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Diet companies won’t tell you this but starving yourself is a lot worse for your health than overeating
Your body has a whoooole process for storing excess fats for later and cleaning out excess nutrients. Your body straight up can not run at all if you give it too little to run on. Don’t make your body pick and choose between essential processes, eat when you’re hungry.
hey um what in the fresh hell is happening in the uk right now? (source)
i mean. yeah!
remember when wes streeting said we had to ban puberty blockers for trans kids because they ‘might be dangerous’. but yeah using ozempic for this purpose is totally fine
Drug trials on the unemployed. Seriously.
We don’t talk enough about the systemic health effects of casual fatphobia and how much they fucking skew the data to the point where we literally cannot know how much outcomes are actually related to fatness and how much they are related to society not being designed for fat people, like literal design.
My best friend cannot find a bra.
She’s fat. We won’t get into the ~why~ here because it honestly wouldn’t matter whether it was “all her fault” or whether it was a result of outside forces like genes and such, she still deserves a goddamn fucking bra that fits.
And she cannot find a bra.
She’s short and fat, and Fat Bras are usually full cup, but because she’s short the full cups are usually too tall, or the armbands around them are too tall, to the point where what’ll fit around her chest and over her boobs will also dig up into her arms or have such high coverage that she literally cannot wear a shirt with a neckline high enough. Any bra that goes out enough goes too high.
This affects her ability to find clothing, impacting her ability to go outside sometimes, because she has this tiny selection of bras and she constantly has to wash them and when they’re gone she has no idea when she’ll next be able to find another unicorn bra. They appear in a flash usually in startups that die soon after, and COVID has killed most the small businesses remaining where she had even a hint of a chance of finding a fitting bra.
So she wears bras that don’t fit. Or she doesn’t leave the house. One gives her back pain. The other is, obviously, not very active. She likes to be active.
If she brings it up, people suggest breast reduction surgery.
But the thing is, with a good bra, she does not get back pain.
But if it’s that hard to find a good bra, they say, wouldn’t a reduction just be easier?
Wouldn’t it be easier for you to chop off part of your flesh, they say, then for us to cut fabric and underwire to more sizes? As if that is normal. As if that isn’t horrifying.
It’s not just bras. It’s chairs. It’s benches. It’s goddamn shoes. It’s seatbelts. It’s exercise equipment - I just got an exercise bike for Christmas. I had to shop around to find an affordable one that was also rated to take my level of fat. If I were 100 pounds heavier, which some people are? I don’t think any equipment would have existed in a price range that any working person could expect to afford. I don’t think most people even look at the weight ratings on chairs and couches and furniture. Once you start? They are lower than you think. There are absolutely 100% people you love in your life - whether really tall men or just average kinda overweight fat people - who should not be using the things they are using. Who are not getting support from their mattress, their footwear, their office chair. It might be you! You might be thinking “but I am average size!”, but the amount of furniture out there that’s only weighted to about 200lbs? Or 175??? It’s SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU REALIZE. Get into the Proper Fat? The 350lb, 400lb, 500lb fat? There’s virtually nothing.
Seatbelts are not tested for fat bodies and seatbelt extenders aren’t regulated.
We know about the problems with too small a blood pressure cuff. With too low a medicine dose. With no MRI a really fat body can fit in for a thousand miles.
We know, from multiple studies on multiple oppressed communities, that social bias by itself, with zero other compounding factors, can give people worse health outcomes.
Now add up
+ one of the social biases with the least pushback even from the educated liberal set with
+ having a world that is literally not made for you. Where you cannot get clothes, furniture, or transportation in a way that will actually accommodate you,
+ where society is constantly blaming you for this. And even if you somehow (and if you know how, please tell me) manage to retain some sense of self worth and optimism and determination despite all that
+ that’s not gonna magically give you access to the daily supplies a person needs in their home and out in public that’ll make living safe and healthy life literally physically possible.
If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health start a bra company. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health mandate changes to seatbelt requirements. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health have a variety of chairs in your waiting room with at least some being properly Fat Rated. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, make it easier for fat people to be active by making exercise equipment that fits them, swimwear that’ll actually stay on them, athletic shoes that can bear them. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health ask they be included in more medical trials. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, promote fat visibility and fat people loving their bodies - because hating yourself has literally never been good for anyone’s health.
If you’re using “concern for health” as a shield to allow you to judge and criticize strangers, you don’t give a fuck about anyone’s health. You’re just an asshole who prefers a veneer of respectability when you bully people. You’re hateful and we can see right through you.
But fatphobia isn’t just bullying. It isn’t just judgment from strangers. It isn’t just medical neglect and medical bias. Even if we could wave a wand and make all that go away, my best friend still wouldn’t have a bra that fits, people still wouldn’t have a chair that supports them, a seatbelt that protects them. It’s literally engineered in. And it slowly kills people day by day by day.
fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders
On the intersection of fatphobia and disability: I am physically disabled. Recently, I have been getting worse -- and I've been losing MASSIVE amounts of weight; most certainly partly exacerbated by stress, insomnia, and malnutrition. Annnnyways… I am dangerously underweight. And I haven't been able to get in with a doctor soon enough, So I was searching online for "tips for weight gain", "weight gain app", etc. Outside of a couple of things specifically meant for lifters and strength training athletes, nothing. So I search for literally any form of support or advice or motherfucking app helper for people who are underweight and desperately trying to gain. What do I find? Nada. Nothing. Zilch. Fatphobia is so prominent, medical authorities will greenlight all sorts of weird weight loss bullshit based on precious little… and then proceed to encourage people to restrict. Yet they just can't FATHOM an underweight person wanting to gain in order to not die. (several physical disabilities, syndromes, conditions, and disorders can cause someone to be underweight)
There has also been this study repeatedly done because they dont want to accept the findings - people with diabetes who ate ice cream every day were significantly better off/had an easier time managing their blood sugar!
Seriously, anything you read online is likely made up. I mean, it is no different than a few decades ago when every tabloid recommended only eating cabbage, or only eating one type of food. If you think weve grown at all and are less “dumb” you gotta rethink it. We do the same thing still.
And, a fun thing about studies and research? They really dont mean anything on their own. People refuse to accept this. A single study tells you NOTHING. The real world is way more complicated than a laboratory.
"Starvation diet and very-low-calorie diets may induce insulin resistance and overt diabetes mellitus" (1996)
Literally one of the hypotheses for how diabetes happens (besides genetics) is your body trying to burn glucose it doesn't have available.
Which makes sense, right? If your body cries wolf enough times about having blood sugar to burn when it doesn't, eventually your cells are going to stop listening to the insulin signal to avoid dying.
This article is a case study that suggests that crash-dieting literally contributed to giving seven non-diabetic weight loss patients diabetes.
Also, here's a historical meta-article about where starvation diets came from as a treatment for diabetes (spoiler: it was bad science). And here's another one on starvation-induced insulin resistance.
I literally developed diabetes about 2 years after a doctor put me on a 1300 calorie a day diet for ... months... bc he was blaming pain caused by a tumor on me being fat. It was like horrible diet > very stressful surgery > developed celiac > developed diabetes.
What. What. What.
Goddammit.
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Steve Bannon isn't wrong: for his brand of nihilistic politics to win, all he has to do is "flood the zone with shit," demoralizing people to the point where they no longer even try to learn the truth.
This is really just a more refined, more potent version of the tactical doubt sown by Big Tobacco about whether smoking caused cancer, a playbook later adopted by the fossil fuel industry to sell climate denial. You know Darrell Huff's 1954 classic How To Lie With Statistics? Huff was a Big Tobacco shill (his next book, which wasn't ever published, was How To Lie With Cancer Statistics). His mission wasn't to help you spot statistical malpractice – an actual thing that is an actual problem that you should actually learn to spot. It was to turn you into a nihilist who didn't believe anything could be known:
Corporations don't need you to believe that their products are beneficial or even non-harmful. They just need you to believe nothing. If you don't know what's true, then why not just do whatever feels good, man? #YOLO!
These bannonfloods of shit are a favored tactic of strongmen and dictators. Their grip on power doesn't depend on their citizens trusting them – it's enough that they trust no one:
Bannonflooding is especially beloved of the food industry. Food is essential, monopolized, and incredibly complicated, and many of the most profitable strategies for growing, processing and preparing food are very bad for the people who eat that food. Rather than sacrificing profits, the food industry floods the zone with shit, making it impossible to know what's true, in hopes that we will just eat whatever they're serving:
Now, the "nothing can be known" gambit only works if it's really hard to get at the truth. So it helps that nutrition and diet are very complex subjects, but it helps even more that the nutrition and diet industry are a cesspool of quacks and junk science. This is a "scientific discipline" whose prestigious annual meetings are sponsored (and catered) by McDonald's:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/my-trip-mcdonalds-sponsored-nutritionist-convention/
It's a "science" whose most prominent pitchmen peddle quack nostrums and sue the critics who point out (correctly) that eating foods high in chlorophyll will not "oxygenate your blood" (hint, chlorophyll only makes oxygen in the presence of light, which is notably lacking in your colon):
When the quack-heavy world of nutrition combines with the socially stigmatized world of weight-loss, you get a zone ripe for shitflooding. The majority of Americans are "overweight" (according to a definition that relies on the unscientific idea of BMI) and nearly half of Americans are "obese." These numbers have been climbing steadily since the 1970s, and every diet turns out to be basically bullshit:
Notwithstanding the new blockbuster post-Ozempic drugs, we're been through an unbroken 50-year run of more and more of us being fatter and fatter, even as fat stigma increased. Fat people are treated as weak-willed and fundamentally unhealthy, while the most prominent health-risks of being fat are roundly neglected: the mental health effects of being shamed, and the physical risks of having doctors ignore your health complaints, no matter how serious they sound, and blame them on your weight:
Fat people and their allies have banded together to address these real, urgent harms. The "body acceptance" movement isn't merely about feeling good in your own skin: it's also about fighting discrimination, demanding medical care (beyond "lose some weight") and warning people away from getting on the diet treadmill, which can lead to dangerous eating disorders and permanent weight gain:
Fat stigma is real. The mental health risks of fat-shaming are real. Eating disorders are real. Discrimination against fat people is real. The fact that these things are real doesn't mean that the food industry can't flood the zone with shit, though. On the contrary: the urgency of these issues, combined with the poor regulation of dietitians, makes the "what should you eat" zone perfect for flooding with endless quantities of highly profitable shit.
Perhaps you've gotten some of this shit on you. Have you found yourself watching a video from a dietitian influencer like Cara Harbstreet, Colleen Christensen or Lauren Smith, promoting "health at any size" with hashtags like #DerailTheShame and #AntiDiet? These were paid campaigns sponsored by General Mills, Pepsi, and other multinational, multibillion-dollar corporations.
Hello, fashion designer. How does it feel that your largest chest measurement available barely fits the average thigh measurement in the area you sell to? *spits* bitch
"My target demographic is young fit upwardly mobile women!" You mean rich skinny bitches
I’ve seen how fashion designers are forced to draw and the figures they are taught to draw of are I shit you not basically stick figures.
Like, think about how society expects fashion models’ bodies to be like, then translate that to how those bodies are expected to be drawn(much more exaggeratedly thin and slim and tall and high-waisted and leggy) and then double the exaggeration.
They don’t have a proper realistic measurements and references because it is drilled into them to not have one.
I got my degree in fashion design and you are 100% correct. That is called a Croquis, and those are the "ideal dimensions of a flattering illustration": we got GRADED on drawing our croquis outside of these proportions. THERE WERE NO SHORT OR PLUS SIZE TEMPLATES.
I knew a girl who designed an entire line of plus side evening wear, only to be asked to resize everything to a size 8 for production because that was the size of the BIGGEST MODELS AVAILABLE IN THE AREA.
And no, our models were on contract, so we could not hire outside the company for the runway.
Every step of the process is blatantly driven against """plus"""" sizes, which, may I remind you again, IS CONSIDERED ANYTHING BIGGER THAN AN 8.
You wanna know why there are no flattering plus size clothes readily available?
BECAUSE WE ARENT ALLOWED TO DRAW FAT PEOPLE AND THE LARGEST MANNEQUIN WE CAN GET IS AN 8
SAYING YOU WANNA DESIGN FOR FAT PEOPLE US LIKE SAYING YOUN WANNA DESIGN FOR A HORSE
THERE'S JUST NO FUCKING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR IT
Nobody WANTS to because being fat is ""Not in style" and BEING fat is considered a niche market, and new designers talk like being fat makes you ugly and sloppy and poor and not worth your time because you'll never strike it BIG like Gucci or Valentino
And even if you don't believe that bullshit, it's dragging rocks uphill to even START
Edit: Sorry, biggest size was 8 not 6, I remember cause at the time I could almost squeeze into an 8 and was really bummed
I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!
Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.
There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.
Check out these articles:
Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:
1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.
2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.
3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.
4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.
5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.
6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.
Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.
The link to “Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn't be” goes to the wrong article, here’s the correct one:
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"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.
FUN FACT the scientist who said that made it the fuck up! he's also the same dude who said that if kids made eye contact with the character on food boxes they wanted it more. so now all the cereal mascots/kids mascots look downwards to a child height. but THEY MADE IT UP and it's allllllll bullshit and bad science to the point cornell deleted the fuckin cereal eyes study from the face of the earth and modern research is saying you SHOULD shop when ur hungry because it makes you put more value on food that would give you more nutrition and actually sharpens your ability to feed yourself well
So I think the cereal box guy was Brian Wansink and honestly that tracks. If Wansink thinks we should be grocery shopping when full then we should definitely be doing it when hungry. Bruh is an absolute joke.
THAT'S THE BASTARD
IT'S HIM
imagine being so bad at science that your university forces you to stop
things he also came up with that are BULLSHIT:
also he committed kickstarter fraud in 2018 and is a massive fatphobe who thinks fat people recruit others to become fat by just existing. fuck him lmao
Here's a few articles by Stephanie M. Lee about Wansink's multiple p-hacking scandals. Initially I just found these looking for more information but now I'm also extremely amused by how much she was on this guy's ass for his shitty science.
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values), incorrect and inappropriate statistical analyses, and "p- hacking". [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] As of 2020 Wansink has had 18 of his research papers retracted (one twice). Seven other papers have received an expression of concern, and 15 others have been corrected. [8] On September 20, 2018, Cornell determined that Wansink had committed scientific misconduct and removed him from research and teaching activities; he resigned effective June 30, 2019. [6] end description]
I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.
Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.
Every time I hear someone much older than me talking about how their shame about their bodies and weight have robbed them of all kinds of fun experiences and simple joys and delights in life, it breaks my fucking heart. Older women, in particular, have been shamed into and forced into (and perpetuated themselves) so many stupid narratives about what one "can't do" if you look a certain way. Sometimes they don't even notice it...they'll just casually be saying something like, "I would have loved to play volleyball back in school but this big ass wasn't going to look right in those shorts tee hee" and I'm like that's??? actually??? tragic???????? Especially when it's something they COULD still pursue or try but they've got a fixed mindset about it.
My 84 year old aunt really spent all of her 30s-60s believing that she COULDN'T just put on a swimsuit and enjoy the water in the summer. I have so many memories of this mindset affecting her all summer. Just casually existing by a pool in a swimsuit was something that women who looked like her Could Not Do. This is someone who broke so many gender barriers in her field, who was a pioneer and a bad ass, but who held herself back from something she truly enjoyed for DECADES because she's fat. A couple of years ago she told me how stupid she feels having thought like that now that her age has changed her mobility and safety in going to a pool and it's no longer literally possible for her to do so.
She bought the bullshit and deprived herself of happiness when it was possible, so she lost her chance at hundreds of moments of simple enjoyment she now looks back on sadly.
Really sadly.
I think this is a topic where we can literally see a huge generational change among society right now. The bitchy boomer who says something like, "oh she should NOT be wearing that" when a happy, chunky Gen Zer bops by in a crop top sounds like the death rattles of an ancient relic to most of us in younger generations. After we get over the overt hate that surges when we hear things like that, most of us can see right through that prickly exterior into the deeply damaged, sad, and vulnerable person inside who is the one that's the real problem in the equation.
And yet, while it can be easy to think, "Thank god I'm not like THAT" none of us are truly immune to the messages that are blasted in our faces all the time that still shame fatness and make us feel like we owe society a certain kind of "beauty."
Just keep an eye out for any limiting beliefs you have that are depriving you from joy and delight you want and need. As anyone like my aunt could tell you, you won't someday look back and think, "I sure am glad I didn't do what made me happy all those years!"
Growing up in the 70s and 80s I cannot overstate how heavy the pressure of body conformity was, but it was *weak* compared to what was pushed on my mother, who grew up in the 50s and 60s.
I can't help but think that a whole lot of the backlash against trans people has to do with people who grew up in this mindset.
I grew up with a rock solid message that I must never, ever wear horizontal stripes because they would "make me look fat".
I *AM* fat. And one day I found this dress with horizontal stripes made out of the softest knit fabric, a maxidress, with pockets, the kind of thing you toss on and don't have to wear anything else at all when it's hot... the fabric is literally cool to the touch...
And it dawned on me that there were no number of vertical stripes in the world that were going to make me look not-fat and I bought the damn dress and I still sometimes wear it. It's one of the more comfortable things I own, though I've almost completely replaced my wardrobe to be sensory friendly fabrics. My 40s were about unpacking all the bs my mother fed me, which was, still, tame compared to what she had shoved at her her whole goddamn life. Things like, "You have the wrong head shape to wear a buzz cut." Like really, that's a thing that was said to me when I had literally never tried it. I've been clippering my hear now for eight years and you know what? There's no wrong shape to go nearly bald.
The cost of nonconformity was much, much higher back then. We're not so very far from the times when failure to dress "correctly" could land one in a mental institution or jail.
yeah you like your girls thick but do you like not judging her when she eats? do you like standing up to your friends when they’re fatphobic even when she’s not around? do you like holding her when she’s hurt by the things people say and do around her? do you like her? or do you just prefer her when she’s a picture on your phone?
the response to this post has been rly nice to see so here’s my favorites
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
as an overweight girl who is incredibly ashamed and anxious when eating in front of other people this makes me incredibly happy and comfortable tysm for this post
If you want to know more about Ozempic, I'd recommend the most recent episode of the Maintenance Phase podcast which can be found here:
I recommend all their episodes, particular favourites are 'the trouble with sugar', 'the trouble with calories' and 'worm wars'. Transcripts are available for all their episodes.
They do swear a lot, which some listeners may not be comfortable with.
And so, the moment I’ve all been waiting for! I’ve finished coloring this comic, and I am going to post it right now.
Diabetes isnt the 'ate too many sweets disease'. It just fucking is not. It's your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don't think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.
Do you know why diabetics eat so many sweets? Because we need sugar, and we need sugar FAST. Everyones' bodies rely on sugars for nutrients and energy, and in a non-diabetic body sugars get absorbed at a normal rate using your normal amount of insulin into your normal red blood cells. This happens to healthy carbs, superfood vegetables, and some proteins!
Diabetics dont have that luxury! Without medication, our body is in a constant crisis where we need more sugar and the sugars that break down the fastest are sweets! But then they dont all get absorbed, then the unabsorbed sugar hangs out in our bloodstream then gets flushed out, and then we still need more. All those healthy things break down too slowly for when we're in a crisis, and then we STILL dont absorb all of it! And I'm only talking about type 2, type 1 cant absorb anything at all because they dont have any insulin!
You cannot healthy eat or diet your way out of diabetes. You cannot lose weight out of diabetes. Once you get diabetes, even if you manage your symptoms perfectly you HAVE diabetes. You have a chronic illness. And that means its time to see doctors, get on medications, and practice self care.
And sometimes self care means you eat dessert first while dinner is cooking so you have the energy to finish cooking. Sometimes that means eating many small meals to match your body's absorption rate. Sometimes that means eating at midnight so you have the blood sugar to sleep.
Im just tired of diabetes being seen as a joke or only something you get if you're 'bad'. And diabetics? I love you, talk to a nutritionist about diabetic eating, and don't forget your meds.
Anyone else ever notice how like, fatohobes and transphobes and like, every other weird puritanical rightwing-adjacent asshole talks about bodies like they're gonna get trade-in value for the damn thing in the afterlife?
Like, as if the body is a "starter home" that they're gonna flip when they die or some shit?
Your body should show no signs of having lived. No scars, no tattoos, no stretch marks, no wrinkles, no piercings. If you MUST alter it then you can ONLY make changes that increase curb appeal and adhere to current market trends.
Just like your home should be white walls and shiplap and open modernist floorplans with no sign of personality because omg, what if that lowers the resale value!?
Sorry but the body isn't an investment. St. Peter is not going to give you a coupon or some shit if you die and your body is Like New still.
As long as it doesn't kill me I wanna do the fun things in life no matter how they make my body look. Scars and stretch marks happen and I can't imagine obsessing over preventing them. I wanna smile and don't care if I get wrinkles in my face. I want to enjoy myself and people who want tattoos, piercings, and to transition also deserve to enjoy themselves and do what makes them happy
Maybe it is like a house that will lose its resale value. But I don't care. If I get a house of my own, I don't care for the resale value. I want that house to be mine. I'm gonna live in it. Might as well make it look like home. I think most people of my generation agree. We'll buy a house and we'll never want to sell it.
Live like your body is a house. A house you cannot sell. Do whatever you want to it. Try not to destroy it, because this is the only one you get. But make it yours. Make it feel like it reflects who you are. No one else will live in it, or want to buy it off you. If you're plural, you and your headmates are a bunch of roommates and you might need to make decisions together so you can all be happy, but nobody is gonna buy it off of you and make you all move out. So make it yours
This. Plus:
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
Fatphobia isnt just being bullied for being fat.
It’s being forced to shop online and spend more money because the store doesnt carry your size
Its “we only sell this tshirt in unisex in your size” [many places only offer “womens” tees large and below]
Its having to buy two plane tickets for one person
Its having medical conditions overlooked because of your weight
It’s having fat people in media only be comic relief or the villain [or not featured at all]
Its people saying to your partner “you’re with *them*?”
It’s being found disgusting for sweating - even when you’re exercising
It’s being considered a fetish
It’s so much more than being bullied by words, but for some reason, people seem to think if they dont hear someone actively saying “fuck fat people they suck. I personally think fat people should die,” then nothing can be fatphobic.
You know I wish fatphobia was less pervasive. Even among people who consider themself as progressive, it's rampant. So quick reminder. No it's actually not easy to stop being fat, and it sucks that we are treated differently for something we really can't control. Shaming a fat person for being fat, and shaming them for not having the "willpower" to become skinny- is bigotry. And if all you talk to fat people about is weight loss and dieting- congratulations! You're being a dick! Stop.
