Diet culture is Disgusting, You People Know Your Body Needs Sugar To FUNCTION RIGHT ?!

I opened Facebook today and got to see a lovely (sarcasm) post about how people with chronic illness need to push through and get fit.

I don't give a damn how I look, I don't exist to be pleasing to other people's eyes. And I am not overweight or "out of shape" in any sense. But again, I just roll my eyes at diet culture now. All of this, sugar bad, calories bad, carbs bad. YOU PEOPLE KNOW YOUR BRAIN AND BODY NEEDS SUGARS AND CALORIES AND CARBS TO FUNCTION RIGHT ?!!!????? So typically I just roll my eyes and it doesn't bother me.

But this post was directed at people with chronic illness. And it had me sobbing because I would love to be able to do that. People who are able bodied don't realize what a privileged it is to be able to function as they do.

While people are out there avoiding sugar or dieting and avoiding fat or whatever else diet culture is pushing these days, I'm here sobbing because I can hardly get enough calories in me. Wishing I could eat normally because the nausea is too much. The BS about fat being bad for you isn't even based in science. TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING IS BAD FOR YOU, IT'S ABOUT HAVING VARIETY YOU DUMB ASSES.

IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO EAT A DONUT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO CAN'T, WHO HAVE HORRIFIC REACTIONS TO THAT DONUT YOU ARE SHAMING PEOPLE FOR ENJOYING.

Obviously it is one thing if someone personally wants to lose weight and get fit, that's good and great for them. Or if someone needs to lose weight because it is affecting them medically. A personal choice is one thing, that's good for you if you want that. But society as a whole needs to stop pushing the idea that you have to be a certain way to have value as a human being.

Diet culture is inherently ableist because it pushes the idea that "healthy" people have value and that a "healthy" body is superior. But for people with chronic illness, healthy is not something we have the privilege of experiencing.

Not everyone is healthy or able bodied enough or financially capable of buying fresh ingredients and making food "from scratch" because it's "healthier". Good God, health culture makes me want to gag. YOUR BRAIN IS LITERALLY MADE OF A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF FAT, IT NEEDS FAT, YOUR BODY AND BRAIN NEEDS SUGARS AND CALORIES AGH.

Maybe if the entire population wasn't so obsessed with finding a mate to reproduce with. Maybe it's because I am aro-ace that I don't understand the need to appeal to other people's eyes. I'm not an actress, I don't exist to look pretty. I guess I can understand, a natural instinct to reproduce. But society as a whole seems so obsessed with dating and I can't understand it. And that feeds into diet culture honestly.

But it just made me so sad, the beginning topic of this entry. Because I had aspirations to be a runner. I wanted to build muscle and be strong because men are always telling women we needed to be smaller. I wanted to get bigger, muscular. Small frail women are easier to control and abuse. That's why men and the patriarchy both push that BS so much.

So I guess it just made me sad that opportunity has been taken from me. I can still be big and loud with my voice and my personality, It is just a grieving process not being able to see those dreams come true. I wanted to run a marathon with my aunt one day. She used to run marathons.

Big is beautiful, big strong women are beautiful, (so are skinny women don't read what I didn't say). We don't have to shrink to fit some stupid standard society keeps pushing. Diet culture needs to stop. Don't tell people what's healthy for them or not. You don't know them, you don't know their medical history or needs, you don't know their situation or anything. It's disgusting. Delusional at best.