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Old August 12th, 2004, 08:33 PM
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"Lictor" wrote in message ...

Yes, but if you follow your body, you will *not* be magazine slim. You will
just be how a normal healthy human body is designed to be. Unfortunately,
it's neither very fat nor very slim, it's just in-between. And then, you
would have some of the trolls here stigmatizing you for being lazy and
overweight. Until you finally stop listening to the truth from your body and
start a diet and yo-yo your way back to obesity...


You could do that, or you could follow a diet that leads to low
body-fat whilst maintaining muscle, which wouldn't lead to obesity but
an even better body. W

That's where
fat-acceptance *has* a role to play. To get society to accept the whole
range of body shape instead of focussing on the lower limit of normal.


I would agree, IF fat acceptance meant accepting slightly over-weight
bodies of people in the process of weight loss. However fat acceptance
in its current form seems to be promoting obesity and attacking any
thought of weight-loss. Just look how the poster 'Lady Veteran'
responds to diet tips posted in soc.support.fat-acceptance, you'd
think that gas-chamber building tips had been posted to a Jewish
newsgroup!

In theory fat acceptance would be a good thing, promoting positive
body image to help in the process of healthy weight loss, however it
has ended up as something very sinister.

Unfortunately, we have ended up into a completely binary situation and we
are locked between trolls who promote dieting your body to anorexic
proportions and people who seem to promote extreme obesity...


Or trolls like me who promote muscular bodies with low body-fat!!!