#o slur

[fatliberation]

Hi there! Sorry for the potentially stupid question, but at sharing your "anti-fatness is not just body shaming" master post, I got a lot of people saying they don't believe it, particularly the part about how you're likely to regain weight after "successfully" losing it - one person even argued that it's incorrect because THEY only regained weight post diet (several times, might I add) due to depression/stress eating. Do you have any more sources to studies and such I can chuck at them? I'm so fucking tired of people around me being LGBTQ+ allies and what not but somehow refusing to trust fat people, as if listening to the oppressed and not the oppressor doesn't apply to us? Keep doing what you do. 💪

Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records by Fields, et al (2015):

(apologies in advance for the stigmatizing language used in the study)

Methods: We drew a sample of individuals aged 20 years and older from the United Kingdom's Clinical Practice Research Datalink from 2004 to 2014. We analyzed data for 76,704 obese men and 99,791 obese women. We excluded participants who received bariatric surgery. We estimated the probability of attaining normal weight or 5% reduction in body weight. Results: During a maximum of 9 years' follow-up, 1283 men and 2245 women attained normal body weight. In simple obesity (body mass index = 30.0-34.9 kg/m(2)), the annual probability of attaining normal weight was 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with morbid obesity (body mass index = 40.0-44.9 kg/m(2)).

I ran the numbers. For smaller fat people, that is 0.5% for men and 0.8% for women. For larger fat people, it's 0.08% and 0.1%. That's 1 in 1,000. It is practically impossible for the average person.

In the post below, I include 9 different peer-reviewed studies on why long-term weight loss is impossible, including an overview of a journal where UCLA researchers Traci Mann, Janet Tomiyama, and Britt Ahlstrom conducted the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of diet studies, analyzing 31 long-term studies.

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Chuck those peer-reviewed sources at your fatphobic friends!!!

[enbycarp]

Ugh.

Mom was just reading an article about some health issue trump is having and she says, "listen to this, they say this condition is more common in people who are obese." And she chuckled.

"why are you laughing," I said.

"theyre calling him fat," she said gleefully.

"why is that funny?" I asked calmly, but flatly.

"well it's funny to me."

"I'm fat. Do you think that's funny?"

"noooo! I'm sorry. I don't think anything negative about you."

I think I said something like, can you see how you laughing at other fat people makes me feel bad? being fat shouldn't be thought of as negative for anybody.

And she said, "this is trump!"

And I said, "being fat isn't what makes him bad."

She just turned away and now isn't taking to me.

Also she was talking about a medical condition that my sister has, and my sister is also fat, and she was right there. She didn't say anything but left the room.

So that sucks.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

just saw a boomer meme on fb that seemed to imply no one was fat ever before the 1970s???? lmao anyway this is fully my fault for being a boomer on fb but it just kinda made me speechless for a bit. fatphobe logic be like "no one was fat ever before Big Pharma (or Big Macdonalds) started pushing Big Obesity" cool sure completely ignore that fat was seen as prosperous and beautiful some centuries ago. maybe back in the 70s fatphobia was worse so your dreamy beach pic doesn't contain fat people because they would've been bullied off. i noticed it didn't contain any nonwhite people either i wonder why. why do these people never stop to think when romanticising the past ill never get it. yeah our society is horrible in many ways but the fact that fat people exist isn't what's horrible about it

[fat-chance]

A lot of fatphobes claim to promote health and combat obesity, but they don’t seem to acknowledge the capitalist workday’s role in promoting unhealthy eating habits, and instead blames it all on personal responsibilities like all lazy capitalists do. Eating practically nothing for breakfast and lunch due to time constraints and then making up for it with a big dinner is not how humans are supposed to eat food, because going to bed right after eating gives your body no time to process anything.

Please eat throughout the day if you can my dears

[onewingednatu]

Be me, watching a video on why video games are declining in quality, dude has a good humor, good editing, entertaining and informative

But then he describes the corporate CEOs as "Severely Ob*se Fat Cats". (Ignore that a lot of then are actually skinny, but hey! Ha-ha funny fat people are evil and greedy!)

Immediate dislike and click off the video.

[onewingednatu]

Reddit can't do anything without demonizing fat people.

Post on a subreddit talking about how much they hate a particular anti-smoking ad? "We should be showing anti-obesity PSAs instead!" "Being obese is just as bad as smoking!!"

You've got to be kidding me. Anybody wanna talk about the rampant communities of people encouraging people the self harm and starve themselves, including children? The ones that promote deadly and addictive eating disorders? Or how about the fact that being underweight is often more dangerous than being fat?

Or perhaps acknowledge that many sources that tell you being fat is bad, are sponsored by weight loss companies to sell you products?

All we're asking is for people to leave us alone, to shut up about our bodies. We want to be treated as people without having to torture ourselves thin.

(Bigots will be blocked and reported.)

[captainrinsuu]

OH WAIT THERE’S 3 GRADES OF OBESITY???

I’M THE BLACK WALTZ 2 OF OBESITY GUYS

[fatphobiabusters]

Thank you so much! Antiobese is the user in question! If you scroll down through my blog you'll find then and one of the posts!

Just from the url alone I can tell what kind of a person they are. Everyone block @antiobese for being a fatphobe.

-Mod Egg