AliceInWanderLost
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while i totally agree with Alex in terms of her opinion on BMI, and it being an innacurate way to measure the health of individual solely based on their weight - she has taken the opportunity, yet again, to share a low-weight photo of herself. if she's trying to argue that BMI is meaningless and that the BMI categories are not accurate in terms of assuming an individual is healthy, why does she need to make a point of justifying that although her current weight indicates that she falls into a BMI category above "healthy", that there was a point in her life when her weight, thus BMI, were lower. if she truly believes that a person's weight, in itself, cannot determine their state of health, thus BMI is bullshit by default, why the need to emphasise the fact that her weight hasn't always placed her in the overweight/obese BMI category?
if weight doesn't matter to her, then she wouldn't need to share a photo of herself at her lowest weight, with the clarification that she used to be skinny - because she wouldn't care, and wouldn't need to justify that fact, in an attempt to receive validation that she was unwell. it's entirely counterproductive to argue that eating disorders affect people of every weight, while simultaneously emphasising that your weight was lower when you were "starving yourself". she very much does care about her weight and her BMI and obviously still very much defines herself by the number on the scale, hence her need to share photographic evidence to prove that she was once at a low weight, because despite all her "body confidence" bullshit, she is concerned that people will judge her based on her size, just as she judges herself.
"i'm obviously not a medical professional, but i know that...." sharing low weight photo on a public platform when you know the majority of your audience are vulnerable and likely to be triggered is not the one, and that justifying your right to posy pro ana content under the guise of" raising awareness about fatphobia" does more damage than it does good. shi
if weight doesn't matter to her, then she wouldn't need to share a photo of herself at her lowest weight, with the clarification that she used to be skinny - because she wouldn't care, and wouldn't need to justify that fact, in an attempt to receive validation that she was unwell. it's entirely counterproductive to argue that eating disorders affect people of every weight, while simultaneously emphasising that your weight was lower when you were "starving yourself". she very much does care about her weight and her BMI and obviously still very much defines herself by the number on the scale, hence her need to share photographic evidence to prove that she was once at a low weight, because despite all her "body confidence" bullshit, she is concerned that people will judge her based on her size, just as she judges herself.
"i'm obviously not a medical professional, but i know that...." sharing low weight photo on a public platform when you know the majority of your audience are vulnerable and likely to be triggered is not the one, and that justifying your right to posy pro ana content under the guise of" raising awareness about fatphobia" does more damage than it does good. shi
like what did she study ? Let me guess : marketing or business? She literally has no knowledge whatsoever of the human body yet here she is.
emotion in relation to her eating a bigger meal or in reference to gaining weight, and using 
emojis in reference to becoming "fat" and expressing her obvious disgust at weight gain etc, and describing gaining weight as "the worst". 
painfully obvious she reads here (well we already knew that after she DMd someone who posted on here!)
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I understand the problems with BMI as outlined above but we cannot just leash out at medical professionals' opinions and suggestions of what we could do to improve our lives. Yes we don't have to act on it, but we certainly shouldn't be calling for their sacking because they said it! I think this 'health at every size' movement is good for some things but really regressive in how it places blame on individual medics. How are we to know if they're wrong if they bring up weight? This is what frustrates me about Laura Adlingtons podcast too - on there they speak about doctors always assuming that it's their weight that's causing a health problem, when it's not relevant. How are they to know that more than a doctor?!