Stop Telling Me to Lose Weight Rethinking Health and Wellness for Plus Size Bodies

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News Summary

  • The obsession with shrinking plus size bodies has very little to do with actual health.
  • You can be plus size and have excellent medical lab results, solid cardiovascular endurance, balanced hormones, and a joyful relationship with your body.
  • Metabolically healthy obesity is real and so is the harm of equating thinness with wellness.
  • Health isn’t a size.
  • It never has been.
  • But the world hasn't caught up.
  • It looks like the radical act of saying: “My body deserves care and adequate treatment now…”
Every time I visit a new doctor, sometimes even ones Ive seen before, I play a little game in my head. I call it How long until they tell me to lose weight or passiveaggressively ask about my diet [+4820 chars]

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