Why does everyone say they love being fat until they get their hands on skinny jabs?

Surely you can love yourself but also be aware that your weight is unhealthy and address that?

Because it’s a way to deal with. Outside of very niche cases I think almost every fat (as in clinically obese) person would rather not be fat. No one would choose to be fat v a healthy weight, but it’s about making the best of it I suppose or trying to exert some control over something you feel you don’t have control of.

Personally I find some of the ‘body positive’ advertising with very obese models (Snag I’m looking at you) just as inappropriate as very thin models, but that is apparently not an acceptable thing to say.

Disclaimer: I was fat. I was not happy being fat. I was not body positive. I am slim now and am happy being slim.

They're not mutually exclusive. I'm overweight not obese so don't qualify for the jabs. I'd still take them if I was able, because I'd like to be healthier and I do think life's easier if you're skinny (you definitely get judged as an overweight person).

But I still love my body, I love what it can do, I enjoy it, my partner loves it. I don't have any hang ups, I'm happy in a bikini and don't fret about how I look in photos.

So it doesn't have to be one or the other.

Everyone’? Really?

love being fat? No. Willing to inject myself with stuff that we don’t know the long term side effects for? No.

give it 30 years and the NHS could be dealing with the effects of these jabs. Just like the smoking ads of the 50s…

Yes, what's admirable about being fat or thin? I don't really admire people for their bodies, more for what they actually do.

What did you admire them for? What’s admirable about it?

I’m about 4 stone overweight. I know I am. I know it’s bad for me, I know I don’t look good in a lot of clothes, I know I’m not healthy and if I don’t sort it out then I’ll have issues and cost the NHS money to fix them. I know all that; if I jumped up saying how amazing it is to be fat then I’d be a liar. Just like every “body positive” person you admire is.

Maybe not the same people and people change their opinions too. As long as they’re happy

Self defence mechanism. Coping mechanism. Making the best of a shit situation?

No one loves being fat. No one is fat by choice.

Body positivity was a con. By which I mean of course fat people deserve to be treated with dignity and kindness just like any other person. And deserve to be happy and at peace.

But it went too far. Excessive obesity was justified, glorified and turned into some kind of win.

I never claimed to love my bigger body (I loathed it, in fact) but I can totally see why some people might. You are constantly scorned for being fat so claiming to be ok with it is a way of shutting that down I suppose.

I can't imagine anyone loves being fat really

Self defence mechanism, I should think. And a good thing too.

Otherwise self loathing and depression would set in. What's the point in letting that happen if you have the presence of mind to make peace with your self?

But you know it's a compromise. If then you are offered a way out which was previously unavailable to you, many would take it.