WDTPT: "Do plus size clothes make women fatter?"

Everyone deserves to be happy and comfortable in the body they have.

Nope!

I have been wearing “fat” clothes all my life, even when I was 100 pounds. I can not stand waistbands, or button shirts. I can’t wear a tight bra or underwire. And I wear bigger undies so nothing is tight. I would die if I had to wear a thong undie. The trend with the silky clingy tops is driving me to anger.

Yes, it's the ability to properly clothe our bodies that is making us fat. We should should go back to less available clothing and hiding the womens' section in department stores on the top floors by furniture or lingerie to make it more difficult to find. That'll help. /s

eta: Your comments on medical causes of excess weight offend me. It's more prevelant than you have acknowledged and frankly, none of your business. The same with people's intake of calories, it's not up to you to find it "acceptable" or "excuse" it.

While I understand the author's point, it's merely hypothesis that making clothing that fits and flatters all sizes encourages people to gain weight. So here's my hypothesis...you stop making that clothing and A) people will have to purchase ill fitting and or/ugly clothing or B) people can just be naked.

There are likely many factors that figure into an increase of people believing that they area healthy weight when they are actually not. I don't see that punishing people by taking away clothing that is cute and fits will remedy that situation.

Just for me, as a lifelong “just fat” girl (except - and only except - for my eating disorder years)... I call bullshit.

It’s okay to celebrate the body I’m in whatever that body looks like. I believe that all bodies are good bodies even if they aren’t healthy bodies. I won’t apologize for my size and I won’t wait to be comfortable in my own skin. I grew up thinking I was supposed to hate my body, and I won’t do it anymore. I live in this body every day, there is nothing good come from hating it.

It’s also okay to like nice clothes at any size. I’m not much of a fashionista but I like clothes that look nice. Nice clothes being available in my size doesn’t encourage me to sit around complacent. It just means I can wear clothes I like.

I think a lot of fat people think they need to be trying to “fix it” in order to be acceptable. I have spent most of my life trying to figure out how to lose weight to be acceptable. I am at a point where now if I want to lose weight it is as part of taking care of my body, for me. But I have made peace with my body because I didn’t have any choice. Whatever the cause of my weight - genetics, hormones, food, etc - I still made peace with my body after fighting it for decades. This is not in opposition to looking to live a healthy life, it is part of the same process. I’m not asking to be “excused” as if anyone has the authority to excuse me for living in this world in my own body.

Fat shaming hasn’t made people thinner over the last decades. What makes anyone think it’s going to start now?

There are so many different facets of this discussion that we can talk about.  First, how do we lose weight?  By eating keto?  Fasting? WFPB?  Low calorie?  Which thing is the right answer?  We can't even have consensus on that from the medical community. 

I am 50 pounds overweight at this time.  I am uncomfortable.  I don't like the way I look or feel.  I feel like every pair of structured pants I put on, even when they fit well is restrictive and squeezes my big belly every time I sit down.  I am not happy with this.  Ugly clothes are just going to make me feel worse about myself. 

What a crock of shit! There are many reasons why people are fat. I think that we really don't know all the reasons why. I believe it maybe in how our food is processed. I do believe there is a genetic component to it as well. But clothing? Are you kidding me?

Can you please show me your medical degree and nutritionist degree as well as peoper state and federal cerificates? Oh no. You can't?

Who in the hell made you an expert. Ffs!!!

I see a nutritionist. I am a size 16 at 200 pounds. 5'7". I have always been between a 12 and 16. It is MY GENETIC body type. I am muscular. Did gymnastics, cycling, tennis, swimming. I am back into cycling.

You do know that muscle weights more than fat right? And being muscular makes it harder to fit into socieities skinny jeans right?!?!

I tried the low card no sugar keto type diets and GAINED weight.

My nutritionist has me take in between 1800 and 1900 cals a day and guess what??

I AM LOOSING BODY FAT, GAINING MUSCLE, AAANNNDDDD LOST A PAN SIZE. I am also on Carbs! Holy shit right?!

I am sorry YOU have weight and food issues but dont be going around trying to shame everyone else and put us down. F off

I am fat, I am not fat by choice. I was fat as a child and I am fat as an adult. As a child I was active, outside playing and running every chance I got. We didn't have tv or video games, we were active and played. I did not eat the wrong foods, because my parents didn't really allow it. There was no sugar or fried foods in my life. We ate fairly healthy. I remember my aunt used to come visit and always brought a box of Froot Loops with her (it was a family joke). Us kids LIVED for that visit because we got to eat junk cereal. Now as an adult I can't seem to lose weight no matter what I try. Diet after diet and it's left me fatter than ever. Last year while following the Weight Watchers program to a T, I was on medication that had me gain 50 pounds. I am off that medication and can't seem to lose that extra 50 that I put on. I'm counting calories and watching everything I put in my mouth and still it won't budge. I'm not allowed to exercise much, per doctors orders, so I'm doing what I can. I deserve to be comfortable in my skin, I deserve to have nice things to wear, I deserve to be loved for who I am. I don't need anyones permission and I certainly don't need anyone's judgement. No one, but me, knows my life or what goes on in my life. Not everyone who is fat "stuffs their face".

As the author made several comments about "flattering" clothing for plus sized women, it was implied that it was part of the problem in the context of the article. 

I am stunned. I'm not even talking about the article - I'm talking about you.
Seriously. You say you've struggled with food and your weight - and then this is what you dump on women in a similar place?
Just fat? Normalization? ....shouldn't be made acceptable? ....normalization of plus-sized clothing be stopped? ...stuffing their face?

Really- on the off chance you haven't given your words some thought- look at what you're saying. Look at the words you're using.
What do you care if overweight people feel any level of acceptance about their bodies or their size? 
Why should anyone care who you deem acceptably 'curvy' and who you decide is 'just fat'?

This isn't a conversation starter. This is just you, being shitty. I'm so tired of people using health and wellness as a shield for their shitty attitudes about things that are none of their business. You're a 'fit, incredibly strong size 14 triathlete'? Cue the fucking applause. If you're going to call it open season on the fat women beneath you, at least be honest about how you start the conversation.
Or maybe - just don't.

Well, that is true. She also mentioned vanity sizing and normalizing larger sizes.( and maybe I am wrong, but I thought that normalizing was another reference to vanity sizing) I dunno.

The article's pure click-bait.