To think if being "body positive" was promoting anorexia...

[Piglatin]

...everyone would be up in arms? Yet I see the phrase being used more and more on social media by obese women. I don't understand why being "thick", "curvy", "plus size", "voluptuous" are just other ways to avoid saying fat, yet if skeletal women were posting things about being "body positive" most people would see how damaging it is. Are we all meant to pretend that being unhealthily overweight is OK now?!

Really good post badbird.

My view is that some of the issue has been caused by food manufacturers who add sugar to products which should not need it, which makes it very hard for those who consume a processed diet ( which a lot of us do due to long working hours and conflicting demands on our time) to lose weight or maintain a regular weight due to fluctuating blood sugar levels.

I've told this story before but when we went to the US I prepared myself a boiled egg on wholemeal toast - when I went to eat it, it was ridiculously sweet. Checked the bread ingredients and sugar was second or third on the list - some sugar is required I think in bread but not a lot. In order to eat bread that tasted similar to our own and didn't have a lot of sugar, I had to buy from the health food section - ditto for DS's lunch wraps.

This change to manufacturing of food has taken place over the last 20-30 years, so my cousins who when I was a child were stick thin compared to my relative tubbiness, are now all overweight to some degree. Almost impossible to stay a normal weight in the USA due to portion sizes and sugar additions to food.

Great post badbird .

Shocking re the USA rookie