Yes, you can be a feminist and have a disease that alters your body by lessening its weight.
Yes, you can be a fat activist while thin -- as an ally who acknowledges your own privilege.
No, being a model/actor with AN doesn't mean that being a model/actor caused your AN.
But that's me.
Am I an AN sufferer who is a FA / HaES activist? I don't know.
I routinely publish pictures, statuses and events on the web to discourage the support of the diet industry and the use of fat talk.
But... I believe that certain medical consequences can come with a weight that is really low or really high. I also believe that just because you have diabetes or heart disease, have had a stroke, etc. ad nauseum, that it is not necessarily a result of that weight.
Trivia: Weight loss does not lower heart disease risk from type 2 diabetes.
I don't know if Set Point is more than a theory, but if it is, maybe eating nutrient-dense foods intuitively (not intuitively for an anorectic, of course, since we often don't care if we're hungry and rarely want to feel full) and regularly moving/exercising for enjoyment will show us our true healthy weight after a year or so. I like the weight-neutral approach to health embraced by the FA/SA/HaES communities. If weight sheds or accumulates as a result of consistent healthful living, so be it!
How this relates to recovery is another blog.
Yes, you can be a fat activist while thin -- as an ally who acknowledges your own privilege.
No, being a model/actor with AN doesn't mean that being a model/actor caused your AN.
But that's me.
Am I an AN sufferer who is a FA / HaES activist? I don't know.
I routinely publish pictures, statuses and events on the web to discourage the support of the diet industry and the use of fat talk.
But... I believe that certain medical consequences can come with a weight that is really low or really high. I also believe that just because you have diabetes or heart disease, have had a stroke, etc. ad nauseum, that it is not necessarily a result of that weight.
Trivia: Weight loss does not lower heart disease risk from type 2 diabetes.
I don't know if Set Point is more than a theory, but if it is, maybe eating nutrient-dense foods intuitively (not intuitively for an anorectic, of course, since we often don't care if we're hungry and rarely want to feel full) and regularly moving/exercising for enjoyment will show us our true healthy weight after a year or so. I like the weight-neutral approach to health embraced by the FA/SA/HaES communities. If weight sheds or accumulates as a result of consistent healthful living, so be it!
How this relates to recovery is another blog.
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