Why would you still think Health at Every Size is a good idea after writing all that?
All of that honesty about the terrible consequences of being a deathfat, and how heartbroken she was that she had to resort to WLS, and yet not a single word about food—about what she was eating every goddamned day that got her into that pathetic state. She couldn't be honest about that.
The closest she came to it was at the very beginning, when she said: "WLS is the quick and easy answer! Because altering your eating and drinking habits for
the rest of your life couldn’t possibly be something worth a second thought."
She was referring to how one has to alter their eating and drinking habits for the rest of their life after WLS, because apparently making the voluntary decison to alter her eating and drinking habits for the rest of her life
without WLS just wasn't within the realm of possibility.
A bit further down, she says, "Having weight loss surgery? That’s crazy talk…I don’t even believe in dieting, for god’s sake!"
WELL NO SHIT, FATTY. So rather than diet—which would basically mean learning how to eat like a normal human, and addressing her addiction to food and the molestation by her fatger that led her to the nightmare existence she was leading—she chose to "diet" via having her stomach made smaller. Nice fatlogic, there.
Either she's dealt with her addiction, and issues surrounding the molestation, in the years since her WLS, and has decided that getting the fuck offline is the best thing she can do for herself—or she managed to stretch her stomach back out and has eaten herself to death because addicts are gonna use no matter what. It's also possible that she ended up dying because her health had been so wrecked prior to WLS that losing a couple of hundred pounds or so wasn't enough to undo it.
But I suspect she's dead, just based upon her total inability to be honest about how she got so fucking fat in the first place, and kept on gaining even after she'd lost the ability to keep herself clean. All the crying she did over the humiliation of having to sit in her own shit while at work, then later to have her mother wipe her (and we can bet Mom was providing much of the food, too), and there's no mention of what got her into that state. None. And that kind of highly selective "honesty," while refusing to engage with reality, does not bode well for her continued survival.
