Need help showing my mom that Whitney Thore (My Big Fat Fabulous Life) is full of shit Maybe this isn't the right place for this but I don't know where else to ask. So my mom is one of those people who has always "struggled" with her weight.  She's never been obese but has gone back and forth between normal and a little overweight as long as I can remember.  It seems simple to me: she's a small woman who has always been around big men (like me, who eat a lot) and she loves chocolate.  It's not hard to tell why she "struggles" so much. Recently she's been watching stupid stuff like MBFFL and is trying to tell me doctors don't know why this woman is so fat.  She's also trying to tell me that there are conditions that can make post-menopausal women burn only 400 calories a day.   I'm really scared I'm going to lose my mom to fatlogic.  She's on the edge now and I don't want to see her go over.  I lost my grandmother partly due to her weight when I was young.  Detection tools weren't as good 25 years ago and so they did not find her cancer in time to do anything about it, since the fat was in the way.  I don't want my son to lose his grandmother for the same reason.   So if anyone has some definitive stuff about how blaming PCOS and other things that show up on MBFFL is full of shit, please let me know.  I know it is but she seems damn determined this time to blame anything but herself.  She's the one who taught me to hate fat people in the first place, I know there is fat hate in her still. On a related note: FUCK YOU FATTIES!  All the bullshit excuses you make up have a real effect on people.  People who DON'T want to be fat, but have been convinced there is no other option.  You've filled the world with so much fatlogic and so many excuses that otherwise normal people are believing you, simply because there's so damn much of it.  Words cannot express how badly I want you to get fucked with a rake. EDIT: Thanks everyone.  I used most of the suggestions here and basically just shitlorded the hell out of her tonight and it seemed to have an effect.  Only time will tell of course.