[tw weight loss talk, numbers, disordered eating, fat hate]

Thin privilege is not being told to do something drastically awful for your health in order to feel better. Over the winter break at my college, I happened to see this commercial from Nutrisystem guaranteeing that you’d lose 5 pounds in your first week. That got me thinking; I know it’s really only considered “healthy” to lose a pound or two a week (anything else and you might be doing harm to your body) so I did some quick math. In order to lose a pound, you have to drop 3500 calories a week, or 500 calories a day, which can be done through cutting back food, exercising, or a combination.

In order to lose five pounds in one week, you have to cut out 17,500 calories. That means that if you eat the recommended 2000 calories a day for a woman my age (I’m 19), you have to burn all those calories off through exercise, plus cut out another 3500 in exercise. For an entire week, your intake has to be -3500 calories.

That is some disgusting shit right there. And yet, as a fat lady, I’m encouraged to do this sort of thing to “be healthy”.

Fuck you and your healthy. I’ll be over here not doing massive amounts of harm to myself, thank you!