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Annual anti-resolution for the upcoming new year!! Self-improvement and weight loss are not synonymous!! The best and most beautiful version of your life can start with whatever body you occupy! Looking forward to a fat and prosperous 2026 🎉😌
that voice in your head telling you that you’d look better skinny is the devil and he needs to be shot in the back of the head execution style
Yolanda, a public sculpture in Berlin by the great Miriam Lenk … the sculptor says that the confident Yolanda "occupies the available space and does not care about any objections."
I did it, I went to see Her and she was magnificent.
Re-blog admiration — thanks for sharing your pics @kallonkutittaja!
Fat is not a feeling. It is a social category that affects how one moves through the world. I know this.
There is this feeling I experience in ed recovery going from "underweight" to "healthy weight" (I know bmi is bullshit) where the sensory difference of having more fat on me is experienced. The rubbing of my thighs, the jiggling of my stomach, etc. I even swear sometimes that I can feel something growing an expanding under my skin, like tingling and spreading.
I was wondering if there were better, non-fatphobic ways to express this feeling to my therapist, and if there haven't been any made yet maybe this post can be that opportunity!
Thank you in advance, and I'm sorry if anything i said here is offensive!
got absolutely no input but I do really don't want to perpetuate fatphobia, so I am sorry to at you guys but I pose this question to the following blogs and their followers :) @nodietedrecovery @fatliberationdamnit @fatphobiabegone
Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?
Me: I am going to eat you
lololol "does too"
does it? not for women after childbirth
does it? not if you want to see an effect size of greater than 1 kilo (2.2lbs)
does it? not if you'd like to see a maintained loss greater than 3.3% of your body weight
does it? not for people with type 2 diabetes
does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.
I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords "weight loss" and "exercise," and I'm tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I'm right, and you need to adjust your worldview--ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It's good for your blood vessels, it's good for your strength, it's good for your brain.
But it won't make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that's about it. If you're looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight--but the effort will almost always result in your body going "oh shit, we're living in a famine" and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.
#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.
Regular exercise helps your general health. Builds muscle. Reduces your heart rate. Keeps your body generally fit and flexible. Often, reduces stress because it gives you time to focus on something other than whatever was stressing you.
Eating good veggies helps digestion, your skin health, emotional balance, and has plenty of other benefits.
Exercise and eating green leafy vegetables have very minimal effects on weight. The biggest effects are on people who gained weight because of a debilitating condition - exercise and diet can help them get back to the shape that's their body's natural condition with their normal metabolism. Usually not quite to where they were before - bodies try very hard to hold on to mass after illness or injuries - but bodies also want to find their normal equilibrium.
Exercise will not turn a fat person into a skinny person. It has plenty of health benefits; "being skinny" is not a health benefit.
Repeat: "Being skinny" is not an indicator of health.
And occasionally I share this one around again:
A few years ago I was getting a pap smear. The doctor—whom I had just met that morning—had me in those cold metal stirrups and was rooting a
Leftists and socialists i love you but f*cking stop only drawing fat people as negative charicatures and nothing else
Fat cops, fat landlords, I just saw a sticker with the text ”f*ck oligarchs” and the person was an uglified fat man.
Truly, your revolution isn’t revolutionary if the only time you even think of fat people is when you need to depict a person in power.
Add fat activism to your activism
To all my thin friends out there, stop posting videos of your stomachs with the text ”this is what a normal belly looks like”.
I get the intention, but using the word ”normal” to refer to your thin stomach just pushes the same old beliefs that thin bodies are normal.
The reason why I see those videos exclusively made by thin people and why they get pushed by algorithm is because your message isn’t breaking current ideas of beauty.
Thin people love body positivity and they love seeing other thin people talk about body positivity. You can get an occasional mean comment for your stomach but most people, especially thin females, on this earth have already accepted that your belly is normal, because their bellies also look the same or bigger.
I don’t see fat people calling their bellies normal because that does go against what most thin people perceive as normal.
You calling your thin body normal works inside the status quo. You’re not breaking norms. By calling your body normal you’re just being really ignorant to the fact that some people are bigger than you and they would never be able to post a video like yours without receiving as much support as you do
okay this one actually slaps
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Your activism has to include fat people or its worthless, not sorry.
Your disabled activism has to include fat people.
Your trans activism has to include fat trans people.
Your feminist activism has to include fat women.
If you advocate for marginalized groups of any kind and leave fat people on the sidelines to continue being thrown under the bus by mainstream society your activism is worthless. Fatness is tied into so many of the harmful stereotypes and traits that systematic oppression and bigoted mindsets cultivate and feed off of, you cannot ignore it.
Your activism has to include fat people or it is worthless
Imma just post this and see if it gets a mature tag:
Fat people are not morally bad because they're fat.
Overeating isn't inherently evil.
Fat liberation needs to happen.
Fat people deserve full bodily autonomy and shouldn't be shamed for what they do with it.
Fat people should be allowed to make decisions on their own body without shame, yes, even if they want to overeat
Fat isn't inherently bad
Being fat isn't inherently bad
Fatphobia is real and needs to be stopped
FAT ≠ BAD
---from a fat person for fat liberation
We need to talk about tumblr's systematic fatphobia.
Posts of fat people are being marked as "sexual content" even more frequently than they used to, but now we have this fun little addition as brought to my attention by a friend;
That's right. Not just blatant kink-shaming, but now, if you make posts about or with fat people, you can now be flagged as "promoting disordered eating"! Multiple completely innocent posts of fat people literally just existing in their own bodies have already been flagged this way.
Raise hell about it. Reblog and share fat content more than ever. Don't let this shitty website tell you that your bodies are "wrong" or that you aren't allowed to exist publicly.
Tumblr staff, if you care about eating disorders (you fucking don't), stop promoting this sense of shame and fear and disgust towards the idea of weight gain. Stop shaming and censoring people for posting about their own bodies and experiences. Fatphobia kills. Fatphobia causes disordered eating. Fatphobia is the disease you should be worried about.
This has also been disproportionately affecting fat trans people, because of course it has.
Don't stop talking about it. Don't let this bullshit ceo silence you.
Plus Size Sewing Pattern Database
I've seen some people on here express interest in making their own clothes, and I recently discovered this database for plus size/size inclusive sewing patterns and wanted to share.
All of the patterns/brands on the list accommodate at least a 60 inch hip measurement, though the actual size ranges and other measurements vary, and there’s even a search function that allows you to plug in your own measurements (both imperial and metric) and find brands that can fit them. The site also does a monthly pattern roundup sharing specific patterns that meet the sizing criteria, which I think is neat.
A lot of these *do* tend to max out around the 60-65 inch range, so it's not the most inclusive for superfats, but it's still waaaaay more inclusive than the big-brand sewing pattern companies tend to be.
Help a queer, fat, & neurodivergent teacher commute to work in a rural red town!
Hi, everyone! It’s rare that I come to you with my own fundraisers, but I am organizing this fundraiser on behalf of my amazing partner and fellow fat liberationist, Steve.
On Nov. 8th, Steve was involved in an accident that rendered his car unusable. The perpetrator who ran Steve off of the highway and into the wall fled the scene and remains unidentified. As a substitute teacher who relies on his car to commute to work and his college classes every day, this is a critical loss for Steve. Without his car, he is extremely limited within his small town in WI where public transportation is unavailable. Steve has been the most loving and supportive person in my life, and I can’t stand to see him in a place like this. If you are feeling resourced, Please help me raise funds to help my partner get a new vehicle as soon as possible! Any amount helps!
Donate here 💙
If you cannot donate, PLEASE reblog!
Update: We are 1/4 of the way there!
thank you to everyone who has shared and donated! my partner and I couldn’t thank you enough! let’s keep this in circulation so he doesn’t have to miss more work!
Can we get this to 50%?
I am unemployed and my partner is a full time student and a part time substitute teacher, and does not have the income to afford a car payment. he is struggling with living costs as it is. every dollar you donate is one less dollar of debt we need to take on to afford this sudden expense.
to everyone who has given & shared, thank you for uplifting and supporting your community members. 🫂
Plus Size Sewing Pattern Database
I've seen some people on here express interest in making their own clothes, and I recently discovered this database for plus size/size inclusive sewing patterns and wanted to share.
All of the patterns/brands on the list accommodate at least a 60 inch hip measurement, though the actual size ranges and other measurements vary, and there’s even a search function that allows you to plug in your own measurements (both imperial and metric) and find brands that can fit them. The site also does a monthly pattern roundup sharing specific patterns that meet the sizing criteria, which I think is neat.
A lot of these *do* tend to max out around the 60-65 inch range, so it's not the most inclusive for superfats, but it's still waaaaay more inclusive than the big-brand sewing pattern companies tend to be.
I just Had to do it
"If you just [miserable life choice] you'll live longer!"
Okay. Even if I knew for sure that my life would be 3 years longer if I cut out 90% of the foods I love or whatever, what kind of trade off is that?
Like who has ever walked out of a movie and gone "well, I didn't enjoy that, but at least it was long"
“I’ve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what you’d look like on my table. Let’s start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they don’t have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. That’s how it works. And that’s very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. It’s dimply and cute. It’s not a defect. It’s not a health problem. It’s the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say – what, this is it? They’re kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because it’s unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or they’ll yelp. Adults sag. It doesn’t matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I don’t know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as you’re all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that “I can stop hanging on now, I’m safe” – a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and we’re easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: I’m in it for the glow. I’ll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.”
— What People Really Look Like
