The Fat Acceptance Movement

There’s a good old rant and discussion going on at HealingMagicHands place about this ridiculous “movement”  (feel free to join us there) and it reminded me of this Time article I read last week.

To my mind, promoting obesity as “fun” is the same as promoting anorexia and other eating disorders as healthy lifestyle options.

I have been both obese and borderline anorexia thin in my lifetime and neither of them have felt healthy. I am very overweight at the moment and, now that I am off chemo, I am working on a new lifestyle eating & exercise plan.  Not  just a diet. Because you cannot successfully lose weight simply by cutting calories – that just fucks up your metabolism. You need to DO MORE too. It took ten years for me to get this fat (at a rate of about five pounds a year) so it would be unrealistic to think I could lose it quickly. Which is why the focus will be on becoming more active and doing more, as well as making a few simple diet changes.

But for the record … FAT IS NOT FUN. And I wouldn’t like to be “accepted” as an overweight lazy excuse-maker who doesn’t want to take any personal responsibility for how I look and feel. I mean, would you?