I <3 the fat nutritionist

[firecat]

http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/food-and-exercise-are-not-matter-and-anti-matter/
or
http://fatnutritionist-feed.dreamwidth.org/23501.html

We’ve come to prioritize and privilege rarefied forms of movement in our culture, usually involving gym memberships and special clothes and/or equipment, but your body does not care – your body cares about whether you can do your activities of daily living with adequate energy and strength, and how well your heart and lungs function. You don’t need a gym membership to do any of that (though if you just like going to the gym, then bully for you.)
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Even if you are disabled, even if you have some impairment, your body is still exploring – from the bat of an eyelash to a trip to the bathroom. You are negotiating, discovering, navigating a physical existence.

You were made for this world. You belong in it, and it belongs to you.

Eating and moving: your right to exist, and a world in which to exist. They are not rivals. They do not annihilate each other. They collaborate to make a whole person, body and soul.

One reason I need to see this is that when I go to the doctor, they ask me whether I exercise, and if I say yes, they say "What do you do, and how often?" And if I say what I actually think, which is "I weigh $LARGENUMBEROFUNITS and so everything I do is exercise," they look at me funny.

I know, it doesn't fit into the little box on their patient info form.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

She is brilliant.

[shehasathree]

Thanks for sharing, and for the reminder that i should read the Fat Nutritionist more often.

[lilacsigil]

I love the Fat Nutritionist!

As for size positivity, even though it's not a big thing in itself, I could have hugged my new endocrinologist when I asked him about osteoporosis risk (it's an issue with my thyroid problem) he referred to my weight and exercise in a positive way. He asked about my family history (every female relative on my mum's side has it) and asked about their body-type (short and very thin) in a completely non-judgemental way. It was surprisingly awesome (and sadly surprising!) to have a medical professional be straightforward and non-judgemental about two very different body types in the same minute in a conversation where weight was relevant.

[firecat]

Congrats on finding a huggable endo! :)

[shehasathree]

Hooray!

My Mum's One Thing where she admits that [fat = unhealthy / thin = healthy] isn't that simple is that her very low weight probably contributed to her osteopenia.

[lilacsigil]

My mum has spinal osteoporosis and still thinks her very low weight is healthy. I'm glad your mum got over that.

[azurelunatic]

My last GP accepted "housecleaning" among a few other things as a form of exercise. I miss that doctor's office.