Fitspiration & Anti-Fat Rants

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Four rules for a disciplined life

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(Credit to reddit user ryans01).

  • No zero days. ‘What’s a zero day? A zero day is when you don’t do a single fucking thing towards whatever dream or goal or want or whatever that you got going on. No more zeros. I’m not saying you gotta bust an essay out everyday, that’s not the point. The point I’m trying to make is that you have to make yourself, promise yourself, that the new SYSTEM you live in is a NON-ZERO system. Didn’t do anything all fucking day and it’s 11:58 PM? Write one sentence. One pushup. Read one page of that chapter. One. Because one is non zero.’
  • Be grateful to the three yous. ‘There’s the past you, the present you, and the future you. If you wanna love someone and have someone love you back, you gotta learn to love yourself, and the 3 you’s are the key. Be GRATEFUL to the past you for the positive things you’ve done. And do favours for the future you like you would for your best bro.’
  • Forgive yourself. ‘Maybe you got all the know-how, money, ability, strength and talent to do whatever is you wanna do. But lets say you still didn’t do it. Now you’re giving yourself shit for not doing what you need to, to be who you want to. Heads up champion, being disappointed in yourself causes you to be less productive. Tried your best to have a nonzero day yesterday and it failed? So what. I forgive you, previous self. I forgive you. But today? Today is a nonzero masterpiece to the best of my ability for future self. This one’s for you, future homes. Forgiveness man, use it. I forgive you. Say it out loud.’
  • Exercise and books. ‘Pretty standard advice but when you exercise daily you actually get smarter. When you exercise you get high from endorphins (thanks body). When you exercise you clear your mind. When you exercise you are doing your future self a huge favour. Exercise is a leg on a three legged stool. Feel me? As for books, almost every fucking thing we’ve all ever thought of, or felt, or gone through, or wanted, or wanted to know how to do, or whatever, has been figured out by someone else. Get some books.’ 
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My friend linked this to me on reddit when I was feeling really down and it changed me. Excellent advice!

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95% of diets fail.

Let’s put this into the perspective of rehabilitation or sobriety.

Let’s assume 95% of those of us who want to quit smoking, drinking, gambling, or using illicit substances are told by those around us that there is a 95% chance of failure; where is the motivation to quit?

Why is the fat acceptance crowd different? Why are they the only ones who are hell bent on keeping obese people obese? It has never been about acceptance but oppression. The FA crowd’s goal is to continually bring down those who do not wish to be like them anymore.

Instead of wishing them luck, and offering support they are there to tell them not only will they fail, but they will be larger than when they first started dieting. They offer pseudoscience and cherry-picked data to bolster their arguments.

It is for this reason that the FA community is one of the most insidious groups of people to permeate most of social media.

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I like to think the best of people, so here’s my possible explanation, supported by something Mad Gastronomer said when people bitched at her for telling a teen that she was going to gain all the weight she loss:

It gives fat people a way out. It tells them “Hey, if you’ve tried to lose weight and failed you’re not a failure. Most people fail anyway”. It tells them “Hey, the odds of succeeding are so small that it’s better if you focus your time and energy on something else” which, granted, does have its value. Weight loss shouldn’t be the only thing you focus on in life. 

But I agree with you. 

While some people feel supported and empowered by said “facts” (and I use the term facts loosely, not because I doubt them but rather because people use them wrongly) others feel trapped and even cursed. 

Whereas some people hear “Hey, it’s okay if you fail” others hear “Why even try? You’re going to fail” 

Of course, the ones that feel supported by the 95% of people fail will often turn against those who decide to try their hand at succeeding because nothing pisses off people more than showing that not trying is giving up by default. 

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Worse than that “big is beautiful” mantra I hear so often is when people call the bodies of women like Tess Munster “realistic.” Seriously I know we in America are in the midst of an obesity epidemic but there’s still a pretty big gap between where obesity begins and where Tess Munster is. How do people really look at that and think, “yeah that’s pretty normal for what a human should look like.” I honestly don’t think people can just “end up” at that weight without putting active effort into it.

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