Healthism Quotes

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I'm 290 - from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

In the beginning I used to say, 'I'm healthy, my cholesterol's fine, I don't have high blood pressure, I don't have diabetes.' By telling people that you see a doctor, and telling people that you're healthy, it's perpetuating the abuse against bigger bodies and the mindset that we owe it to people to be healthy.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

The perception of fat people in America is that they're fat, therefore they're dumb, they're lazy, and they must stink.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.

It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.