[tw: third party weight loss, third party dieting, fat shaming]

Thin privilege (and class privilege) are being able to say, “If I can do it, anyone can.”

Thin privilege (and class privilege) are the ability to afford and sustain oneself on a vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, “paleo” or any such diet and then insist that it would be the best option for another person.

I have no intention to lose weight and I am perfectly happy with my dietary habits - which, not that it’s anyone else’s business, are balanced and healthy. I am not always happy with my appearance, but who is? I have bodily integrity and I assert my right to do whatever the fuck I want with my body, whether it pleases other people or not. I do not care who finds it morally or “objectively” disagreeable (i.e, faux health concern).

When my vegan, raw diet, organic-eating thin friends brag in front of me about how they lost 10 pounds from their already thin frame by cutting this or that out of their diet, and they feel SO much better, etc, and then turn to me and encourage me to try the same? This is what I hear: "You’re fat. I lost a few pounds doing this, and I think you need to lose a few pounds, so I assume you need to lose a few pounds. I can afford the necessary materials for this diet, and I am willing to partake in this lifestyle, so I assume you are on the same page.“

It is not just that I can’t afford to eat strictly vegan, or organic foods (although I couldn’t even if I wanted to). I don’t want to eat that diet. I don’t want their dietary morals imposed on my body. I don’t want to hold myself to the standards they hold themselves to.

This is my body. My fat body. I am perfectly fine with it, and I will put my foot down to exercise my autonomy over my OWN body.

The assumed "audacity” and “apathy” I must possess in order to refuse such lifestyles is non other than thin privilege.