I’m not gonna say all the fatties à la Tess Holiday are a good example of what you should be doing with your life. They aren’t. But embracing who you are unapologetically, even at 400lbs, is still better in my book than being an ugly troll faking a weightloss you’ll never achieve. Tess & co. live their fat life, stuffing their fat face and they enjoy every minute of it cuz they don’t care about the haters. They are aware of what they are doing to their body and choose not only to keep going, but to be proud of it? I say : if it makes them happy, more power to them.
Don’t get me wrong, losing weight would be much better but since they aren’t willing to put such amount of efforts on themselves, at least they are still enjoying their life a little before dying of a massive heart attack at 35.
I never believed Tess & co. are promoting obesity because fat fucks who don’t want to lose weight will be fat no matter what. They don’t need Tess & co. to tell them it’s ok to do so... they don’t care about anything other than food anyway.
But I do believe that for some obese / morbidly obese people, the whole body positive movement (aka : beauty at any size) could be the missing piece to finally start caring about their health. Believe it or not, learning to love yourself can be a life changing thing. We always put more efforts in people we love than those we hate, and that includes ourselves.
If Chantal was one of these “fat and proud” ladies, she still wouldn’t be in an envious position with her 400lbs and 3 chins, but at least she would be happier. At the worse she would keep stuffing her face but would at least enjoy the food (right now she’s constantly battling against herself and feeling guilty after each binge). And at the best she would finally want to take better care of her whale-esque body, and maybe achieve weightloss.
This said, being ginormous isn’t even her main problem. Having a shitty, disgusting, vile, envious personality is. Thinking she’s smarter than everyone, preaching in the desert, making a total fool of herself online to the point she’s now unemployable... That and more is what makes her a lolcow, rather she’s fat or not.
If Chantal would try to love herself (even just a little), even faking it for a while until she convinces herself she’s worthy of love and self-esteem, her life would turn around. But it won’t happens because that is a mental exercise and her mind is in worse shape than her physique.
She reminds me of this quote by Roald Dahl :
Even with a 250lbs weightloss, Chantal would still be ugly af because all she wants in life is to lose weight to “make people envious”. She would still be vile, bitter and mean.
tl;dr : Chantal is doomed to be a sad and pathetic lolcow forever.
