#healthy at every size

[shaftking]

“You can’t tell someone’s health just by looking at them!!!”

As someone with “invisible” illnesses: Are you sure? Let’s try applying this to other demographics. So someone incredibly underweight is healthy until proven otherwise? Someone with a skin condition or even temporary dermatitis? Someone who is a regular cigarette smoker? Someone with severe cerebral palsy? Are you sure that there’s so visible indicators at all for peoples health and wellness?

We can tell when people are simply tired based on physical indicators, like eye bags and posture. Are you really telling me that other even clearer indicators of worse health than just a bad nights sleep just don’t exist?

This whole argument is really exhausting because it’s another case of people trying to act like the exceptions that prove the rule are actually just the rule.

[jesse-of-the-fog]

I'm all for calling out fatphobia, but if the fat acceptance movement is to be taken seriously then we must not commit the intellectual misdeed of falsely claiming that weight-loss is always impossible, unhealthy, or hateful. The vast majority of the fat acceptance movement has been made into a laughing stock by our own hands as advocates get screenshotted posting increasingly absurd and fallacious arguments.

Respectfully, I must state that intentional weight-loss is not inherently fatphobic or unhealthy. It can be maintainable and healthy, and does not need to be taken as a value statement directed outward. Please respect others' autonomy and do not take it as a personal insult when you see somebody talking about losing weight. Many people simply are healthier and happier because they lost weight.

[yumclaire]

ate mcdonald's burger today as one of my meals today, instead of making it an omad 2 months ago 🩷

[maryannauger]

You can't make assumptions about someone's healthy habits based off of how they look.

Thin people can have unhealthy habits and fat people can have unhealthy habits.

Just like thin people can have healthy habits and fat people can have healthy habits.

Let's stop making assumptions based off of other people's appearances

* I use fat here as a neutral descriptor. Just like tall, short, and thin. Being fat is not bad!

[timeisacephalopod]

I decided to look yoga apps up because yoga has mental health benefits and I wanted a way to stretch and work my body's muscles, improving flexibility and generally just making sure my body is moving and my muscles are working. Instead the first app I downloaded immediately asked for my height and weight, which I should have taken as the red flag it was, because after putting in the information being 5'6 and 200 pounds gave me a fuckin orange writing warning I'm obese and "might need to lose weight to be healthy."

I don't know how or why anyone would make an app where the first thing it does is insult the user and fat shame them instead of oh, I don't know, give me the simple yoga routines I was looking for but I immediately deleted that app because I'm not interested in immediately bring told my body is wrong and bad and needs to be changed! It's deeply dehumanizing, ignorant, and alienating. I don't care if you think I'm a fat piece of shit all I wanted was a way to move my body, not a needless and ignorant lecture from an app using the famously extremely accurate and not at all problematic BMI 🙄🙄🙄

[girlivealwaysbean]

anyway im going to the gynac tomorrow and i don't know what i want the result to be

[crxw1ey]

I started liking a few workout videos on tiktok because I'm trying to be more active,strong and not have debilitating body pain at age 20 and now I've landed on unhealthy,calorie obsessed and fat phobic tiktok... SAVE MEEEE

[rantithesis]

I wish less people would focus on talking about fat people not being inherently unhealthy (technically true, but frankly not applicable to the vast majority of cases) and instead focus on how someone’s health is a) their own fucking business b) NOT GROUNDS FOR A TOTAL LOSS OF BASIC DIGNITY

[orcelito]

This just in, local struggler severely overestimates how much they can eat yet again. Left with half a bowl of ramen and a sad, sad heart

[cuntwrap--supreme]

My dog has been having senior moments, such as randomly forgetting what she's doing or trying to walk into a street, and I've been calling her "Mr. President" when it happens.

Like, "No, Mr. President, we can't walk into oncoming traffic. That's how we get killed!"

[headphonemouse]

Nothing in my life has ever tasted as good as how I imagine cartoon meat that looks like this tastes

[jesse-of-the-fog]

For those of you who live in fat bodies, I'd like to remind you that your weight loss will slow down as you get closer to a healthy weight. This is normal.

Metabolic damage is a myth, or rather a misunderstanding of well-understood mechanics of the body. All living tissue is metabolically active, and body fat is no exception. As a fat body loses fat, its energy requirements necessarily must decrease. You didn't hit a fixed point. Your body isn't telling you to stop just because your weight loss stopped. You only have to adjust your calorie deficit.

In the meantime, please don't be fatphobic toward yourself. You can love your body in its current fat state and at a healthy weight in the future. You deserve to feel good in your body all the time and especially when you are making progress towards a healthier body.

[handsomewitch]

apropos of nothing. if you have nipple piercings and they just won't heal, it's counter intuitive but try increasing your jewellery to like, 14/12g (incrementally obviously)

[yumclaire]

what i eat in a day

as a teenage girl in recovery (extreme hunger)

breakfast : cinnamon oatmeal on milk with half an apple and half a banana + green tea

noon snack : half an apple, half a banana and almonds

lunch : strawberry pierogis with cream (15 😰)

dinner : 2 halfs of a roll, one with cream cheese, ham and radish, second with mayonaisse, cheese and lettuce + cappuccino

night snack : mango acai bowl with granola, almonds and banana + granola with almond milk and frozen strawberries

honestly so full rn and feeling a bit guilty, but definitely less than earlier! please dont compare how much i eat to your meals bc my extreme hunger is really extreme recently 😭

[maryannauger]

I used to set rigid rules with my self-care like:

Write in your gratitude journal single night before bed

Workout 5 times a week

Foam roll 2 times a week

Do some mobility exercises every morning

…

There was no flexibility, and the goals were unrealistic. It would have been another full time job following that list

Instead of setting rules, I schedule some things I know I would prefer not skipping like preparing some meals for the week on Sunday. If I need to, I can prep on Saturday or Monday, but I know that skipping my prep will mean I won’t be eating or finding meals to eat quickly will stress me out

As for most of my self-care, I do things when I need them. For example, I know that even if I schedule mobility exercises, I won’t do them and it’ll make me feel guilty. So I just do mobility exercises when my body needs it. (I don’t have mobility exercises prescribed by a physio, that would be different!)

Or I go for walks when my body needs extra movement and I have extra time. And sometimes what I need is to cuddle up with a blanket and watch netflix

Having less strict rules, and more check-ins with myself to do what works best for me in the moment has been a life changer!

What works for you when it comes to self-care? Does a schedule work better for you?

[liddlediddy]

I just had a "conversation" (I use that word VERY lightly) with my mom about fatphobia that can be boiled down to:

Me (fat): "I feel bad for my friend (also fat) because no matter how much she diets & exercises (which is a lot) she's never gonna look like how she wants to look (skinny) because she's not built like that. It sucks that society demonizes fat people & prioritizes weight over health & that the healthiest person I know (friend) believes she's worthless"

Mom (fat as well and also fatphobic): "so you think that if I went to the doctor right now they'd tell me I was healthy?" (huh??????)