This exposes how casually we define “normal eating” without ever accounting for how differently bodies respond to the same intake. Calling something overeating based solely on body size ignores basic physiology and turns metabolism into a moral issue.
If one person can maintain their weight on 2000 calories and another gains on 1500, the problem is not discipline. It is biology. The comparison only works if we pretend bodies are interchangeable.
GLP-1s don’t redefine normal appetite. They suppress it. The weight loss happens because intake drops to levels most people would experience as deprivation. The drug just makes that deprivation tolerable.
So the cruelty comes from pretending thinness proves moderation and fatness proves excess. It turns metabolic difference into character judgment. That is not science. That is social bias dressed up as certainty.
It's so nice to see someone with degrees behind their name actually write this. Usually the degreed people (as well as everyone else) write pieces that treat fat people like children.
This exposes how casually we define “normal eating” without ever accounting for how differently bodies respond to the same intake. Calling something overeating based solely on body size ignores basic physiology and turns metabolism into a moral issue.
If one person can maintain their weight on 2000 calories and another gains on 1500, the problem is not discipline. It is biology. The comparison only works if we pretend bodies are interchangeable.
GLP-1s don’t redefine normal appetite. They suppress it. The weight loss happens because intake drops to levels most people would experience as deprivation. The drug just makes that deprivation tolerable.
So the cruelty comes from pretending thinness proves moderation and fatness proves excess. It turns metabolic difference into character judgment. That is not science. That is social bias dressed up as certainty.
It's so nice to see someone with degrees behind their name actually write this. Usually the degreed people (as well as everyone else) write pieces that treat fat people like children.
Thank you! I’m trying to write about bodies in a way that respects biology and autonomy, not moral judgment.
Boy, do we need people like you!
aww thank you for saying that.