#Weight loss tw

[neuroticboyfriend]

fat people do not have to be healthy to be deserving of respect and rights like bodily autonomy. yes, including if we experience health issues related to our weight (whether directly or indirectly). disability is not a moral issue.

also. fat people are allowed to make whatever health choices are best for them, and that does not have to involve weight loss. in fact, sometimes weight loss can make things worse, compared to our baseline. generally, dont assume anything about someone's health needs based on their appearance.

[gentleaffirmations]

This is a little more specific than usual, but I think it's important.

I want to send my love specifically to young people growing up in this era of new weight loss medications and the advertisements that come with them.

I just want to acknowledge how hard it is right now when even it seems like everyone is using these medications and more than ever weight stigma is being tied to social class.

I want to remind you that your weight and body size don't determine your worth. Your value is not determined by your health or how attractive you are either. You are inherently valuable. You deserve love and respect.

[headspace-hotel]

honestly I'm still pissed off about my ex roommate trying to control my sleeping and eating habits and in particular trying to stop me from eating after like, 8pm, insisting that eating before bed is terrible for your health and that she knew what she was talking about cuz her parents were doctors. Ditto with constantly nagging me to "fix" my sleep schedule. I stopped menstruating+had constantly swollen lymph nodes+lost so much weight I was at my 14-year-old size+consistently slept 4-5 hours a night with constant nightmares but i was so much "healthier" right

[hackoftheyear]

Yeah this is looking like a good start to summer for me hehehe

[compassionatereminders]

Disclaimer: losing weight is not for everyone. That said, I have been working hard on my fitness goals, and I now fit in a swimsuit three sizes smaller than the one I've been using up to now. I am impressed and have every intention of keeping doing what I'm doing, and I wished to brag.

While I fully support your right to do whatever you want with your own body, I'm not the place to go to brag about weight loss. This is a space where I wish to challenge diet culture, fatphobia and everything associated with it, and while I think you're in your full right to intentionally lose weight and am glad you're enjoying that journey, I don't see why it should be particularly brag worthy and I don't really wish to celebrate it as an objectively good thing.

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

Today on "tumblr ads that I wish were rebloggable":

I'm not wildly fond of tumblr ads promoting weight loss all willy-nilly, but the theming of this one combined with the fact that I saw it on a blog that I first followed for Dracula Daily posting has me losing it. Lose weight how, pray tell, dear tumblr ad? Lose blood weight? Because someone's drinking it? Am I going to be running through Transylvania because there's a vampire chasing me?

[scrapnick]

Fuck thinspo all my homies hates thinspo, I just don’t want my joints to hurt when I’m old

[aropride]

got an ad just now that was like “lose X pounds in 60 days!” and the number was exactly half my current body weight. This sounds like a threat more than an ad are you going to fucking saw me in half

[carnelianfoxx]

Is losing 13 pounds of weight in about 6 days good?

[transskywardsword]

my HRT doctor: you need to loose weight

me: okay. I’ll exercise more and eat more rounded balanced meals? i had EDNOS bordering on anorexia, i struggle with food control

doc: no. 1400 calories only, two hours exercise minimum.

me: ……

me: okay so do you want to call the eating disorder outpatient program and save me a spot or do you want me to do it?

[therosielord]

It's honestly crazy to me that there are people who have gone through weight loss and are still fatphobic (or are even MORE fatphobic than before) because NOTHING has radicalized me towards fat liberation more than trying to lose weight.

I'm not even fat, I'm midsized. But I gained a bunch of weight due to chronic illness and guess what? I was eating LESS than I ever had before (because I was nauseous all the time) and consistently gaining weight! If I had been healthy, my diet probably would have made me drop 20 pounds. But because I was sick, I gained 40 pounds.

I'm still trying to lose the weight. (Not gonna argue about the ethics of purposefully losing weight, go make your own post.) I'm just trying to get back to the size I was before I got really sick. I've been at it consistently for maybe a year and a half and I've lost about 15 pounds. And of course I'm very proud of myself for that progress but let's be honest, that's a pretty slow pace. I gained 40 pounds in the same timeframe. Why is it taking me SO much longer to lose it?

And here's the crazy thing: I've realized that the main reason it's taking me so long is because I keep prioritizing my health over weight loss. I'm sure to a lot of people that doesn't make sense. "Doesn't eating healthy result in weight loss?" NO. Eating HEALTHY can result in weight gain, weight loss, or no change to weight. Eating in a calorie deficit is what makes you lose weight. You can eat healthily and not be in a deficit and you can be in a deficit and eat nothing but garbage.

I've had a lot of moments when I could either make a choice to eat something that had more calories but also more things that my body desperately needed, like protein and fiber and vitamins, or I could eat something that had fewer calories and also less of all the other good stuff. (Example: a veggie and meat stir fry over rice versus a protein bar.) And whenever I could, I'd choose the first option. Because that was the healthier option, even though it meant I'd be eating more calories.

It's not like I wasn't on the fat liberation team beforehand, but going through this experience has really made me realize that everything our society believes about fatness and weight loss and health is total bullshit. Sometimes your body gets fucked up and your weight goes haywire and you have no control over it. Sometimes being sick makes you gain weight, sometimes it makes you lose weight. The healthiest option is not always the option that will help you lose weight. It's all so complicated, and we should never judge anyone for not being able to lose weight. Choosing to lose weight AND choosing to not lose weight are both morally neutral decisions and we should never force someone into one or the other.

[headspace-hotel]

I think a critical flaw in the vegan’s user’s argument was that they clearly buckled down on how capitalist exploitation and overproduction factors into milk and meat markets… and then seemed to assume that vegan diets avoid capitalist pitfalls completely.

But you’ve already posted on your blog before about how crop production under capitalism has created huge environmental issues in terms of biodiversity, depletion of topsoil, and sustainability. Meaning even a non-animal diet can (especially on the scale necessary for every human being currently in existence) still create large-scale issues if that diet demands having specific foods in abundance to avoid eating meat.

Like, I’m sympathetic to what vegans want to do, it just feels like they’re ignoring a MASSIVE number of pressing logistical and environmental issues to push that agenda. There’s several intersecting problems here, and claiming humanity as a whole is poised to chuck eating animals completely seems to be jumping the gun.

This is basically exactly what I hope to convey to people. I feel like extremely pressing issues such as topsoil loss, pesticide and herbicide use, and pollution caused by nitrogen fertilizers, not to mention the severe biodiversity impacts of monoculture, are being disregarded in favor of a very simplistic "Meat is killing the Earth" argument.

And I think the "veganism to save the earth" idea is just...distracting, as a movement. I'm glad people are motivated to do it. I don't think it's bad. But we need people to take action beyond just Buy Product. Anyone telling you that the most important action you can take is Buy Different Product does not have your best interest, or the planet's best interest, in mind.

If you're eating a plant based diet, but your only relationship with your food is Buy Product, you are still alienated from the source of your food. You still don't know, and can't respect or care for, the ecosystem or the labor that gives it to you.

My agenda is far more along the lines of "society needs to be organized so more people are directly involved in growing food that feeds their community" than anything to do with animals, but it's clear to everyone who has studied it for 2 seconds that farming needs to change hugely and it's so, so much more complicated than "farming animals is bad, farming plants is good."

Also the fact is that veganism cuts you off from sources of nutrients that have been part of virtually every human society ever, a LOT of people have disabilities, allergies or nutrient absorption issues that mean going vegan isn't possible for them, and people who try to argue with me about this simply Stop knowing how to read when this is brought up. "Some people need animal protein to live" is a reality of the world but people who don't like this straight up refuse to consider it.

I have no food allergies or sensitivities, and I still struggle to eat enough food to live. I lost thirty fucking pounds in college because of stress, the dining hall being shit, and my roommate trying to control my eating habits (long story). Thats like...well over 1/5 of my body weight. Sometimes people Cannot restrict their diet safely.

Like, sure, I 85% agree with the vegans who like to comment on my posts, but the remaining 15% of things they say is completely insane.

And some of them are so out of touch with reality that they will swear up and down that it's impossible for humans to drink milk without someone having to murder a baby animal. They seem to think farming is exclusively some kind of horror show that happens in a warehouse somewhere, and don't understand the concept that "some people live in rural areas" or "it's not uncommon in some places to just keep a few dairy goats that provide milk for your family."

And if they admit this exists, it's like "well, that's not where your dairy comes from, because the INDUSTRY—" thats. that's my point, you can get milk from a farmer who keeps a small herd that is well treated, we should start doing this actually, you can even keep your OWN goat

my ideal world involves "backyard chickens and goats are legal in suburban areas where there's space" because there's literally nothing innately unethical about keeping a couple dairy goats or healthy heritage breed chickens and you can quote me on that and you can even fight me.

That one person (the one who kept bringing up eating poop) (Lord what a sentence to have to write) eventually turned to "Well those sources are wrong because governmental organizations want you to keep eating animal products" which is already well into "conspiracy theory" territory. No thanks.

[hackoftheyear]

Speaking of which I think it’s funny how often I see people say things like “injectable medications are scary because you need to be on them for the rest of your life!! It’s a forever medication or you gain all the weight back!!” That’s not a good critique of people using them for non vanity reasons that’s literally just the reality of some medications

[compassionatereminders]

(cw medical transphobia and weight loss mention) adding on to the BMI is bullshit thing, I’m a trans dude who’s now being refused top surgery until I get my BMI under 30 and like… I have a similar body type to you, kat. It’s stupid and ridiculous- and my chest is part of what makes my bmi that high in the first place! These things aren’t made of bubbles and air, it’s fat! So the tldr is that I now have to lose a certain amount of weight before my next appointment in a year, which honestly sucks big time

No that's so stupid, because first of all it isn't even scientifically proven that intentional weight loss is a realistic option for most people, and on the other hand the many "health risks" associated with fatness may very well be more correlation than causation due to many doctors not taking their fat patients seriously in time. I'm so sorry you have to deal with this ❤️

[newsfromstolenland]

Isn’t there an insulin shortage? Was it only in America? I am worried about people with diabetes.

there's a shortage in the states that is exacerbating the already high prices:

there was also this, a tiktok weight loss trend leading to a global shortage of medication for type 2 diabetes (it isn't insulin though):

but I can't find anything about an insulin shortage in canada. if anyone can find any information on that, feel free to add it!

[mintmatcha]

Fatphobic math is obesity being one of the leading causes of death in America but also called one of the most preventable conditions and yet weight loss surgeries aren’t covered by most insurances because they’re considered “cosmetic”

its an obesity EPIDEMIC until there's a treatment, then it's laziness and stupidity.