#anti fatness

[fatliberation]

they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

#inbox #fat liberation #fat acceptance #fat activism #anti fatness #anti fat bias #anti diet #resources #facts #weight science #save

[softandorsweet]

being fat is hard because you don’t just run into inaccessibility that affects only you. for example, if i’m bigger than a car seat is built for, then i inconvenience those sitting next to me. if i’m bigger than a room is built for, i encroach on others space. it makes the fat person feel like it’s a personal fault, and skinny people are often not kind to fat folks who take up space. i want to make this clear: it is Not the fat persons fault AND i understand the strain and shame it can cause fat people. this world is built to exclude fat people. fitting of my favorite phrase inspired by the social model of disability; it’s not the fat persons fault, it’s the worlds fault.

#fat #fat liberation #fat politics #anti fatness #fatphobia #disability #social model of disability #inaccessibility #mine #text post #fatness

[bfpnola]

the book mentioned is in our liberation library btw! link in bio!

#fatphobia #anti fatness #anti blackness #bipoc #history #tiktok #untranscribed #reaux speaks

[crippleprophet]

still trying to sort through the layers of this ableism & antifatness but it’s particularly painful that society treats eating gluten-free as something rooted in a desire for weight loss when

i gained more weight in the year after figuring out i have celiac than any other year of my life

including going up two shirt sizes

& going from being read as (small)fat but not having any access issues around size separate from mobility aids to being outside the bounds of straight sizing

because my body can absorb nutrients now

& for most people who ‘need’ to be eating gluten-free, you will gain weight!! & we, including those of us who were already fat, should be given space to celebrate that!! hallelujah that my body is still here to grow!!

#ableism #dietary restrictions #celiac disease #celiac #gluten intolerance #gluten free #fatphobia #anti fatness #mac.txt

[thefatfemme]

Post: "I want positive fat representation that does not center weight or weight loss!"

Some of y'all: *posts gifs of thin people in fat suits and characters that are essentially walking fat jokes* What are you complaining about? You've got all this great representation right here!

#thefatfemme #I swear to fucking god that post made me want to throw things #Anti fatness #Fatphobia #fat positive #fat acceptance #REBEL WILSON are you fucking shitting me #The woman who's most well known role is one long joke about how disgusting fat women are? THAT'S your example of a fat positive character? #And MADEA? The gd NUTTY PROFESSOR?! #fuck's sake

[kdramaxoxo]

Seo In Guk And Lee Sung Kyung In Talks To Lead New Romance Drama By “She Was Pretty” Writer

I 100% trust Seo In Guk but She Was Pretty is probably my least favorite k-drama on earth.

#kdrama #upcoming kdrama #seo in guk #lee sung kyung #i really hope the #she was pretty #writer has learned a LOT about #anti fatness #beauty standards #and honestly the leads not being treated like dirt #Why did i watch this? #i saw a gif set of the wall kiss and ran to watch it #i learned a valuable lesson that day #lol

[fleetsparrow]

If you're not fat and/or not in fat liberation spaces, you might not notice the problem in this screenshot.

This is an image of clothing currently being sold on the Hot Topic site. On the left, we have the straight size model in this cardigan. On the right is the "plus size" model in the same cardigan.

Here is the problem.

The photo of the thin model shows her face. In fact, all but one of the photos of the cardigan in the page itself shows her face.

The fat model is headless. In fact, she's headless in every single picture.

This begs the question of why. Why is it important to show the thin model's face (the thin model who vaguely resembles the elfin character the cardigan is supposed to be for) but unimportant to show the fat model's face? Or, maybe, more to the point, why is it so important to NOT show the fat model's face?

Even the photos of the back of the cardigan, it's the same. The thin model's head and hood are in the picture; the fat model is headless.

The only picture of the thin model where you can't see her head is a close up of the cardigan stitching detail.

It's a little thing in the grand scheme of things, yes. But it's deliberate. It's consistent. It's that little extra bit of dehumanizing that fat folks get that their thin counterparts don't.

Sure, you can wear the cute outfit, as long as you don't make us look at you. You can't be Arwen; you're fat. You're not a graceful fantasy character; you're fat. How dare you think you deserve to be seen?

You're fat.

#fleet rambles #fatphobia #fatmisia #anti fatness #I'm not surprised #but I am disappointed

[haleypukanski]

#writing #poetry #design #eating disorder liberation #eating disorder recovery #recovery #collective liberation #liberation #ed #anti fatness #fatphobia #body liberation #weight stigma #fat liberation #fat is freedom #2024

[turtle-toe]

My experience with and opinion on fat acceptance

I am currently 16 years old and 5'6, 169 pounds. I need to tell my story.

I've been fat or chubbier my entire life due to poor eating habits taught to me early on. "Oh, you want thirds on that giant plate of yours? Sure, go right ahead." But I never really noticed until about 5th grade and really got self conscious in 6th grade. But, I was healthy. I'd say I was around 5'3 and 155-160 pounds. I moved around a lot, I was running with no thought about breath control every day at recess. But I still sucked in my guy and wore giant shirts so no one could see the shape of my body. Then, Covid hit.

I gained what i thought was so much weight during lockdown, as everyone else did too, as well as my oh so quirky mental illnesses. I was at 168 and it made me feel horrible. But not in the health way but the outer appearance way. Then I discovered fat acceptance.

I went from sucking in my gut to being sucked into a harmful mindset that I cannot change but that's okay.

Now, I have to give the movement credit where it's due; it both positively and negatively affected me. The negative part was that i gained about 20 pounds. I got to 180. The positive was that I gained confidence that I desperately needed. I started to not care as much about what I thought people would think, I started to wear more form fitting clothes, I started to even wear two piece swimsuits. But that 20 pounds felt absolutely horrible. And after about two years in the fat acceptance movement, I finally got out of it.

I finally stopped blaming everyone else, either for not being "fat positive" or for being the ones who made me fat. I finally stopped thinking the "naturally" skinny girls were my worst enemy. I finally stopped blaming my genetics. I finally realized just how much I was grossly overeating. I finally saw just how bad I was and how the path I was taking would've lead me to major health problems and an unhappy life filled with resentment and bitterness.

So I took that confidence given to me by the movement and I used it to better myself. After many ups and downs, I managed to get down to 162. I've gained 7 pounds back but I'm trying my best to be consistent. And this health journey started because I wanted to be healthier and just feel better, mostly because I wanted to justify it because I thought that it was wrong of me to want to lose weight to look a certain way. But honestly, fuck that. I don't care if it's fat phobic of me to want my own body to be smaller. So, health is a priority for me but I will be damned if I don't start looking the way I want.

And I tagged this with so many of these fat acceptance tags because I know for damn sure that I would've needed this post three years ago. To hear how it affected someone close to my age. So to anyone who is feeling like shit because you feel as though you can't lose weight or you don't feel as pretty as others; you can do this. You're absolutely gorgeous and handsome and pretty and interesting no matter how you look. But please, please, please don't take to the fat acceptance movement as a way go block out and ignore your insecurities. It doesn't work, it will only get worse. I lost those 17 pounds just by eating a few more vegetables and very inconsistent exercise. I realize everyone is different but it's way easier than you think it is.

Please, y'all, take care of yourselves.

#fat acceptance #tw fatphobia #fat liberation #fat life #fat activism #anti fatness #health at every size #haes #body postivity #body positive #body posititivity #intuitive eating #body neutrality #fat positive #fat positvity #fat politics #cw fatphobia #weight loss #diet #weightloss #healthy diet #tw weight #tw weighloss

[performativezippers]

internet sleuths! help needed!

i remember a video i want to show my students but i can't find it. it was on tiktok (i think!) and was a person talking to the camera about how they learned during their one period of being thin that their family loved them more and treated them better when they were thin than when they were fat.

i believe they were thin due to a medical situation (aka being thin was less healthy than being fat). i think (but am not entirely sure) that the person was Black.

if you've seen this, could you point me towards it? THANK YOU (feel free to reblog)

#reblog if you can #fatphobia #anti fatness

[transgendz]

I have something to say about pain and fatness, specifically to those who have been told to loose weight and can't manage to do that.

I spent my entire childhood as disability set in, being told to lose weight by doctors. I starved myself for years, delevoping and recovering from an intense eating disorder which i never got treatment for because i was never lose enough weight to qualify.

I weigh less now than I have since I hit puberty. I feel worse than I ever have, and I'm desperately trying to gain back the weight because I now realize I had a lot of muscle that was probably supporting my weak joints.

The doctors are wrong. I know too many people like me to see any other logical conclusion. Losing the weight isn't going to help, not necessarily, and if you're starving and no weight is coming off, the weight isn't the problem.

You deserve food, you deserve to not be hungry, just as much as you deserve to not be in pain. You shouldn't have to choose.

#fatphobia #anti fatness #anti fatphobia #medical discrimination

[fatliberation]

No normal person was ever 600 lbs 100 years. Not a single one. It's not healthy or safe for anyone to be that large

Not a single one, eh? Are we gonna attempt to back that up with anything of substance whatsoever or are we just echoing eugenics into a fat person’s inbox and calling it a win? Sit down, bucko.

You know what else isn’t “healthy” or “normal” to be? Disabled. Yet disabled people have always existed. Imagine that!

Wild to think that part of being human means having a variety of differences in the formation and function of our bodies, and that our health status does not determine our right to exist in those bodies.

The eldest of these artifacts dates to over 30,000 years ago. A timespan longer than you or any mortal person can truly comprehend. We’ve been here since the beginning of humanity and we are still here. Fat people, specifically fat Black women, have roamed the earth long before colonization twisted perception of reality into hierarchy and poisoned the minds of generations to view certain human beings as disposable. Fat people have always existed and always will, no matter how much you fantasize about a past and future rid of us.

“How many statues of Black women do the ancients have to hide for you to dig up and understand what God looks like. How many times do fat Black women have to save your life in song. What are you paying attention to? This is why you can never see God in yourself. You are damned by hatred of fat Black women. And no part of you could ever live without them. This is why the universe (huge, black, unfolding, expansive) shakes and shakes her head, you fools. You wasteful fools.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After The End of The World

#fat liberation #fat acceptance #fat activism #anti fatness #fatphobia #fat history #inbox #colonialism #colonization #artifacts #anthropology

[softandorsweet]

just ~ if you haven’t listened to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back GO DO IT!!! it’s a group of Fat liberationist discussing everything fatness and anti-fatness. plus they all exist with multiple marginalizations, most hosts are queer and trans. it’s so brilliant i’ll never get over it!!!! god

#unsolicited: fatties talk back #fat liberation #fat #fatness #antifatness #anti fatness #anti fat bias #fatphobia #fatphobic #trans #queer #da’shaun l harrison #da’shaun harrison #marquisele mercedes #mikey mercedes #caleb luna #bryan guffey #jordan underwood

[paradife-loft]

"When dieting and "lifestyle changes" fail, as they so frequently do, some parents opt for weight-loss surgery for their kids. Centers like Children's National Hospital provide gastric sleeves and gastric bypass to children and adolescents. That hospital doesn't list age limits on its pediatric weight-loss surgeries. Eligible kids and teens, they say, have had BMIs in the "obese" category for at least three years and "understand the lifelong dietary commitment required after the surgery." A 2013 case study discussed weight-loss surgery on the youngest patient to date: a two-and-a-half-year-old. England's NHS began considering providing weight-loss surgery to adolescents, issuing an internal memo on the topic in 2017."

- Aubrey Gordon, "You Just Need To Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People

So....... what was it people were saying about how kids and teenagers SURELY can't be allowed to go through life-long irreversible medical procedures, and parents who facilitate that treatment should be criminalized? Did people want to follow through on that stance here too, or nah?

#horrified and disgusted by both the literal situation there as well as the Naked Fucking Hypocrisy #anti fatness #healthcare #transphobia #it's not about health it's about what kinds of people they want to stop existing #James liveblogs books

[sesamestreep]

the thing is, no matter how far I get away from caring about diet culture (and yes I know it’s everywhere, there’s no “getting away from it” only learning to tune it out and balance out the bullshit with like actual credible scientific knowledge), there will always be a day where I’m confronted by someone who is just not as far along in the journey of recognizing it as the vitriolic, harmful nonsense it is and I will have to hear Diet Talk and it will be framed as the Most Reasonable Thing in the World (to want to be thin, to want to be “healthier” in an entirely undefined way that just means eating less, to believe that there is a rigid, unquestionable proportion between someone’s height and weight that is Healthy For Everyone No Exceptions) and even if I do everything right and I talk myself down in all the ways I’ve trained myself to do, I will still end up telling myself for an indeterminate amount of time after said conversation that I’m not allowed to eat when I want to, even if I’m hungry, even if I need to, I’m just not allowed. And I hate that so much. Diet culture and anti-fatness are such a PLAGUE.

#tw disordered eating #tw diet #tw weight loss #tw weight #tw body issues #tw body image #anti fatness #fatphobia #just want to hit as many presumably blacklisted tags as possible #I don’t want anyone seeing this who doesn’t want to basically #this stuff is hard enough without having it sprung on you #I need to get out of this DAMN HOUSE

[jadziabear]

Hot take: the 25,000-year-old Woman of Willendorf scultpure doesn't have 'exaggerated' features associated with fertility and childbirth, she's just been interpreted through the anti fat lens of the early 1900s.

She's a depiction of a person with a bigger body, because fat people have been around for as long as there have been people and--shock horror--are just as worthy of being sculpted as anyone else.

#body posititivity #anti fatness #body neutrality #woman of willendorf #venus of willendorf