Thin privilege is never having people question your New Years Resolution.

It is just over two weeks until New Year and people have started asking me what my goals for next year are. But when I tell them that I want to go back to university or that I’m thinking about buying a house, they aren’t interested in hearing about it. Nope. Instead they want to hear me say that I plan on losing weight. I’m not even joking. Just the other day a co-worker asked me if I’ve written a New Years Resolution yet, and when I told her about going back to uni, she snorted and said, “I don’t mean boring stuff like that. I mean do you plan on losing weight or something?”

Huh? So wanting to further my education (in order to gain better employment opportunities and become a more learned person) is “boring”, yet losing weight (for no reason that will benefit me because I’m happy with my body) is somehow “interesting”?? Ugh.