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sandglass (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sandglass) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank, |
Re: Sorry for getting all unfunnybusiness...
*twitch* No. Just no.
She doesn't seem to keep updates on how she's doing with "maintenance." The issue with dieting isn't that you can't lose weight, but that people who lose weight are almost guaranteed to gain it back, with more weight included. That's why positive studies on diets generally end before three years, because by three years any weight is regained.
She really isn't fat positive. You can't be fat positive and demand that people be "as healthy as they can be". One, there's the constant assumption that skinny=healthy, and two, there are a fuckton of reasons not to be "healthy" (IE eat vegetables, fruits, and mostly unprocessed food and exercise regularly outside of work), and shaming people for not meeting health standards is just as bad as shaming them for body size. She also uses false facts, like the idea that being fat is associated with being unhealthy--sure, she doesn't say fatness causes it, but just bringing it up is so misleading when we're talking about being fat positive. Finally, she refuses to admit that 97%+ of all diets (even the "good" diets) fail. That's not 100%, but allowing diet culture to continue through "Well, maybe you're the 3%!" logic is not fat positive.
*twitch* No. Just no.
She doesn't seem to keep updates on how she's doing with "maintenance." The issue with dieting isn't that you can't lose weight, but that people who lose weight are almost guaranteed to gain it back, with more weight included. That's why positive studies on diets generally end before three years, because by three years any weight is regained.
She really isn't fat positive. You can't be fat positive and demand that people be "as healthy as they can be". One, there's the constant assumption that skinny=healthy, and two, there are a fuckton of reasons not to be "healthy" (IE eat vegetables, fruits, and mostly unprocessed food and exercise regularly outside of work), and shaming people for not meeting health standards is just as bad as shaming them for body size. She also uses false facts, like the idea that being fat is associated with being unhealthy--sure, she doesn't say fatness causes it, but just bringing it up is so misleading when we're talking about being fat positive. Finally, she refuses to admit that 97%+ of all diets (even the "good" diets) fail. That's not 100%, but allowing diet culture to continue through "Well, maybe you're the 3%!" logic is not fat positive.
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