bogleech:

“Diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets.
Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to
lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they
lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible.

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Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

fatphobiabusters:

Quote:

Recently, I had what felt like an awesome idea.

I had gone to bed at night, feeling really overwhelmed about how full I felt, about how bloated I was. And that, very quickly, translated in my eating disordered mind into “I ate too much.”

Whatever that means.

So as I lay there in my discomfort, trying to quiet the thoughts enough to fall asleep, I remembered something that soothed me: A few times, I’ve seen Tumblr posts that address this issue exactly – in the form of three-paneled pictures of women from side view angles showing how different their stomachs look upon waking, after lunch, and then after dinner.

The entire point of those posts is to normalize how our bellies grow and expand to hold food, to remind us that our bodies are wonderfully adaptive and take care of us.

And remembering that did, indeed, help me sleep.

And when I woke up in the morning, I thought it might be a good idea to do one of these memes, too. After all, sometimes when I’m feeling body-negative, the best thing I can do for myself is to be present in my body. And besides, maybe some other folks needed the reminder, too.

So I took the first picture, and then I posted on my social media that if anyone else wanted to join in, they were more than welcome to. I envisioned a magical influx of body positivity taking over my timelines, dashboards, and newsfeeds by nightfall.

And then I walked over to my (aptly named) vanity to do my makeup.

But while I was blending a blush called Fearless on my cheeks and smearing a lipstick called Anarchy on my lips (both, by the way, also aptly named), I had a sudden thought:

Wait a minute. What does a meme like this say about fat people? For one thing, they probably don’t have the visual experience of “food babies.” And for another, this meme can be interpreted as reassuring thin people that they’re not fat – just “normal.”

I put the lipstick down.

Fuck, I thought. That’s fatphobic as all hell.

And so I rushed to my computer to delete what I had written on social media – not to erase the mistake so much as to avoid spreading false body positivity – and there, I had already been approached by two women who I respect deeply, Cathy and Ivy, about whether or not this was a campaign that makes sense for fat women.

And, honestly, it doesn’t.

And if your attempt at eating disorder recovery advocacy isn’t empowering for fat people, then it’s not good enough.

And that isn’t to say that your activism isn’t necessary, isn’t appreciated, isn’t important. Anyone who does anything to push for eating disorder recovery is someone who we need in our collective community.

But as far as I can tell (and, trust me, I’m pretty involved in the movement), eating disorder recovery advocacy almost always excludes fat people from the conversation – and that’s a problem!

End quote.

This seemed really important and relevant, so I figured I would share it here. 

Remember, this isn’t saying that having an eating disorder makes you fatphobic. What it is saying, however, is that fatphobia does show up in eating disorder spaces or amongst people with eating disorders, and if you are someone who has an eating disorder, you need to be aware of it.

– Mod Bella 

Eating Disorder Recovery Advocacy Is Usually Fatphobic – Here Are 4 Ways to Start Fixing That