Like a lot of people in midlife, my weight has been creeping up over the last ten or fifteen years. Also like I lot of people I kept telling myself, sure, I've gotten a bit pudgy, but I'm not really overweight. I'm nowhere near obese. In fact, I look pretty good... For someone my age. Anyway, this is just what happens as we age, might as well just accept it and move on.
A while ago YouTube recommended a video about the fat acceptance movement, which sent me down a rabbit hole. I knew it was a thing, but I didn't know much about it. I watched several fat liberation talks where incredibly large people claimed they felt great and were in perfect health. I had a hard time believing them. Or I thought, sure, you feel great and are healthy now. Wait till you hit forty. I didn't even feel as physically good as I used to (and I have borderline high cholesterol which has been getting higher with every doctor visit), and I'm not nearly as large as them. I thought they were completely deluding themselves. Then I thought, wait... Am I deluding myself too?
Long story short, I changed my diet, cut my alcohol consumption way down, started going to the gym again, and I'm losing weight and feeling great. Fortunately, I had this epiphany before I was too far gone, so if I stick with it, I should be down to where I want to be in months rather than years.
The whole fat acceptance thing seems to be getting people to feel comfortable with their current size, and it had the exact opposite affect on me. Has anyone else had this reaction to the fat acceptance movement?
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