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

[Vinca]

118. Great post.

Some people don't get it that food is as addictive as a drug. Probably more so since you cannot exist for very long without it. You can give up booze, you can give up cigarettes, you can give up drugs, but you can't give up food. It's always there, always within reach, always too easy to fall back on. Except for a few days in 1984 (after I'd turned myself in to the Diet Center and lived on about 500 calories for months) when I looked in the mirror and saw thin, I've always been overweight in varying degrees. Now that I've hit an age where I don't think of myself as old, but I can get a senior discount if I want it, I've decided not to obsess about it anymore. I'll never be a size 2 or 4 unless I buy one for each thigh. "Playboy" will never call begging for a photo shoot. As long as I feel reasonably healthy, reasonably happy and can go about my life, I'm not going to let it own me anymore.