So Wanting Your Children To Live Long Healthy Lives At The Expense Of Giving Up Some Of What They Like

So wanting your children to live long healthy lives at the expense of giving up some of what they like is abuse? Sounds to me like teaching them responsibility.

many parents who abuse their children do so bc they think it’s best, or it’s all they know. parents who beat their kids may genuinely believe that to spare the rod is to spoil the child… but they’re abusers nonetheless.

likewise, good intentions and ignorance don’t hold up as excuses for weight-based child abuse.

to restrict a child’s access to food in an attempt to control their weight, to force or coerce heavier children into exercise that they hate, to make critical comments about their bodies (using medicalized language or not), or to in any other way attempt to manipulate or shame them for their natural body size – these constitute abuse.

there was a time when doctors would also have advocated beating children, and the culture in general supported it. we’re in a time (hopefully not for much longer) when doctors and the culture at large support weight-based abuse. but it is parents who ultimately decide how to treat their children, and it’s on them that the final responsibility falls. 

abuse that is well-meant is abuse nonetheless; damage to children is not mitigated by a parent’s genuine conviction that their own behavior is justified. if you disagree w me, consider that you may be trained to see fat kids as incapable of being hurt, or even as deserving harm.

Yo look at this Wampa I found (at Abbeville County, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPsdG0BBKT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ez161v6lrasq

Thank you for this common sense.

It is not “fatphobic” to be charged more for large clothing. It is not “fatphobic” to suggest weight loss. It is not “fatphobic” to help someone realize how much they overeat. It is not “fatphobic” to talk about nutrition. It is not “fatphobic” to encourage a healthy BMI. It is not “fatphobic” to dismiss the “genetic obesity” lie. It is not “fatphobic” to dismiss the “starvation mode” lie. It is not “fatphobic” to suggest following a lower calorie diet. It is not “fatphobic” to dismiss any and all fat logic and enabling behavior. It is not “fatphobic” of your doctor to correctly assess your health and suggest weight loss if you are overweight or obese, or for them to deny performing a surgery due to your weight. Doctors are held liable and obese patients are high risk.

You are healthy at a healthy size. Not all sizes are healthy.

Being fat is not healthy. Call it what you will- fat, overweight, obese. BEING FAT IS NOT HEALTHY. EVER. Stop encouraging others to overeat. Stop encouraging others to neglect their bodies. If you sell people the lies you’ve been selling yourself all you’re doing is promoting self harm, a slew of dangerous health complications, and early deaths.

If you’re happy with yourself, keep your fat logic, delusional concepts, and lies to yourself. Dig your own grave, not the graves of others.

“Mr.Stark, I don’t feel so good.”