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

[Tonus]

“You’re not fat, you’re X (healthy, beautiful, etc.)”

My question to these people is why can’t I choose all of the above? I personally identify as fat, but when did fat become the opposite of healthy or of beautiful?

Around the 1960s?

I get the impression that she treats it as two extremes, and she has chosen the one she feels is the better of the two. If exercising 90 minutes and living on 400-600 calories daily was harming her, why not find a level of either that wasn't so dangerous? 30 minutes a day of exercise and 1200-1500 calories. There, was that so difficult? Heck, even if she's a bit overweight (she certainly doesn't seem "fat" in that second photo) as long as she exercises regularly and is managing her intake of stuff like refined sugar and salt, she should feel just fine and age pretty well. Rationalizing that it's better to be fat than to be too thin and overtrained is like defending your pack-a-day smoking habit by admitting that you no longer use heroin.