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Why are her eyebrows this colour 😅 I'm all for tinting your eyebrows if you've got fair hair but surely you'd go for brown rather than ginge
 

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Romy said:
Health at any size is a bit of BS. Depending on everyone's constitution, being too thin or too big, you're more at risk at certain pathologies and discomfort.
If I am 10 kgs over or under my approximately "medium" weight or 50 kgs, it's not the same at all.

Respect at any size is the way ! but it has nothing to do with health.
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Health at every size doesn't mean any size is 'healthy' (whatever healthy means) but rather that the pursuit of health is possible at any size and behaviours/actions can have an impact on overall health without focusing on weight. Which is definitely the right approach imo.
Still not sure Alex actually believes that though.
 
trishy said:
Health at every size doesn't mean any size is 'healthy' (whatever healthy means) but rather that the pursuit of health is possible at any size and behaviours/actions can have an impact on overall health without focusing on weight. Which is definitely the right approach imo.
Still not sure Alex actually believes that though.
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Actions/behaviours that automatically make an impact on your weight. So it's a bit hypocrital.

I agree doctors and medical staff in general should always be benevolent, but they're not supposed to lie because it hurts our sensibilities.
 
I am not saying everything is only linked to the weight. But again, being seriously underweight or overweight reduces your average life expectancy. It's just facts.
We all have different bodies and shapes naturally but obesity or excessive thinness are not natural, obesity is actually considered a chronic disease.

Look at the origins of the movement 'Health at any size' too. It's ideology coming from a country where junk food and sedentary lifestyle have been dominating for decades now, and where the alternative is diet products which are as bad. They just don't know how to live.
 
It's not quite as straightforward as that (I get it, I really do, that it feels very important for a lot of people to have strong views on this, for their own personal reasons, and I was similar before I found resources which focused on healthy behaviours rather than weight) and just by way of example: https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-022-03021-7 I think perhaps until you've had healthcare professionals who are clearly operating within their own biases (black women being 5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women, anyone?) then it's easy to think that they are all acting completely objectively, but that's just not a human reality.

I appreciate you're not going to change your mind here but it might be worth unpicking why you feel so strongly about other people's body size, and why their health is your concern either way?
 
trishy said:
Not necessarily. You can bring down blood pressure, cholesterol, improve circulation, without losing weight.
There's nothing for health professionals to lie about. Plus if bringing up weight doesn't actually help the patient lose the weight, it clearly doesn't work as an approach. Not sure that should be too controversial tbh.
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I'm sure in a few cases that may be true but making lifestyle changes especially diet related are the key to helping blood pressure and cholesterol and its also fact that by losing weight both of these conditions can be improved.

Should GPs pussy foot around people and not mention weight loss when again soo many health conditions can be helped by just losing 10% of your body weight ?

Anyway this is not a thread about weight so probably best to get back to talking about just how awful and problematic Alex is !
 
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trishy said:
This is slightly exhausting, but if the health service (or you) genuinely did care about people's health then you'd realise that being told to lose weight very rarely results in weight loss. Otherwise everyone would be skinny 😂 and i agree that Alex's posts are problematic in that regard
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Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones...my Gp gives me the facts about my health, including how my weight affects a condition I have, it's then upto me, as an adult, to make the decision as to what I do with that information e.g lose weight, cut down on alcohol, take more exercise or not. Ignorance is not bliss...but again this is just my opinion and experience.
 
trishy said:
This is slightly exhausting, but if the health service (or you) genuinely did care about people's health then you'd realise that being told to lose weight very rarely results in weight loss. Otherwise everyone would be skinny 😂 and i agree that Alex's posts are problematic in that regard
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Bit of a moot point, surely... should they also stop telling people that smoking causes lung cancer because most people won't quit?
 
trishy said:
It's not quite as straightforward as that (I get it, I really do, that it feels very important for a lot of people to have strong views on this, for their own personal reasons, and I was similar before I found resources which focused on healthy behaviours rather than weight) and just by way of example: https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-022-03021-7 I think perhaps until you've had healthcare professionals who are clearly operating within their own biases (black women being 5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women, anyone?) then it's easy to think that they are all acting completely objectively, but that's just not a human reality.

I appreciate you're not going to change your mind here but it might be worth unpicking why you feel so strongly about other people's body size, and why their health is your concern either way?
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I thought we were speaking in a general way. You are talking about yourself maybe (concerned and feeling attacked)? I am not attacking you. I don't care about others' bodies specifically. I am fat myself and certainly not naive.

What you say about focusing on healthy behaviours is positive and is actually what most people who have a food culture and education (from family and environment, from generation to generation), just naturally do. So not in the USA and I appreciate the British diet is pretty similar to the US. Doesn't mean we don't have fat people in other countries or fast foods (and it's certainly not only about food anyway, would be too simple, as you wrote). I could retort you those studies are biased and coming from USA fat acceptance movements. Medical staff are not perfect neither a bunch of obtuse people who have a single once learnt speech. They evolve with researches and most are actually there to help people (as it should be), not to criticise the way you look, they don’t give a damn. Focusing on healthy behaviours is actually what most doctors tell you to do, even dieteticians, which most of the time has an influence on your weight eventually. Just the basics, walking, drinking mostly water and no food is banned, just a question of proportion or regularity.
I know we're not equal, some have genetic predisposition for example to gain weight more easily. Still, you can't deny scientific reality and obesity is not good for our bodies no matter our original constitution.
 
megama101 said:
Bit of a moot point, surely... should they also stop telling people that smoking causes lung cancer because most people won't quit?
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Information is power especially when it comes to health. I wish I knew then what I knew now about my health. I completely get that weight is a emotive subject but I don't agree that doctors should remain silent for fear of 'offending' someone especially if that information could potentially save them future suffering.

Alex and her rhetoric is imo damaging. Yes BMI is problematic but doctors remaining silent / being silenced is way more dangerous imo!
 
Omg the lounge wear is awful. Presumably her role in it all was limited to picking the colours and even they're gross. Who has £50 to spend on the world's most boring hoodie? And her suggestion of pairing with a denim jacket 😅 looks like a convict out on day release
 

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Littleandsmall said:
Omg the lounge wear is awful. Presumably her role in it all was limited to picking the colours and even they're gross. Who has £50 to spend on the world's most boring hoodie? And her suggestion of pairing with a denim jacket 😅 looks like a convict out on day release
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When she kept saying the hoody had taken several goes to get it just how she wanted but it just looked like any other hoody?! Couldn’t see any groundbreaking design in it!
 
Littleandsmall said:
Literally. They look so run of the mill 🤣🤣
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nothing promotes "body confidence" like hiding your body in a baggy, oversized hoodie, eh Alex! 👌🏻🤣

just a boring, basic hoodie, identical to those you could buy in primark, just at an extortionate price. classic influenzer - exploiting their followers to buy their over-priced clothing range as a show of support, so that she can buy herself more prada jackets. manipulate as duck. 😡
 
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