Sun, Oct-29-23, 07:13
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,684
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Fat Acceptance is dwindling
My childhood daytime tv came with ginger ale and chicken soup. I've been really sick and periodically bedridden the last few years, and Youtube is my version that kind of TV. Only way more choice than Gilligan's Island (which is now on streaming,) and game shows/soap operas, which don't even exist anymore.
That's how I discovered the social movement known as Fat Acceptance/Health At Every Size. Look at these labs, we're fine. You are merely being prejudicial. While there are bad beauty standards which kills models, ballerinas, and gymnasts, driven to extreme thinness, it's equally bad for it to go to the other extreme.
Especially since gaining weight seems to be a progressive disease. It becomes increasingly difficult not to gain, as I discovered in my forties. No amount of portion control was going to fix this. I tried.
I felt a movement like this was going to be a time-limited situation in any case. Instead of sharing their difficulties about eating disorders, the movement tried to normalize it. But a stretch of early deaths and recent scandals shook up the happy picture.
And now, with these weight loss drugs? Everyone is abandoning Fat Acceptance. It's these Influencers who must change their attitudes. Perhaps addiction counseling was what they needed all along.
Now we have the science of junk food.
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