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Survival of the Thickest (2023-). Keep Your Plants Watered, Bitch.

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[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

Human beings, on average, cannot exert total control over their weight. Being singularly obsessed with exerting total control over your weight is, in fact, a disordered eating behavior.

This is not the same as having an eating disorder. But it is a warning sign for developing one, and carries its own negative health effects.

It's not disordered to look at your diet and decide you'd like to drink more water, which then naturally results in you drinking less soda.

It is disordered to become obsessive about soda and feel extremely stressed at the thought of ever drinking one because of the calorie content.

There are many fitness practices that for some people, some of the time, will result in weight loss, but you don't control if it happens to you.

Because the truth no one wants to acknowledge is that losing weight isn't inherently healthy.

Gaining weight isn't inherently unhealthy.

And as you incorporate more fitness habits into your life, like movement, improved nutrition, better hydration, better rest, etc. your weight will likely regulate to your body's set weight.

Set weight is still a theory (though a well supported one) but the likelihood is your body has a genetically programmed optimum weight range. And while maintaining healthful habits you can likely toggle it to either end of your natural range, but the thinness that society idolizes is not in everybody's natural range.

Which means with fitness some people will lose weight. And some people will gain weight. Some people's weights won't change much at all.

Some people who are currently living in thin bodies may discover that they are actually healthier in fatter bodies.

Which is why weight loss centric mentalities often lead towards disordered behaviors.

Because when getting healthier doesn't make you thinner, lots of folks will choose thinness over health. And that's their choice, but we shouldn't be misrepresenting it as "healthy."

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Hoppers (2026) Dir. Daniel Chong

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Michelle Buteau And Amy Aniobi Reflect On The Final Season Of ‘Survival Of The Thickest’

"I thought it was so important to have a plus size woman of color in her late 30s make decisions for herself against not only the odds, but what her family is saying, what her friends are saying, and what society’s telling her. She’s still choosing herself, self-love, and being perseverant."

[octaviaabadassblakee]

I need fat female characters in tv whose weight is inconsequential. It means nothing to the story.

She's fat and gets the guy and no one bats an eye.

She's fat and the hottest chick in the sorority and that's normal.

She's fat and an actress and she gets good roles.

She's fat and she's funny and she has character depth and growth.

She's fat and the main character and no one mentions her weight once.

I'm fat and my weight doesn't play a part in my day to day conversations, or plans, or friendships. Why can't I have that on tv?

[timidsketch]

Being forced, coerced, and pressured to diet your whole life because of the crime of being a fat child is trauma. You never deserved to starve. You never should have been told to hate your body. All you wanted to do was be a kid. You're allowed to grieve the damage that diet culture and fatphobia did to your childhood. You deserve to heal from that trauma. You deserve a good relationship with food and your body. Give yourself now the love, nourishment, and enjoyment of life that you were punished for having as a kid. You're going to take back the life in your eyes that was stolen from you, and the people who protest can leave their complaints at the door.

[madamethursday]

It is abuse, btw, to do this to children. I know, it was done to me.

Abuse isn't always done by someone who wants to inflict harm. It can be done by people with good intentions who think they're doing the right thing, by people doing what the society around them says they should do.

It's traumatic for a child, who has very little control of their environment or what happens to them, to be convinced by adults their body is wrong and unacceptable and then have nutrition withheld from them (or be coerced and bullied into not taking it when they need it). The damage done to a growing body and forming identity is not somehow mitigated because people don't mean for it to cause damage.

I know, because I can look back and see what could've been had my body and weight been left alone and not made an issue of. Because I will spend the rest of my life having to heal and pushing back against the hateful voice installed in my brain by being shamed since before I can remember, from being put into Weight Watchers at age 10, from applauding any weight loss even when done in the most harmful way, from turning every clothing purchase into a punishment.

Abuse is not measured by the intent or character of the abuser, but by the impact on the victim.

But I'm not a child now, and I can tell that voice to shut up and I can tell everyone who agrees with that voice - with that abuse - to fuck off in their entirety.

[fatphobiabusters]

The abuse can be taken incredibly far as well. There's children who've been killed—starved to death—by their parents who wanted a thinner child and intentionally starved their kid for the purpose of thinness. I'm not joking.

There's parents who put locks on the fridge and cabinets to prevent their child from having the most basic autonomy to obtain food when hungry. There's parents who say horrific, cruel insults to their children, utilizing emotional and psychological abuse to convince their child to starve themself. There's children who're taught from a young age to do disordered eating behaviors until they develop an actual eating disorder, which is a mental illness that fucks up a person's life and has a serious potential to kill the person who has the disorder.

The abuse of fat children sadly doesnt stop there.

Fat children have been put into the foster care system by the government purely because the child is fat. When I studied social work and took a child maltreatment class, one of the "signs of child abuse" listed in my class was a fat child. Just the existence of a fat child, nothing else. But an underweight child? Never listed as a sign of child abuse. So this world would rather take a fat child who hasn't been abused and make SURE that the fat child is still abused before adulthood, even if society, the government, the medical industry, or the criminal justice system is who has to do it.

-Mod Worthy

[ijustwannafallunderyrsawteeth]

shocker, treating people shitty for being unhealthy (not based in fact, based on appearance) makes people less healthy. 🙄

if we had a healthcare system based on actually supporting people's health so much would be different. treating fat people like human beings rather than walking diseases would be a good first step.

[fatphobiabusters]

I wish we could even progress to the point of these researchers and news outlets calling "weight stigma" what it is—oppression. Everybody with a mainstream activism movement gets that incredibly basic right. People don't say gay stigma, trans stigma, race stigma, ability stigma, class stigma, gender stigma, etc. They only say "weight stigma" because even the people who conduct studies that show the oppression loud and clear continue to refuse to acknowledge that fat people are oppressed in every way you can imagine. Using the word "stigma" also allows these news outlets to say between the lines that they believe fatness has a reason to be shamed and viewed negatively. At best, I've occasionally seen news outlets mention the term fatphobia but put the word in quotes, showing how foreign and strange this term is to anybody who's never given a shit about fat people before. "We can't write this term in our article without making sure we put as much doubt as we possibly can on the word. The reader must know how ridiculous we think this word is." The double standard that fat people endure compared to other oppressed groups is so fucked up. It's as if the fat liberation movement started this decade and not in goddamn 1969!

-Mod Worthy

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[fatphobiabusters]

You didn't deserve to hate your fat body as a kid, and you don't deserve to hate your fat body now.

-Mod Worthy

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[fatliberation]

Reading List: 20 Fat Liberation Books Written by Black Authors

Read from Black authors this Black History Month and every month!

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Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fat Girls In Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, PhD

Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey, RD, LD

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Fat. Black. Femme. Revealing The Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.

Reclaiming The Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within by Alishia McCullough, LCMHC

The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting The Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

Fat On, Fat Off: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent

Romance With Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies In The United States by Kamille Gentles-Peart

Yoke: My Yoga Self Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley

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[fatphobiabusters]

You give other fat people the strength to exist unapologetically when you do the same. Thank you to all of my fellow fat people who make this world a better place.

-Mod Worthy

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anatomy of a humiliation

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Fat Main Characters

Why they're needed, along with a few recommendations