I choose health.

Larps… My brain is dead… I cannot believe this is something I had to read lmao.

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Specifically fad diets, like Keto, Atkins, paleo, and all the rest.

There is no magic in them. They aren’t a weight loss hack. There is no miracle diet. It is all CiCo.

That being said however,

They can help you stay motivated. Plain calorie counting can get really monotonous really fast, so if you add in another element, like no carbs, it’s a lot more engaging.

It’s a lot more interesting, and easier, for a lot of people to eat a high protein, low carb diet between 12pm and 8pm, or to only drink smoothies two days a week, or to go vegan, than to just calorie count.

Without counting, diets can be a lot less restrictive feeling and a lot more like an experiment. Because starting a new diet can be really fun. Going to the grocery store and getting what you need, making a meal plan, finding other people online doing what you’re doing.

And it works, as long as you have an idea of the calories you’re taking in. 2500 calories of low sugar, vegan food is still 2500 calories. So if you aren’t losing weight, maybe keep a count for a few days to see where you need to be.

You’d think people would be like “Oh someone I care about is getting healthier. That’s great!” But that’s not always how people think.

They might say you’re “obsessed.” Obsessed with the gym or what you eat, when in reality you’re just going to the gym 4 times a week and making healthier choices. 

Becoming healthier is hard. If it was easy, we would all be incredibly healthy and live to be 150. If it was easy, it wouldn’t be such a journey - it would be like a switch you can turn on and off. If it was easy, people wouldn’t feel jealous or threatened by it.

Move your body because you want to keep it strong and healthy, not to change its shape.

To fat activists who are like: “why do you care about the bodies of strangers online?” And try to frame the situation with me being an obsessive loser.

Answer? I don’t. I don’t care if you die because I wouldn’t even know. I have no emotional investment in your life and you have none in mine, that’s how internet communities are. It’s not a bad thing, it’s totally reasonable.

What I do care about is fatlogic becoming so widespread that it affects people who don’t know any better.

I don’t care about your choices or your body but I do care that 13 year olds are being told they can’t do anything about being overweight and they should just accept it.

Stop lying to innocent people. You will be a part of the reason if something happens to them.

Love yourself, yes.

Find your beauty and show it, yes.

No. People who have problems with the fat acceptance movement are tired of rampant misinformation and the continued support and encouragement of disordered eating.

Health is objective. A healthy relationship is food is one where you don’t binge, continue eating despite physical fullness, or eat an extreme excess of food to the point of obesity. A life goal of being obese is not healthy, safe, or productive. A healthy concept of potion size is equivalent to your body’s maintenance of a healthy BMI range. Eating yourself to the point of obesity, to no one, is living their best life. Living your best life means overcoming disordered eating and putting effort into your physical health in the best ways you can- taking care of your body and being mindful of the things you decide to fuel it with.

And?