My fatness has always been met with either, ‘Do you know you are fat?’ or, ‘What are you doing about it?’ as if it is not even an option to just be fat. We are desperate to lose weight – and for people around us to lose weight too. It’s the reason it’s called diet culture. It’s the all-encompassing obsession with weight loss in an entire society. We live in a culture that praises weight loss and punishes weight gain, regardless of the reasons behind it.
