HAES is a lie - from a fat trying to change Sorry if this is a little long but I think it needs to be said, a lot of the fat acceptance / HAES  movement is such utter bullshit, and is entirely delusion and I'm going to tell you why, first hand from a fat person. First a little bit about me, I'm fat. Always have been, since I could remember I've always been a chubby kid, mixture of lazy, poor diet, lack of activity, and lack of criticism honestly most recently at my heaviest I was 5'10" and 255, that's a 37 BMI (I think) and obese.  The reason I'm posting, for a variety of reasons (including seeing some of the true butter dumpsters on here and not wanting to become one) I've decided to seriously start losing weight, eating better, being more active and just taking better care of myself, and guess what... It's working, yes despite all the pseudo science and misquotes and 1 crackpot in 1000 studies that that fat movement has tried to use, lower calories + exercise = weight loss, it's been 3 weeks since I've started and I've lost 23 pounds, going from 255 to 232 as I write this. Now any tumblerina SJW would look at this and say oh but you're starving yourself and radical diets fail 110% of the time and you'll soon gain it all back  and blah blah blah but the funny thing is, I've had to do very little to change my actual lifestyle. At my heaviest I was eating out probably 3 times a week, bringing microwave meals to work, drinking diet soda, and not working out. The "diet" I chose is a simple low carb diet, focusing on meats, cheeses, fruits, and healthy snacks, even avoiding vegetables as I hate 95% of them as well as portioning my meals - 3 smaller meals and 2 snacks per day, and cutting out soda. I still eat foods I like, chicken, fish, hamburger, eggs, cottage cheese. I even still eat out once a week but I just made some changes, I want a burger? Get it protein style, and swap a caesar salad for the fries, want fast food? Check the calories, make a smarter choice and adjust my other meals around that. As for working out, no I didn't become a gym rat, not in the slightest, I started a very simple, very doable workout routine, every day after work I would throw on some shorts and tennis shoes and do 45 minutes of fast cardio at the little gym in my complex, that's it. 45 minutes 5 times a week, my regular habits haven't changed in the slightest, I'm still a video game addict and I can even snack while I game, just replacing things like chips with pieces of turkey, almonds or small oranges and grapes. So for those fats stalking in here (and I know you are) weight loss does work and it doesn't have to be a huge change. Now onto the HAES. Despite my weight I've been for all terms and purposes, healthy. No major medical issues beyond occasional borderline high blood pressure. Now despite there being nothing that my doctor warned me of, that doesn't mean I was actually healthy. I've been at this for a short amount of time, and lost a relatively small amount of weight, but I can already feel the difference in my body and daily activities, I have more stamina when running or even just walking up stairs, not as tired at the end of the work day, I've been sleeping better, even just ease of movement has improved. HAES can argue all it wants about being fat and being healthy, but the simple fact is that the human body wasn't build to carry the excess weight, the things you consider normal when you're fat aren't normal, and it's something I've realized even with the small amount of weight I've lost. Fat isn't healthy, it isn't attractive, it isn't good for your body, and it isn't good for your self esteem. I'll end this by saying I'm not a shitlord, I don't have that privilege, I'm still very much overweight and have a long journey ahead of me this isn't about whether fat hate helps to motivate, this is about a fat person with real life experience, saying that the Fat movement is a crock of steaming horse shit. Wish me luck with the weight loss. Maybe someday I'll join the ranks of the shitlords and shitladies.