I don't apologize for my strong stance on anti-dieting and size acceptance. There's so much propaganda, misinformation and hype about how dangerous being fat is that I feel absolutely no guilt about putting out countering information and being vocal about it.
Where I am in danger of being self-righteous, I think, is not in combatting ideas but judging others for wanting to engage in weight loss. I know how dangerous it is mentally and physically to be a chronic and/or yo-yo dieter that I actually am acting more out of compassion and concern for people than out of scorn for them.
Trust me, I understand the wish to be smaller to avoid some of the social stigma; I just think people have really unrealistic ideas about how much you can re-shape your body long-term and how much effort it takes to maintain any signifant change in shape. I really want them to focus on being healthy at whatever size they're currently at and stop beating themselves up for not living up to a completely insane body ideal that's based much more on social norms than on the health evidence available.
In regard to the rest of your post, I have compassion for people who are still caught up in the dieting mentality who think they're 50 or 15 pounds away from Changing Their Lives Forever!!! I just am incredulous that people who have weight-loss dieted repeatedly and know other people who have failed over and over again to radically change their body size don't come to the same conclusion as me about why weight-loss dieting is the wrong focus (vs. focusing on living healthy and letting the scale settle wherever it ends up).
I think it's the same with not understanding how intelligent people haven't come to the same conclusions as me about the non-existence of god. I guess I'm just arrogant and think everyone should come to the same conclusions as me on ALL topicx after some deliberation. ;)
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Date: 2005-11-25 10:01 am (UTC):P
I don't apologize for my strong stance on anti-dieting and size acceptance. There's so much propaganda, misinformation and hype about how dangerous being fat is that I feel absolutely no guilt about putting out countering information and being vocal about it.
Where I am in danger of being self-righteous, I think, is not in combatting ideas but judging others for wanting to engage in weight loss. I know how dangerous it is mentally and physically to be a chronic and/or yo-yo dieter that I actually am acting more out of compassion and concern for people than out of scorn for them.
Trust me, I understand the wish to be smaller to avoid some of the social stigma; I just think people have really unrealistic ideas about how much you can re-shape your body long-term and how much effort it takes to maintain any signifant change in shape. I really want them to focus on being healthy at whatever size they're currently at and stop beating themselves up for not living up to a completely insane body ideal that's based much more on social norms than on the health evidence available.
In regard to the rest of your post, I have compassion for people who are still caught up in the dieting mentality who think they're 50 or 15 pounds away from Changing Their Lives Forever!!! I just am incredulous that people who have weight-loss dieted repeatedly and know other people who have failed over and over again to radically change their body size don't come to the same conclusion as me about why weight-loss dieting is the wrong focus (vs. focusing on living healthy and letting the scale settle wherever it ends up).
I think it's the same with not understanding how intelligent people haven't come to the same conclusions as me about the non-existence of god. I guess I'm just arrogant and think everyone should come to the same conclusions as me on ALL topicx after some deliberation. ;)