Wow, are you me?! I think the reason I get so upset about weight loss is because I fit in to the ridiculous margin that the weight loss industry prescribes.  Then, my defence starts to kick in and I begin to get anxious.  Why?  Because as a thin person, it’s usually not long before people say things like:

1) they wish they could be like me.  Seriously, my friend who’s lost an asston of weight really unhealthily recently and doesn’t eat and spends all her time in the gym and is really unhappy always uses me as a point of reference and it breaks my heart.  I’ve always thought she was so beautiful how she was.

2) it’s easy for me to say that people shouldn’t lose weight when I have a figure like mine.  Yep, completely invalidate my beliefs based on my appearance.

3) what do you eat?  This makes me uncomfortable because I do have issues with food that might but probably don’t contribute to my weight.  I don’t like to have to explain them to people who then often make me feel uncomfortable about it.

4) I look malnourished and other horrible things because it’s okay to rag on thin people because being thin totally makes up for anything awful you say to me.

and it used to make me hate myself and want to be ‘normal’ just so I didn’t have to put up with this. 

I don’t hate myself anymore but it took a tonne of fighting to get here and I feel like I maybe talk about it a lot but honestly the media and society are far louder than the body acceptance movement. 

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littlexsister:

this just made me feel totally uncomfotable.

stupid internet.

Yeah, this isn’t really okay.  What you should do is educate your child.

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