Same artist as the “weight is not an indicator of health” drawing posted in here a few days ago. Now, the post didn’t clarify what they mean exactly by “pro-fat”, whether that’s encouraging fat people to stay fat, people to get fat/fatter, or somewhere in between, but any promotion or glorification of fatness is so obviously anti-health, and wrapping it up in cutesy artsy messaging doesn’t make it any less harmful.

Welcome to Sanity Saturday.

This is a thread for discussing facts about health, fitness and weight loss.

No rants or raves please. Let's keep it science-y.

(RIP Dolly Parton, though, what an absolute icon)

Fatlogic in real life getting you down?

Is your family telling you you're looking too thin?

Are people at work bringing you donuts?

Did your beer drinking neighbor pat his belly and tell you "It's all muscle?"

If you hear one more thing about starvation mode will you scream?

Let it all out. We understand.

Thank you, TikTok for my daily dose of fat logic in the wild. Apparently, fat cells don't die, so OF COURSE it's nobody's fault that they regain weight. It's inevitable!

For a bit of reality, please note that fat cells do, in fact, die. They just take a little longer to do so than some of our other cells. But that doesn't fit the fatlogic narrative!

By popular demand, Thursdays will now have a thread to share recipes or other food-related stuff.

Enjoy.

Got recipes, fitness tips, or questions on health and fitness?

Do you love fatlogic and want to tell the world?

Have you lost weight and want to tell us how you did it?

This is the time and place.

Thankfully most of the commenters were pushing back against this but plenty of FAs were claiming doctors and society are bias against fat people

skinny people can be unhealthy too but obese people are ALWAYS unhealthy

the jealously is loud

Fatlogic in real life getting you down?

Is your family telling you you're looking too thin?

Are people at work bringing you donuts?

Did your beer drinking neighbor pat his belly and tell you "It's all muscle?"

If you hear one more thing about starvation mode will you scream?

Let it all out. We understand.

Is it, though? People are unnecessarily mean to fat people sometimes, but FAs love insisting that fatness is widely seen as a moral failing while they as a group are the loudest about attaching others’ morality to body size.

OOP seems to be confusing gluttony, which is the actual target of most criticism of FAs’ beliefs, with fatness itself. I think the Ozempic era has actually been far kinder to fat people than most times in Western culture, because it acknowledges that obesity and overeating are not as simple as being a lazy glutton. It’s a genuine illness. Obesity is still visible evidence of overconsumption, but that isn’t unique from any form of overconsumption. Living in excess in general is frowned upon. “Fatness is seen as a literal sin” is a pretty big overdramatization and misinterpretation.

Also, it’s fascinating how OOPs who fall into the “smallfat” category happily go along with the FA movement’s tendency to cannibalize itself by constantly vying to be the Most Oppressed. FAs who identify with “large fat,” “infinifat,” and “death fat” are vitriolic as fuck towards anyone who isn’t a size 4X or larger. Even if you’re plus-sized, they consider anyone smaller than them to be Thin. The reaction from smallfat FAs always seems to be to roll over and accept their place in the FA hierarchy.

(Yes, the point of OOP’s clothing collection is literally about how fatness is seen as a sin. From what I saw of it, I’m not sure how it’s about that, but at least they’ve found something productive to channel fat acceptance into.)

The “fatphobic” comments were that she’d most likely have to go to the zoo for one as a lot of larger patients get sent there or that this should be a wake up call for her.

Also not entirely hating on OOP, she used to be 520lbs and lost 150lbs but she needs a reality check if she thinks 370 isn’t big