#body trust

[anchialine-graveyard]

The way tv only shows fat people enjoying their lives when it’s a commercial for a weight loss drug. Showing them as the “after starting & still in progress” person. Showing us fat people can exist happily and can do things people dont want to see us do, or think we cant do. What if we showed that without implying its only because they lost weight.

Maybe your life isnt better because you’re losing weight. Maybe its better because you’re doing things you havent done since being made to believe your body is the problem.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

New Series! How to Develop Body Trust When Trans

Actively listening to our bodies and what they’re trying to tell us often seems impossible, especially in 2025 when transgender⁠ and nonbinary⁠ people and our bodies are under attack. But even in this painful historical moment, we can still learn to trust our bodies and our relationship⁠ with them.

We’ve learned from history that it’s impossible to hide from hate, so living authentically is the best way to resist it. We also recognize that’s easier said than done. In a world where trans and nonbinary embodiment is defined as ideology rather than biology, how can we learn to trust our bodies and their internal messages of gender dysphoria⁠, instead of silencing them, so that we can live authentically?

In our experience (and science agrees!), ignoring feelings of dysphoria can cause more harm than good. It can lead to extreme behavior that can kill you. We know from personal experience.

We believe it’s essential for anyone to know how to access life-saving self-help tools and resources when they are struggling with eating habits, body image⁠ or dysphoria, especially because access to this care can be limited (particularly for trans folks).

This series is here to give you some of these tools.

Actively listening to our bodies and what they’re trying to tell us often seems impossible, especially in 2025 when transgender and nonbinary people and our bodies are under attack. But even in this painful historical moment, we can still learn to trust our bodies and our relationship with them.

[maryannauger]

“Bob lost weight! If you want to improve your health too check out this program!”

We associate weight loss with health and weight gain with worsened health constantly. However, it’s more complicated than that.

1. You can be healthy at a wide range of sizes (yes, fat people can be healthy)

2. Health is more than nutrition and fitness. Think social determinants of health, the seven dimensions of wellness and whether you experience discrimination or not

3. You can lose weight because you’re sick, restricting your food, overexercising, under a lot of stress…

4. You can gain weight because you’re finally eating enough food, you stopped overexercising, you recovered from an illness. Just like you can gain weight because you’re not sleeping enough, you’re under a lot of stress…

Health is complex. Our body size can affect our health but it’s only a small portion of the big pie chart of everything that affects our wellbeing

Our size is also out of our control and greatly influenced by our genetics, our environment, if we experience food insecurity, discrimination and so on

Let’s stop reducing someone’s health to the size or their body. Let’s stop assuming that someone who lost weight is healthier and someone who gained weight is now unhealthy

[tinypinprick]

Guess what!!!! It’s okay to be hungry!!!! It’s okay to eat!!!!! It’s okay to eat ‘junk food’!!!!!! It’s okay to be hungrier than ‘usual’!!!!!!

[crystalcloudyeye]

If you did "crazy"things as a child (or at any age) to "get a fix" of sugar that doesn't mean you're an addict. Intense cravings like that point to scarcity or restriction of the desired food. More restriction is not the answer, rather it is harmful to your poor body! You deserve freedom with food.

[meeresbande]

me, through tears: I love every gram of chub on my body because it’s proof of how my body fights to keep me alive!

Ki’s been put through so much and this is ki’s response and we all should respect that. It’s such a soft and gentle response that speaks of so much love and a form of resilience and strength that I’m in awe of.

Gives a whole new meaning to ‘radical softness’ :’)

[maryannauger]

I tweeted this a couple days ago but the sentiment remains.

That morning, I didn’t feel like having my usual eggs, or toast or any of the foods that are typically considered breakfast foods. I opened the fridge and saw the left over tacos we had the day before and I knew that was exactly what I wanted.

Life is so freeing when you actively decide to listen to your body instead of the food rules that diet culture instilled in us.

Fun fact: did you know that the reason we say breakfast is the most important meal of the day is because of James Caleb Jackson and John Harvey Kellogg?

What a great way to sell this new product they invented: breakfast cereal!

Many of the food rules we abide by are marketing tactics or messages from diet culture to keep us checking our weight and eating the “right foods”.

When I think of a food rule and feel pressured to follow it, I ask myself:

- where does this rule come from?

- is it serving me or is it serving a company or an industry?

- why should I trust this rule over what my body tells me?

- does following this rule make me happy?

Based on those answers, I decide whether I want to implement it or not.

For example:

Eating breakfast makes me feel better most days so I eat breakfast most days.

Eating past 7pm doesn’t always make me feel good but going to bed hungry doesn’t feel good either. I finish work at 8pm so I often eat something before bed. The size depends on how hungry I am / how I think it will affect my sleep.

My body and my knowledge of past food experiences know better than any food rule - and so does yours!