Category: fat acceptance
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Fat Demographics
14 comments on Fat DemographicsI ran across some interesting US data from the CDC recently. Among men, obesity prevalence is generally similar at all income levels, with a tendency to be slightly higher at higher income levels. Among women, obesity prevalence increases as income decreases. Most obese adults are not low income (below 130% of the poverty level). Among men, there is no significant trend between education level and obesity prevalence.…
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Silly Moment
“Time of the month or sneeze guard?” — The man of the house, as I added a few pads to my bag before work.
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A Periodic Welcome Post
Welcome! Hello and thank you for reading this blog. This post is to explain some things so’s to avoid confusing newbies. What’s this blog? I started this blog to have a place to talk about fat acceptance and how my life is and isn’t affected by being very fat. Do you look like the really fat people used to illustrate stories about overweight folks? Yes, even though…
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Operation de-Dust Mite
In October I noticed I was having more anxiety about the whole “going to the doctor” thing. I ended up calling the asthma specialist I’d been referred to at least six months previously and going in on Monday. This was stressful in many ways. I’m freak-folks-the-hell-out fat. I’ve got the whole mental “You mean it’s asthma, not just that I’m fat and out of shape?” thing going. There’s…
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Fitness Quote Of The Day
The latest study adds to mounting evidence that a sedentary lifestyle may trump obesity as a corrosive influence on health. In recent years, researchers have found that exercise, even when not accompanied by weight loss, powerfully affects a range of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. Many clinicians and researchers complain that this message — that while it’s ideal to be lean, it’s possible…
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FYI: Things to read & do
One of video links going around Facebook of Jennifer Livingston linked to The Fat Nutritionist site for more information on fat acceptance. Michelle is handling the sudden influx with her usual grace, but if you want to help her cope with the many comments (or, y’know, just have some busy threads to watch) you might want to head over. :) Charlotte Cooper has a thoughtful post about the…
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It’s OK To Be Fat
Fat people exist. Fat people have always existed. Fatness is partly genetic, partly not, and not anyone else’s business. Yes, there is persistent societal pressure to change body weight. Still, body weight is not easy to change and changes are often not long-lasting. Fatness, like height, can be a measure of overall population health but is not easy to change individually. Societal stigma is not necessarily a useful measure of “right” or “wrong”. Fat…
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Things In A List
Seeking distraction from caretaking for parent with dementia? Volunteering to help organize another convention might be a bit more distraction than you need. Abstract prints can make spills disappear. Sleep debt is cumulative. Dancing is fun. Baby cuddles and giggles are amazing.
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Some Things To Read
The Fat Nutritionist has an excellent, and sadly useful, post titled “A little 101 – I get to exist.” It is okay to be fat, because fat people already exist. Fat people have existed for a very, very long time. Even if all of us tried, not all of us would become permanently thin. Fat people exist. We have existed. We will continue to exist. So to say that it’s not…
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Thankful Thursday
Because it can be helpful to think about what’s going right. 1) My carpool. 2) Converting a favorite out-of-print exercise tape to DVD. 3) Allergies doing better. 4) The last book of Mira Grant’s trilogy is out and I loved so much of it. (The titles, in order, are Feed, Deadline, and Blackout. Do read in order.) 5) My boss is pleased with my work. This makes…
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OBESITY NIGHTMARE….
…or rather, a site is starting to show fat people’s reaction to America’s (drumroll…fanfare…lights…) Obesity Nightmare It started with a Tumblr post, and has continued with photos from Brian (at Red No 3) and Turn It Over. Why? Because we do not exist to be the government’s or the healthcare industry’s nightmare. We are people. We are living our lives. You want to know what we think of…
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Monday…yeah, I guess it is…
Nothing like meeting and interviewing 6 5 4 3 job candidates in different buildings after a 1-hour whirlwind meeting to make me feel scattered. I did pull it together, though, and I think I did a good job of interviewing. I tend to dress a little more on the “business” side of business casual when I have interviews. Partly that it’s easier for me to stay on time…
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Blog commenting
Is it just me or is the combo of “prove you’re not a robot” and OpenID on blogspot.com sites difficult? I tried to leave comments on a couple blogspot sites today and it kept insisting that I didn’t read the image correctly or that OpenID had erred. Gave up on OpenID and tried to just enter my name and it again didn’t post — and didn’t even…
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Americans Are Fatter Than They Think!
I tweeted this, but I’m just not sure how to fully express the snark this deserves, so I thought y’all might want to give it a try. See, a study has discovered that…drumroll…BMI can be inaccurate!!!! Really!!! You might be fat and not know it!!! (eeek!) And since most people who are “overweight or obese” aren’t actually very fat, increasing the number of people who think they need…
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Thankful Thursday
[an occasional exercise in gratitude] This is an exercise in reminding of me things to be thankful for, aka, looking for a bright side. At the moment I’m dealing with my father’s death a few weeks ago. It’s also been a year since my bout of unemployment ended. Right now I’m thankful for: Jobness, at a place where I’m happy and feel productive. Coworkers’ dogs that come over…
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A few common fallacies
From a poster going around Tumblr. Some of the examples have been edited a bit to suit myself. A fallacy is any defect in reasoning which destroys an argument’s validity. 1) Ad Hominem. Latin term meaning “against the man.” It is discrediting the opponent instead of his or her argument. For example: “You’re fat, therefore you cannot be correct.” 2) Faulty Cause and Effect. The belief that…
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Ending Gender Discrimination in US Health Insurance
These maps from FuseWashington make a point about the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”. Right now, most states allow insurers to charge women more for insurance than men. The Affordable Care Act will ban this practice in 2014. It will also prevent insurers from refusing to insure those with pre-existing conditions like asthma. And, y’know, “obesity” is often considered a pre-existing condition. Currently the Republican candidates all want to…
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