Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. People don't realize this:

The more you diet, the slower your metabolism gets.


There was a scientific study of people who had been on The Biggest Loser. All but one of them had regained their lost weight. It also said that "this person X burns 312 fewer calories per day than a normal person at her weight". These people were back to morbidly obese.

There are many hormones regulating appetite and metabolism. The biggest problem I know about is hypothyroidism and its most common form is an auto-immune disease, Hashimoto's disease.

Doctors are not interested in finding out from simple blood tests what kind of thyroid hormone a person should get and how much. It's like pulling teeth. People who don't know any better just say "eat less". There are an estimated 40 million people in the U.S. that have either an overactive or underactive thyroid. Because of our shitty healthcare system, I can't get an insurance company to pay for a simple blood test concerning a disease I've had for fifty years.

This is after having my parents and grandparents yell at me constantly when I was a kid that I would starve to death because I barely ate anything. I was normal weight then. They wanted me to stuff myself, and eat things I'm allergic to and/or can't stand. They did their damndest to make me eat too much and have an eating disorder, and this was before we had the concept of eating disorders. I eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full.

This was before they found out about super tasters, and also I have multiple food allergies. Super tasters don't like bitter foods, sour foods or alcohol.

If I eat the slightest bit of things in the deadly nightshade family, I will have to go to bed for two days with extreme fatigue, like I have the flu or something, because my body is using all its energy to fight the allergen. I also have the usual animal hair/pollen/plant matter allergies. If I go work in the garden, my arms will break out.

And then there's always some physics major who thinks metabolism is a simple calories in/calories out mechanism like an equation. It's a lot more complicated than that. I'm not a doctor.