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I Was Shamed for my Weight Loss Journey Thoughts
Calling someone a fat-shamer for losing weight shows clearly what’s wrong with the online world
Today I made a huge mistake. I looked at the responses to my articles (gasp!). It was out of curiosity and boredom, but I shouldn’t have. I should have known better.
I stopped reading comments from my readers a long time ago. I carefully considered the pros and cons, and sadly the counterarguments won, namely, I had had enough of being judged, mocked, trolled for expressing my thoughts. And no amount of praise could even out the negativity I sometimes received.
The mistake today was an honest mistake, but it still rattled me. I was shamed and called a fat-shamer for sharing a very honest and vulnerable story about my year-long weight loss journey and its downsides.
I have been struggling with my weight my whole life and finally last year I got to a point where I decided to deal with it forever — one day at a time, but still in it for life. I spoke openly about how I couldn’t accept my own fatness and how I was left with the only choice to change it.
I was called a fat-shamer because of this. I was shamed for having negative emotions towards myself and accused of perpetuating the culture of body…
