Link reblogged from Love From the Linden Trees with 148 notes
Obese children to be put up for adoption
A couple may have their obese children removed after social services ruled they had not lost enough weight.
But although…
As a teen I did starvation diets to try and force my normal and healthy body weight and size to fit a ‘idealized’ body shape and weight. For 2 years I lived on less than 1000 calories and exercised daily (I was in drill team and the swim team). At the end I weighed maybe 15 lbs less than what I had started at and still did not fit these fake expectations.
As an adult I am large and healthy. I no longer hate my body or myself for not being able to fit societies perverse view of what my healthy body shape and weight should be.
Extra weight itself isn’t a disease, but these kids weren’t chubby, they were obese. The 12-year-old boy was 224 lbs and...
What’s worse than fat shaming? People who use “concern” to excuse their fat shaming.
*claps*
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Reblogged for the tragic story and the right-on commentary. There is little more infuriating than people preemptively...
As a teen I did starvation diets to try and force my normal and healthy body weight and size to fit a ‘idealized’ body...
^^^^THIS What’s eternally frustrating? Is how the ‘something has to be DONE’ hysterics ALWAYS seem to read completely...
^Yes, this! So fucking disgusting. How could they not conclude that after 2 years of the diet not working, DIETS DO NOT...
And I sound uneducated when I insist that anti-fat bigotry is a real problem.
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Simmer down, killer. 1. You’re right, I’m not sorry for my opinion. I shouldn’t have apologized, so I apologize for...
Working at oldhams has taught me that the social services and the local authorities will do everything they can to pull...