I believe that in order to affect the necessary societal change and end the unjust war on fat people that acts as an enormous blight on our culture, everyone - thin, fat, tall, short, blond and brunette - must be willing to rethink his or her misconceptions about weight, size and health and stand up for what’s right.
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.
