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spintowin:

scienceandrollerskates:

Today, I made some calming manatees, but most of them are the wrong size to go on the site.

Oh well. Would you like them?

Oh my god this is BEAUTIFUL

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shorm:

greaterandmoreterrible:

loveisfluid:

effasinfat:

randomlancila:

effasinfat:

lacigreen:

2 years ago, I weighed 162 pounds.  Today I weigh 126.

I didn’t lose the weight by hating myself down to a size 4.  Not through dieting, not through crazy amounts of exercise, not through calorie counting, or purging.

I lost 35 pounds by learning to love and take care of my body.  I realized that part of loving myself is giving my body what it needs.  I changed my diet to include mostly plants, I cut out soda and fought hard against my addiction to sugary/fatty foods.  I began to see food as fuel and to use it as such.  I also made sure my body was in motion for at least 1 hour everyday, and these days I am even working on becoming physically stronger.  I knew that my old eating/exercise habits would not suit me as I began to age.  I knew that I wasn’t treating my body well.

When I truly began to love it, it took a new shape.  I loved my old shape.  I love my new shape.  I love it all because I love me! x)

This doesn’t sit well with me and I wish I could pinpoint all of the reasons why it doesn’t. I think a major one is how shaming it is for people who are fat and genuinely enjoy both their bodies AND fatty foods. It seems to equate eating certain things with not actually loving yourself. This is problematic.

This is SUPER problematic. Especially RIGHT on the heels of her fat shaming video last week.

So she changed her habits and her body changed. GREAT. Some people don’t want to change their habits. Some people don’t have the means (money time resources etc.) to change their habits. Some people do change their habits, but their body still looks the same. And ALL of that is okay. 

With a viewership like Laci has, she really needs to consider that this post is probably going to do a lot more harm than good. The gung-ho ‘I did it and so can you!’ approach is really off-putting. She even used the word ‘addiction’ when it came to sugary and fatty foods—and you know what, addictions aren’t just that easy to break, especially when it comes to food, which is necessary to live, and especially when the bad foods are the cheapest and most accessible to get.

Very disappointed. Love her sex positive stuff, but she’s got a lot to learn about body positivity.

Thank you Amber for articulating everything I felt and then some!

Agreed. Laci is an awesome advocate for a variety of topics, and as a professional sex educator I really appreciate her work to spread sex positivity, but she still has a lot of learning to do. This post definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

What bothers me most about it is that the focus is on the number on the scale. Yes, she used healthy and sustainable changes to her food and exercise choices, and that’s good, I’m glad. But the bold is not, “I changed my diet to include mostly plants”, or “I made sure my body was in motion for at least 1 hour everyday”. What’s bolded is that she brought the number on the scale down.

Losing weight is not an accomplishment. Its value is entirely constructed. Some people value it as a sign of improved health, but weight loss is not automatically healthy, and health is not automatically weight loss. Some people value it as a sign of attractiveness, but the idea that my fatness makes me ugly is one I refuse to accept. Some people value it as a measure of willpower, but weight loss is as much a genetic and environmental product as it is a product of willpower; and there are much more important things you could focus on fixing in this world.

It’s totally fine to be healthy. And it’s totally fine to lose weight. But to promote losing weight as a miraculous and positive thing to do to thousands of followers is simply false, because losing weight isn’t a valuable thing in and of itself. 126 is not a better number than 162. It’s just different. And if it’s healthier for you, that’s great, but it’s not going to be healthier for everyone - and it’s not going to be possible for everyone, especially not the way you did it.

“I did it and so can you!” is false in that it is not possible for everyone. It is false in that it is not healthy for everyone. It is false in that it is not desirable for everyone. Claiming otherwise is not body-positive.

I love you, Laci, but you can do so much better than a weight-loss post.

I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who was put off by this. This is a lot better than a lot of weight-loss posts, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still problematic. :|

Commentary!

My view: I really enjoyed the Fat Shame video, because it articulated how I felt about fat shaming and my views on life. I love Laci a lot, but I don’t think she is aware of her thin privilege. Seriously, Laci, you need to understand that this one time… maybe you’re not handling it right.

And if you ever want to talk to people in the Fat-o-sphere, to hear what WE think about being fat, and to hear our criticisms on the things that you’ve talked to the world about on OUR behalf… we’re ready to talk to you.