I don’t have a soul.
I AM a soul. I HAVE a body.
My body is not a reflection of my soul.
I am not my body.
I just need my body to be Here.

Continually fighting with my Body is painful. Achieving peace over my body issues requires me to Accept its appearance, and it’s functional abilities.

Our culture’s Diet and Fitness Industry teaches us to fear Acceptance of our Body’s appearance and the way it functions. It warns us against Compacency; telling us to be aware that there’s something wrong with our body and the way it works; and that they have a million ways to sell us a way to make it look or function “better”.

Complacency is a feeling of satisfaction with an existing situation
while unaware of some potential danger or trouble.

Acceptance is agreeing to receive something or the act of receiving it.
An acceptance of someone or something is an indication
that you approve of or believe in it, or them.

There is a distinction between Acceptance and Complacency.

Complacency assumes you have a belief that you aren’t strongly holding yourself to, or that you are accepting “less” than what you believe should be “more than”.

True Acceptance of your body removes the belief that something about it is lax, loose, or lazy, and the belief that your body has standards which are relative to some “Ideal”. Acceptance is changing your personal Ideal to meet a standard that is realistic with the way you truly and realistically want to live.

Appearance, … the way you look, …is not a reflection of Spirit (or Value).
Also, Function, …the things you can do, … is not a reflection of Sprit (or Value).

I am not my body, so therefore it is not a parameter to judge myself by. If I was in an accident that severed my legs, it would not make me half of a spirit (of less value).

If I exercise abusively and end up with permanent osteoarthritus and major spine issues... I am not those ailments. Those ailments merely reflect the abuse I gave my body, based on th...

The fat burning process is a complex biochemical process.

When you “lose” body fat, the fat cell (also called an adipocyte) does not go anywhere or “move into the muscle cell to be burned”. The fat cell itself, (unfortunately) stays right where it was – under the skin in your thighs, stomach, hips, arms, etc., and on top of the muscles – which is why you can’t see muscle “definition” when your body fat is high.

Fat is stored inside the fat cell in the form of triaglycerol. The fat is not burned right there in the fat cell, it must be liberated from the fat cell through somewhat complex hormonal/enzymatic pathways. When stimulated to do so, the fat cell simply releases its contents (triaglycerol) into the bloodstream as free fatty acids (FFA’s), and they are transported through the blood to the tissues where the energy is needed.

A typical young male adult stores about 60,000 to 100,000 calories of energy in body fat cells. What triggers the release of all these stored fatty acids from the fat cell? When your body needs energy because you’re consuming fewer calories than you are burning (an energy deficit), then your body releases hormones and enzymes that signal your fat cells to release your fat reserves instead of keeping them in storage.

For stored fat to be liberated from the fat cell, hydrolysis (lipolysis or fat breakdown), splits the molecule of triaglycerol into glycerol and three fatty acids. An important enzyme called hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) is the catalyst for this reaction. The stored fat (energy) gets released into the bloodstream as FFA’s and they are shuttled off to the muscles where the energy is needed. As blood flow increases to the active muscles, more FFA’s are delivered to the muscles that need them.

An important enzyme called lipoprotein lipase (LPL), then helps the FFA’s get inside the mitochondria of the muscle cell, where the FFA’s can be burned for energy. If you’ve ever taken a biology class, then you’ve probably heard of the mitochondria. This is the “cellular powerhouse” where energy production takes place and this is where the FFA’s go to be burned for energy.

When the FFA’s are released from the fat cell, the fat cell shrinks and that’s why you look leaner when you lose body fat – because the fat cell is now smaller. A small or “empty” fat cell is what you’re after ...

                               
Fat people have the right to exist in fat bodies without shaming, stigmatizing, bullying, or oppression.  "Well-meaning" expressions of your "concern" about their health etc. fall into these categories.

It doesn't matter why a person is fat, what being fat means, or if a person could be thin.

There are no other valid opinions on this. It is not up for debate. Fat people have the right to exist.