Reacting to the Fat Liberation Activist in My Comments | This is Unhinged 

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Yep! No experience being fat, no experience being disabled, no experience being in pain, no life experience abroad, no experience being severely ill, no experience being injured, no experience in the medical setting... I just have no experience, I guess 🤷 😅

Yep!

100% agree with this.

Also these people love to point out how the "weight loss" industry makes so much money and is therefore predatory but never talk about the FAR more profitable junk food and fast food industries that actually do prey on people by making their food as addictive as possible by putting sugar in EVERYTHING. Yeah nothing shady there. It's totally the weight loss industry that's the problem.

Also, your average bloodwork doesn't show everything. At one time, I had "perfect bloodwork" on a standard draw, but then they did follow ups on my inflammation levels (not on the standard test) and they were off the charts. 😬

Yeah, honestly besides my b12, iron, thyroid and inflammation numbers, my labs are normal. I'm not losing weight for b12, iron, or thyroid as those have zero effect from weight loss. But I am losing weight due to the inflammation definitely cause by how my weight effects my joints and connective tissue due to my connective tissue disease. Health is more than lab work and you're right about how women don't speak up for themselves. That is why it is so important to be your own best advocate.

@@lisaking.goalking Absolutely. And things only get harder as we age. Perimenopause can wreak havoc on a woman's body, and weight management is a huge part of alleviating the damage. I've been doing a lot of research (with my mom gone, I don't know what my genetics are in terms of peri- and menopause), and people like Dr. Mary Claire Haver are doing a tremendous job educating women about it, I highly recommend her. It's insane how uneducated even GYNs are on the topic of peri- and menopause, yet it's one of the most significant health-damaging events in a woman's life.

I agree. I think socioeconomic issues are a factor, but people can absolutely lose weight at a lower socioeconomic status. GraphicallyAlex is proving that. The biggest factor in socioeconomics in my opinion is education on how to live a healthy lifestyle.

Hahaha thanks! Yeah, the migraines are a trip!

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Ugh. It sucks you had to fight like that for care, but it goes to show that the healthcare issues we have are not Fat-specific.

Yeah, the body doesn't want to be that large. There is only so much it can take.

😆 I'm one to talk

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Yep! Hahaha It's funny because they want to be socialist and use socialist talking points, but I don't think anyone wants them in their movement. XD

@@lisaking.goalking it’s just the co-opting of the class struggle, the right wing does it in different ways (ie, immigration discourse). There’s certainly a correlation between poverty and obesity, food deserts etc are real things, but their solution to the problem is fat acceptance when the answer *should* be to work to fix those systems, advocate for better food regulations, etc. Right problem, wrong frame.

Yes, but they're not calling themselves right wing. They want to be in the socialist movement.

@@lisaking.goalking I wasn’t calling them right wing, just pointing out that they do the same thing on the other side of the coin, incorrectly invoking the class struggle in one way or another to back up their position. These ppl are libs lol, left but closer to the center & not up on the lit.

I can see how you'd think that, but so many of them are in other liberation movements. They really want to be socialist. So beware, they're coming for you.

Agreed. I understand needing more time, more accommodations, and help. Those are all okay. Some people can't do it on their own. But everyone has the ability to ask for help.

Yes, that is a very good point. Graphically Alex makes that point all the time on his channel, and is especially relevant to people with EDs. My take had more to do with lack of health education. But yes, you eat less, you pay less. Lol.

For pre reference sake I have to highlight that I am fit, hubby was morbidly obese. For years I tried to help him get in shape, but he refused to engage and so I decided instead of arguing over him refusing to eat veggies that he was on his own. This did not affect him because he already chose to eat at least two meals in fast food. Most of our arguments were over me wanting to make him healthier meals and him stating he likes his fast food and refusing to take a sandwich to work with him instead. I did my weekly grocery shopping on my own. I would spend between 45 and 60 dollars and get a week's worth of food. Well, one day hubby came with me to the grocery store. He was visibly annoyed while I poked around the vegetables, but I ignored it and did my shopping for the week. Once back in the car, after struggling to get in because of his weight, he looked at my receipt, which was 48 dollars and change and said "eating healthy is sooooo expensive!" And I dunno... something inside me snapped. I had been holding back a lot of anger with the situation, and a lot of sadness because while I was well aware he was in this shape when I met him, I looked at it as "I can help him with that. He's a sweet and genuine guy and I like him...I can help him." Not realizing how truly difficult it was going to be to get him to even eat a damn veggie. I did not realize he was literally addicted to fast food. So, I reached down at my feet and plucked one of the random fast food receipts that littered the floor of his car and noted out loud that he eats fast food 3 meals a day, each time averaging somewhere between 23-26 dollars for what is one meal for himself. I spent 48 dollars on ingredients to make myself 3 meals a day for a week. After I laid it out in my rant he became very quiet for the next week and I honestly felt awful for how heated I got. I was harboring a lot of negative feelings and among them is he is hurting himself and there is nothing I can do to stop him so I was seriously considering divorcing him as to not have to watch it in action. After a week of barely saying two words to me he asked to talk. He immediately apologized to me because he had been doing the math and realized he was spending over 400 dollars a week in fast food. He hadn't realized how expensive his habit was and he wanted me to help him again and cook for him like I was trying to do all along. He promised he would not refuse to eat it, even if it contains veggies. So, I did...and you know what? He lost weight! Has it been linear? Nah. He had a few fast food relapses, but once he kicked the stuff long enough to see inflammation and pain drastically reduce, if not all together vanish, he hasn't looked back. I told him his pain was being caused by the fast food. He did not believe me till he was off the stuff long enough to see pain he had dealt with chronically for years suddenly go away, and swelling go down.

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True. People can lose weight despite socioeconomic status. It's a factor, but not the only factor.

@@lisaking.goalking Yep. Ultraprocessed foods are engineered to be overeating. I will acknowledge that.

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Yes!

You have to be like me where I was SUPER active and still fat. But you have to eat a lot to maintain it. The muscle isn't grown out of a vacuum haha.

@@lisaking.goalking I also don't think these people understand how difficult it is to actually grow and maintain muscle mass. As someone who has spent years trying to put on muscle by eating in a surplus, when you actually diet back down in order to see the muscle you've built it's shocking how small you get even with all that muscle. I was 120lbs for years before I finally decided to start eating more and focus on gaining and after 3 years I'm probably only about 15lbs heavier due to muscle gain and I still have a little more fat on my body than I did before. It's like the people who say BMI doesn't account for muscle as if the doctor can't tell the difference between a body builder and someone who's obese. Like, yeah they might have some muscle but it's covered by all the excess fat. The fat is the problem, not the muscle.

Exactly. Also I will say part of my muscle mass had to be genetic. I gain muscle very quickly compared to a lot of women. Yet at the end of the day, I'm still fat haha. Muscle doesn't cancel out fat.

@@lisaking.goalking lol yes exactly. And I gain muscle quite slowly. Years of progressive overload in the gym and tracking my protein and it's still a constant grind to maintain

Haha I think she meant she was 245lbs and half of that was muscle, but that still means you have a crap ton of fat on you. I've been there haha.

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Yep! And it's funny you should say it's brutal, I literally sent a message to GraphicallyAlex two days ago that it was wearing me down and I didn't know how I was going to keep doing it. Then I got this comment and inspiration hit. 😆

So I did a video on fat acceptance vegans eating A LOT of processed foods. They basically present themselves as healthy because they're vegan, but the reason they can't lose weight is all the oil and processed foods. A lot of vegans got mad at me over it. Even though I also propped up a vegan tiktoker who said the same thing.

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