Past a certain age you need to consider bone density as well. Stick thin with no muscle mass past menopause is not great. Bit of muscle and a few extra pounds is not terrible, and better than fracturing a brittle femur. Doesn’t happen to everyone inevitably but it’s pretty common.
What SHOULD a healthy granny look like? Judi Dench-ish?
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Just normal really. Not overweight, not stick thin. Muscle mass is important as is keeping active and eating Ok. It’s very hard to keep the same shape you had when young, menopause especially changes fat distribution a bit. But not massive, and not brittle looking. Just... normal. But the older normal, not the new one.
Is that fake tan? She looks like she's decomposing.
Boohoo has been in the news here a lot because of factories in Leicester paying their workers serf tier wages, in shit conditions, and a COVID outbreak in their overcrowded factories. Oooops!
Lack of self awareness: total.
Where does this obese cunt get the right to decide what name all overweight people want to be called? I'm sure plenty of fat people would prefer other terms. I think most of us were taught as kids that "overweight" is a polite, matter-of-fact way to put it, and "fat" is derogatory. If you talk about it at all.New blog post from, "Your Fat Friend." It's called; Just say fat. Please, let fat people describe our own bodies.
Here are the highlights:
Just say fat.
Not “curvy” or “chubby” or “chunky” or “fluffy” or “more to love” or “big guy” or “full-figured” or “big-boned” or “queen size” or “husky” or “obese” or “overweight.”
Do not screw up your face, straining as you reach for phrases like “he…struggles with his weight” or “body image has always been difficult for her.” Do not say “body positivity” or “self-love” or whatever lets you forget that you’re calling someone fat. wow
Do not rush to correct fat friends who name their own bodies for themselves, using the words that fit their experience. Recognize that a fat person daring to name their own body is an act of growth and that when you correct us, you stunt it. It is also an act of rebellion, and when you silence it, you silence us. Remember that your comfort does not take precedence over our autonomy.
Do not add caveats and qualifiers. Do not say “fat but healthy,” “fat but working on it,” “fat, but not, like, 400 pounds,” or “fat but happy.” If you’re taking a stand for fat people, take a stand for all of us. (That's a lot of weight to take on when standing.)
Notice the impact of the word, how it changes in your mouth over time. Notice where you feel it in your body, and how. Is it tension? Fear? Or something else altogether? Sit with your own discomfort with the word, if you have it. Do not assign that discomfort to me, attributing it to your own assumption that I will be insulted. That discomfort isn’t mine; it’s yours. Listen to what it is teaching you about your relationship to your own body, yes, and to the bodies of those who are fatter than you.
Do not foist that discomfort onto your fat friend by wincing or objecting when she tells you she’s fat. She is already swimming against the tides of so many judgments — others’, yes, and yours, too. Do not insult her intelligence or cast doubt upon her experience by insisting that you know her body better than she does. Afford her the small dignity of speaking for herself. Allow her that much.
Do not reach for the sharp cruelty of “obese” or “overweight,” which many fat people find harmful, and some consider derogatory. Do not defend terms that do not hurt you; let the injured parties speak their truths. Do not insist that because they are medical terms they cannot cause harm. Learn that it is precisely because these terms are medical that they are so hurtful to so many fat people.
Do not presume to name a body that isn’t your own. Do not steal our names from our own mouths. So many thin people name our bodies so readily, draw whatever conclusions they see fit about who we sleep with, whether we love, who we are, what we deserve, when we will die, whether we will die soon enough, and how deserved our demises will be.
Ultimately, you do not need to understand why my name is what it is, you need only call me by that name. You need not make up new names for me in protest of the one you do not like or understand .
Notice the imbalance you feel when you say it. Notice what it feels like not to be the subject, only for a moment. Remember that you are safe — that this is at once a fleeting emotion, a deep reminder of all you have to be grateful for, and a call to act in support of those who have less. You do not need to map the wilderness of their hearts, test the theories of their politics, in order to respect their most basic wish: to say their own name. Do not shrink a vastness that you cannot comprehend.
Link to blog post: https://humanparts.medium.com/just-say-fat-c2c28e3bb00
You know the minute someone else described her as fat in public, she’d have a meltdown.
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