In the Fatosphere, Big Is In, or at Least Accepted

The bravado of the other white meat.

"The message from the fatosphere is not just that big is beautiful. Many of the bloggers dismiss the “obesity epidemic” as hysteria. They argue that Americans are not that much larger than they used to be and that being fat in and of itself is not necessarily bad for you."

For fat people, the only lightness of being remains flying in the face of the facts.

Still, if you read this NYT article, you will not hear from the proud, the fat, the flabines.

You will hear from failed dieters who have resigned themselves to failure - the ashamed, the fat, the flabicidal.

"'You relapse, and then you go on a diet again, and this time you’re going to do it, it’s really going to be it this time,' Marianne Kirby, a 30-year-old blogger from Orlando, Fla., who writes The Rotund (therotund.com), said in an interview. 'And it still doesn’t work, not long-term — you end up heavier than before. And you say to yourself: Why did I fall for this again?’”

Fat quitters.

With vengeance and attitude.

Malignant malefactors messaging that since they could not do it, no one should.

But, as I have said over and over again, it is not completely their fault.

The rescue industry, media malevolents like Oprah and others are in large part to blame by making dieting impossible and decreeing exercise recommendations that will not work.

Help the fat get fit. Help put the corrupt diet industry out of business.