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"\n          \n        \n        \n\n        \n          \n            \n          \n            \n          \n        \n          \n        \n\n        \n      \n        \n      \n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n\n\nWhat To Say: \nIt’s good to see you.\nHow’s life?\nI Love You.\nI Miss You.\nCatch Me Up On Everything Cool.\nWhat Not to Say: Comment on a Person’s Body SizeHere’s why:Y’all it’s so anxiety provoking to walk into diet and weight centric gatherings. Like really, who does it benefit? Complimenting weight loss reinforces weight stigma, it’s fat-phobic, and it insinuates that weight loss is always a good thing. Commenting on weight gain does the same thing. Focusing on weight is objectifying. It impacts us on so many levels. Diet culture elevates some bodies and stigmatizes and oppresses others. Even those who are praised are hurt... because they stay stuck in diet cultures obsessive cycle. If you think weight-centric comments are no big deal, consider:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀\nWhat if they’re sick?\nWhat if they’re depressed?\nWhat if they have an eating disorder? (Body size doesn’t determine this btw, any sized body can have an eating disorder)\nWhat if they have disordered eating?\nWhat if no one comments on their body when it’s bigger and the message of “shrink yourself” is sending the “your body is your worth” message?\nWhat if they are on meds that affect weight?\nWhat if they have food insecurity?\nWhat if this is the diet that kicks in an eating disorder?\nWhat if a young child or teen hears you and internalized the message that weight loss is praised, good, healthy (read above if you still believe weight loss is always healthy), or something they should pursue?\nWhat if they have survived trauma?\nWhat if you usually praise their weight loss and now they’ve gained weight and you don’t compliment them?\nWhat if they are hanging by a thread?\nWhat if it makes them super uncomfortable?\nWhat if they are grieving?\nAND it’s no ones business. People’s bodies change. Weight fluctuates.\nAND what about you! Maybe you don’t really want to focus on other folks bodies anyway!\nLet’s practice stopping this cultural norm Therapy and tacos for all, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n      \n\n      \n        \n          \n        \n        \n\n        \n          \n            \n          \n            \n          \n        \n          \n        \n\n        \n      \n        "
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