"I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder"

[Napoléon]

She's not obese in any way.

FFS I never said she was obese. Give me a break.

[IATIA]

It is a bit odd that her before picture is made to look as bad as possible, with dirty clothes and bad lighting.

That is a classic marketing technique. You see it used in infomercials all the time.

[Alex K]

Here's some information

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-weight-matter/

[Napoléon]

Here's some information

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-weight-matter/

And this contradicts anything I've said how?

In fact, I'm glad you linked me to that. It's backing up exactly what I've been saying. The entire conclusion is something I'm 100% in agreement with.

The story in the OP directly relates size acceptance with healthiness. My main contention. What does the conclusion in your link say? "this has nothing to do with size acceptance".

Thank you for agreeing with me.

[Jaysyn]

The best argument I could see being made from this, is that skinny people can be just as unhealthy as overweight people.

No, those studies discovered that all other common morbidity factors normalized for, slightly overweight people lived longer than "normal" people as well. They didn't look into anything related to underweight people.

[Alex K]

Actually by posting it I didn't mean to imply at all that the link contradicts your point of view or supports mine, I just wanted to throw in some info from a reliable source so we have something more concrete to talk about. I had to leave so couldn't read it properly yet.

Here's some information

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-weight-matter/

And this contradicts anything I've said how?

In fact, I'm glad you linked me to that. It's backing up exactly what I've been saying. The entire conclusion is something I'm 100% in agreement with.

The story in the OP directly relates size acceptance with healthiness. My main contention. What does the conclusion in your link say? "this has nothing to do with size acceptance".

Thank you for agreeing with me.

[downbeatplumb]

She doesn't look fat in the second photo, in the first she did look a little on the skinny side but nothing worth noting.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You, and she needs a sense of perspective, she's does not have a particularly unhealthy weight on the "after" picture.

I wouldn't say she necessarily does on the before picture either.

One of my main issues is none of what she claims is supported by doctors, and the general message that fat can be healthy is a dangerous one. Just as dangerous as the pro-anorexia messages.

I think what's really happening is the word "fat" isn't very clear, and we each have different meanings assigned to it. It seems you assign the meaning over "over ideal weight" -- which may well be the case here -- while, speaking for myself, I connote "fat" to mean approaching obesity, but not quite there.

This woman doesn't look fat, to me:



She may not be society's ideal of feminine perfection, but that is a social construct, not a medical opinion.

[IATIA]

Maybe chubby, fluffy or something akin to that, but fat is where i can pull a sleeve over my leg or put both legs into one pant leg.

[paulpablo]

You, and she needs a sense of perspective, she's does not have a particularly unhealthy weight on the "after" picture.

I wouldn't say she necessarily does on the before picture either.

One of my main issues is none of what she claims is supported by doctors, and the general message that fat can be healthy is a dangerous one. Just as dangerous as the pro-anorexia messages.

Fat is healthy, being fat is subjective to a certain degree.

The pictures remind me of this girl I know who's taken it too far trying to be skinny.
She always sends me pictures of herself to my phone and I don't beat around the bush in telling her that she needs to eat some fucking cheese burgers and that I miss how her thighs used to look but she just laughs at me.
On the first picture here, her thighs just look like two pencils that's how my friends look.
Now if I knew any girl and her thighs were looking that thin, and she continually talked about all the cardio she was doing and so on and so on, I'd definitely tell them to relax a bit more, at least give themselves a treat at the weekend so it's not just a one sided war against all the fat which the human body needs.

This has happened more than once, another girl I knew would continually talk about running all day long and so on, but I can relate to that because I can get gym obsessed too, I think some people, like me and these female friends of mine, just need a reminder every now and then that the human body functions fine without going on cross trainers for an hour a day followed by weight machines and then a heavy day of physical work the day after.

I think the message is more like "I used to be obsessive but now I relax a bit more" Rather than. "I don't give a fuck now, It's cheeseburgers and pizza for me everyday, EVERYBODY FOLLOW ME, AWWWW YEHHHHHHH !"

But relaxing with a treat isn't obviously the message that should be given to everyone. I wouldn't say to the obese guy in work who has mcdonalds and redbull for breakfast that he should treat himself more and that fat is healthy, because fat is definitely not healthy for him, he already has too much of it.