"I just want to exist without the fatphobia that surrounds me in life and online."

Posts like this are why I hate HAES. This woman is so unhappy with her health, and it's easy to put her down, but I remember what it was like before regularly seeing people on /r/progresspics made me realize that CICO actually works.

I grew up with people talking about south beach diet and atkins and magic weight loss pills that my mother, despite living in poverty, spent $70 on at Walmart because she was desperate to lose weight. There's an enormous extremely predatory market set up aimed straight at offering quick-fix answers to people that want to lose weight. You grow up fat, try five different things people tell you should work, and when they don't you just feel... lost.

I found CICO, and made changes that are saving my life.

She found HAES, and she's going to eat herself into an early grave.

I don't feel scornful of her. I feel really, really sad for her.

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