Hi,

My name is Jay, and I caught MeMe tonight on CNN arguing against Peggy Howell. I am thin - a BMI of 21, so MeMe would be proud of me! - and I just want to say that MeMe Roth is a heartless person. Truly, she is the essence of what is wrong with our society. She is embarrassed of her family’s fat past, terrified of being anything less than what others think is attractive, and spends her life preying on the situation of others.

I am ashamed to be thin because it means I have something in common with the malicious MeMe Roth.

There’s nothing wrong with fat people.

Jay

I encourage others to write letters to MeMe voicing their displeasure with her actions as well. You can send them to info at actionagainstobesity dot com

When I saw how unhappy so many of my larger loved ones were about their weight and size, I thought, there has to be something I can do to help. Being as ignorant as I was and a product of our fat-hating society, I thought that some weight-loss method had to be the ticket. So, I started researching weight, health and dieting, and though consistently dissatisfied with what I found, I eventually came across some of the excellent resources championed by the fatosphere (a term I was fascinated to find employed).

As I probed deeper into the surprisingly vast volume of literature, both scientific and general, that existed about Health at Every Size and the actual relationship between weight and health (one that is correlative rather than, as our society would have us believe, causal), I began to see that the problem was not the fat or the weight or the size of any of those I loved or anyone else. The problem was the way our society treated those people and its refusal to acknowledge the scientific data that not only undermines the claim that fat is bad, but which supports the notion that people can be healthy at many sizes.

The wonderful literature out there that promotes these ideas and helps people of all sizes learn to love themselves inspired me to create a place where communicating healthy habits for everyone and promoting self love were the goals. By bringing people of all sizes to this understanding, I hope to do my part in causing the societal change we need - making people realize that everyone deserves respect and happiness at whatever size he or she is.

I hope that, no matter your size, you’ll see the value in More of Me to Love and help promote its messages of Health at Every Size and Fat Acceptance.