Reply to Women: stop treating "skinny" and "healthy" like they are the same thing

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Women: stop treating "skinny" and "healthy" like they are the same thing"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I am also a thin woman who has gotten lots of negative comments about my eating over the years. I am naturally thin and have never dieted. I do try to "eat healthy" in that I make sure I'm eating a balanced diet, including lots of green things. But if I want a burger and fries, I eat them. I don't think of any foods a "bad" and never calorie restrict.

People have been sold a lot of unhealthy ideas about eating. They believe that thinness is something that must be earned (it's not, I am thin and don't do anything to earn it). And that leads to the belief that people who diet and exercise are somehow morally superior to those that don't. And they think people who are heavier must be "bad" in some way, thus all the attitudes about fat people being lazy or undisciplined. All of these are just stories though, sold by the diet industry or perpetuated by women's fashion and then reiterated in families and peer groups.

So when people comment on my eating, I just remind myself that it comes from a place of shame because they have been taught a false narrative. I challenge that narrative because my eating is "bad" but my body is "good" (again, I don't think this, but it's what people are conditioned to think). So they lash out at me because they have structured their lives, their self-perception, their eating, and their morality around ideas that my eating and body prove to be false. That feels bad to them, so they push those negative feelings onto me.

It sucks, but at least I know it's not really about me.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics