And it's very very hard to believe you're okay when your culture tells you that you're not. Like. . . Fat people are lazy. Fat people eat too much. Fat people are unhealthy.
Fat people are disgusting.
Fat people cannot be sexually attractive. Fat people don't care about themselves. Fat people have low self-esteem. So that is how I try to help people see the connections. Our culture stereotypes very large people, but it affects all of us, because most of us are so afraid of becoming fat that if there's even the tiniest little variation in our body's size or weight, it brings all these feelings on ourselves.