Month: November 2022
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Don’t give up!
Let me ask you one simple question today: how many times have you tried to diet, changed something with your diet, started or increased exercise or implemented any other “lifestyle” behaviour to achieve a certain health or weight-related goal? How many fad and other diets have you tried? Calorie counting, weight watchers, low-fat, low-carb, paleo,…
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But… what about health?
Everyone has always assured me, that they were reeaally caring about my health when they advised me to lose weight. My mother, my doctor, my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the people I hardly knew – all of them always talking about healthy eating and exercise as the only means to achieve so called…
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”But you are not fat…”
I identify myself as fat. Not chubby, not round, not just a “bigger” girl. I use the word “fat” like any other descriptor – I am also blonde, green-eyed, and very fair skinned. However, I still run into trouble when I dare to use this F-word in public. There is always a well-meaning friend, colleague…
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“Maybe it hurts, because you are fat?”
This is literally the question my doctor has recently posed, after hearing my pain complaint. The advice to lose weight and the referral to a dietician immediately followed. In the past I would have felt ashamed and utterly convinced that the doctor, though clearly a fatphobe, was correct. These days I manage to remain calm…
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