Back in June 2013 I posted a video of hers, saying I wanted to keep it here so I don't lose it in the future. Well, that one disappeared, anyway. (sigh) Let's try again.
Here she is on Katie Couric's show in December 2013 talking about why one shouldn't stop living until they reach some arbitrary weight goal.
Her New Year's Eve message about weight cycling. In this video she also announces some programs she's starting up in 2014.
And a call to make exercise a regular part of your life:
And don't forget her exercise DVD
and book on exercising at any size, both called The Fat Chick Works Out!
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
"No Longer Defensible" Post from Fat and Not Afraid Blog
This blog gets better each time I read it! Be sure to read the comments, too.
“No Longer Defensible”
June 25, 2013
I don’t think there is a person who is connected to the wider world
somehow (e.g., internet, evening news, newspapers) who doesn’t know that
the AMA declared obesity a disease this week. Many Fat Acceptance bloggers have written about it.
In the same week that this is happening, Time Magazine posted an online article about, well, about a sort of Fat Acceptance. Oh, they didn’t call it that, but that’s what it was.
In the same week that this is happening, Time Magazine posted an online article about, well, about a sort of Fat Acceptance. Oh, they didn’t call it that, but that’s what it was.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Jeanette DePattie (The Fat Chick) In the Mainstream Media
This is mostly here so I can find it again in the future, since I have a bad habit of losing videos I want to do repeat watchings of. Enjoy!
Friday, May 24, 2013
Monday, May 06, 2013
Today Is International No Diet Day
In the fat acceptance community, today is celebrated as International No Diet Day, a day when we fatties should be proud of who and what we are and once again vow to never "diet" with weight loss in mind ever again. We're told over and over again that we CAN be fat and healthy. Many of us prove it day after day. We have excellent lab values, our blood pressure is fine, we have no limitations in our activities of daily living.
But I know in my heart that this isn't true.
Because of the large amount of weight my body has, my feet hurt and the bones in my feet shirt out of position, exacerbating the arthritis, causing tendinitis and leave me prone to corns, calluses and plantar fasciitis.
Because of the large amount of weight my body has it causes pains in my knees, hips, even my neck, and may have contributed to the degenerative disc disease and neuritis I have.
Because of the large amount of weight I carry I get winded climbing up the three flights of stairs to my apartment, while walking a few blocks to my car, while shopping in large department stores or malls.
BUT
From almost 60 years of dieting, my metabolism is equal to that of a slug or sea sponge. My core body temperature on awakening routinely is between 95 and 96 degrees F, my resting pulse rate is typically in the 40's, I've officially been diagnosed as hypothyroid (but still being under treated), barely sleep at night, have severe brain fog, and I gain weight if I eat even 1000 calories a day. In fact, even as a 10 year old active tomboy I gained weight at 1000 calories a day.
I KNOW dieting for weight loss doesn't work. I KNOW very low calorie food plans, the ONLY thing that will make me lose about a pound a month, is harmful to my health and will cause even slower metabolism. So why do I still harbor the Fantasy of Being Thin? Why do I still read all these weight loss books, visit diet doctor sites, read OA literature, load up on half a paycheck's worth of greens and other fresh produce (which always goes bad before half of it gets eaten), and when I have the energy, still weigh and measure everything I eat?
I guess I'm just, as my husband frequently says, fucked in the head when it comes to my weight. Even after all these decades.
Because of the large amount of weight my body has, my feet hurt and the bones in my feet shirt out of position, exacerbating the arthritis, causing tendinitis and leave me prone to corns, calluses and plantar fasciitis.
Because of the large amount of weight my body has it causes pains in my knees, hips, even my neck, and may have contributed to the degenerative disc disease and neuritis I have.
Because of the large amount of weight I carry I get winded climbing up the three flights of stairs to my apartment, while walking a few blocks to my car, while shopping in large department stores or malls.
BUT
From almost 60 years of dieting, my metabolism is equal to that of a slug or sea sponge. My core body temperature on awakening routinely is between 95 and 96 degrees F, my resting pulse rate is typically in the 40's, I've officially been diagnosed as hypothyroid (but still being under treated), barely sleep at night, have severe brain fog, and I gain weight if I eat even 1000 calories a day. In fact, even as a 10 year old active tomboy I gained weight at 1000 calories a day.
I KNOW dieting for weight loss doesn't work. I KNOW very low calorie food plans, the ONLY thing that will make me lose about a pound a month, is harmful to my health and will cause even slower metabolism. So why do I still harbor the Fantasy of Being Thin? Why do I still read all these weight loss books, visit diet doctor sites, read OA literature, load up on half a paycheck's worth of greens and other fresh produce (which always goes bad before half of it gets eaten), and when I have the energy, still weigh and measure everything I eat?
I guess I'm just, as my husband frequently says, fucked in the head when it comes to my weight. Even after all these decades.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Declining Life Span In Women Confuses Scientists - Not Me
I just saw this news report this morning and just shook my head in disbelief:
I know why, and so does any fat woman in America today. There's a whole blog out there describing the treatment we get when we go to doctors with our medical complaints. Everything is blamed on our fat. If we are above the "normal" BMI we're not taken seriously, and the treatment for our complaints is always "lose weight," whether we present with a broken arm or chest pains.
Read the blog First, Do No Harm if you don't believe me. "Normies" will be aghast at the treatment those people received at the hands of their doctors while fat people will nod their heads and say, "Yep, that happened to me, many times." I can add a few stories of my own if I wanted to, most notably the cardiologist who told me I had a heart attack when I didn't because, he admitted, he thought hearing that would scare me into losing weight. Nice, especially when the cardiac problem I DID have was the result of the extreme stress I had in my life at the time. He didn't think the fat lady would have copies of all the tests he ran that showed what I did or didn't have so he couldn't bullshit me. He got mad at me when I refused to see his friend, the head of the bariatric surgery department of the hospital, for a consultation. And even though I had the lab work in my hands that proved it, he didn't believe I was following a very low fat, whole foods, plant based food plan prior to my hospitalization, because "vegans aren't fat."
These people in the study didn't die of obesity but of neglect and malpractice. There are thousands of doctors out there like that cardiologist.
People like those doctors make women afraid to see a doctor when something really is wrong. Women have died of heart attacks and ruptured aneurysms, ruptured appendices, various cancers, etc., because they were afraid to see their doctor when they had pain, because they knew it would be blamed on their weight and not given any diagnosis or treatment, so they lived with the symptoms. Until they didn't.
And what about the fat people who believe what their doctors tell them, that their fat is the cause of their ills, and go through desperate measures to get rid of the fat and die as the result? Women who take unsafe over-the-counter stimulants to "boost their metabolism." Women who over exercise and undereat and overstress their bodies which may lead to sudden death from heart attacks or electrolyte imbalances. Women who ingest tapeworm tablets. Women who have their healthy intestines and stomachs amputated in hopes that less digestion leads to weight loss. You know, weight loss surgeries. These procedures rob the body of needed nutrients, which lead to all sorts of medical problems, and for many, early death, earlier than if they just stayed fat in the first place. And don't forget those who die on the operating table or within the first 48 hours. Those are the only deaths counted as caused by the surgery itself. Statistics aren't kept on those who die months or a few years later from all the complications even if they're from the surgical procedure, such as ruptured suture lines, infections at the suture site that never healed because the body doesn't have the nutrition to defend itself, leaking of gastric material into the abdominal cavity from internal sutures or staples that weren't done right or ripped, etc. Those deaths are attributed to the person's fat, not the surgery.
On the opposite end of the weight spectrum are the anorexics and other women with eating disorders. The treatment failure rate is high, and many times leads to unnecessary deaths, all because they feared getting fat.
And let's not forget the young Type 1 diabetics who skip their insulin, not because they're tired of injecting themselves or have a death wish, but because they know insulin improves the metabolism of the food they eat, which leads to weight gain, so if they don't take their insulin they'll lose weight.
Some women will do anything to lose a few pounds, even risk death. And scientists wonder why the death rate is going up in "certain" women, especially obese ones! Just look at how society treats us and they'll know why!
Study shows declining life span for some US women
Mar 4, 4:07 PM (ET)
By MIKE STOBBE
NEW YORK (AP) - A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.
The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation's counties - many of them rural and in the South and West. Curiously, for men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties.
The study is the latest to spot this pattern, especially among disadvantaged white women. Some leading theories blame higher smoking rates, obesity and less education, but several experts said they simply don't know why.
I know why, and so does any fat woman in America today. There's a whole blog out there describing the treatment we get when we go to doctors with our medical complaints. Everything is blamed on our fat. If we are above the "normal" BMI we're not taken seriously, and the treatment for our complaints is always "lose weight," whether we present with a broken arm or chest pains.
Read the blog First, Do No Harm if you don't believe me. "Normies" will be aghast at the treatment those people received at the hands of their doctors while fat people will nod their heads and say, "Yep, that happened to me, many times." I can add a few stories of my own if I wanted to, most notably the cardiologist who told me I had a heart attack when I didn't because, he admitted, he thought hearing that would scare me into losing weight. Nice, especially when the cardiac problem I DID have was the result of the extreme stress I had in my life at the time. He didn't think the fat lady would have copies of all the tests he ran that showed what I did or didn't have so he couldn't bullshit me. He got mad at me when I refused to see his friend, the head of the bariatric surgery department of the hospital, for a consultation. And even though I had the lab work in my hands that proved it, he didn't believe I was following a very low fat, whole foods, plant based food plan prior to my hospitalization, because "vegans aren't fat."
These people in the study didn't die of obesity but of neglect and malpractice. There are thousands of doctors out there like that cardiologist.
People like those doctors make women afraid to see a doctor when something really is wrong. Women have died of heart attacks and ruptured aneurysms, ruptured appendices, various cancers, etc., because they were afraid to see their doctor when they had pain, because they knew it would be blamed on their weight and not given any diagnosis or treatment, so they lived with the symptoms. Until they didn't.
And what about the fat people who believe what their doctors tell them, that their fat is the cause of their ills, and go through desperate measures to get rid of the fat and die as the result? Women who take unsafe over-the-counter stimulants to "boost their metabolism." Women who over exercise and undereat and overstress their bodies which may lead to sudden death from heart attacks or electrolyte imbalances. Women who ingest tapeworm tablets. Women who have their healthy intestines and stomachs amputated in hopes that less digestion leads to weight loss. You know, weight loss surgeries. These procedures rob the body of needed nutrients, which lead to all sorts of medical problems, and for many, early death, earlier than if they just stayed fat in the first place. And don't forget those who die on the operating table or within the first 48 hours. Those are the only deaths counted as caused by the surgery itself. Statistics aren't kept on those who die months or a few years later from all the complications even if they're from the surgical procedure, such as ruptured suture lines, infections at the suture site that never healed because the body doesn't have the nutrition to defend itself, leaking of gastric material into the abdominal cavity from internal sutures or staples that weren't done right or ripped, etc. Those deaths are attributed to the person's fat, not the surgery.
On the opposite end of the weight spectrum are the anorexics and other women with eating disorders. The treatment failure rate is high, and many times leads to unnecessary deaths, all because they feared getting fat.
And let's not forget the young Type 1 diabetics who skip their insulin, not because they're tired of injecting themselves or have a death wish, but because they know insulin improves the metabolism of the food they eat, which leads to weight gain, so if they don't take their insulin they'll lose weight.
Some women will do anything to lose a few pounds, even risk death. And scientists wonder why the death rate is going up in "certain" women, especially obese ones! Just look at how society treats us and they'll know why!
Friday, January 04, 2013
Never Diet Again - Not This Year 2013
What can I do, besides point readers to this blog to the official Not This Year web site? Well, it's only the fourth day of the year and already I took a diet book out of my Amazon shopping cart and vowed to not buy ANY food related books this year except for any upcoming cookbooks by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. No diet books, no other cookbooks, no diet-related videos (I took one of them out of the shopping cart, too). I vow to finally read the MANY fat-accepting books I already own but put aside in favor of diet books I already owned to reread.
And I vow to eat more cookies and other baked goods that taste good, not only are good for me. In fact, as I type I have a batch of raisin-chocolate chip banana bran muffins in the oven, made from this recipe. They're very filling and delicious as well as healthier than bakery made muffins, made with all kinds of artificial ingredients. One of these babies for breakfast and I'm good for hours before even looking for lunch!
Friday, November 09, 2012
The Fantasy of Being Thin
Google it, the "Fantasy of Being Thin" - you'll find hundreds of sites telling you that you don't have to be thin(ner) to get what you want out of life or even be healthy. I believed it for a number of years, getting heavily involved in Fat Acceptance, the Health at Every/Any Size Movement, all the fat and "intuitive eating" blogs and forums and mailing lists, including Overcoming Overeating. I really, really want to believe in it all.
But I've been having a heck of a hard time.
Yes, for a lot of people, and for me for many years when younger, it IS possible to be perfectly healthy with an abundance of pounds on the body, including being double or more of what the height/weight charts say you should weigh for optimal health.
Then I got older. My previously perfect lab numbers started changing for the worse, no matter how I changed my daily diet (no-added fat, plant strong, the diet President Clinton and Rosie O'Donnell *said* they were doing then slid off of). Unlike them, I don't add oil or eat fish - I follow the food plan 100% about 99% of the time and HAVE been for a number of years, long before Forks Over Knives. While other people started dropping their weight like sweat off a fat lady in August (Yeah, like ME on even a warm day in winter), I'm still fat, and even gained a few pounds over the years, and although my lab numbers got a bit better they didn't get that much better. Every nutritional expert I consulted with told me I have to lose weight before those numbers will improve any more, and not the "5 pounds make a big difference" weight loss, but at least half my body size type weight loss.
It's not like I haven't tried, but what more do they expect me to do? Eat less, move more. Yeah, yeah. I've been hearing that since infancy, when my formula was watered down because I gained 3 pounds overnight in the newborn nursery. I was on calorie restricted diets as a baby, toddler, child, pre-teen, teen, young adult, and middle-aged adult. I'm now approaching my senior years and still hear the same tired spiel.
I want it to stop. I want to be left alone.
But I've been having a heck of a hard time.
Yes, for a lot of people, and for me for many years when younger, it IS possible to be perfectly healthy with an abundance of pounds on the body, including being double or more of what the height/weight charts say you should weigh for optimal health.
Then I got older. My previously perfect lab numbers started changing for the worse, no matter how I changed my daily diet (no-added fat, plant strong, the diet President Clinton and Rosie O'Donnell *said* they were doing then slid off of). Unlike them, I don't add oil or eat fish - I follow the food plan 100% about 99% of the time and HAVE been for a number of years, long before Forks Over Knives. While other people started dropping their weight like sweat off a fat lady in August (Yeah, like ME on even a warm day in winter), I'm still fat, and even gained a few pounds over the years, and although my lab numbers got a bit better they didn't get that much better. Every nutritional expert I consulted with told me I have to lose weight before those numbers will improve any more, and not the "5 pounds make a big difference" weight loss, but at least half my body size type weight loss.
It's not like I haven't tried, but what more do they expect me to do? Eat less, move more. Yeah, yeah. I've been hearing that since infancy, when my formula was watered down because I gained 3 pounds overnight in the newborn nursery. I was on calorie restricted diets as a baby, toddler, child, pre-teen, teen, young adult, and middle-aged adult. I'm now approaching my senior years and still hear the same tired spiel.
I want it to stop. I want to be left alone.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Miss Fat and Beautiful Contest
This video is for all those people who claim there were no fatties prior to the 1980's.
Now THESE are the sized women I remember from my youth in the 1950's and '60's. THESE women could come to a reunion of either side of my family and fit right in.
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