I found this community on Livejournal that’s about “fat fashion” – I can’t remember how, I think someone linked to it somewhere else. Anyway, I hear a lot of shit about “fat acceptance” on it and it bugged me, a lot. I didn’t say anything till this one gem of a user posted a topic about how the only control fat people have is over how they dress.

My response was:

I disagree with your remark that all we can control is how we present ourselves and how we dress. Most of us, baring people with legitimate medical conditions, can control our weight. We don’t have to be thin and wear a size 2, but it’s possible to be a healthy weight for our body types that just doesn’t fit into the stereotypical concept of thin. Being a size 24, 26, 28, etc., for example, is not healthy for anyone.

I’m all for “fat acceptance” if you maintain a healthy lifestyle and the healthy weight that your at might not be a size 8 – it might be a plus size (14, 16, etc.). But “fat acceptance” when you’re grossly obese at a size 28 is just fooling yourself and making excuses for being too lazy to exercise and eat right, and making people who have a legit reason for being a little fat look bad. And I say a little fat, because I’ve never seen someone with thyroid problems or PCOS weigh over 300 lbs if they watch their diet carefully and exercise regularly.

Within a few minutes, I got a whole host of “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!” and “Oh dear” comments, along with two mods saying I was banned because “No one likes a fat hater.”

Yes, because I totally hate fat people, right? No, the point was I hate lazy fat people who make excuses for themselves. People have different body types, but no one is meant to be 300+ lbs. So stop making excuses and get your ass on the treadmill. This does not mean I walk around judging anything that isn’t a size 4 – that would be hypocritical. My biological mother and my grandmother are both well over 350 lbs. Do I hate them? No, of course not.

If they were so big on fat acceptance, why does a little dose of reality (my comment) offend them so much? Respect your body my ass. If you respected your body, you would maintain and healthy diet and exercise routine so as not to end up 400 lbs, alone, with heart disease and diabetes.

I’m hardly a size 0, but I watch my diet and exercise as much as I can (and more because college = free gym), and if you stick to it and you don’t puss out, you can get healthy. No it’s not easy, but it’s certainly not impossible. Hell, I lost 20 lbs in just 3 months earlier this year. And I have a disease that makes it literally twice as hard to loose weight and twice as easy to gain it – so what’s their excuse?