[ SECRET POST #1667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1667 ⌋


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Notes:

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Comments

[timemachineyeah.livejournal.com]

That's fine. While weight itself very very rarely causes joint problems, it can and does exacerbate them sometimes. It would be silly of me to deny that. There are plenty of health problems that are also exacerbated by being thin. That this is true doesn't mean that those weights are inherently evil things to be, and if people are happy with their weight that's no one else's business.

If you need to try to lose weight for you, and you're making an educated choice, that's good. Sometimes there are good reasons to want to at least try. Sometimes that does work out.

But if it doesn't work out, that's not your fault. It doesn't for most people. And if people try to guilt you or shame you for not being able to keep weight off, fuck 'em. Those people are assholes.

I just don't want people destroying themselves with guilt and shame in the process of giving that slight chance that they might be one of the statistical outliers who can keep the weight off a shot, and I don't want people who are fat and are perfectly healthy feeling like their weight alone is somehow a problem when clearly it's not. Nor do I want people who's health problems aren't actually caused by their weight to go around treating the wrong thing. And, knowing that weight loss is a treatment plan that doesn't last over 90% of the time, I don't want people going into it with the wrong expectations. But if it's worth it to you to try, that's okay.

Do what you gotta do for you.

[(Anonymous)]

Nor do I want people who's health problems aren't actually caused by their weight to go around treating the wrong thing.

As someone with a health problem that causes bizarre weight gain as one of its symptoms, thank you for acknowledging that we exist. I cannot express how shitty it is that people act like my physical appearance gives them a free pass to treat me like shit because clearly I must eat every meal at McD's. I feel shitty enough without people assuming I'm a lazy glutton too.

[eelsalad.livejournal.com]

Well said!

Back when my knees were bad (ie, between puberty and about age 31), my Mom responded to any mention of pain with "lose weight!" Turned out what I really needed was knee surgery, and now my knees are basically fine for the first time in my life. My knees sucked even in my early 20s when I was so skinny you could see my ribs (thanks to a medical problem).

BUT: yes, weight can exacerbate certain knee issues. The trick is getting a doctor who will actually look at them and not look at your weight (my proportions are such that this hasn't been a problem for me, but it has been for other folks I know). There's a great entry on this subject over at Dancess With Fat (http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/my-joints-my-fat-and-me/).