Must Read: A Weight-Loss Skeptic Discusses Losing 60lbs

Check out this Alternet article HERE by Greta Christina. Here personal blog is HERE. I love this chick, seriously. She's been mindfully engaged in losing weight in keeping with "my feminist ideals and my resistance to body fascism." She's also keen on underscoring how evidence based research on weight, health and successful weight-loss influence her body-acceptance philosophy, but also supports her endeavors to lose weight. In other words, fat-acceptance and losing fat aren't necessarily contradictory. Fat Acceptance is mostly about embracing the full humanity of fat people--mooing at them on the street, sidelining them socially, making jokes at their expense and of course, institutionalizing their oppression by supporting discriminatory policies (such as charging them more for Health Insurance as the State of Alabama tried to do a few years ago for their fat employees) is wrong and thus fat-acceptance folks (who may or may not be fat) should work toward equity for the fat in the public square (and the tv-sitcom). Greta Christina and Jennette Fulda are the two well known(ish) figures who both discuss fat-acceptance AND weight-loss for health (and who have both lost significant amounts of weight) while also remaining allies to the fat community.

Currently, I've lost about 40lbs, though I intend to lose more and I may slip into the "passing as thin" territory in another 40lbs, but I will always be fat-identified. To me, that means working toward fat-acceptance and evidence based health advocacy. I've said it before, I don't think you need to be thin to be healthy, but I don't think that it is right to say that morbid obesity doesn't have an impact on your health either--obesity impacts your health over time and although I or my friend over here or over there, may have a healthy blood pressure and blood lipid panel right now, overtime, the chronic wear and tear of obesity leads to general declines in health and mobility. These are general facts, but obesity does not diminish my humanity or the humanity of my fat brothers or sisters. Working for walkable, livable cities/towns; subsidized fresh fruits and vegetables (and de-subsidized corn/soy/meat) as part of agriculture policy; flexible work schedules and pro-health policies in work places that aren't discriminatory; truly UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE--these are the kinds of policies that will help to erase the "obesity crisis," not another weight-loss competition show. Health is collective as well as individual. Peace

She drops 100 pounds, gains new world

Emily McCombs at The Frisky discusses how a 100 lb weight loss got her better treatment and that how maintain a weight loss for 6 years causes her to sometimes diss fat people.

Emily makes some great points, but I think her experience is not typical. Just because you fit in department store sizes doesn't mean you stop having problems with people being mean. As a black woman, I know if I lose the remaining 70 lbs to get height/weight chart dimensions. I will still be treated "separate than". Losing weight does rid you of some assumptions, but thinner woman get stuck with different labels such as:

1. Thin people can wear anything.

2. Thin people are not sensitive about their size.

3. Life is easier for thin people.

4. Thin people eat very small portions.

5. Thin people don't have to worry about their health.

6. But thin people don't need to exercise, right?

Kelly Osbourne and Fat Discrimination,

Kelly Osbourne checked into rehab for drug and alcohol addiction three times.

But the singer, 25, tells the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now): "I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that."

It is so sad that this world has so much hate for overweight people. It is self destructive as a society. In the Nightline FaceOff: Is it ok to be Fat?, Marianne Kirby, co-author of "Lessons From the Fat-O-Sphere" makes the best point of the night. Why do we attack the faceless fat bodies in advertisements instead of focusing on diet and exercise.

I agree, if it is about obesity talk about diet and exercise. Don't make moral judgements about me because of my appearance.

Call Me Fat!

Nicole Eggert is BACK IN BAYWATCH! from Nicole Eggert

Thank you Funny or Die! So, apparently Nicole Eggert of Baywatch fame has been hounded by the tabloid media for gaining a few pounds over the past fifteen years and instead of doing a celebrity diet endorsement deal or developing an eating disorder, Ms. Eggert worked with the people over at Funny or Die to produce this pretty hilarious video. It starts out with the lame premise that two regular dudes want to get kissed by a hot female lifeguard, so they fake drowing and Ms. Eggert runs out to them (in her bikini) but they are SOOOO offended by her "still way thinner than regular woman body" that they shoe her away, only to drown in reality. They do all the gratuitious hot woman running on the beach shots of her abs, butt, and boobs and they have the Baywatch theme music in the background--its really kind of hard to accept that she's supposed to be "fat." The humor really comes out in the douchebags (two very not-hot "regular slubs") judging her. Anyway, its worth a peak.

Is Fat Acceptance a Cop-Out?

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In my opinion Fat Acceptance is not a cop-out if a size 12/14 refuses to try to become a size 00. I think the whole Fat Acceptance is about refusing to fit into an Advertisers mold.

I don't think people who advocate Fat Acceptance are looking for people who have high blood pressure and diabetes to continue to gain weight.