Thin privilege is loosing a lot of weight because of health issues and being greeted with worry, not congratulation.

For information, I’m fat, about 80kgs.

I was recently diagnosed with IBS (digestive disease with no known cure), and can’t eat anything without being crippled with horrible cramps and nausea, and eventually all my food shooting out of me (sorry for that image). I’ve been bed bound for about a month, and after a while I decided to try a very restrictive diet to try and get my life back.

This meant only eating small portions plain rice, plain pasta and cooked vegetables. Because of this, it has been hard for me to get more then 1000 calories in per day.

In just over 2 months, I dropped down to 60kg, making me officially a “normal” weight.

I’ve been greeted with so many comments about how “amazing” my weight loss is, and that I’ve made such a great decision for my “health”. Evening after fainting during a lesson because I had eat only 250 calories, people still found my weight loss to be the best thing that happened to me.

The worst comment I’ve got is a close friend telling me that I’m “So lucky” to have a problem that forces me to stick to a diet.

Being in a pitiful state of health, depressed because of the lack of good foods I can eat, and crippled with pain 90% of the time is still BETTER than being FAT.



If I was a “normal” weight to start with, I would now be critically underweight, and maybe even dead by now.