argh! fat! argh!

[keryx]

It turns out that even the great community Fatshionista has a secret number in its head. You know what I mean? Many people have 200 lbs in their heads as the number at which someone is about to DROP DEAD FROM TEH FATS OH NOES. Members of that community seem to stop at 500 lbs - which is, admittedly, rather large.

Over time I've amended my belief that what immobilizes fat and supersize folk who complain about quality of life is not their fat per se but the fact that they haven't continued to move their fat bodies around. Now I think what immobilizes them is a culture - including themselves - that makes it impossible to visualize a happy, contented, supersize person who is reasonably healthy (or at least, no worse off than an average person). So, you know what, if you are so sure for you personally that you can't be healthy without that weight? Try to lose the weight. I hope along the way you pick up habits that make you feel better.

Just. Please please please don't presume you can pick a number and declare that people who weigh more than that are at death's door. We're all limited by our experience and our paradigm. I remember 160 lbs or so making my quality of life suck, but 200+ (yes, the magic number! OMG!) is apparently just fine. My perspective's shifted quite a bit in those 10 years.

The magic number is always just a bit further than the fattest weight we can imagine for ourselves, but that magic, unliveable number is likely a size at which someone else lives just fine. So stop imagining. There, problem solved.

Comments

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

There is no defense for too-small cardigans or cuffed jeans. Ever.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Too small cardigans RULE! As long as they'll actually button and fit your arms, so they're mostly small in length and sleeve.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

Well if it buttons (really buttons, not just once under your breasts) and fits your arms, it's not too small. The ones I'm thinking of don't so much "fit" as "the arm can be stuffed into the sleeve in a manner which results in a look not unlike that of sausage links."

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking this morning that it'd be fun to go a week or so dressing to highlight my "bad" features. Sausage arms would look pretty sassy with a nice muffin top.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

Mm, I have to see the best way to dress to really highlight my thunder thighs. I think stompy boots, which draw attention to the powerfulness of said thighs, what do you think?

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I can't work that look, though, since it would hide my cankles.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

My ankles (and the shape of my calves) are the only part of me that's (relatively) svelte. I love my ankles.