Fatshionista Goes Pro

[ladydreamer]

How Childhood Obesity Fight Damages Self-EsteemWe can see in the comments how easily they transfigure an important point into a man of straw that is not saying anything more complex than "we should encourage kids to be fat!!!" I wonder how long, how often, and how strongly people have to hear a message that they have deliberately made themselves

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[myownghost]

that's fascism, and i condemn it. they're putting these girls onto the same effing loss-gain merry-go-round i've been living since my first major diet at 17. the diet books and "authorities" say it's our fault, that the diets are good but we fail at them. they're just wrong.

i'm reading a book by Frances Berg that's very healing. it won't make me lose X pounds in Y weeks, but it's good medicine. (Women Afraid to Eat.) she also has a book about kids. (for kids.) if you already know all about her, please excuse my links.

[ladydreamer]

It seems so evil to me to draw young women into this kind of thing deliberately, giving them a lifetime of issues because we value aesthetics over health. They can't even consider that promoting good health for all children, without a stigma on weight, might be a good alternative to the same thing we've been doing for years and years, and has never worked. Thinness is a cult. :(

No, I hadn't read her yet, and I'm always happy to expand my library on this topic. These kinds of books are, as you say, good medicine. It helps me stay on track. Not on a diet but on remembering to treat myself well. So thank you.

[lexalicious70]

It's hard enough for a girl who is overweight (or even thought of as being so because of unrealistic body expectations) without this kind of thing going on.

They made her be a vegetarian. Cold turkey.

I so didn't mean to giggle when I read that. Forgive me?