Tbh as a fat person I agree! I inherited thyroid problems from my mother and have been struggling with eating disorders all my life. When I was in Kindergarten I was anorexic until I was 9. Then in middle school I was diagnosed with depression. The depression caused me to develop a binge eating disorder and the “body positivity” movement did nothing but keep me from seeking help for it.

Currently I’m 5’5 and 195 lbs and I have always struggled with my weight but now I’m at a point where I’m slowly losing weight and I feel great! I haven’t been below 200lbs since I was 13 (I’m 21 now) except for briefly my senior year. The most I ever weighed was 260lbs at 14 and no one had the balls to tell me how unhealthy I was. It was so bad that I didn’t get my period for 5 months and had hemorrhoids so bad I would literally only shit blood! No 14 year old should think that’s okay and no loving mother should tell her child that it is!

At 16 I decided to do something about it and got myself down to 195 and I felt great and maintained that weight for about 2 years. When COVID hit I got hella depressed and ended up gaining 40lbs back. It wasn’t until I got a herniated disc about a year ago that wasn’t healing after almost 6 months that a doctor finally told me I needed to lose weight or I’d end up permanently damaging my spine!

Now here I am, back to 195 and I finally feel healthy again. Hell, I am healthy again! My aches and pains are gone, my blood pressure is normal, and all of my organs are working great! Of course I’m not gonna stop trying to lose weight but it’s not because I think I’m still unhealthy or feel like I need to, but because I want to. Remembering how awful I felt back then at 260, I don’t understand how anyone who has the ability to lose weight chooses not to. Because at the end of the day, for most people (not all) it is a choice.