Very helpful. Thank you. I have experienced life-threatening weight stigma (my doctor ignoring/dismissing my symptoms of a lfe-threatening illness and focusing on my weight, instead), so this is a very important topic to me, and for people of all sizes to be aware of. I would like to call attention to use of language. The phrase, "person in a larger body" disassociates - and promotoes disassociation of - the person from her body, as if she's a separate being inside a body (the same language as that famous saying, "a thin person in a fat body, dying to get out.") It refers to the person as if she is separate from her body. We are not separate from our bodies, we *are* our bodies. Bigger (fatter) people often already have difficulty with feeling present in our bodies, due to the pain and trauma of weight stigma. Part of self-acceptance and healing our feelings and trauma about our bodies is to acknowledge that we each are our body. It is not something separate from us, it is us, and we are it. It would be helpful and healing to hear you referring in future videos to us as "people *with* larger bodies," ir simply as "larger people," integrating who "we" are with our bodies, and encouraging those of us who watch your videos to continue the same phrasing. This, to help us heal one another as we talk about our sizes and lives. Thank you again for your wonderful, supportive videos. They are a breath of fresh air, and much needed for furthering HAES.
2 years ago something blew in in October and my friend noticed that I was breathing funny at a fall festival. I went to my GP and she suggested that it was a weight issue and I said well. I've been breathing just fine and just as fat last week so I don't think that's the problem. I ended up going to an allergist in town and he was very helpful and gave me medication for my asthma. He also was very kind when I told him what had happened and he said that he was sorry that I was treated that way.
Thank you. I have been working so hard to beat my restrictive eating and my recent visit to the doctor (who knows about this) that I was able to restore my weight. Nonetheless, the whole appointment was due to “being overweight” (not even 30+ on BMI not that I agree with this system)
Very helpful. Thank you. I have experienced life-threatening weight stigma (my doctor ignoring/dismissing my symptoms of a lfe-threatening illness and focusing on my weight, instead), so this is a very important topic to me, and for people of all sizes to be aware of.
I would like to call attention to use of language. The phrase, "person in a larger body" disassociates - and promotoes disassociation of - the person from her body, as if she's a separate being inside a body (the same language as that famous saying, "a thin person in a fat body, dying to get out.") It refers to the person as if she is separate from her body. We are not separate from our bodies, we *are* our bodies.
Bigger (fatter) people often already have difficulty with feeling present in our bodies, due to the pain and trauma of weight stigma. Part of self-acceptance and healing our feelings and trauma about our bodies is to acknowledge that we each are our body. It is not something separate from us, it is us, and we are it. It would be helpful and healing to hear you referring in future videos to us as "people *with* larger bodies," ir simply as "larger people," integrating who "we" are with our bodies, and encouraging those of us who watch your videos to continue the same phrasing. This, to help us heal one another as we talk about our sizes and lives.
Thank you again for your wonderful, supportive videos. They are a breath of fresh air, and much needed for furthering HAES.
2 years ago something blew in in October and my friend noticed that I was breathing funny at a fall festival. I went to my GP and she suggested that it was a weight issue and I said well. I've been breathing just fine and just as fat last week so I don't think that's the problem. I ended up going to an allergist in town and he was very helpful and gave me medication for my asthma. He also was very kind when I told him what had happened and he said that he was sorry that I was treated that way.
Thank you. I have been working so hard to beat my restrictive eating and my recent visit to the doctor (who knows about this) that I was able to restore my weight. Nonetheless, the whole appointment was due to “being overweight” (not even 30+ on BMI not that I agree with this system)