• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Mostly because people can’t differentiate between loving and accepting yourself and taking care of your body. Self-loathing helps no one

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      2 months ago

      literally! lame redditor brains love to barge in on posts like this and act like fat people somehow… don’t know they are fat? as though they don’t live carrying that burden (literally and figuratively) every day?

      body shaming has been demonstrated to cause worse medical outcomes. it’s absolutely fine for people (especially medical sources) to inform overweight folks of the risks of obesity and to encourage them to build an intervention plan.

      whats not okay is the reaction to this post. most of the comments here are proving OOP’s point, like, “how dare you not visibly hate yourself every moment of the day for your body.” i’m high key disgusted by the knee jerk reaction here.

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      2 months ago

      Most people don’t understand that loving yourself means taking care of yourself. Loving yourself means sometimes saying no.