tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8427109816373145171.post6446078344446409517..comments2024-03-25T15:16:05.486-06:00Comments on Crazy Creatives Cheerleading Camp: Fat Friday: Fuck this Fatphobic AssholeOrnery Owl of Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost http://www.blogger.com/profile/07596105116325246476noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8427109816373145171.post-19969306547136599822020-05-22T13:12:10.149-06:002020-05-22T13:12:10.149-06:00I tried multiple times over the course of 33 years...I tried multiple times over the course of 33 years to hate myself thin. Fortunately, I finally found some resources such as Health at Every Size and the Dances With Fat blog (danceswithfat.wordpress.com) that refuted the idea that the only way to be worthwhile or to be healthy is to be thin. Everyone has the potential to be worthwhile, and there are healthy and unhealthy people of all sizes. Besides, health is not a barometer of worth, and, let's face it, the push to make everyone thin and conventionally attractive is never about health in the first place.<br />With my wreck of an endocrine system, it's unlikely that I'd ever be thin unless I became critically ill. However, I remember trying to tell the doctor about my overwhelming cravings for sugar and he just dismissed it, saying, "well, just don't eat that." Lo and behold, I presented with diabetes. I have since learned that insulin resistance can cause--you guessed it--insatiable cravings for sugar and for simple carbohydrates.<br />These days I no longer crave entire stacks of Ritz crackers and I don't eat dessert with every meal or eat an entire half of a cake all on my own. Sometimes when I make a cake, part of it ends up being thrown out because my son and I forget about it. I no longer binge eat. I still get cravings for salt (thyroid issues) but they aren't terribly unmanageable. <br />Guess what--even with no longer binge eating and with less consumption of simple carbohydrates, still fat.<br />And neither of these factors makes me a better person than someone who has such cravings or who has an issue with binge eating.<br />I may turn this comment into a post!Ornery Owl of Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost https://www.blogger.com/profile/07596105116325246476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8427109816373145171.post-40385629859376060742020-05-22T12:30:58.569-06:002020-05-22T12:30:58.569-06:00Sigh.
And hiss and spit.
All of the fat shamers ar...Sigh.<br />And hiss and spit.<br />All of the fat shamers are 'of course' perfect. In every way. Not.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.com