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[fatphobiabusters]

This is a great time to remember that I, Mod Worthy, do not consent to having my posts or the posts I share used as fat fetish porn✌️

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

More people need to think about the fact that chatting about weight loss is considered neutral, mundane small talk that everybody can and should relate to. Fatphobia and diet culture are so normalized and accepted in this world that talking about the hideousness and immorality of a normal human body type is believed to be as trivial as talking about the weather. People even say diet culture shit as small talk to their employees, patients, clients, strangers. You can be in a grocery store looking at products and a stranger will make small talk with you by lamenting about how many calories are in a goddamn fruit smoothie.

Do you understand what that says about how we treat fat people in society?

Do you understand?

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I hope this isn't inappropriate to vent to you about this, but I recently had a nurse practitioner tell me I need to start eating 1000 - 1300 calories a day.

When I asked him for actual advice on healthy eating when I struggle with cooking for myself and eating regular meals, he only could talk to me about reducing cravings. And when I told him that his advice wasn't helping, he suggested going on GLP1s.

I am officially considered pre-diabetic. Apparently insurance would pay for a real nutritionist if I was actually diabetic. And it sucks that instead of actually getting support, or good health advice that meets me where I'm at, I was told to either go on a starvation diet or try ozempic.

I'm really glad you understand that what that nurse practitioner told you is bullshit. Starvation and abusing your body into unsustainable weight loss do not solve health problems. And although ozempic is used to treat diabetes, you don't have diabetes. Insurance companies not giving a shit about preventative care is also so wrong and immoral.

Depending on the reason why you have difficulty cooking, there may be coping strategies that can help. Using paper plates/bowls, using mobility aids, strategies for ADHD, reducing anxiety triggers, etc. Or if the problem is not having enough time, it may be worth spending extra on better frozen dinner options that meet your needs.

If money is a factor, there's possibly some food assistance options where you live other than SNAP, and some of those options won't require information like your income. There's even some programs that will deliver you the food directly. I know this because I help people connect to community resources as part of my job, but I definitely understand that what options you have available to you majorly depend on where you live and how progressive your city/state/country is.

I hope this advice still helps somehow. Sometimes, ADHD strategies can be helpful even if you don't have ADHD, like the strategy of eating the separate ingredients of a sandwich if you don't have the energy to put the sandwich together. You're still eating the food even if you're doing so "weirdly."

I've also heard mixed views of the concept of "pre-diabetes." However, I haven't done enough research into this topic to be able to tell you any definitive information nor my thoughts. You may benefit from researching the concept of "pre-diabetes" and the opinions against the concept so you can make an opinion yourself. Anything related to health or food that gets stigmatized because of fatphobia usually needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

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[fatphobiabusters]

Pete Hegseth made fatphobic comments during his speech while making transphobic and other bigoted comments in the same breath. It's time for progressive people to acknowledge that fat people are, indeed, oppressed and viewed in the same way as other oppressed groups to the eyes of conservatives. You cannot stay ignorant when the rhetoric used against fat people, disabled people, poor people, trans people, etc. all overlap.

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I looked at a twitter post my friend sent me that had nothing to do with weight, and then twitter immediately suggested to me this post:

"Progressive" people seriously try to pretend fat people aren't oppressed while fat people are done the same exact shit to by conservatives that conservatives do to other oppressed groups. As a fat trans person, I can tell you right now with 10000% certainty that people on tumblr would think this is horrible if these bigoted jokes were about my trans identity, but "progressive" people don't bat an eye when the same type of rhetoric is enacted against my fat body type. And why would they? After all, being against fatphobia by conservatives would mean having to give up fatphobia used as a tool by progressive people too, and not making fat jokes about trump is soooooooooo hard 😩😔

I'm tired of the hypocrisy

-Mod Worthy

[fatphobiabusters]

I was using my laptop for the first time in a while. Firefox shows a list of articles to you when you open a new tab, and sometimes I look at the list of articles for news headlines or anything interesting. One of the first articles shown to me today was this:

This article and title are being shown to me and countless other people in my demographics today, the 4th of July. It's already shitty and harmful to write diet culture articles like this, but it is absolutely cruel to do this today specifically.

The 4th of July is usually celebrated by doing a cookout that includes making burgers and hot dogs. This is such a popular way of celebrating that even grocery stores will have dozens of sales and promotions for cookout items, including burgers and hot dogs.

So Time and Firefox are showing this article to millions of people on the 4th of July when they know that people will be eating hamburgers and hotdogs. They are targeting their encouragement of diet culture to try to harm as many people as possible. The Time article was posted yesterday, when most people are buying and preparing for their 4th of July cookout, and the very first line of the article even acknowledges that Time knows exactly what it is doing by posting this article when it did: "They’re the stars of summer cookouts, but when it comes to your health, which is the bigger nutritional offender: the hamburger or the hot dog?"

What makes me even more disgusted is that there have been about two or three times that Firefox has actually shown me weight neutral and anti-diet culture articles, so I know that Firefox is capable of not doing this shit! And the few times that Firefox has shown me articles like that, I press the like button Firefox provides so I can tell Firefox "Show me more articles like this, please!" I also press the dislike button on every diet culture and fatphobic article that Firefox tries to show me. So Firefox is peddling diet culture even to users who have said again and again and again that they don't want this!

I'm so fucking tired of shitty news outlets and companies weaponizing diet culture and fatphobia to make a quick buck. When we live in a world where the government is literally disappearing people off the streets, let people enjoy a fucking hotdog!

-Mod Worthy