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I’m not arguing that I do not have increased risk factors for some diseases, but your “advice” doesn’t help fat people to be healthier (we know “eat less and exercise more”). Have you ever convinced someone to stop smoking because “smoking kills?” Didn’t think so. Stop pretending you care about someone’s risk of diabetes and ask yourself why you think fatness is bad and why there is a stigma about me existing. Telling me that I’m killing myself is not going to motivate me to do anything more about it than I already am. And if I am unhealthy, so what? Let me live my life because nobody asked you.

You’re not me, and you don’t know me. So I don’t know where anyone gets off telling me that I don’t love my body. My body does amazing things (hiking, dancing, art, to name a few). Why wouldn’t I love it? I eat healthy, work out, don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol or soda, and am considered obese based on BMI. Speaking of BMI, which doesn’t differentiate between lean tissue, fat tissue, or bone, the guidelines were changed in 1998 to lower the threshold for “overweight” and “obese.” So what actually constitutes obese?

Fat is not inherently unhealthy, and thin doesn’t automatically mean healthy--if it did, thin people wouldn’t diseases. While people have been getting fatter, they have also been getting taller and living longer. Height and weight are both 70-80% hereditary, and tallness, like fatness, is associated with risk factors for certain diseases, including cancer. Shortness carries a higher risk of stroke, along with other increased risks. There are so many correlations of weight with height and other inherited/genetic traits, early childhood nutrition, socioeconomic conditions, and other environmental factors. Fat people do no have the most severe risk factors for all possible ways you can group bodies. Fatness is not fixable, either. Study after study finds that long-term weight loss is almost impossible (3-5% sustain over 5 years). Scientists don’t know why thin people are not fat.

Don’t fool yourself: you’re concerned about my fat and that I’m not attractive to you, not about my health. Otherwise, why aren’t you out there reminding me to get an annual physical, get blood-work done, go to the gynecologist? So how do I respond? It’s like arguing about abortion. “People deeply, truly believe in the justness of their cause…They believe it so deeply that they can’t hear any other point of view. They can’t have a rational discussion about it.” But I won’t fool myself into thinking I’m going to change a fat shamer’s mind.