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

[Strider]

Look at her "after" picture again. What I can criticize about her post is that she's calling herself "fat" in the first place. She looks perfectly fine, she is lightyears away from being pathologically obese. She herself, but also you, by calling her fat in that picture, are actually both promoting an unhealthy message to young women. So that's the main problem I have with her post then. No, promoting being fat as the healthy alternative is a terrible idea. Labelling the woman in this "after" photo as "fat" is even more problematic.

I agree with you. That after photo doesn't look fat to me. She does look like she's slightly overweight, but nothing near the type of weight needed for serious health complications related to obesity. Now, I'll be the first to say that I'm not one of these "it's okay to be obese because that's who you are!" people. That's bullshit. People who are obese need to lose weight so they don't die prematurely just as anorexic people need to gain weight.

I'd like to point out that men are also subject to these negative societal images regarding weight. Family and friends around me noticed the beginnings of my own eating disorder a few years back. At my worst I wavered around 120 lbs at nearly 6' tall. Luckily, they helped me recognize the path I was headed down.