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In reply to the discussion: Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person [View all]nolabear
(41,999 posts)101. Here's an additional thing worth looking into.
If you, like me, have spent your life wondering why you find it insanely hard to lose weight in your legs, and if those "fat" legs hurt to touch with any pressure, and if they are heavy and stiff, you might have a condition called Lipedema or, in the UK, lipoedema. In short, lymphatic fluid collects in the fat cells and swells them. It's progressive, it's got treatments but no cure, and doctors who have fat shamed women (it's hormonally driven and birtuallynonexistent in men) for eons are only beginning to know about it.
Look it up. Might help someone sometime.
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Some of it may be the body trying to protect people against toxic stuff in the environment
Baobab
Jun 2016
#13
a great many chemicals in the environment, not just a few, and they ae building up rapidly.
Baobab
Jun 2016
#25
There are a lot of misconceptions about fat out there that aren't helping, either
arithia
Jun 2016
#27
Great post. We have strict social rules against deriding people for their race, their gender,
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#4
Ignore the blamers. They blame the poor for being poor, the sick for being sick, etc.
Live and Learn
Jun 2016
#9
Fat acceptance means saying I'm not a worthless, ugly piece of shit or that I should just die.
aikoaiko
Jun 2016
#15
your internal anger burns calories. i have a little bit of that but nothing like you...
JanMichael
Jun 2016
#125
my coworkers who are obsessed with health eating are constantly falling asleep
Skittles
Jun 2016
#168
Many idiots on the DU love making fun of Christies weight, etc. Disgusting. Should be banned IMO.
Logical
Jun 2016
#28
Good idea, thanks for this. Anyone's appearance should not be a topic of insult. nt
Logical
Jun 2016
#117
When you eat fewer calories than normal, your body thinks you are starving.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jun 2016
#149
True, but I'm not sure that context is all that relevant outside a laboratory setting
Major Nikon
Jun 2016
#187
Hi, thyroids are very sensitive to radiation and it's estimated that 1/3 of americans have an under
uppityperson
Jun 2016
#60
Well, I grew up smack dab in the middle of the nuclear test era, so maybe that's it.
SusanCalvin
Jun 2016
#62
Absolutely true. Been saying for years. Thanks for posting video support (only watched a bit so far)
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#77
Well worth the read for everyone that comes to this site....I hope your words alter
AuntPatsy
Jun 2016
#54
I do, i do. I tell people as much as possible to the point of seeming overzealous
DemMomma4Sanders
Jun 2016
#121
The "self aborbed child abuser" may just be uninformed or doing the best they can
nadine_mn
Jun 2016
#143
There is no high horse. There are wrong, destructive ways to raise a child
DemMomma4Sanders
Jun 2016
#184
Great post, Nadine ! Keep fighting the fight, one day it will all click in place
OnDoutside
Jun 2016
#74
Cool post. Fat takes a long time to add and should take a long time to come off.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#76
Having been hypothyroid and subject to weight swings since adolescence, I sympathize completely.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#90
Keep going to the track as often as you can. Eventually you'll be doing it automatically
GOLGO 13
Jun 2016
#185