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Fat - Out Loud

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Fat, Unapologetic, Unashamed.
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poup-deactivated20160713 asked:

I have always been "chubby", (around a size 12 since I hit puberty) but in the past few years I've gone up to a size 16. I like the way I look, but I feel physically uncomfortable, and I think I would feel better at a lower weight. my problem is that I don't know how to reconcile my desire to be body positive with my desire to lose weight. I feel like I'm giving into societal pressures or something. What are your thoughts?

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I think it's important to look at where your desire to lose weight is coming from. What exactly makes you feel physically uncomfortable? Do you feel weak or tired? What exactly is the issue? If you're feeling tired or weak, and you feel it's because of your weight, you might consider looking at your eating and/or exercise habits. Often times issues we equate to our weight are just our poor choices in eating and/or lack of proper exercise.  Realize, that weight and health are two separate things. You can be fat and healthy, just as you can be thin and unhealthy. I personally am a LOT bigger than you are and I feel very good in my body. I'm also very healthy according to my doctor. But I also focus on eating healthy and exercising regularly and have for years. Even though my weight hasn't really changed, my health has improved greatly. 

Instead of focusing on what size you wear or how much you weigh I recommend focusing instead on healthy habits such as nutritious eating and increasing your exercise level/fitness level. 

In the end, your choices are your choices. A focus on weight loss is your choice, but I believe it's important to come to terms with where those feelings and desires are coming from. We live in a society that bombards us daily with the messages that thin = good and that fat = bad, none of us are immune to those messages or their effects. I believe one of the most important things we can do in this life is develop self love - our happiness and even the way we treat others are all effected by the way we feel about ourselves and our bodies. And loving yourself, contrary to what the media would like us to believe, does not come from a dress size. 

In the mean time, I recommend looking up some info on HAES (Health at Every Size). 

Be good to yourself! (:

#tierraisorange#ask#HAES#fat acceptance
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xombiepanda asked:

I just wanted to say thank you for all that you are doing here. I am a larger woman. I have been all my life. I have felt, for years, that there isn't enough support out there for women of size. I'm trying to lose weight for health reasons (diabetes), but I've struggled with self esteem issues related to my weight since childhood. Thank you for showing me that it's okay to love me the way that I am.

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That’s great to hear. I’m very happy that my blog has helped! (:

As for the weight loss, please realize that weight and health are two separate things. Weight loss can be achieved by eating nothing but potato chips, but you won’t have increased health, the opposite in fact. You can greatly increase your health by focusing on eating healthier and exercising more – not by focusing on losing weight.

By focusing on increasing your stamina and your activity levels as well as eating healthier your health can improve greatly. Weight loss does not equal health. I suggest checking out HAES (Health at Every Size). 

Take care of yourself and thanks for dropping me the note! I’m glad that my blog is helpful to you on your way to self love. (: 

#trigger warning#weight loss#HAES#Health at Every Size#xombiepanda
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excuse me, but I don't understand... Isn't being overweight unhealthy? So, why are big women glorified? I understand being proud of a healthy weight, but isn't it a bad example if the real women are unhealthy? Please don't get mad I just don't understand.

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Being fat is not unhealthy all by itself. There are plenty of people - millions in fact, myself included, who are fat and perfectly healthy. The media paints a completely incorrect picture of what is “healthy”, trying to convince people, women especially, that even a once of extra weight can be dangerous to your health.

This could not be more untrue.

They simply do this so they can sell you things. Diet trends, beauty products, because believing you need to lose weight makes them lots and lots of money.

But no, most plus-size women are actually perfectly healthy as is, and their weight doesn’t impact their health negatively at all.

So no, being fat is not unhealthy. Not in the slightest. It’s just another shape. Like thin, and average.

And the reason I glorify big women on this blog is because they are so underrepresented in the general zeitgeist. They are so beautiful, and I want to show everyone. 

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#fat acceptance#fat activism#body diversity#fat#HAES
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IDEA Fitness Gives Horrible Advice
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I am on the mailing list for the IDEA Health and Fitness newsletter.  I think that I got signed up automatically when I renewed by fitness pro certification but I don’t really know. Usually their stuff is just low-level annoying but today’s subject line read “Obese Clients:  Are you Meeting Their Real Needs?”  Covering my eyes with my hand and peering through my fingers I clicked on the link.  (TW – the quotes from the article, which may be triggering for all the reasons you might imagine ...
#fat acceptance#ragen chastain#fat activist#fitness#HAES
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Big Fat List of Myth-Defying Health Resources

This is Redefining Body Image's go-to list of resources, articles, research, videos, etc. providing facts and information regarding health and body image, especially dedicated to debunking the everyone's favorite myth that fat = unhealthy.

If I referred you to this page and this way of thinking about fat and fat health is new to you, I encourage you to have an open mind.

If you have something to add, please submit! The more this list grows, the more ammo we have to back us up in our fight against the body positive nay-sayers.

Let the facts come marching in.

Fat Acceptance/Size Discrimination Related Resources (WIP)

Body Positivity Resources (WIP)

Thank you.

Source: redefiningbodyimage
#time to bring this back#resources#health#HAES#links
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fatoutloud

I am heavy and I still say that it is unhealthy to be overweight…..this does not mean I advocate fat shaming…… but it is not healthy to be overweight.

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Guess what, no one gives a shit if you're thin or fat, saying "I'm fat and I say" does not give what you have to say any more credibility than if you were thin with the same statement. Realize, that what you said "it is not healthy to be overweight" is inaccurate. People can be fat and be healthy just as people can be thin and be unhealthy.

Do some research instead of just parroting what you hear from sources heavily invested in our diet culture. Studies done by institutions that aren't linked to the diet industry and big pharma show that people's exercise activities plays the biggest factor in health, not their weight. And that people who exercise regularly are generally healthy, regardless of if the individual is thin or fat. 

And on a more personal note - I've been fat my entire life, I eat as healthy as I can with lots of veg and fruit and little meat, and exercise regularly, and I'm very healthy. My grandmother is in her 70s and has been obese for over 50 years and is one of the healthiest people in my family. 

Go be a media brainwashed parrot elsewhere, we're done shoveling your shit today. 

#fat acceptance#HAES#fat activism#diet culture#concern trolls
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Gone and Lost Forever

Now that I've declared peace with my body (well, more than that, I'm now having a love affair with my body), I have to come to terms with the fact that I have spent countless days, weeks, months, years of my life focused on a goal that our society tells us fatty's is the ONLY goal we should be shooting for - the goal of thinness. 

It makes me sad, how much energy and time was spent on that goal, the folly of it all, the waste of it all. Years of counting calories, trying diet after diet, shakes and meal plans, boxed dinners and pills, "lifestyle changes", buying exercise videos, punishing myself and my body for the "crime" of being bigger than what I was told it should be. How much could I have done with that kind of focus, with all that time and energy?

What could have been if, instead of living in a society that told me since I was a child that all that mattered was that I do everything and anything I could to become thin, that instead I was encouraged to be more. Encouraged to be something other than thin. If I was encouraged to be something, anything worth my time and energy. But the goal of thinness, I was told, should be my main focus, from everyone to doctors, to my family, to my friends, to strangers, and if I should forget, as if I COULD forget, I was reminded that my body was "gross", "wrong", "unhealthy" in every form of popular media - magazines, ads, tv shows, movies, billboard ads, and even online. 

My heart breaks for the childhood I missed, for the teen years I missed, for the early twenties I missed - for all the years wasted on this "goal". It saddens me to the core. And more than that, it makes me angry. And I am pissed. I'm fucking pissed off and I want my time back. I want my years back.

But I will not get those years back. They are gone forever. I'm coming to terms with that, but it's painful. And I vow to do everything I can to make sure others don't have to wake up, years from now, to realize that they've wasted so many years of their life on such a meaningless goal as thinness.

That’s why I’m here. That’s why I run this blog. And that’s why I spend time on different sites promoting Fat Acceptance and talking to people still within the grips of our diet culture. I don’t want them to lose one more day on a goal that is so unworthy of their time and energy. 

#fat acceptance#fat activism#HAES#health at every size#fat
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Okay here’s the thing

1. Having a fat body doesn’t necessarily mean you are unhealthy/have unhealthy habits, but even if you did, you still deserve respect.

2. Promoting ‘obesity’ is about promoting respect for fat bodies, not thealleged health habits of those bodies. 

3. Fat isn’t inherently unhealthy, it’s possible to be fat and metabolically healthy, health is personal and multi-faceted and health is YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

4. Placing emphasis on health as a deciding factor of who is worthy of respect is ableist and disgusting. Should people with chronic illness hate their body because they are unhealthy? Is it acceptable to disrespect these people? (The answers to both of those questions is No). Even if you are unhealthy because of your own actions, that’s your business and you’re still a person and you still deserve respect. 

5. People can still love their body and want to lose weight. Many people are saying “fuck it, I love my fat” and STILL actively pursuing weight loss. Loving your body doesn’t have anything to do with diet/exercise habits. There are plenty of fat people who exercise because they want to be healthy, but healthy is not synonymous with thin. You can work out and eat well and be fat. You can eat like shit and not exercise and be thin. If you want to love your body, then try to love it. If you care about people suspecting you of being unhealthy, I don’t know what to tell you. 

If someone has a problem with my body, that is THEIR problem, not mine. 

(Rebloggable by request) 

#fat acceptance#size acceptance#HAES#health at every size#fat
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The Long-term Consequences of WLS - Rich & Heather's Story | Big Fat Blog
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She came from a long line of big women and had herself been fat throughout childhood, resulting in numerous failed diets and all the bullying and self-loathing that accompanies being a fat child / teen. At the time the media was full of stories of this 'magic bullet' and several of her family members had undergone the surgery with dramatic initial results. She told me that she wanted it done so that she could have all the things in life she had been convinced were not available to people of her size...
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