To think 'celebrating your curves' is becoming a worrying trend?

[Freesunglasses]

So many of my overweight 'friends' on facebook are joining in the whole "I'm embracing my curves and loving this body, every inch"
The thing is they are Obese, not use a little overyweight but really fat. The more people see and read things like this the more it will become normalised.

Worrying times ahead I think. We're going to be a very fat country in the not too distant future.
I know it's hard to lose weight. I know lockdown has made lots put weight, I'm a little overweight myself but I will never say I'm happy with it because I'm not! I like being thin, I want to be thin.

For the love of God stop normalising and celebrating obesity.

@LubaLuca

I like being thin, I want to be thin.

Another worrying trend...?

I think people use the word thin when they really mean slim.

So again, it's fine to eat cake if you're a healthy bmi and post about it if you must, not so much if you're 20 stone.

It is none of your damn business to judge if a person of 20 stone eats a slice of cake. Must people of 20 stone only ever eat lettuce to be worthy to you?

Listen to yourself.

It is not your business.

@AvaCallanach

So again, it's fine to eat cake if you're a healthy bmi and post about it if you must, not so much if you're 20 stone.

It is none of your damn business to judge if a person of 20 stone eats a slice of cake. Must people of 20 stone only ever eat lettuce to be worthy to you?

Listen to yourself.

It is not your business.

If someone posts about anything on social media (not just eating cake) they're kinda making it everyone's business tbh.

I find it strange. I'm slim and I don't have any overweight friends - not through conscious choice, many have been friends since childhood. I don't see the celebration of obesity as a positive thing.

I have a friend on social media and when her and all her friends meet up its like a weight watchers meeting, young ones in particular seem to be getting bigger.

Meet up for what purpose? Just in general or is this related to the body positivity thing?

Just socialising.

Oh. So the body positivity thing is irrelevant and you just wanted to be horrible about them.

What a lovely person you are.

What’s the difference between being thin and slim? I’d use them effectively interchangeably.

They are not making it someone's business to see a slice of cake and think "how dare that fat person eat a piece of cake, doesn't she know she is fat?"

They may be letting their friends know it's their birthday treat or a friend's party or something

Fat people know we are fat. We don't expect our "friends" on social media to police every picture looking for shocking signs of someone having the temerity to eat sweet foods whilst wearing a plus sized outfit.

*I like being thin, I want to be thin.

For the love of God stop normalising and celebrating obesity.*

That's easy. Go on a diet then (see not nice is it) and stop fat shaming your 'friends'.

Very horrible post.

I agree. Being overweight is detrimental to health. They are idiots.

@AuntMasha

Why are some women so nasty to other women over their looks? I wish we could stop doing this to each other.

They're usually the insecure ones.

I think "thin" is supposed to have more negative connotations, like undernourished and unhealthy.

I am thin and I'm not offended if somebody says I am. I do find it a bit annoying when people assume that I live a totally joyless existence, obsessively exercising and denying myself any enjoyable foods (I don't).

@JaniieJones

'There's a fuck tonne of people who post about drinking to excess on Facebook and are proud of it and no one judges'

If they had liver failure (the result of drinking too much), I guarantee people would judge. So again, it's fine to eat cake if you're a healthy bmi and post about it if you must, not so much if you're 20 stone.

It isn't 'discrimination' or 'fat shaming' it is a fact that when your over eating and excess drinking causes you to display the physical effects it is not fun or beautiful.

Don't use quotation marks around things I didn't say. If you can't create a valid counter-argument without accusing me of saying things that were never said then just accept that you're wrong. The vast majority of obese people don't have organ failure so I'm unsure why you think alcoholics can post up until that point without judgement but overweight people can't? Baffled by the ignorance of some people on here.

@Lelophants

I dont see this at all. I see the consistent rise in people with eating disorders and being horribly thin, which is incredibly dangerous.

Where are all these thin people? Not in my town that's for sure.

when your over eating and excess drinking causes you to display the physical effects it is not fun or beautiful

Imagine actually, genuinely thinking you should judge people for their unhealthy habits but only when they start to look unattractive because of it. How disgustingly shallow. Thinking that drinking excessively is fine unless you can tell by looking at someone... odd thought process.

Maybe 10-20 years ago but the trend now is very much curvy/thick. I ate huge portions to try and gain weight.
That was influenced by the Kardashians and they are well on the way out.
Clothes look better on slimmer people.
Slim will always be in.

@PurpleDaisies

What’s the difference between being thin and slim? I’d use them effectively interchangeably.

Slim looks nice. Clothes look nice on when you're slim. Thin is slim is taken too far. Same as a bit of padding can look nice but fat is bit of extra padding taking too far.

Extremes basically.

@Viviennemary

I agree. Being overweight is detrimental to health. They are idiots

You do realise that "they" are probably over half the people commenting on and reading this post?

I also know of women who are slim AND curvy. Tiny waists and big boobs.
But there are few thin women who are curvy.

@Viviennemary

I agree. Being overweight is detrimental to health. They are idiots.

What about the lipedema ladies? Are we idiots for inheriting a medical condition? We are 1 in 10 women in this country. That you don't understand our condition or acknowledge that it's possible to be genetically predisposed to overweight is a damning indictment of women's health issues in the UK.

I'm hugely envious of anyone who is happy in themselves, it should only be celebrated. I'm slim but hate myself, I have severe depression and frankly I'd give anything for a positive mindset.

@likeamillpond

I also know of women who are slim AND curvy. Tiny waists and big boobs. But there are few thin women who are curvy.

Isn’t that because of your personal definition of what thin means?

I just enjoy being able to move easily. When I was overweight (I spent my 40s overindulging in cheap sweet carbs) I didn't feel
Comfy in my own skin. I was a naturally slim child, teen and young woman even after children, but let it slide after 40. After 50 I sorted myself out and can feel the difference, never mind see it.
I suppose I wonder why anyone would want to miss that feeling.
Plus I was a ticking time bomb - my knees were suffering and and I was storing up all
Kinds of problems.
I have a niece who describes herself as curvy. She is very overweight and while she looks perfectly lovely, she moves like an old woman. And that's at 30, without having had children.
For me it's about how I feel not how I look. Perhaps that would be a more effective message

'Don't use quotation marks around things I didn't say. If you can't create a valid counter-argument without accusing me of saying things that were never said then just accept that you're wrong. The vast majority of obese people don't have organ failure'

It was a new paragraph . 'Discrimination' and 'fat shaming' have been wanged on about defensively throughout.

Oh fgs of course obese people may not have organ failure (yet), but their obesity is a sign of their excess in the same way liver failure indicates a drinkers excess, and we don't congratulate those with liver failure and say it's beautiful and empowering do we now.

@Viviennemary

I agree. Being overweight is detrimental to health. They are idiots.

Insightful as always. 🙄

@Viviennemary

I agree. Being overweight is detrimental to health. They are idiots.

There are considerably worse things that being fat, as charmers like yourself repeatedly demonstrate.