I understand what people are saying, but for a different reason. I have Lupus, it along with the immunosuppressants and steroids I take have caused a myriad of serious health problems. I exercise when I can. The frustration I have is I look heavier than I am because of PREDNISONE, a steroid used to treat lupus. It…

WOW. I kind of hate her.

Yes, I'm the exact same! Healthy veg diet for 16 years, I bike, I row every day, but still my boss (who is thin and climbed mt. everest base camp) gives me little comments like "You should really take up running" and judges me because she imagines I'm sedentary just because my butt happens to be a size 14. Completely…

Why does pride begin and end with your dress size? This woman has a very unhealthy fixation with people who try and practice self-love in their bodies (bodies which, I remind you, do not exist for the purpose of other people's judgment or shaming) and I think she should probably find a good shrink to get at the core…

She really needs to go and stand on the sidewalk and watch the finish line at a marathon. EVERY BODY SHAPE IMAGINABLE. And every person crossing put in hard work to do it.

I have worked out my entire life, and grew up in a vegetarian home where chips, soda, and the like only came around on holidays or rare occasions. I juice. I eat well. I run. I zumba. I yoga. I am strong as shit. You know what? I have never been small. Nor "average". I am a big girl. I got my blood work back just a…

I feel like a lot of fat-shaming people hide behind a "but it's an epidemic of obesity!" attitude to sort of excuse their ignorance. It's sort of a shame, because we (in North America) DO have a problem with food. Not just fat. We have to stop saying we're in some sort of FAT epidemic. It's not that. We're just really…

"start celebrating people who are a result of hard work, dedication and discipline."

"Unrelenting support"?

I'm thin, through no effort on my part. I don't eat well, I am mostly sedentary, and after a few car accidents my muscles are only strong enough to hold my skeleton upright. But by golly, people tell me I look great and they presume I'm healthy based on my size. I have all kinds of body issues, hating my view in the…

Fitness Mom's inability to distinguish "affect" from "effect" shows a lack of discipline, motivation and—let's say it—intelligence. By writing "no one should be ashamed of who they are," she clearly demonstrates her ignorance of singular and plural pronouns. Also, she omits the comma after the dependent clause "When…

She seems to have a lot of difficulty in understanding that fitness does not necessarily = goodness. Sure, be proud of your athleticism, fitness, accomplishments, whatever. But THEY DO NOT MAKE YOU GOOD OR WORTHWHILE. Being a good person is what makes you good. How does a grown adult really not get this?

When I lost the most weight was when I loved my body. I decided that I wanted to take care of it and head off issues that I know my mom has before I got them myself. When someone shamed me, it made it worse, not better. This seems so straightforward, and I feel like it's mentioned every time this topic comes up but…

I can't get over how deluded and uninformed some of these fitness 'professionals' are. I am not skinny. I can fit into size 12 if I suck in my stomach a little. And you know what? I'm healthy. My doctor has told me plainly that my weight isn't a concern. I am physically fit. And yet according to this woman, I'm…

My "number" is much higher than most people I know (which is weird to me because 19 doesn't seem so high), and I accomplished it in 4 years, haha. No regrets, no cares, no pregnancy scares (the pill FTW), married at 21 and it's going strong after 14 years. Suck it, science!

Excellently put. Science provides the data— but culture frames it. And frames it to suit what it wants to hear. The scientific studies 'proving' that blacks were less-evolved or women were incapable of reasoning (etc.) wouldn't have found a damn thing if they weren't being performed by people who really wanted to see…

Science students should be required to take culture studies and sociology classes. End of story. I'm sick of hearing about this Evo-Psych, confirmation biased bullshit again and again and again. It's bad science, and it's bad science because they've never been taught how to properly understand their own biases and…

I always find it so weird in these types of "what the cavemen did" discussions that apparently only the women lived in any sort of settled society where child care would happen while the men were all apparently hobo drifters, just walking the earth looking for reproductive partners. I personally find it hard to…

I feel like there are so many cultural assumptions built into the study that it's hard to even say what constitutes 'hardwiring' and what falls into the category of suggestion via the nature of the questions.