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Many weight-loss studies claim their method is a success, and then fail to mention that the drop-out rate was 50%.
If you don't have all the data of all the people who started, you can't make any significant conclusions. Yet this is exactly how weight-loss research is conducted.
Weight discrimination in healthcare is not about fat people feeling hurt when their doctor says something about their weight. It is about fat people not getting adequate care for their conditions and symptoms, and being told that losing weight will solve everything.
Trans people are denied gender-affirming surgery because of their BMI. The 'justification' is that fat people have more complications during surgery and/or recovery. However, research has shown that high weight is not significantly associated with complications.
You are allowed to love your body right now. Not when you lose weight or fit in those pants or skip dessert, but now, at this moment.
People-first language is only suggested for things that are considered undesirable in our society. No one ever says we should use, for example, "a person with blondness” or "a person with overheight.”
The problem therefore isn't necessarily where we put certain words, but that those words (and the conditions associated with them) are seen negatively.
So no, saying “a person with obesity” will not solve weight stigma in our society.
Dear fat people,
your body is already beach ready, you don't have to do anything for that.
In our society it is practically impossible to *not* be fatphobic. But you can decide to un-learn it or at least be aware of it.
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Diet culture make us think we can't be fat *and* happy and that message gets repeated every single day in our society.
Dear non-fat people,
we do not have to change our body to not get harassed. You can also just stop harassing us.
Sincerely, fat people
A fat suit in a movie is *not* a positive representation of fat people.
We do not need a *better* tool than BMI to divide bodies into categories of 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' – we do not need *any* tool that stigmatizes certain bodies.
Exercise is not a punishment for eating too much.
If your story needs a fat suit, it is not a good story.
Today is the perfect day to unapologetically be yourself.
You don't have to defend in any way that you have the right to exist.
Fatphobia is the fear, aversion and/or hatred for fat and fat people. Other terms are anti-fatness and anti-fat bias.
Fat people are not a problem to be solved, but a part of human body diversity.
The respect you deserve as a person does not depend on how much you weigh or how you look.
Dear non-fat people,
yes, I have already tried to go on a diet but thank you for this completely useless suggestion.
Sincerely, fat people
From 1890 on, you could buy an "obesity belt" to wrap around your waist, so there was no more room "for surplus fat to accumulate".
If 'promoting obesity' were real:
"I'm going to take your blood pressure again, because this is not what I expected from someone with such a low weight."
Things fat people have to think about in our society:
Does the door of this toilet open inwards or outwards?
If you would say to a friend some of the negative things you say to yourself when you look in the mirror, you probably wouldn't be friends anymore.
Your fat body should be praised and glorified. If other people can't handle that, that's their problem.
If you would say to a friend some of the negative things you say to yourself when you look in the mirror, you probably wouldn't be friends anymore.
Today is the perfect day to unapologetically be yourself.
The solution of 'experts' who want to fight stigma against 'obesity' is always to make fat people thinner and never to stop stigma and discrimination against fat people. This shows you exactly what their priorities are. (Hint: it is not the well-being of fat people.)
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Dear non-fat people,
we know you are not *really* concerned about our health, so you can stop pretending now.
Sincerely, fat people
Fat people deserve a society in which they can exist freely without feeling the pressure to lose weight and change their bodies. This should not be a controversial statement.
Putting a plus size model on the cover of a magazine twice a year is not 'promoting obesity'.
The solution of 'experts' who want to fight stigma against 'obesity' is always to make fat people thinner and never to stop stigma and discrimination against fat people. This shows you exactly what their priorities are. (Hint: it is not the well-being of fat people.)
Dieting is *not* the only choice you have when you're fat.
Don't ever forget that the diet industry profits off of our insecurities. If nobody was insecure about their body, they wouldn't sell anything anymore and go bankrupt.
Putting a plus size model on the cover of a magazine twice a year is not 'promoting obesity'.
The moral panic about the 'obesity epidemic' is harmful to the health and well-being of fat people.
Research shows that fat kids get lower grades in school, even though they are as smart as their thin(ner) classmates.
Food is not inherently 'good' or 'bad', or 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'.
Millions of people worldwide do not have a problem with willpower when their weight loss diets don't work. The problem is the diet, not the people.
Fat people don't have to 'try harder' to lose weight.
Weight is not synonymous for health.
Carbs are not the enemy.
I hope your day will be filled with self love, good food and enjoyable moments.
Around 1925 there was a diet pill called Marmola, "the easy and pleasant way to reduce". Except that it contained thyroid substance, which caused heart problems, high blood pressure and death. Oops.