Comments on: I eat, therefore I’m fat

By: Paperclippe

Paperclippe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:23:24 +0000

…I…just…this.

I’ve never come across anyone who could say this – what I always wanted to say – so clearly as you have here.

I also want to second the person who said that yes, people can “overeat” but only in relation to themselves.

In lieu of repeating what everyone already said months ago, I just want to say thanks again, love the blog, and adore your style.

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By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:17:04 +0000

Opor ayam is Indonesian for chicken curry. My Mum is Indonesian and, when I’m very good, she makes an AMAZING opor ayam for me. She doesn’t make it for me that often as Indonesian curries are really time-intensive: first you blend all the spices together to a paste, then you fry the paste, then you coat the meat in the paste and then you cook the meat. But it’s so so good.

Pho is a Vietnamese soup with clear broth, meat (usually sliced chicken, sliced beef or beef meatballs), noodles and a bunch of fresh ingredients (basil, bean sprouts, chilli etc). I used to live near a Vietnamese restaurant and pho was such a quick, cheap meal. Sydney is pretty spoiled for choice when it comes to Asian restaurants!

By: Deena

Deena — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:40:06 +0000

Soft boiled eggs and toast soldiers…… hand cut chips.. cake…… Far too early in the morning to be thinking about cake….
I saw this post a while ago but I don’t remember if I commented. If I did already, sorry for repeating myself.

This is a great post- and a brave one too. No one really admits to loving food but I’ll raise my hand too. I’m the size I am because of food but I’ve never been slim anyway so I guess that makes me a mix of good and bad fattie. If I didn’t love cake and coronation chicken on granary baguettes with red onions (drool)so much and did more frequent not sporadic exercise, I would be a few dress sizes smaller but probably no smaller than a 20. Whatever the reason for my size it shouldn’t affect the respect I get from ANYONE.

Going to google opor ayam and pho as I have no idea what they are.

Garlic…. I LOVE the taste of garlic and used to eat crushed garlic on toast like it was peanut butter or something. Not done that in years….. I wonder if I would still like it…

By: lilacsigil

lilacsigil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

A great post! I gained a vast amount of weight while I had cancer (mostly because it wasn’t diagnosed for 18 months – no-one believed I was sick and just told me I was fat and lazy!) After surgery and treatment for that, I tried and tried to lose weight, going back to crappy teenage habits. Then I discovered the fat-o-sphere. I stopped trying to diet, embraced HAES, and much to my surprise, lost a considerable amount of weight, which has now stabilised. I’m still death fat. But this is my happy death fat.

By: everjoy

everjoy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:33:14 +0000

Thank you for this post! I am sick and tired of the FA community making it sound like only a very small percentage of fat people are fat because of their lifestyle, when in fact it’s the opposite: the vast majority of fat people are fat because they eat too much and don’t exercise (I’m one of them), and only a small minority are fat because of genetics or health or, my favorite line of BS denial: “My body has a certain weight it’s supposed to be at and no matter how much I diet or exercise, I can’t lose weight because my body just doesn’t want to be at a lower weight! It’s not my fault, so there!”

If fat people would just admit that they COULD lose weight if they wanted to, but they just don’t want to go through the admittedly tough effort it would take, I could accept that. I’d respect the honesty. I willingly admit it! But this, “It’s all genetics or my body has decided it must be this weight” BS is embarrassingly awful to read over and over.

I am fat because I gorge myself and I don’t move. Full stop.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:38:45 +0000

“Food intake, food choices, choosing not to exercise if it bores you rigid? Not moral issues.”

It IS a moral issue to me when it is drastically affecting my life – not to mention those around me. Yeah, I keep McDonald’s rich. But is that a morally RIGHT thing?

“Eating till you’re full at no one else’s expense? Weighing more than some skinny bint on the cover of Cosmo? I’ll say it again: Not. Moral. Issues.”

When you weigh more than most morbidly obese people, it is a moral problem. A personal, moral problem. It will come to the point where I will burden others, and I don’t want that to happen.

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:28:08 +0000

Thank you for the nice words!

My big sister (who is my polar opposite in body shape) holds up my 17 year old self as proof that I can be thin(ner). But in my eyes I didn’t look better back then. My head sort of looks like big for my body. My collar bones stick out. And back then I was horribly insecure and hated my body so I always slumped my shoulders.

Plus there’s so much to enjoy about being fat. I don’t even know if I can put it into words. I love how my pot belly stick out. I love how bits of hip escape over the waistband of my pants. And every chubby bit of me is so fun to play with; my mum catches me absent-mindedly poking myself in the belly.

I’m not perfect at this whole self-esteem thing: I occasionally wish my upper arms and my double chin would go away and leave me alone. And clothes shopping makes me curse my curves. But most of the time, I love it.

By: the fat nutritionist

the fat nutritionist — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:11:00 +0000

Eating till you’re full at no one else’s expense? Weighing more than some skinny bint on the cover of Cosmo? I’ll say it again: Not. Moral. Issues.

Quoted for truth, BuffPuff.

In my mind, stuff like food security — that’s a moral issue. The impact our choices have on ecology, and the treatment of animals — those are moral issues.

But the size of my ass, and the way I choose to eat and move, as an individual? The state of my health? Not moral issues in any sense at all.

By: Reg Webb

Reg Webb — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:45:23 +0000

Very glad to have discovered this post, and so many interesting comments.

To me, a crucial point you make is:
“While my growing belly is a consequence of my over-eating, it’s a happy one. I love
being fat, and not in a ‘This is what I’m stuck with so I may as well love it’ sort
of way. I genuinely think I look better now than when I was 30kg lighter. I’m certainly
a helluva lot happier.”

There are clearly two versions of “fat acceptance” loose in the world – at least two. One is joyful, the other glum resignation. Obviously we can’t all love ourselves equally, and some have to act “as if”, still being harried by society’s dubious norms about how they should look. Your genuine joy here is therefore compelling, and I thank you for it.

That others on this planet starve to death avoidably is a moral issue. But, if it harms nobody else, what an individual chooses to do with their body because they like it is, as has been pointed out, none of morality’s business.