Comments | 00goddess: Fat/Not Fat

00goddess

Fat/Not Fat

Apr 10, 2011 20:58

I've been a fat person since my early mid-20s. I was a size 9-ish (though of course I thought I was terribly fat then) in high school, moving into a size 7 afterward and into my early 20s. In the late 90s, when I first got CFIDS (and, I believe, had a drop in thyroid function) I started to gain weight. I gained it in spurts, ten or so pounds at a ( Read more... )

fat acceptance, thyroid, weight loss, fat

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maradydd April 11 2011, 15:45:14 UTC

That's a good question. I don't really know the answer ( ... )

00goddess April 11 2011, 20:52:07 UTC

Yeah, I will always be an ally for people of ANY size. Because that is important to me. But I have definitely noticed that fat people are often automatically hostile to thin people, especially thin women. And being in a position of having lost weight might make them even more hostile.

This is why I am very very blunt about the fact that I am not on a diet. When people ask me how I am losing weight (and they always ask) I say that I take my thyroid medication and I keep processed sugars low. I am not "on a diet" and there is no special virtue in weight loss.