#cw weight talk

[elsinore-and-inverness]

This is random and from ages ago but I was thinking of the 2000s era TV interview where David Tennant was like I’ve been ill and I haven’t eaten in a week and I’ve lost too much weight, clearly looking for some sympathy and concern, and instead getting the response of “I wish I could lose that much weight” and you just see him sort of falter and shut down, and the fear in David’s eyes when Alan Carr made him step on the talking scale “to see how much holiday weight he had to lose” - like. fuck diet culture. everyone deserves better.

[hazshit-hotel-hater]

Little bit of photography 🩷

I wanted to encourage a little bit of body positivity with this and try to make it look like Angel propping up his phone to take a quick photo of himself on a day where he feels good.

A bit of my rewrite deals with characters views on their bodies whether that be based on weight, bodily changes, transitioning, or all of the above. I think loving your body is incredibly important even if you’re actively trying to change it, like exercising per say, you can love the before and afters but I think loving the middle point or even the point where you’re just starting to be just as important.

Angel struggles with being underweight and this photo is during his attempts to gain more weight so he feels better health-wise and mentally. It’s only the start of the progress, but things like that need to be appreciated to keep the motivation going.

Really wish Vivzie would incorporate things like this into the show eventually but I doubt she’d handle it properly unfortunately

Uncropped photo without second set of arms or pedipalps (only showing cause I like his legs a lot)

[frociaggina97]

vieron q hago ejercicio y no estoy bajando de peso para nada pero me di cuenta que se me está yendo la celulitis de las piernas

[unhetalia]

I really want to talk about fatphobia for a second. This isn't directed at anyone in particular, but it's still something I want to talk about.

Let me start off by summarising an incredible article from The Guardian -

Fatphobia is a problem in our society, and it's a problem that kills fat people. Fat women are less likely to receive cervical cancer screening and breast cancer screening than non-fat women, and are more likely to die from both conditions than non-fat women. All on the basis of weight.

Unfortunately, while leftist spaces have become more aware of issues such as racism and homophobia, fatphobia has basically remained pretty rampant, and a study done at Harvard showed that "body-weight attitudes showed the slowest change toward attitude neutrality" (read an article written about the study here, if you don't want to read through that .pdf).

Mostly it's because fatness is often perceived as a choice, despite a lot of research that disputes this. Whether it's genetics or environment, stress, inequality, or even the medication you take, fatness isn't necessarily a choice someone makes, and that even when someone successfully loses weight, it's often temporary, with "sustained weight loss was found only in a small minority of participants, while complete weight regain was found in the majority."

It's hard to explain what this has to do with Hetalia, and why I'm posting this on my Hetalia blog, but I'm going to try.

I am sometimes frustrated by Himaruya's depiction of Alfred's 'struggle' with weight.

Alfred is drawn as very fit and thin - so to me, his fear of scales, his obsession with diet, asking other countries how they eat to stay thin... all of it looks like it stems from body dysmorphia. EXCEPT, other characters validate Alfred's obsession. We have the Hetalia strip where Alfred has to convince his boss that his weight gain is due to muscle, and not because of fat.

It's difficult, because as a reader, we're supposed to understand that in this case, Alfred represents the U.S., yet at the same time, Himaruya brings Alfred back into it by discussing his physique. So now I'm left wondering why you would think someone like Alfred, who is very much not drawn as a fat man, is being forced to justify his weight to anyone.

Then we as a fandom pick it up, and he's still incredibly fit and thin but at the same time he's fat-shamed, and characters talk about how his burgers and fries and cola and grease are making him fat, once again perpetuating that being overweight is a character failure, and one that Alfred has (and secondarily, all Americans).

I just wish we were a little bit more careful about this in the same way that we became more careful about differing cultures and politics because, as I have tried to highlight above, it's a prejudice that is rampant in society and we should care about not perpetuating it.

[thepatchworksys]

our body is almost 100 pounds im so happy

[pseudowho]

Do you perhaps know a simple diet to lose weight? My weight is at 65 and my mom is telling it to the whole village, and she'd point a camera at me whenever she's on a video call with anyone. It's really starting to get to me

CW/TW: discussion of weight, food intake, diet and weight management, nutrition, mental Vs physical wellbeing, fatphobia and fat shaming below.

The problem here isn't your weight, it's your shitty mother. I know weight is considered an issue of varying proportions culturally, too, but I'm white with a very fatphobic mother and I know how you feel.

If being shamed made people thin, there wouldn't be an overweight person on the planet.

Most importantly, you should know that you are not less of a person for being overweight, whatever your stupid fucking mother says. I will insult her 'til the cows come home.

Truth be told, exempting certain medical conditions which make weight loss harder in various ways, energy in Vs energy out really is the key.

Also very importantly: what I do is not what I recommend you should do.

I personally count everything I eat, with a healthy mindset, because I have a medical condition that leaves me exceptionally prone to weight gain. I've chosen to manage my weight savagely for my long-term health, and that has taken some sacrifices.

I eat only breakfast and lunch. I don't eat dinner. I might have some crackers in the evening. Occasionally I 'break' and do eat a bit more, for my own sanity, but I'm not a binge eater. I take multivitamins and have my bloods checked regularly. Overall I eat under 1500kcal a day, and for a woman of my height and activity level, that's low.

And, as a natural glutton, who loves food, this takes a lot of fucking willpower. I simply have a happy life, and want to maximise my chances of living longer and healthier.

Overall, there are lots of ways you can burn more than you eat. You can simply eat the same food but with smaller portions sizes. You can replace certain meal items with filling, lower energy alternatives, like more vegetables and fruit. You can exercise more to 'burn' more of what you take in.

You can see if medical causes can be excluded; while it's common to have a condition that makes it harder to lose weight, there are very few that make it impossible to lose weight.

I know this isn't of much help to you. Ultimately your own self worth and your mental health are what matter most, and if you're altering yourself just to fit to someone else's standards, you will probably find yourself thinner but no happier at the end of it.

Brain first. Body later. Send your mama my way, and I'll weigh her fat attitude VS my fat attitude and see who wins, huh?

Love,

-- Haitch xxx

[the-crystal-femmes]

CW for talks of body dysmorphia. Do not interact if you have intentions on fatshaming me, fatphobes aren't welcome.

I used to have severe body dysmorphia. I still do, but it's not as bad as before? Sometimes I feel bad though, that truly the way I want to fix it is not by losing weight, but gaining it. I know deep in my heart that I wouldn't feel happy being skinny. I am definitely overweight right now, but I'm still not quite as happy as I'd like to be.

I only feel bad because some people are genuinely disgusted with the idea of someone actually wanting to be fat or being fatter, and it's.. Such a shit mindset to have? Why can't I be happy in my own body, even if it's a way others don't like? But I also don't think it's their business, because it's not their body, it's mine.

I just want to be a little more happy. Even if others will ridicule me for it. I shouldn't care what they think.

[thissying]

A bit more info on 'Anatomy of a Champion', from Dutch program Tijd voor Max [Time for MAX, not Verstappen but the name of the broadcaster].

According to Tom Coronel, who was a guest, lots of family stuff, Jos being very candid about "mistakes he made" among something they never openly talk about which was Max having to go to Italy (to go karting) alone for the first time because Jos was in jail.

Part 3 features his mum Sophie a lot and part 1, Kelly. They showed this clip from the latter (beware discussion of weight):

[needlesandnilbogs]

the sad thing about spending time with an ex dancer friend is that we watch our old nutcracker dvds and go “oh hey that’s mckenna, she quit a year after this one with anorexia” “oh hey what happened to lea? oh yikes, broke an ankle and quit” “ooh, remember grace? she was always getting bullied by the teacher so she quit too” “oh I haven’t seen isabelle in years, she must have quit right after that, wasn’t she the one so and so liked to pick on?” “yeah iirc kanani quit too, she said it was killing her self esteem”

[v-anrouge]

im eating so little im losing too much weight too fast the pants i bought a few months ago are loose in me now im gonna cry

[morganpdf]

annoying thing abt losing/gaining a significant amount of weight in a short time (as someone who has done both) is that suddenly none of ur clothes fit and like. clothes arent cheap LMAO. Less of a problem when its weight LOST (i could get a smaller belt, roll up sleeves, etc also baggy clothes is like. A style) but with weight gained its suddenly like "oh none of your clothes fit in a way thats comfortable/wont get you Looked At Funny" and its not like you can go out and buy a whole new wardrobe bc even a couple of cheap shirts and pairs of pants add up (and also like. Cheaping out on pants sucks bc you KNOW the thighs are gonna tear through quick but like . nice jeans are expensive and also my short ass can only buy online bc they never carry close to my size in person, so i better Hope they fit right when they get here)

[aggressivelyarospec]

gimme chocolate by babymetal because chocolate is better than romance

Check-it-out chocolate I can have a bit of chocolate, can't I?

Added!

[hazshit-hotel-hater]

It’s wild that he’s probably never going to be this happy again.

My friend gave me the inspiration for this art actually! Vox had a fatback TV head in the past and considering that, I’m attached to the belief that he used to be fat because he needed more space to fit wires and mechanisms and cooling and all that because technology wasn’t as advanced in the 70’s (when this photo was taken). If you can’t tell, Alastor is the one taking the photo, though I feel like they don’t actually have many photos together since Alastor isn’t a fan of photos in general and Vox was insecure about his appearance. He still is but when you have cameras in your face all day you have to get over it a little or at least pretend you don’t care.

I love everything about possibilities with Vox and Alastor’s friendship in the past but I really feel like Viv is gonna mess it up. Hopefully not but it’s never going to meet the standard I have in my head. The most I can hope for is some stuff of them in the past at all because this is supposedly the backstory season so like hopefully.

Vox’s old design also doesn’t have a bunch of sin colour parallels but the colours still do matter! I really enjoy the idea the Vox used to really like yellow like thats his favourite colour but as he got more into business he shifted to blue because it’s more universally liked and honestly not many people like yellow. It’s my favourite though. So this is a very being true to himself Vox or at least as much as he can. He dislikes his appearance so he wears colours he enjoys to feel better about it and then as time goes on he feels a bit better about his body but now wears purples and blues because more people like those. He doesn’t wear or do much of anything for himself as much as he thinks he does. He does it for money, he does it for fame and to keep up appearances. And yes Alastor’s favourite colour just so happens to be purple. There’s definitely no correlation to the fact Vox’s suit is purple. And no correlation to the fact purple and yellow are complimentary. Definitely not anything important related to that./s

[rabidkelevra]

I don't care whether I gain weight or lose weight or stay the same weight on T. What I want is to have stronger muscles and be covered in hair so I can be the aggressive werewolf alpha I know I am. There's all these cute little puppy Tboys running around and not enough sexually intense feral dogs Tmen. My transition will bring some order to that balance.

[c0ntaminxted]

ok so im gaining weight and i have a very toxic view of my body can somebody please make me feel better

if i can get rid of any negative thoughts right now it's gonna be the dysmorphia ones

[db2x]

Lost weight on a bulk i am fucking PISSED GRAHHHHH