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So suddenly I'm a poster-boy for size acceptance, go figure! A reporter from the Buffalo News discovered @dragonlady7 #43746 where she goes on about size acceptance, which he is writing about but couldn't find any local experts. He came over to do an interview with B while I was working in the next room over. The topic of me came up, and he was kind of like har har he's so skinny. And I was like, dude: it would be extremely rude if somebody came up to you and said 'you're so fat, here have some carrot sticks.' But when somebody comes up to me and says 'you're so skinny, here have a milkshake,' it's totally acceptable! [For the record: it's not original and you're not clever.]

'Size acceptance' is not the same thing as saying 'So what if I'm fat?' Size acceptance is recognizing that it is possible to be healthy even if your weight is not within one standard deviation of the statistical mean. If your body is healthy and your mind is sane, is not worth risking your physical health with an asinine diet; your mental health by obsessing about every calorie; or your happiness with awful food. Not all fat people are overeaters, and not all skinny people are bulimic.

I'm sure he thinks I'm just playing the devil's advocate [and to some extent perhaps I am] but it doesn't make it any less true. Regardless, they're doing up some portraits of the two of us to put in the paper.

Edited to add:


- Z


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  1. janelle ·

    When I was a lot skinnier, I got a lot of comments from people about being too skinny as though I was anorexic or bulimic. Very annoying.

    Every time I picked up a diet soda or said I was going out for a run, I got those nasty comments. I didn't have time to explain to every person that I drank diet to protect my teeth from cavities and I run for good health. The skinniest person is not naturally the healthiest person.

    I got the comments just the other day when I went out to lunch for work and got a salad instead of a heaping plate of spaghetti smothered in cheese that I didn't really want to eat before going back to work. But I'm totally going back some time to get it!

    I think the bottom line issue is why people feel they have an innate right to comment on individual choices.

  2. tinypliny ·

    I am kind of torn about that video. Its all nice and empowering to assert that you like food, and you will eat as much as you want and not care about the consequences etc. I think the sentiment is great if you eat wisely. If you don't eat wisely and just eat as a kind of hobby, see your health (and mental status) get worse, then I think its time to take your head out of the sand and eat with moderation and consciousness.

    Not all fat people are overeaters. But, as of today, in this country and abroad, most of them are. Most of them don't follow the four rules in e:dragonlady's post. You could argue that some of them have bad diets because it is expensive to eat well. But energy balance is a personal choice. You cannot possibly say that it is expensive to eat in moderation and stop when you are hungry. Because you made a conscious decision to go with that triple butter-cheese-triple-meat burger when a smaller serving/healthier choice that could have sufficed was available for the same price.

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