This Isn’t About An Influencer.

or maybe it is 👀

This really isn’t about Remi.
This isn’t about any one influencer.

It’s about a culture that outsources its convictions to celebrities and people of power, when really it’s an obsession with thinness.

This paid blog includes journal prompts on health.

The Masquerade of Health

We live in a society that pretends it’s concerned about health.

That’s right, I said pretends.

If the world TRULY cared for health - we would be concerned:

• about the alarming risk of medical complications from GLP1s

• the death toll of people who have undergone weight loss surgery

• the long term health impacts of restrictive eating disorders

We hide behind the masquerade of health because it’s easier than acknowledging the truth:

We hate fatness.

I hear folks say:

• But I don’t “look healthy”

• I don’t “feel healthy” — [ like their joints hurt or they are out of breath]

• My doctor lectures me about my weight.

But health does not have a look or size.

Is weight the only factor that contributes to this pain?

Is changing your body to not experience oppression ever acceptable?

We are placing metabolic “health” above mental + emotional health, above the diagnostic criteria of eating disorders is counterintuitive.

So again, is our obsession with health? Or is our obsession with thinness.

In the age of ozempic, we are seeing an uptick conversation on “Using a GLP1 for health” — but to date, there isn’t a study more than 2 years out. Why aren’t concerned for how GLP1s are negatively impacting health in a negative way.

Health is not linear. Data points need to be looked in context.

And no matter how “healthy” we are – our bodies will always be at risk of change.

If not by weight, our bodies can change with injury, mobility, and age.

Does your confidence, your joy, your self-worth when [not if] your body changes?

If yes – then this is not body confidence. It is momentary body satisfaction.

So all these influencers who have lost weight…let’s see how well their confidence ages.

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This is where people ask me: So what, am I supposed to do nothing?

To which I emphatically respond: Of course not.

The pursuit of health is not the problem. It’s the requirement of body control around health that is.

Is your definition of health divorced from your body size?

If you add health promoting behaviors [add in exercise, drink more water etc] and your body size doesn’t change, will you be okay with that?

If the answer is no — is your priority really health? Or is it thinness [aka the “look” of health].

You have the autonomy to pursue health. But you don’t owe anyone health. And your pursuit of health should not be the barrier to be to human decency or unbiased medical care.

HERE ARE SOME RESOURCES TO HELP YOU REDEFINE HEALTH

Reflection questions for redefining health

1. How do I currently define health?

2. What motivates my health journey?

3. Do I believe I am a lesser person if I don’t have my health? Do I worry others will believe I am a lesser person?

4. Does my body size impact the kind of medical care I receive?

5. If my body size doesn’t change but my health markers improves — will that be enough for me? Or will I be disappointed my body didn’t change.

6. What is the worst part about not experiencing body change even if your health improves?

Ep 64 Health without Weight Loss from the Body Grievers® Club podcast

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