CANNOT KNOW WHAT HEALTH IS TO THEM AND WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WITH THEIR BODIES. We can only be informed for ourselves and inform in general, not to a target person with this very narrow view on people and weight. Shaming etc just leads to sooo many cases of error rather than anything else. Just stop. Obesity is bad for our health but so is sitting in front of a computer 3 days in a row and bearely moving, regardless of weight. We cannot judge just by looking at others what they suffer - or if they do at all.

Ok I’m going “there” I have a friend from school who became a herion addict and alcoholic. And she was overweight. Guess which addiction out of the 3 is the most difficult for her?! IT WAS EASIER FOR HER TO GIVE UP HEROIN THAN FOOD!!!! If that doesn’t tell you the difficulty people like me face I don’t give a rats ass! I’m just putting it out there.

good conversation

Fact-being obese brings health complications. Obesity as a health complication shouldn’t be glorified and celebrated. However, obesity aside, those individuals should be celebrated for the wonderful personalities or achievements they have. Obese people shouldn’t be judged or deemed lazy. It’s often the confidence they can lack because of fat shaming that can bring out those child hood feelings of being fat shamed or ridiculed when clothes weren’t made plus size or they couldn’t fit in. No one should ever judge anyone. As humans we should always give out positive and motivational energy that encourage others. Not everyone is naturally thick skinned Piers. Not everyone is mentally as strong as you. Childhood plays a big part in how we mentally deal with things and to program a positive mindset. I admire you Piers. If I was in the public eye and fat shamed or anything shamed I wouldn’t cope as well as you. Credit to your parents and wonderful upbringing where you debated around the table and grew in confidence.

During Covid I put on 25 lbs. Didn’t help that I’m retired and live alone. After Covid, an elderly neighbour blurted out “Mary….you’ve put on a lot of weight”!! Even though I knew I had, hearing it from this person was a shock. I’m now walking and cutting out some of the things (my baking 😋) that helped me get to that point. So sometimes it’s good for someone to point it out. If someone doesn’t point it out you may become comfortable thinking “oh it’s not that bad”.

I do well when I’m busy. I look forward to that.

Many people are obese because eating has become an unhealthy coping mechanism for dealing with emotional pain. So any kind of criticism or bullying will lead them to eat. If you talk to people who were fat as kids, they'll tell you it was a vicious cycle where they were picked on for their size, and then went home to binge eat to deal with the pain. So I disagree, "shaming" doesn't help. That said, we need to stop pretending obesity is healthy. Food addiction is not healthy in the same way drug and alcohol addiction is not healthy. Research does suggest that as we're eating, a part of the brain that compares us to other people in our community plays a role in whether we keep eating or stop. So I think some people are fat because everyone they know is fat, they don't see it as a problem. I think that's a big reason that every one got fat at once, it became normalized. If you weighed 300+ pounds a century ago, you'd be the only one in your town and would have more motivation to change it.

I used to be bullied for being fat, and that made me want to lose weight. I grew hate for those people, and I wanted to prove them wrong, so I started to get into shape. Thank God for that, otherwise I could have ended up supporting obesity. If you see someone incredibly obese, please do fat shame them, they'll hate you but you'll do a favor to them

I don’t go to a gym. Went once and hated it. . I don’t drink alcohol . I walk heaps and just do stuff around the house and work. Sometimes I skip a day of food. .I’m not over weight. I feel for people who are overweight, I reckon it’s just like addiction, it’s food that’s the drug & usually fatty harmful crap that’s cheap and quick. Love watching your videos thanks 🙏🏼

"You have to find an activity/sport you enjoy it" That is the true! Body positivity is when you love your body and take care for it!

My brother used to take care of his health but 12 years ago gave up and got to 450lbs. So many other medical conditions plagued him and i feel a lot of was due to his weight and all medications. He had the worse case of psoriatic arthritis I’ve ever seen. He finally couldn’t toilet himself and agreed to a rehab until we could find assisted living. He got COVID last Jan and dr said he’d never breathe on his own again. Obesity is people giving up saying what the hell.

I’m 5 foot 6 inches and I’m 270lbs and to be honest I’m not too happy about it. I’m trying to change my habits but gradually. I was on keto for few months I lost weight from it but then went back to my usual eating habits and gained the weight back. Then the pandemic happened and I’ve gained more weight due to eating out of stress. I want to incorporate workouts and healthy eating. I want to get back on the keto diet as well. This fat positivity thing is very triggering for me and I’m so angry about it because it glorifies a lifestyle that is destructive. Im against it. Fat positivity my ass.

Mr. Morgan, your brothers teasing you occasionally, and you embracing that as an opportunity to return to the gym, is not the same as Body/Fat Shaming. The difference is that you didn't feel ashamed by their teasing. Fat/Body Shaming is bullying. Your brothers teasing you is not, in your experience, bullying. That doesn't mean that another person being teased about their weight by one or more of their siblings is not going to feel like bullying to them, or perhaps even lead to a lifetime of self esteem and other victimization related issues.

I have friends who would over the past decades come to me for advice and would wanna workout with me and I always been supportive but they never ever show up it's just a moment of emotion that led to them approaching me once in a blue moon then that's it there won't be able follow up. These are the people that you also know you get offended the moment you start calling them out for it, which means they leave other no way to communicate with them or help them too.

Being overweight isn't about being greedy, many suffer cptsd from trauma.

I have mixed feeling on this. As someone who has yo-yo'd in weight (currently overweight for sure) I'm all in favour of people giving _themselves_ a kick up the behind, so to speak. And maybe it's no bad thing if doctors advise patients to lose weight in a strictly professional way. But shaming people? Mocking people? Well, yeah okay, but if a stranger did that to me on the wrong day he might be faced with a seriously p+ssed off 6 foot 3 mountain of flesh! (I'm not condoning violence either - of course. But if you go insulting random people, you have to run the risk of getting a bunch of five in the kisser. That's just the way it is...)

I quit alcohol in 2020 after struggling with it for years - - honestly, dry January is ok and a good start, but get to month 3, and I promise you will see the difference. However, I turned to sugar which I had never bothered with before, and I am still trying to manage that, which is much more complicated because sugar is everywhere. But I agree with piers that the fat acceptance must stop.

I agree with you Piers.

“Body positivity” isn’t fueling obesity. Sugar and processed foods are. The “positivity” is just cope.

it's not the calories that put on the weight but habit. The dude is right about Willpower.

I was afraid Tom was going to be a jerk and defend fat shaming I love how he’s educated and sympathetic. Becoming overweight isn’t just eating too much but it’s so much more complicated than that.

One way may work for one person but not the other. It doesn't help with so much advertising on food and the amount of fast food outlets. I mean McDonald's are constantly advertising on TV. A lot of people who are overweight is because they are comfort eating e.g. from trauma when they were younger. They need help also mentally. But I'm afraid a person has to help themselves along with help from friends, family and medical.

Tom says you have to find some exercise you enjoy but what happens if you don’t enjoy any exercise? That is where discipline and willpower come in. If you do hard things then life will be easy. If you do easy things then life will be hard.

Yeah, I’m all against fat glorifying but fat shaming doesn’t work. You make fat people feel bad about themselves and they just take to their addiction to escape from that pain. The sensible stance on this should be to acknowledge that being fat is unhealthy and to is to cheer fat people along when they are trying to lose weight. Why do people have to live on the extremes anyway when the middle ground works?

In my view, approaching fitness with motivation would not serve you in the long run. Piers talks about a certain level of fat shaming helps him in getting back in shape. Although it may help for a short period, but when the drive and motivation (from fat shaming) dips you tend to go back to being lethargic and not paying any attention to physical exercise. This is why I believe one must focus on developing discipline and consistency. Once you have this your perspective on health and fitness would shift from achieving fast results to achieving consistency. Being in shape would then be a byproduct of this.

i gotta say since tates visit, piers seems to be alot better at not interupting so much and persuing the argument more respectfully

Tom is so right !

A man walks into a McDonald's and hears two women speaking in a British accent. He asks, "Are you two ladies from England?" One says to him, "No, it's Wales, you idiot!" So then the guy asks, "Okay, so are you two whales from England?"

Tom is absolutely right!

2 things that are never wrong are the reflection you see in the mirror and blood work.

WHY don’t we eat a normal portion of food? What makes us think it’s ok to consume more than we need.

Great interview!

George Carlin would have told you

It's a delicate spot between fat shaming and not bullying. I'm not necessarily a fan of fat shaming, but we CANNOT allow this trend to normalize and accept obesity in our society. If people wanna be overweight they should be able to do that without being bullied everywhere they go, but we also need to make it very clear it's *unhealthy*

Fat shaming doesn’t work, but nor does over acceptance. As Yung once said “Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of those who I condemn, not his friend and fellow sufferer”. Over acceptance causes people to not feel a need to change or see their issue as an issue (and then dangerous socio-economics issues like increased prevalence that we are seeing with the trans stuff). Condemnation causes oppression and therefore more addictive behaviours. The answer is in the middle.

I (57 years old, normal weight) am a nurse and work in the operating room. I did exams with a colleague who is also overweight and two years younger than me. This colleague was with us 7 years ago on the operating table for a sled prosthesis, 2 years ago she received a shoulder prosthesis and last year a decompression on the spine. She weighs 136kg (anesthesia protocol) and has been retired 10 years ago. I still do 80% of my job. I wish all these overweight ones had to relocate themselves down under anesthesia. They can't imagine what they're doing to the nurses.

Body positivity is precisely the same as telling smokers that smoking isn’t unhealthy. All it does it reinforce a persons self destructive, unhealthy addictions. Shaming a smoker or an obese person is also categorically wrong and cruel. Obviously if we are kind, caring humans then we will show compassion and consideration for others. Additionally, if we have a relationship with the addict, we should also be honest with them about our concerns for their health; not reinforce or celebrate their deadly addiction.

I don’t think it’s about finding the exercise you enjoy cause this might not happen. It’s about repetition cause the brain gets used to new habits. And here is a purest true: you are what you eat.

Lentils and rice costs less than McDonalds

The point is not to be mean to people. No being obese is not healthy

Healthy food is not more expensive that junk processed food packed with sugar and bad fats, it’s a myth. Eggs, tinned sardines, turkey fruit and vegetables are some of the healthiest foods and some of the cheapest. Good healthy eating with weight loss is a decision and exercise like walking is free. Make the decision to eat healthy and be happy!

The downside to Fat Shaming for some - no matter how fit you get, you never forget how hurtful it felt.

I thought Piers was interviewing Domenick Lombardozzi from The Wire and Ray Donovan for a minute.😮😃

I love Brendan Frazier. And he gained weight for the movie "The Whale" because obesity was a big issue everywhere, and he got into the role of how people being fat shame others. Now that the movie is over & he's in the TV series " Professionals", I think his acting is still as great as it used to be. And he has some really good one-liners that make you laugh. He's like the plucky sidekick. He still hasn't lost all the weight that he gained for the movie plus he used a fat suit on as well to look like he was 600 lbs. I'm glad he won an award for his movie "The Whale" - he well deserved it. It's not so easy lose weight because someone says to exercise & eat less. Those are merely words. I know that Adele was heavy for many years & looking at her now is night & day and I say good for her if she was able to do that. I'm now at an age over 70 years & your metabolism slows down & you gain weight even though you eat less, & sometimes some illnesses prevent you from losing weight.

What about skinny shaming... everyone critisizes very slim people and say they have an eating disorder. What's the difference by saying a 300lb woman is obese and has an eating disorder? Fat shaming, skinny shaming? Where does it all stop, next is medium shaming? Not skinny enough, not fat enough?

I don’t think anyone should shame people for being fat but I do think we should stop glamorising it

Listen to this guy, not piers. This is the difference between someone trying to help, and someone still trying to appeal to media

Some people benefit from harsh criticism, some people benefit from a kind and empathetic, but truthful talk but no one benefits from a lie. If you give a lazy person a reason to be lazy then it's impossible for them to ever fix their problems.

I don’t agree with fat shaming and some people have complex mental health issues. However, nothing worked on my husband even when it was affecting his health. A bit of tough love eventually did the trick as I was worried about his health. Wouldn’t recommend that approach but I don’t think we should promote obesity as a body positive thing either.

How I said my haircut at Caesars was too short and too blonde? I didn’t desire a cut/color like that but don’t complain usually.

people being silent and “polite” and not telling each other their real attractions, unattractions, and concerns are what lead to fat people not getting the help they need and suffering

If you know in your heart that you have a physical issue of any kind; overweight, drinking, smoking... only one thing is going to get you to change your behavior. Your actual desire to change. I cannot stress that enough. The motivation must be internal. As a recovering alcoholic, I understand how hard it is to quit something you enjoy. Interesting fact.. At AA meetings, they serve coffee (caffeine is addictive) and have breaks when people go smoke outside (nicotine is as addictive as heroin). I'm currently in my 6th week of trying to quit smoking. I like to smoke. I have been a smoker for 37 years. I have heard every logical argument against smoking, especially from my mother... I have heard these arguments for decades. But, I never WANTED to quit. Everyone who has an unhealthy vice will hear from people, even the medical community, about how their vice is unhealthy. Being overweight is also unhealthy. Its a scientific, medical fact. But, as I said, overweight people are not going to change their behavior and seriously attempt to lose weight until they REALLY want to by their own choice. To me, it seems like the "woke" people don't think anybody should criticize anybody for anything. People who are offended by criticism and get depressed because of it should seek therapy. I think therapy would benefit most people. We don't have a right to NOT be insulted. We don't have a right to never hear differing opinions. If you are fat, overweight, obese, hefty, chunky, big-boned, or any term to describe it.... you are easily noticed in public. Anyone can point out the fat people in the room. I've been called worse things than "fat". The word FAT is not an insult, unless it's used that way. The word FAT is an adjective, which is used to add descriptive context to a noun. I digress. My point is that nobody can change unless they WANT to, and nobody is immune to criticism. People who try to shame the people who offer critiques are not doing anyone any favors.

People are criticized, rightly, for smoking related illnesses. The drain on the NHS from the medical conditions caused by obesity are as great but we are told to not hurt the feelings of massively overweight people by fat shaming....

It takes what it takes.

I’ve lived in China and other Asian countries and fat shaming is part of small talk, needless to say there aren’t many fat people in China or Cambodia for example. Also the sugary crap in British shops and the packaged ready meal industry is is everywhere, people are either uneducated/overworked or just plain lazy. Britain has amazing machinery and pharmaceutical and all other industries but their food culture is appalling and the working class haven’t got a clue nowadays. There needs to be an overhaul of the food culture and awareness in the UK

It’s not about making someone feel bad it’s about saving someone’s life. And believe me when they lose the weight they will thank you

i dont think fatshaming works, but what i do think works is a reality check. to just take a moment and realize the consequences of enjoying temporarily for now, but hurting yourself in the longterm and how it affects you and people around you.

The person who truly loves you will tell you the truth, whether it’s about weight, alcohol consumption or other codependency issues even if one runs the risk being rejected or whatever. I am the grandmother who has told my sweethearts that chips, hot dogs & fries are darn poisonous for their health. We are what we eat. I don’t fat shame ,I shame bad eating habits leading to clogged arteries / poor overall performance . Now that they’re in their teens they ‘re more tempted to eat junk food but their love of sports and scoring that goal wins over, so far 🤞

I did bring up concerns somewhere I was worried someone was experimenting with my family’s food or environment. Well, not wrong.