Never Take Health Advice From This Fat Activist | The Story of FatDoctorUK

[@KianaDocherty]

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[@b1tch33]

I'm glad that despite you disagreeing with this person on their stance on fat you respected their pronouns We respect pronouns not people 😆

[@Champagnebear]

To me it almost seems like she thought losing weight would be easy and she would “do it the hard way” and when she realized the concept of losing weight may be simple but the execution is much harder, she took the first way out she found which was to be validated my the fat acceptance movement. Very sad

[@Blox117]

unrelated but kiana is pretty dang cute

[@christinetully2405]

@@scbmxer thats Been on my mind actually I wonder if anyone will call him out on it. Very bad form

[@bettystiegler1702]

They are way too close to the camera. Chapstick recommended. They should not use sweeping statements about entire countries. These people act like they’re so horribly oppressed by absolutely everyone, but so many of them say really offensive things about other groups

[@JennyNobody]

There is a massive difference between "i am heathy being obese" and "i am valuable despite being obese"

[@darlamurillo4546]

🎯🎯🎯

[@iamyou3080]

This is everything summed up! 👍

[@user7467]

And even the valuable part can be critised.You're less productive in pretty much any work field if you're fat let alone morbidly obese.

[@JennyNobody]

@@user7467 thats not what I mean by valuable. Every person is worthy of love and support. Value is not always in how productive you are to society but in your inherent worth as a living being. Though even I don't fully believe that... there are a few demographics I wish were just removed from humanity on sight.

[@jamegumb7298]

The only real overweight people I know are Ted van de Parre, Eddie Hall, The Mountain and the biggest and baddest of them all, the Kyriakos Grizzly. But these are the buffest of the buffest athletes that maul twink bussy for a snack.

[@Vox96]

"I'd rather get diabetes than be miserable" Um, my stepmum has had diabetes nearly her whole life, she is now in her mid 40-s and is in full kidney failure, awaiting a dual pancreas & kidney transplant. Please do NOT minimise the severity of diabetes. People choosing to have it is such a vile concept. People like this are so dangerous.

[@jarrodhall3686]

But she’s happy, right?

[@daughterofyith5393]

As someone who's clocked 21 years with type 1 diabetes last January, I do not recommend anyone have it if they can avoid it.

[@RedSonja41]

Ridiculous. My husbands ex had diabetes. She lost a foot, her eyesight and died at 53. Why would anyone chose this? The misery goes away once you get away from the addictive foods.

[@daughterofyith5393]

@@RedSonja41 Not to mention that you CAN eat fast food once in a while if you moderate it. It's all about the balance.

[@natereynolds2783]

Once my weight hit 257, my blood tasted sweet, I had eyesight issues(Blurry), I was constantly thirsty, sweating crazily, and unable to sleep. Now that I have lost 10 pounds(Mostly water), finally getting my calories in check due to me finally having a real reason to deal with it with trying to honor God with my body, the symptoms have gone away. Diabetes isn't a joke, and my grandpa with similar genetics died with it at 500 pounds, due to infections getting out of control because of it. I don't want to die young, and I want my body to be 18, instead of forty. It was so tough to deal with mentally in the week those symptoms appeared, and losing the weight compared to the negative consequences of staying on this road is far less stressful than knowing you are on the verge of breaking your body chemistry, and dying quickly. For anyone having Type 1 diabetes, I am so sorry there is no cure. For those who are Type 2, get off while you still can.

[@abigailchiesa1337]

“I would choose fat every single time because fat is my community, and I love my community.” This reminds me of when I was on Tumblr as a depressed teenager and everyone else on Tumblr with depression thought of it as part of their identity and refused to change anything that would actually help their depression because it meant losing that part of themselves. Refusing to do things that tangibly make your life better because you’ve decided you identify with the thing that makes your life worse is dysfunctional and a sign of needing help

[@theend3541]

I've had the same style since 12, I have not abandoned the emo. But even I as an Old Emo who's almost 30 will admit that if I could be happy all the time, I certainly would. That is absolutely stupid to me that people self-impose their problems so much these days. My problems revolve around debt and sloth. But these types craft their own depression by using others as a scapegoat for their own/others bad behaviors that they support or are guilty of themselves.

[@jamegumb7298]

Did you ever get help?

[@abigailchiesa1337]

@@jamegumb7298 Yes, I started therapy and did a lot of introspection/made a lot of changes to the ways I thought about things and the things I did. I've had my ups and downs but I'm doing much, much better now than I was back then

[@jellyjamese3134]

It's worse now honestly, now we have tik tok which is arguably a hell of a lot worse than Tumblr. All these kids now faking disorders like DID and Tourette's. And The Map community.....God,I really hate the internet sometimes...

[@claudiafahey1353]

That's a very apt way of describing it

[@virtuall0ser]

SHE GOT HER LICENSE REVOKED!! SHE'S NOT LONGER A DOCTOR!! OMG FANTASTIC

[@notgreatgale]

she didn’t actually get it revoked- she got a warning for spreading misinformation, got mad, and resigned via email in a very unprofessional way. what an OUTSTANDING doctor, huh? totally worth throwing away years of work that got put into becoming a doctor because you just couldn’t possibly be wrong about something…

[@virtuall0ser]

@@notgreatgale aww😔 glad they got called out anyway. theyre so unprofessional ugh

[@averagejoeschmoe9186]

That's what radicalization does to people these days. They find an echo chamber/ "community" and then they get sucked in. No questions asked and all that "community" asks of you is blind loyalty above all else, even common sense is an afterthought. And yet any minor infractions, any instance of breaking "the rules" and they'll cast you out without any compassion and new suckers will replace you. This "doctor" is just another desperate/lonely/impressionable soul they'll happily take, use and then abandon when she's no longer useful.

[@amygreen9662]

What?!!! I lost 35 pounds, and my knees feel so much better. Less weight on my body and more strength from training have helped a lot.

[@_ego11]

Good job!

[@amygreen9662]

@Amanda Exactly!

[@TheAdrift]

Right?! My first thought was "uhh, obesity is a social construct? Tell that to my KNEES. Hell, tell it to YOUR knees!"

[@krisdiane]

Yep. Makes you wonder if she's ever felt what it feels like to not have so much extra weight. It's an obvious difference.

[@1ncredulous]

Same here. 30 lbs in the last 6 months. People ask if I feel different. Yes. My knees no longer hurt.

[@magicwand97]

Im a vet nurse and there is basically no debate between vet professionals or clients on the impacts of obesity have on pets. People, both slender and large take weight loss for their pets very seriously as they understand the issues that come - joint problems, diabetes, limited life span, so it always confuses me why there is such debate in human medicine. It's all the same really. We are all animals and are not built to house extra weight. ( coming from a person who is overweight also)

[@BnMProductions11]

Its the same with flat earthers. Theyre completely ok admitting all the other planets are round. Just not earth. Its much more difficult to look inwards than it is to look outwards.

[@user-eu9bi1ql4z]

Maybe because people can understand fatphobia exist, so that leads to thinking of obese or overweight doesn’t equal bad, because you thinking its bad its fatphobia? Something like that??

[@nonacee5065]

@I am me nope, no ape DNA in human genetics.

[@smith9157]

There's no debate just delusion

[@nancybeveridgetaylor3256]

Beautifully stated! Having worked ( Retired now) in health care for over 38 years i have personally seen and experienced the difficulties my patients have had. I say experienced because i have had to provide physical care to many patients on the cardiac unit. I lost 200 pounds through gastric bypass and excercise for my own reasons and because i did not want to put my fellow health care professionals through tbe difficulties of managing my physical care. I have kept my weight a stable 130 lbs for over 12 years now and my life is much healthier and simpler.

[@pollyrg97]

'Fat around the organs is not a real thing: it's made up.' Cut to a literal human cadaver with fat around the organs. Well played.

[@Mandalorian92]

She'd probably say it was staged

[@SewardWriter]

I suspect they came last in their med school class if they don't understand what visceral fat is and what it does over time.

[@AmenProletar]

Odd how she's a doctor but has never seen an autopsy.

[@TomJakobW]

Especially considering she looks like she has eaten some *lard* in her life, before…

[@MartinMMeiss-mj6li]

@@Mandalorian92 Hmm...I never saw fat around any organs in this video. I saw some guy SAYING there was fat, but owing to the pixelation, I couldn't even tell if he was looking at a body. What's the point of including a clip like that?

[@CJGfarm]

I'm in the medical field and work with a lot of elderly people. I've noticed there are not a lot of fat people over 70. I've started to ask my healthy weight patients over 80 how they stayed a healthy weight. They all have different advice about food consumption. But they all agree, they don't have any friends or relatives their age who are overweight, because they all died at a much younger age.

[@bicicogito989]

Facts are a prime demonstration of fat phobia!! As well as misogyny, homophobia, islamophobia, claustrophobia, transphobia, et al.!!! Have you checked your privileges lately?!!!

[@turtleanton6539]

Yes😊

[@indy_go_blue6048]

My mother-in-law has been obese all her life. If she lives until Halloween she'll be 96. She's an exception, I'm sure, but there ya go.

[@blueodum]

My uncle was overweight/obese from age 40 on. He lived to 89, but he was an exception. Every one of my other relatives who have lived to 80 plus are thin or of average build almost their whole lives. It is correct, there are very few people over 80 who are obese.

[@darkpigeon7]

That is odd, my sister works with the elderly who have a mental disorder. There are about 80-90 overweight, 5 obese and 20 healthy weight elderly living aged 75-93.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

'Fat and happy" vs "Thin and miserable" is the most bs false dichotomy I've ever heard.

[@cdjxwubcyex]

It`s a demagoguery tactic. For example you can only be rich and sick or pore and healthy.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

@@cdjxwubcyex there's more likely to be that correlation between wealth and health than weight and happiness. There's a very likely chance the correlation is the other way.

[@cdjxwubcyex]

@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 Yes, there is a correlation but it`s in opposite way. You have better chances to be healthy if you have good food, fresh water and health care (not pore) and you`re more likely to be happy if you`re not fat and sick.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

@@cdjxwubcyex that's what I said, but I agree.

[@Zeverinsen]

Wish I could be fat and happy instead of fat and miserable. Ideally, I'd be a normal weight and happy.

[@yunivursexe7634]

My eyes bulged out of my head when she brought up the holocaust. How is it even possible to be that deluded about your own privilege ???

[@ingridgallagher1029]

Ikr?! Comparing obese people to people who had NO choice but to starve has me beyond incensed.

[@GayFrogsTho]

That beak of a nose may be a factor but perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

[@regulusaldebaran8401]

Privilege?🤣🤣🤣

[@Nixeu42]

@@ingridgallagher1029 Um. Are you thinking of the Holodomor? Because while I'm sure plenty of people starved to death in concentration camps, that isn't exactly the cause of death most associated with the Holocaust. It was probably a common one, particularly amongst those they weren't actively trying to genocide like political prisoners. But the gas chambers are what most people's minds jump to with the Holocaust. Whereas the Holodomor was an engineered starvation.

[@corpsefoot758]

I guess she had a (tiny) point about scapegoating for the NHS’s budgeting though, but that’s about it lol

[@case3474]

I question whether or not a doctor should keep their medical license and right to practice medicine if they're denying a well known health issue even existing.

[@lesliewells1062]

Exactly!! I was thinking that too!

[@neonk2222]

reminds me of the doctor in the 1900s who was murdering his patients :/

[@Emma-vb8gg]

Harold Shipman directly killed his victims. She’s indirectly killing people with her bullshit advice. It’s fatal misinformation and I hope people are reporting her to the GMC

[@Bumbledora]

They shouldn't imo

[@kpeggs82]

I am a doctor. They should not. Most of my colleagues would agree they should not. We need to revoke my licenses.

[@RickyVis]

"I'd rather have diabetes than be miserable." Ah yes because having to inject insulin, getting kidney failure, heart disease and losing your feet is totally not going to make you miserable.

[@notyourchauffeur]

Diabetes has become so common that people forget how terrible it really is. My uncle lost his legs, one above the knee, to diabetes and it eventually killed him. The last 3 years of his life were spent in one room of his house because he could no longer use the stairs. He went 2 years without a real shower because of losing his legs. He fell into a deep depression before he died. He is part of the reason I am trying to lose weight and become healthier. I never want to lose my legs

[@anonmouse15]

She certainly seems to be miserable as is.

[@ravonne6308]

Narcissism at it's finest. Her goal was to be a "world famous weight loss doctor" at the first day of her weight loss journey. She knew nothing about weight loss, but thought she has the potential to be "wold famous". Then she saw how much easier it is to get a lot of attention with fat activism, and going viral with nonsense, she just jumped ship. And it worked: now a lot of heath channels give her the attention she craves so much. :/

[@Nikki_the_G]

I agree, I don't think she was "taken in" by anything. I think this is nothing but a con artist at work. I've seen this type before in various media, they always choose the most controversial and outrageous "positions" guaranteed to get them the attention they crave. I don't think she believes any of it. But she got what she wanted. We are talking about her.

[@brassholio]

@@Nikki_the_G I thought the same thing, which to me is worse. It's one thing getting sucked in to false information and falling victim to a hopeful message. It's another thing entirely to spread that information to vulnerable people looking for confidence and acceptance. It takes a certain type of attention seeking evil to do that.

[@skaio.5279]

that's a really good point

[@pixie4549]

It was probably a combination of attention seeking and being reached out to in a vulnerable moment, maybe 3 months before she would still have been strong enough and too caring about her health to have taken the bait, but then she was struggling and would easily take the bait.

[@Zeverinsen]

This instantly reminded me of my country's national traitor, Vidkun Quisling, who was at first helping people as a humanitarian (though it later turned out that he was opportunistic enough to steal from and take advantage of the people he was supposed to help), but jumped ship to support the nazi's invasion of our country during WW2. He simply chose which way to go6based on his narcissistic and opportunistic way of thought. Which way would get him money and prestige? He was the last man to be executed in my country.

[@johnjamele]

This woman's dream, as it turns out, was not to be a famous weight loss doctor. It was just to be famous.

[@ValeriiaJ]

Exactly

[@javiicolors5709]

Totally!

[@Troublenut]

*person’s dream. But yeah, true

[@trevor7520]

They're not a woman, just a little nitpick. They are absolutely fucking wrong about .. everything surrounding fat

[@johnjamele]

@@Troublenut I frankly see no good reason to respect this person's pronouns. She's going to get people killed. Fuck IT.

[@Dcook85]

I love how she just definitively associates being fit with "being miserable". No, you can absolutely lose weight and eat great food and have a fun life. In fact my most miserable times in my life have been when I've been overweight, and having no energy and getting out of breath doing mundane things. THAT is miserable.

[@KismetLizard]

As someone with chronic major depression: ^THIS.

[@AllWordsAreDust]

Exactly, I stress eat when I’m depressed and unhappy and gain weight fast. When things are good, I don’t really snack so I eat much less but I actually I enjoy my meals more because I’m actually hungry and not just trying to fill an emotional emptiness inside.

[@Stardrix16]

Why would you start eating because of your feelings, that is so weird to me

[@AllWordsAreDust]

@@Stardrix16 If you're serious, it's because food gives instant gratification and takes your mind off what's bothering you. The problem is, it's very fleeting relief and usually leaves you worse than you were before. Though when I'm absolute rock bottom depressed (like no energy to even get out of bed) I do lose my appetite and food gives no pleasure.

[@Nermeen.]

workouts = serotonin = being happy 💓

[@Vivi_LaRue]

Why do they always say “thin and miserable”? They are so black and white: you’re either fat and eating all the tasty things or you are thin and you eat dry lettuce and ice cubes for every meal.

[@AWholeBeew]

Right? You can lose weight and maintain a repertoire of food that you actually like to eat. One of my weight-loss tricks is to just make low-fat substitutions when I can. If I want a taco, I have it with low-fat cheese and low-fat sour cream. It really makes no difference taste-wise, but it does when it comes to calories. You can make a lot of low-effort healthy habits work if you try and still enjoy your food.

[@familhagaudir8561]

They speak as if to stay thin, all your food must taiste bad. I never stopped eating junkfood every day ( along with highly nutritious foods that taiste good ) and I'm 115lb.

[@gohawks3571]

​@@familhagaudir8561Amen! Real food tastes good! And if you go back to treat yourself, it's not a treat. It's nasty!

[@Seraphim4190]

It's projection. Most are miserable on several levels. Food becomes the only truly pleasurable thing and they mistake that for true happiness and contentment.

[@minngael]

@@AWholeBeew and those sugary & fatty foods are addictive. if you avoid them, you stop craving them and they are less tempting.

[@Silentman333]

It's so much easier to blame your issues on others then take accountability. And unfortunately with the internet people can be applauded for blaming others and end up in a toxic echo chamber

[@alskarmode]

@Coach McDerp Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without tell me. Kiana is very open about her journey with weight loss and her experience being overweight. You're so out of touch.

[@TPH250290]

​@Coach McDerp Not sure how your comment contradicts what Matt said at all.

[@200kristena]

It's dissapointing to see Kiana like this. This comment reeks of "you're fat cause you make bad choices". Things are not that black and white and by supporting this type of rhetoric, you are supporting the discrimination of fat people.

[@TPH250290]

@@200kristena It literally doesn't reek of that at all.

[@snooganslestat2030]

@Wicker 2 Accurate.

[@TBone4Breakfast]

"Rather have heart disease and Diabetes than be miserable" It is very clear to me that she has neither of those illnesses if she thinks they are not absolute hell on your body

[@someidiot420]

yeah, and it doesnt just affect you. my brother has diabetes and it has absolutely stripped him of all of his weight, he legit looks like he's been in the desert starving for 2 yrs. he cant walk very far because diabetes has just completely destroyed the nerves in his feet, and he cant drive at night either because his eyes have gone to shit. he cant really drive a long time during the day either because he has lost control of his bowels. not to mention the amount of times he's come within inches of falling into a diabetic coma. he is only 32. he has to live with our mom for the rest of his life, or find a caretaker if he moves out. he is in wailing pain 24/7 due to the nerve damage. he is absolutely miserable/angry 24/7 and so are we because he has learned to depend on us while treating us like shit. but yeah, as long as you dont have to put in work to lose weight. THAT'D be awful. that's REAL hell.

[@abigailchiesa1337]

This. My aunt was a food addict and the misery she went through having her toes amputated from uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, needing dialysis because her kidneys couldn’t keep up with her body anymore, and going through multiple cardiac arrests was far, far greater than the misery fatphobia ever caused her. This also ties into one of my biggest issues with these fat activists, which is that my aunt reached that point because she WAS miserable. She used food as a coping skill that made her happy short-term but took everything from her long-term. The idea that just giving into obesity is healthy even on a mental level is just appalling to me

[@ColdBaltBlue]

My dad has diabetes, the meds are especially unfun. Three different varieties.

[@anonmouse15]

Not to mention that she apparently believes that all thin people are miserable.

[@Chibi_Sashi]

My grandmother was morbidly obese and developed type 2 diabetes which resulted in her having to have her entire leg amputated at the groin. It wasn’t long after the operation that she died due to complications brought on from her obesity. Before she died I spoke to her doctor and he assured me they had she lost weight she could have gotten her diabetes under control to the point she wouldn’t even need medication and the amputation could have been avoided. My mother suffered greatly at the loss of her mother who’s death could have been prevented.

[@frenchloverstalker]

Obesity isn't real, gravity isn't real, Tammy Slaton is healthy and the earth is flat. You tube has taught me all I ever need to know.

[@missmoxie9188]

Oh my God You win the comments And you win for best username

[@carochan86]

Tammy Slaton is at least working on herself. Also probably could acknowledge that the stuff fat Doctor is saying is crap.

[@mindingmybusiness3915]

@@carochan86 Tammy isn't working on herself it's the other sister Amy that is

[@frenchloverstalker]

@@carochan86 I'm literally making fun of her for saying obesity isn't real

[@kj-pn8ll]

@@mindingmybusiness3915 Tammy has lost over 100 pounds since season 3 ended. They've signed a contract, she can't just share updates on her weight loss every time her "fans" accuse her of not losing weight. Having said that, she's been in rehab the whole time so she doesn't actually have any control over her food or portion sizes, so hopefully the weight stays off once she goes home 🤷‍♀️

[@n00n1n]

She should have her medical license suspended or revoked entirely. Being a board certified doctor spreading fantastical lies about health to the masses has to be grounds for that.

[@brettlawrence9015]

I don’t understand how a doctor can be spreading this misinformation. All because they couldn’t lose fat themselves.

[@virtuall0ser]

she finally got it revoked completely🙏🙏

[@LadyOrpheus]

Good news...😂

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

​@@virtuall0sernah.. she's on a final warning.

[@aqvanii]

@@HarryFlashmanVCand she decided to quit afterwards.

[@pakouvwj9300]

It's a slap in the face for me when she said she rather be fat with diabetes. I had to watch my grandma die in absolute misery due to diabetes. Diabetic gangrene and diabetic neuropathy. It was fucking awful listening to my late grandma scream in agony from the pain, and I was not able to do anything to help but give her morphine... end of life care. Then a week later her oldest son, my uncle, died too. Same condition.

[@kibblegingercat]

I agree, as someone with diabetes I guarantee they would be miserable with it so anything you can do to prevent it is doing your future self a favour!

[@kibblegingercat]

Living with diabetes is a bicth and it is gd awful

[@nostalgicgirrl6053]

My dad has diabetes, we have to take extra care of his diet, exercise, especially mouth and feet hygiene as his doctors say people with diabetes are the most prone to serious infections in their feet

[@justafriendlymedievalist487]

I have diabetes, I've been diagnosed two years ago and this Lady can come get mine. Diabetes is misery, gotta watch my diet, can't enjoy the same things as my family and friends, gotta be careful of not hurting my feet or hands, and most of all feeling I feel absolutely awful all of the time. What is wrong with those people I swear

[@Blondegenius3]

Yes. It's extremely insulting and straight-up insensitive. I am so sorry about your grandma. Her suffering sounded so agonizing and horrific. Diabetes is not a game. FatDoctor also said that they'd rather be happy and get diabetes. Happiness was also mentioned. Diabetes will NOT make you HAPPY. You will not stay happy. It didn't make your grandma happy. Amputation, blindness, organ failure, heart problems, neuropathy. NONE of that will keep anyone happy. These people in the Fat Acceptance movement are dangerous, and they shouldn't be promoting stuff like this. I have it, and I'm lucky to have medicine that controls it very well. The medicine has kept my A1C under 6.0. I still need to lose weight though.

[@Lulusnotreadyforthis]

As a Brit I'd like to point out that a lot of us are ashamed of this doctor. I nearly spat my tea out when I saw them on TV one morning. How they still have their medical licence is beyond me.

[@dalkay]

She’s pretty crazy but us Americans have some crazy antivax doctors too. 😮‍💨

[@ge2719]

@@dalkay dont worry, you also have some completely sane fact based doctors who aren't ideologically pro-vaccine nut jobs too. having a fact based approach to everything in medicine is what a good doctor should do. terms like "antivax" are propaganda bs.

[@iridescentsea3730]

@@dalkay lmfao how are you real

[@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62]

Im sorry i know this is childish but... A BRIT DRINKING TEA OML LOL

[@Average_fv_4005_enjoyer]

​@@samsonthe80yearoldhedgehog62 what else are we supposed to drink every morning

[@erinhansen9773]

As someone who has lost 175 pounds, I am DEFINITELY not miserable being smaller. I have never felt better in my life.

[@mikemcmike6427]

Self discipline and accountability is the biggest threat to these advocates. It would mean their situation is changeable and their fault and instead they need to make it outside their control and use mental gymnastics to cope with their bad situation and act like it’s actually a good thing. It’s bascially obesity Stockholm syndrome

[@luchie2388]

You can tell the instant she speaks that she doesn’t believe anything she’s spews but knows that she can get “famous” and benefit by telling vulnerable people what they want to hear. She knows exactly what she’s doing.

[@kmwill123]

Not to mention she knows it pisses people off and gets views and comments

[@americanooooo1579]

When she said she'd rather get diabetes than be miserable.. it made me furious. I have type 1 Diabetes and it is the most horrible thing I have to live with. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, I can't believe she said that. It's so emotionally straining and you can't just take a break from it. If you can avoid getting it, do everything you can to. It is genuinely such an awful disease and her saying that is so insensitive to the people who struggle with this every day for the rest of our lives.

[@nanochan1168]

Me too I reduced my carbs and stuck to good diet. I actually started to genuinely hate carbs because now that I enjoy good health and stamina and almost no mood swings I realised how much misery I lived in the never ending cycle of uncontrolled blood suger and sever hypoglycemic unawares that could have killed... I feel free and in control.. I eat based on my nutritional need my dietitian told me I can have small desert /even a cheat meal a week but even then I hate how sugar spik and drop make me feel like shit ...so no fuck her for thinking the DM is nothing it really destroys if you let your self go.

[@nataliesnyder6037]

You cannot get type one from eating too much sugar. You can only get type two from eating too much sugar.

[@azeemahnakhoda1869]

Agreed she doesn’t know how privileged she is. I know people who legit can’t afford insulin and have to ration it out. (Which is in humane) and they know people who have died from not having insulin. So for her to just say that she would rather get diabetes just shows how much privilege she has.

[@azeemahnakhoda1869]

@@nataliesnyder6037 yes your right but that doesn’t take away from her point.

[@nataliesnyder6037]

@@azeemahnakhoda1869 of course. I just want to make sure people don't get the wrong idea about diabetes. There's a lot of false info.

[@abeautifulcountry9353]

My childhood best friend died suddenly in January at 50, her husband died last year, he was 56. Both had numerous health complications and both were very obese. They were also lovely, funny, hardworking and kind people, who left 3 children in their late teens orphaned. Obesity is no joke, it is also not healthy, it kills.

[@btudrus]

"it is also not healthy, it kills." WRONG It was high insulin which killed them. Caused by eating sugar and processed foods. They were obese because of high insulin which also caused the other conditions. Not the other way around. Spreading this lie, that obesity is "causal" for other conditions just kills more innocent people, because no one cares about the REAL CAUSE. Obesity is not the cause, it is just one of the consequences. You need to treat the real cause...

[@abeautifulcountry9353]

@@btudrus Were you the pathologist who wrote their death certificates? She died of a massive heart attack and he died from complications after surgery. Obesity killed them.

[@btudrus]

@@abeautifulcountry9353 "Obesity killed them." COMPLETELY WRONG. Heart attack is CAUSED by eating sugar (and by high insulin induced by eating sugar). Which also causes obesity, NOT THE OTHER WAY! Obesity doesn't cause you having surgery or die from complications thereof. Eating sugar / being hyperinsulinaemic does, however. Stop repeating this bullshit about obesity. It is just a marker of a poor health, not a cause thereof. People are dying because of your stupid lie....

[@EmCat]

There's a lot to her phrase, "I wanted to be a FAMOUS weight-loss doctor." It was never about medicine or helping others. It was about fame.

[@btudrus]

yep!

[@countbeccula]

Thats what i was thinking. Thats why her mid set could be swayed so fast. Its the exact same as nickacadoavacado and other large youtubers. Louder you are, the more view you get. Bad publicity is still publicity. Its so depressing

[@traceyblanchard1375]

Yep. Selling your soul for fame. Sad.

[@brownbrewsommelier]

infamy

[@kman9884]

“Obesity is a social construct just like gender and race” I am now Asian and can fully live my weeb life, thank you doctor.

[@lees4416]

"A horse is a plant just like cats and foxes" basically

[@er_hunt]

I think they more so meant the culture around one’s race, and the stereotypes that come with it. Also, theoretically you could move to Asia, learn a foreign language such as Japanese and become really in touch with the culture, and that would make you Asian, in the same way that an Asian immigrant to the U.S. is an American. Granted that’s a slightly different perspective than gender ideology, but their point, while slightly poorly phrased, is still valid, although not the “obesity doesn’t exist” element of it. Also, in regards to gender identity, this is part of why I find “trans women are/aren’t women” arguments pointless. Like, it obviously depends on definition and perspective, the “yes” definition being based on what being a woman socially means, and the other side being based on chromosomes and other biological elements that even with hormones and potentially surgery which are proven to increase the happiness and satisfaction of trans people, can not be changed. The arguments should be about their rights and protecting them from discrimination and harassment, whether or not they are women, they are human beings that deserve respect and humanity.

[@عیشہ007]

​@er_hunt ok mr. yap a lot

[@haileypink01]

as someone who was skinny their whole life and has recently became obese, i feel qualified to weigh in on this topic. this doctor seems to be making a massive attempt to cope with failed weight loss attempts. it seems like they tried to be a diet-driven weight loss fanatic until it didn’t produce immediate results. as someone who has a BMI over 40, i’m here to tell you it is NOT fun and games. it’s miserable being so overweight you can’t even put your socks on without getting out of breath. it’s miserable being the biggest person in my family at all times. it’s miserable dealing with back pain that stems from having too much abdominal fat pulling on my spine. it’s miserable feeling breathless walking next to friends and family who can speak as they go. fat is detrimental to health. there’s no way around this fact. fat people do deserve to feel good about themselves and be happy, and should never be treated as lesser than because of their weight. however- since i have made healthy progress towards slow, sustainable weight loss, no fad dieting, no extreme restriction or injurious workout routines- i have been happier. you become happier through exercise and healthy food. i feel AWFUL after i eat mcdonald’s now, but when i eat a nutritious meal i feel happy, healthy, and energetic. we cannot all pretend that obesity is a “social construct”. we should be encouraging each other to be healthy. it’s hard to hear that you’re overweight and on the brink of death, or that you have pre diabetes. but that doesn’t change the facts. you will suffer and ultimately die from being too obese. i’d rather put my best foot forward to work out, eat healthy, and slowly lose weight than shove food in my face and pretend nothing is going on.

[@_sarcasmiss2141]

Hope you'll reach your goal! I'm rooting for you!

[@angelinparadise7282]

that's exactly how you should approach your weight loss, in a sustainable way. I've never been obese, but my weight has fluctuated during my college years and I did tried extreme diets. I'm very proud of you, keep going! the key imo is to think of it as a life style change that will lead to weight loss as one of the several positive outcomes. I've said in a commentary that imo this woman suffers some sort of personality disorder, this tendency to extremes in everything she does apparently is not healthy and is very telling. you keep doing you and be patient and consistent, the results will definitely come!

[@kristengarcia6437]

Totally agree. Was up to 315 and I'm only 5'6. Currently down to 240 and have more work to do. Losing weight is hard, but our choices make it harder. I had always thought I wasn't meant to be big bc I ate less than my skinny friend. We have different hormones so she can burn more, but from tracking calories I now know it was absolutely my food and drink choices making me obese. I'll probably never be skinny, but I'm ok with that. I just want to rid myself of the majority of the fat so I can keep reducing back and joint pain and enjoy life

[@mlzotter6405]

i am in a very similar situation and absolutely love this comment!!!

[@asgreen139]

"weigh in on the topic"

[@meggoegoo]

There’s a quote from Seneca that says “some would rather reform the gods than reform themselves” that reminds me of these people. It’s easier to them to make videos about all doctors and researchers being wrong than it is to confront their own issues

[@MrCmon113]

You should definitely reform the gods or rather destroy them.

[@KN-hg2nv]

​@@MrCmon113 It's not supposed to be literal here lol

[@MrCmon113]

@@BBee13 Sounds like god propaganda to me. Of course you change yourself: In order to destroy more gods.

[@sleepy8735]

I laugh everytime she says "fat around the organs is made up" because where else would it be? You think you're fat because there's air inside your body and around your organs, not... fat???

[@javiicolors5709]

It's so easy if you deny every single fact with "its made up"

[@vickyoli]

Exactly! And if she think it is bc her organs got enlarged, thats not healthy at all

[@BeckBeckGo]

I just gape in horror. Because this woman is a DOCTOR. I can only assume she specialized in, like, podiatry or something, because she's got a very, very poor handle on how energy is used and stored by the human body.

[@Ellie-rx3jt]

@@BeckBeckGo I'm pretty sure they're a GP (general practitioner, equivalent to an American primary care physician). Not to rag on GPs (some are great doctors with personal reasons for choosing their career path) but it's kinda the default "wasn't really good at anything particular in medical school" choice 😬

[@torgostheme]

@@Ellie-rx3jt I don’t think that’s fair. GPS are incredibly important and many choose that area because they actually like patients.

[@Bobsgerbilstore]

Mortician of 20 years here. I have seen thousands of autopsies of obese people and have pulled out massively heavy organs covered by inches-thick slabs of yellow fat. I have to make several incisions in the body and usually the incisions are just small enough to access major arteries. On an obese person the incision sometimes has to go elbow deep.

[@yoshibeast12]

My dad had this exact same thought pattern as this "dr" until they had to amputate his left leg. My old man has been crying himself to sleep since then but I guess they don't talk about the consequences of disregarding your health for the long term

[@fawnieee]

They do, they definitely do. They just don't want to take accountability for themselves and are perfectly content to emburden the rest of society and its healthcare. My mum is a nurse and the number of nurses who have injured themselves, because hospitals don't provide the right equipment for them, because these people are endless. Seriously though, when something is self inflicted like this they should be the last to receive treatment. Especially because they're taking up hospital beds that should go to sick people who had no choice in being sick. When I was in hospital I had to watch an unlifing cancer patient sit in a chair in the corridor of the hospital ward because these overweight people took up the beds and there weren't enough to go around. There were not enough beds and no chairs that were big enough for overweight people to use, so they got the beds instead.

[@RubyBlueUwU]

@@fawnieee nah, man. Most of them cannot face the long term, it’s an unfortunate natural coping mechanism of the human mind. The issue continues when that denial is backed up by people like this which encourages them to continue being blind to their own reality. Comments like this help nobody, you’re just self-aggrandising.

[@menopriezvisko94]

Is he better now?

[@MrCmon113]

@@fawnieee Well, they never asked for public healthcare. You should be complaining to the state, the voters. Not fat people.

[@kindauncool]

+@@MrCmon113 both of these things are issues

[@gabyelizabeth9624]

Their rhetoric hurts fat people and that's the part that bothers me. Fat ppl deserve to make an informed decision on whether or not to lose weight. There is already so much hate/misinformation for people that are fat, so why as as a fat person, make it harder for other fat people??

[@witch6in6the6womb]

Good point

[@dummyyogurt5375]

Because her and other fat activists dont want to make that decision. They dont have the strength to decide to try and change so instead they just make it "wrong" to choose. That way they get rid of the cognitive dissonance, they can eat as much as they want without feeling guilty

[@Chibi_Sashi]

Because she wants other people to be miserable with her. Misery loves company.

[@berg_ahorn]

i agree with everything you ssaid, just wanted to remind you that they are non binary

[@gabyelizabeth9624]

@@berg_ahorn thank u for correcting me

[@drewsurgenor2269]

"now I would never compare anything to the Holocaust" ... "BUT" She did nottt just say that 💀

[@KianaDocherty]

i lost my mind lol

[@TheAdrift]

To be fair, they actually said "I would never compare anything ELSE going on right now to the Holocaust"... and in fairness, THAT'S KINDA WORSE! I don't know whether that video was made before Russia invaded Ukraine, but how peaceful does this dude think the world is right now?!? Actual Nazis are running rampant! Totalitarian dictators commit human atrocities somewhere on the planet every day! WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC where we knew what worked, and governments everywhere were like "muhhhh economy" so millions of people had to die so we could all keep going to WORK. How SHELTERED, how PRIVILEGED, how TOTALLY NAIVE... ugh. Obviously I lost my mind too at that part! 😅 (edit: typo)

[@kj-pn8ll]

You know their victim mentality is *bad* when they're comparing their situation to THE HOLOCAUST 🤢

[@engurland]

She wasn't comparing. She was drawing *parallels* which are basically antonyms.

[@dahliacheung6020]

Rewatching this and I really cannot believe how comically furious and -definitely not- miserable she looks while claiming to be fat and happy. Seriously looks like she wants to hurt someone 😳

[@boosqueezy2418]

they’re all miserable

[@Sageddegas]

Yes I’m sure diabetes isn’t going to affect their happiness whatsoever. They LITERALLY sound EXACTLY like addicts tryin to rationalize their addiction.

[@imsleepy6211]

I mean, she'd probably abuse the heck out of insulin to maintain the ability to eat whatever whenever.

[@bisexualfrenchfry1953]

She sounds like she has a food addiction honestly.

[@arctic_desert]

I did this with addictions and can confirm that I thought of my own past behavior/mentality immediately!! In the back of my head I always imagined myself dying by 30 or something and I didn't believe the lies I was telling people about being happy/in control. I actually didn't want to choke or dehydrate to death! it's evidence that this person is not thinking critically about what illness feels like

[@BizzeeB]

well, because sugar is LITERALLY a drug that LITERALLY affects the brain like an opioid does...

[@QUEERVEEART]

cause food addiction is just like drug or gambling addictions. theres a reason they sound that way lol , they ARE addicts

[@Melpomium]

It feels almost cult-like the way people in the fat positive community "reach out" to people when they're the most vulnerable. Really disgusting. I can't help but think what this woman is going to feel when (hopefully!) she snaps out of it and realises what she has been promoting. Off-topic though - you're looking absolutely gorgeous Kiera!

[@stina9659]

It is a cult, of angry hungry (mostly) women who will only continue that trail because they have not learned the consequences of their actions yet.

[@liyre4189]

Reminds me of MLMs, they see you've lost your job or something and they immediately slide into your pms about their crappy leggings

[@Blox117]

@@stina9659 trail of breadcrumbs?

[@m4tta]

it’s like they want people to be as miserable as them

[@200kristena]

It's also disgusting how the diet industry preys on people in larger bodies.

[@hemansx]

The worst thing about this person is how close they hold the camera to their face, just makes an already unpleasant experience even worse

[@d.e.p.5624]

Ouch!!! 😅

[@NadiaSeesIt]

Those shark eyes are killing me

[@Katiemadonna3]

Yes! 😂😂💯💯💯

[@kayakat1869]

Yeah, not a pretty sight.

[@thatvalensteingirl]

9/10 this angle is used so you can't see how big they are. The angle game works both ways; can make you look better, can make you look worse.

[@TheEmmaHouli]

It was me, I was the person taken in by fat acceptance! I remember seeing your video about toxic world of fat activism and I couldn't get through 10 mins of it. I now have high blood pressure at 33 and trying my hardest to lose weight. I think there are a lot of things that body positivity does for us, being fat is less stigmatized and the less people are ashamed of themselves the better. I had to learn to love my body before I am able to change it, and there was no where in the world outside of BP that gave me space to love it. But I feel like I was taken in by a conspiracy theory.

[@Vonononie]

I think the key point is her admitting she had dreams of being a “famous weight loss doctor”. Clearly that didn’t work out due to her being unable to lose the weight. But fame can be found by going on tv and social media with an opposing view to main stream medical advice. Feed into the conspiracy narrative, be the outlier, act like a rebel as shows always want conflict as it gets ratings. Also, there’s no need to lose weight so minimal effort

[@APfw-tri]

I was literally going to come say this. They seem like a person who, when they don't immediately succeed at their lofty goals, just do a full 180 and embrace getting famous, or whatever their goal is, the easy way. "I believed I had to do it the hard way" is an immediate red flag for me of that type of person, btw. The mindset out of the gate is that whatever they're doing has to be done the hardest possible way to be valuable, or not at all. This kind of thinking has deep roots in insecurity and this self-exceptionalist idea that they'll somehow, through outlandish effort, eventually earn their place among the stars. But only if they do the thing "the hard way". More often than not, this means going in 120% and completely overdoing the effort, as if to rig the game against themselves from the beginning. They KNOW they will burn out, but because they went so hard for a while, they get to tell people it was impossible; they tried "everything" and it didn't work. Mundane, boring solutions that work without fanfare but require months and years of diligence, of teaching yourself new habits and learning to find joy in them, are beneath their notice. Too dull, too miserable, too unremarkable, and worst of all, too demonstrably successful. I may know a few too many people like this, and once upon a time, one of them lived in my mirror. Glad that person got his head out of his ass. :P

[@mrfister825]

Source? Fat doctor: Trust me bro

[@chriss1686]

​@@APfw-tri My past self feels personally attacked by this well-crafted and articulate prose. lmao

[@rebeccaucich1290]

@@APfw-tri lifechangingly insightful comment

[@ReginasHorror]

The holocost comparison had me shaking with RAGE. how dare this person...

[@charlie2.048]

Seriously made me see red.

[@empty-sky]

@Grungus Khan I think they heard the (N*zi term) "useless eaters" which was used to describe the first victims of systemic extermination, the disabled, and decided that was fatphobic. Then again, many FAs are trying to tie fat experience to disability when it suits them.

[@fawnieee]

@Grungus Khan it's disgusting how many people who believe they're the ultimate, faultless and benign victim compare their struggles to one of the most horrific and evil events in history. Like, they MUST be living in such privilege and comfort that they can compare something to a pretty common negative experience for humans (feeling insecure etc) to, again, one of the most evil events in history. It's like she's never had to deal with any real hardship.

[@fawnieee]

@Grungus Khan that evil event actually started with unlifing and punishment communists. That certain H man (I have to censor myself, thanks KZbin) utterly despised them and they were his first target.

[@user89389]

Right? Because being called fat and not being able to fit into a one-person seat is basically the same as being locked up, starved, forced to work, and then ultimately being put into a gas chamber and dying along with your loved ones (unless they died before you did, or you died before they did). 🙃

[@OakieDokey31]

Why do these people always insist that you must be unhappy if you are thin? Is it because they cannot think of anything worse than controlling your eating? Prime example of greed.

[@katd7716]

I was wondering about that too. Probably they identify happiness with food so the concept of being careful and not indulging yourself with anything you want, anytime you want it equals misery. Nobody seems to take into account other things in life that can bring us happiness or simply the fact that some people genuinely like and enjoy their healthy food.

[@ingridsuperfreak]

I think for people like her and all the rest of the Body Positive movement it's more easy to be the VICTIMS, because if you are the victim you don't have to do anything but just crying and sobbing about your "fate". They forgot that obesity didn't come one day in the morning to our bodies , we did something every single day of our life to became fat and they hope they can loose weight in a couple of weeks or months or without effort ????

[@gur262]

Im currently overweight. Again. And it's hard to lose weight , sure . But I've been eating like nobodies business after i lost weight last time. Cycling 10+ miles every day and some more on the weekend allows to eat a ton. I think they confuse the necessary deprivation during a diet for a permanent state. You can't go back to absurd portions if you don't do lots of sports but feeling kinda hungry slot of the time isn't forever

[@loladanger]

It’s the same way they insist if you are fat you are also unhappy. Our society equates happiness with body type.

[@loladanger]

@@gur262 you don’t need to deprive yourself to lose weight. Eating low calorie foods that have a high volume and balancing macros will actually make you feel full. I’ve consistently lost 1.5-2lbs eating approximately 2k cal per day. I am also an avid cyclist and I do not feel deprived. I never cut out carbs, but did switch to a lower fat diet to accommodate dietary restrictions I have due to an illness I have. I eat a sorbet (45cal) or gelato bar (80cal) every single night; or perhaps some chocolate covered strawberries (45cal each). I am also AFAB & over 40. So the weight doesn’t always come off easily. But the main thing abt the idea of depriving yourself is that you will eventually not be able to sustain that. As your body weight goes down, you will have to work out more or eat less to continue to lose. They cut calories so much that they plateau & become hungry. Not depriving yourself makes you feel full and satisfied and less likely to overeat calorically dense foods. The only thing I restricted (nearly fully) was fried foods. I still eat almost everything else. I eat bread, cereal, starchy vegetables, etc. I just eat the processed stuff in controlled portions. It’s when you deprive yourself too much that you eventually break your self-imposed strict rules. If you allow yourself to have portioned controlled treats, it allows you to balance out your diet. I just hate this idea that we have to deprive ourselves to be healthy. In fact, I can have much larger portions now and I feel full, whereas calorically dense foods kept me hungry all the time.

[@kerblam]

The style of videos where asher puts their face up so close to the camera feels SO confrontational, an invasion of personal space. I feel like i'm backed into a corner while someone hisses at me, "you're wrong. You're wrong, and i am right." Spit flying into my face, breath and all. Scary.

[@cl5470]

In reality, they are just ashamed of their bodies, no matter what they claim the reason is.

[@itsdorianrae]

all i can see is mrs trunchbull from matilda

[@novemberblake9505]

Fat and happy VS thin and miserable reminds me of something one of my friends who was addicted to cocaine would say. Whenever I brought up his health he would go „I‘d rather be happy now and die at 30 than be miserable and kill myself within the next year.“ The scary thing is that he was convinced of that. He truly believed there was no way he could live without taking drugs and that he would feel so horrible without he had no other option than to commit. Also the whole „fat is my community“ thing is something he would also pull. His dealer was one of his friends, the people he got high with are his friends. They are the only ones who truly understand him, I as a person without an addiction could never understand what it’s like etc. etc. They have an addiction and they are in deep denial. Even worse: they push other people into denial as well.

[@RileySnodgrass]

“There are no academic articles that PROVE being fat is bad for your health” this is purely using wording to her advantage. She’s technically right, because nothing is ever proven in science. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t overwhelming amounts of evidence in support of it.

[@Blox117]

its proven that her gravitational attraction is higher than that of normal people

[@kfkkfk7995]

@@Blox117 not really "proven" just factually right because of basic physics. But I could tell you that it's not proven and I would be right

[@Blox117]

@@kfkkfk7995 if you measure the force, then it is proven

[@Blox117]

@@kfkkfk7995 ok since you want to be technical, then the rate at which time moves forwards is faster closer to her than farther away. this causes objects to shrink asymmetrically and appear to 'accelerate' to where she is. this is due to her large mass and influence on spacetime

[@kfkkfk7995]

@@Blox117 yeah, but the effect is probably too little to measure it, and you'd have to prove that it wasn't, for example, the wind that moved whatever object moved towards her, so it remains unproven. She could literally say that it's not proven and it would be factually correct

[@Piqued5]

She sounds like another emotional dysregulated grifter. They prey on vulnerable people desperate to hear a message that soothes their victim mentality.

[@IWroteSomeThings]

I’ve been looking for this comment. Something about her eyes screams “listen to me, follow me!” It’s honestly so scary to see it so clearly. Especially the whole holocaust thing…. So gross

[@mysterylovescompany2657]

They're (they use they/them) just too intense on _every single word_ for their hinges to be stable.

[@moyo6606]

And definitely doing the "they/them" thing for maximum attention and victim status. Annoying.

[@snikrdoodls14]

@@mysterylovescompany2657 Why use such things for someone who is clearly unstable, and hasn't gone to see a professional for such things a gender dysphoria? That's the equivalent of someone self-diagnosing that they're autistic and clinically depressed; all for attention. It does nothing but enable unhealthy behaviour. Even then, it is in no way someone else's problem if you get upset at being misgendered. Especially when you present yourself as more male or female.

[@mekabare]

@Baie des villes Because you dont need dysphoria to be cis. This person adopted the identity around the same time their shifts towards obesity changed and to me that sounds like someone emotionaly unstable found a radfem echo chamber.

[@valerieodonnell6764]

I came to watch this video again after hearing from Sam at every size that this video was used as evidence in the investigation for revoking FatDrUks license. I’m continually impressed by how thorough and well-researched Kiana’s videos are, regardless of the subject.

[@darmoforeelz5857]

Doesnt her whole stance actually fall under malpractice, where she should loose her licence to practice medicine? i mean if she tells her morbidly obese patients that they are completly fine and shouldnt loose any weight because you go girl,body positivity or whatever reason she gives... This truly is scary 😮

[@brandonw6139]

Ya that definitely should be malpractice

[@ghostratsarah]

Only if she's telling it to her patients or giving individual medical treatment. General medical advice to non-patients is not legally regulated. If she had a patient in her office and said these things, she would have her license yaked out of her hands, but she's perfectly in her right to say it online. (whether it's a right she should be exerting, that's up to society to determine.)

[@Zeverinsen]

@@ghostratsarah I don't doubt that she might not actually be saying this to patients, because she seems like an opportunistic grifter, who doesn't ACTUALLY believe any of that shit.

[@deanolium]

One thing to bear in mind is that she appears to be a GP who are privately hired by her surgery rather than being hired directly by the NHS. This means it’s just down to the owners of the surgery whether to keep her on or not. The UK tends to have a lot of GPS with really dodgy ideas. Hell we only stopped appearing GPs to advocate homeopathy as few years ago. That’s unfortunately how our system works

[@tradwitchmorgana6933]

@@deanolium not entirely true. She still has to maintain registration to the GMC and they can strike her off the register. But she would need to be referred to them by fellow professionals or patients who’ve suffered due to her care. Re homeopathy; it was available in a lot of the NHS. I blame Prince Charles’s interference for a lot of that

[@sarah6292]

"I'd rather get Diabetes than be miserable" I'm a Type 1 Diabetic. I got it from my Dad who died after having a severe hypo when he was home alone. My family cried for me when I was diagnosed at 15, terrified that the same thing was going to happen to me. I manage my condition well but I've still ended up in hospital, like when I lost control of a chest infection and ended up in the ICU with early onset organ failure. I have to live so carefully because if I get Covid, the likelihood of me dying is very high. Don't even get me started on the daily injections, blood testing and calculating meticulously what I eat and inject. So no, you wouldn't rather have Diabetes and I'm frankly disgusted that you would throw that statement around when there are millions of us stuck with this shitty disease through no fault of our own.

[@blueodum]

If anyone deserves to get "cancelled" it is this fat-positivity doctor.

[@grainnemurphy]

Most doctors I know would absolutely put diabetes at the bottom of the list of things they'd volunteer for. Sure, monitoring has become better etc...but it's so much work for you! So much vigilance and effort required to stay healthy, and then the worry about complications. Absolutely unbelievable from her.

[@rinameunier3200]

My grandma had I think type 2, her arms were always covered in bruises because she'd bruise at the lightest pinch and it would never heal properly. It sucked.

[@ladyofrillwater]

"I'd rather have diabetes than be miserable" As someone with an uncle whose diabetes has become so severe that he needs regular dialysis, suffered multiple strokes, has had to go to wound care multiple times due to falls causing abscesses, has suffered partial vision loss, and is currently at a 24/7 treatment facility due to all of this... You will be miserable with diabetes. This person especially, given their general attitude towards their own health and their responsibility for it. They're basically saying "I'd rather be miserable because of the consequences of unchecked eating than miserable because I ate a single slice of pizza instead of the whole thing."

[@luciagianquitto4010]

Exactly. Diabetes destroys the human organs one by one. Because of pepole like this the idea of loosing weight feels really scary even if i know that i must do it

[@iceprincess2134]

And why would she have to be miserable? It would seem that if she feels like she needs that much food every single day to not be miserable then she has a mental health problem that needs addressing. Same goes for if she was doing a totally unecessary extreme diet.

[@lore6370]

Let's see if she is happy when she goes blind or get her feet amputated

[@josee1984]

Absolutely ! I hated when she said this. As someone who knows what diabetes can do to people, this lady is delusional and sick saying she'd rather have diabetes than eat a little less and exercise a little more

[@edsayshey3314]

Literally losing my sight because of diabetes at only 23 years old. I am miserable with diabetes, I don’t get how that could be something that someone would ever want

[@GrammarGal1]

As someone who lost 20 kilos, I had people along the way asking whether I was miserable by eating less/healthy and exercising, but I never felt better. Funny how fuelling your body correctly and exercising regularly makes you feel better. A real head-scratcher.

[@coolbeans5911]

"i'd rather get diabetes than be miserable" oh we in for a ride

[@KianaDocherty]

actually laughed out loud at this comment hahah

[@samanthab.6221]

Wait until they start taking off her toes and her feet. Party is just getting started (former ICU military medic here).

[@walterco7701]

I mean, that statement sums up the issue she has and that food is either reward or punishment and not what it actually is - fuel.

[@ravenraven1340]

@@samanthab.6221 This. I have a good friend who is diabetic. She manages her condition really well, but she still has dangerous hypos and she's gradually losing her teeth in her 50s due to the chronic dry mouth and resulting tooth decay she gets as a symptom of her diabetes. Half of her teeth have now been replaced with dentures. She says it's not fun, but she lives with it, because what other choice does she have. This FatDoctor is talking like diabetes is such a trivial thing.

[@samanthab.6221]

@@ravenraven1340 I’m so sorry she’s going through that. I’ve seen severe kidney failure, amputations, insane wounds (diabetic ulcers) blindness and a plethora of other things from diabetes. This “fat doctor” is completely delusional. She might change her tune if she actually worked with diabetics in an inpatient ward. She needs her damn license revoked.

[@olliewigs]

I don't understand how this person still has a platform and hasn't been banned from TikTok etc? Spreading extremely dangerous misinformation to vulnerable people should honestly be illegal.

[@christinegarrett7257]

Or still has a medical license and is allowed to practice.

[@DudeTheMighty]

There's a _very_ simple answer. She's on the "right side of politics".

[@nefertitig4782]

It takes a few minutes to raise a concern on the general medical council website. All you need is their name and gmc number shown at 2:43

[@hersheycat6526]

Tic tok is owned by the Chinese. They don’t care if westerners are listening to bs as long as the money comes in.

[@ayanabeltaine]

Isn't it odd that when people lose weight.. the pain in the knees.. blood pressure, etc.. clears up for most people.

[@Kessiebear81]

Hmm except that’s not actually accurate

[@arielwilliams4112]

@@Kessiebear81 most of the time it is tho… lol

[@DoomJoy666]

@@Kessiebear81 you once held up 300 pounds on your knees. When you lose weight you hold less pounds. That's basic fucking science and math. Your pains don't VANISH but they relieve and it's not as intense allowing furthance in healing. Think, be logical, and don't just reaction say really really reallllly stupid things next time.

[@empty-sky]

​@@Kessiebear81 It is in many cases. In a slim person with arthritis and high blood pressure no, but being overweight is terrible for your knees and hips.

[@mish8183]

@@empty-sky hear hear. I dislocated my knee, chipping a cartilage which made it agonising to walk/for movement. When I lost 23kg, it lessened the pain and improved my balance. I may have some problem with food now but im still happier/mentally better in terms of energy and esteem so 🤷‍♀️

[@ValerieJean-fo6lc]

My grandmother died of complications of long term out of control diabetes. She was morbidly obese for years. The last time I saw her she had both legs amputated to the hips. She died the next day. Talk about motivation.

[@dottemar6597]

Similar for me concerning alcohol. Cirrhosis killed my father at 58.

[@owllight8]

Yeah, I'm an MD as well, and she's definitely being consciously deceptive with some of her statements. Nobody with any significant exposure to medical research goes around talking about whether studies have 'proven' something or not. Her open admission of wanting to be in the spotlight prior to her sudden heel turn paints a pretty cynical picture. Maybe she sincerely feels that because fat folk do deal with discrimination she's justified in deploying a little sophistry to get her points across in support of a cause she believes in, but it really comes across as someone desperate for her 15 minutes of fame and eager to embrace outrageous positions to get it

[@ladygagarin1660]

If she's doing this knowingly, that makes it even worse. Deliberately misleading people into danger, using her medical training to fool them into trusting her...is she going to come over and replace their missing limbs, eyes, kidneys...etc.?

[@gayusschwulius8490]

>fat folk deal with discrimination Yes, and rightfully so. Discriminating against people with unhealthy habits is extremely important for society as a whole. Look how a "body shaming" society like Japan looks in terms of its people's health vs. a "non-discriminatory" society like the US. I'm sick of hearing this: "Fat shaming is a real problem, but..."-bullshit. Fat shaming is both morally justified and important. The only problem is that there's far too little of it in western countries.

[@gayusschwulius8490]

@A C Of course they should be. Just like smokers should be discriminated against, or drug addicts, or alcoholics. Because you need to make being obese something that people are afraid of while simultaneously giving obese people a good reason to get their shit together. Being obese has to be a social nightmare, because it only becomes a physical nightmare when it's far too late. There's nothing worse than being apathetic about other people's vices and coddling them, because it both makes them less likely to improve and others more likely to fall into the same trap. When I was in highschool, I was a fat fuck who got ridiculed by the other students on a regular basis. Nowadays, I'm very thankful for that, because it was the main reason why I finally found the discipline to get to a healthy weight in college. It was the social shaming that gave me that incentive, not physical problems, because those didn't arrive at such a young age. Telling obese people that they're fat pieces of garbage is an act of kindness and compassion, and I mean that without the slightest hint of irony. And yes, that IS bullying. And it's a good thing. Bullying is an important social correction mechanism that can sometimes go overboard, not something inherently bad.

[@TreeDwellingShrimp]

​@@gayusschwulius8490...The country with one of the highest suicide rates and lowest birth rates? Maybe we shouldn't use them as an example on how to better our own society lol. They're not doing so hot. Everyone there is shamed for everything in order to look and act a certain way and how's that working for them? Also I've never met a single person who lost weight thanks to fat shaming. They either did it because they were fed up and wanted to better themselves or for something else (health scare, partner, child, etc.) Fat shaming usually just causes them to double down and binge or creates movements like FA. We did the whole shaming people thing for DECADES and this is where we ended up. Did you really forget heroin chic or all the magazines and movies shaming fat people and nitpicking women's bodies? Bone thin models? Or fat camps? The funny fat friend trope? Bullying at schools? The ED epidemic of the 90s and early 2000s? All the ads over the last 50+ years pressuring women to be thin or crazy diet fads to lose weight quick? Unless you're too young to remember any of that... Tough love or being mean hasn't worked and literally caused people to rebel against those ideas. That's what westerners do. They fight against what they perceive as oppression, even if it seems silly to others or is shooting themselves in the foot. FA's recruit so many because they want to 'stick it to the man' and it's going against what society expects so they feel punk rock in a sense. Years of body shaming makes change feel impossible and they're hopeless and resentful so FA is a way to flip off all the folks like you who've made them feel like shit and tear them down instead of encouraging them to be healthier and showing a little kindness. All people like you do is confirm to FA's that the world is against them and it pushes them further into their echo chambers. That does diddily squat to help western society. This didn't happen overnight and it won't be fixed that quickly either but we've done your approach and it failed. We need a different way.

[@Jkjoannaki]

Exactly. Discrimination is a real thing, and studies should have specific standards met, same with how they'd study cardiac arrest in men and thought it would present the exact same way to women. Yes, many times studies have problems, that does not mean that everything we know is for sure a lie, we can find ways to make studies more accurate instead of pretending that being fat doesn't harm one's health at all

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

I'm an actual male nurse and let me tell you, being fat and a medical professional, especially one as a nurse, it is not helpful OR good. My spine is in constant pain when I get overworked. My breathing pattern gets disturbed by overworking. My knees kills me from the amount of times I might not be able to sit down and relax. It really is a problem tbh. And I'm only 26.

[@traumateaminternational4732]

At my local hospital, we joke that staff can identify each other in the wild through the "Hospital Walk" (incredibly fast speed walking). Keep fighting the good fight! You too have the power to become a lean, mean, speed-walking machine.

[@ingridsuperfreak]

"but fatdoctor said knee problems are not caused by obesity"😂

[@anastasiafreeman1925]

Why do so many of these fat activists equate wanting to improve your overall health with not loving yourself? Like girl, I’m literally self-obsessed, that’s why I don’t wanna die at 30. 😂😂

[@ohmeohmyohgosh]

preachhhh

[@Lovinia1]

“I wanted to be a FAMOUS -weight loss doctor- person“ Key word is famous. They wanted to be famous

[@TheModernPioneer]

This woman is not only scientifically incorrect about almost everything she claims as a doctor, but she seems to also use an avoidant personality as a shield whenever anything she says is refuted.

[@datsuntwosixty160]

It is confusing she gets any air time, or allowed on KZbin and other platforms, I thought they were cutting down on completely obvious misinformation

[@m4tta]

it scares me that there are doctors like this

[@datsuntwosixty160]

@@m4tta dr's they completely ignore training, medicine, logic, science.

[@DMp-xp6mj]

@@m4tta On the bright side, she's only a GP which means her job is to direct patients to the suitable doctors so she shouldn't do much harm. Imagine if she was a surgeon.... good lord 😳

[@RBXGT2]

Pretty sure this comment will get lost in the thousands of others, but. Thanks for the videos. Quit smoking last summer and felt myself slipping back. A cigarette here with friends after a beer, a quick smoke there. These videos popped up in recommended and reminded me of a mindset I should have. Thanks.

[@Liesel925]

I saw a man at a beach bar last summer. He was probably 5'7" and 350 pounds. My friend said "I envy him". Shocked, I asked why. He said "because he doesn't give a shit". That sums it up. After my divorce I gained 30 pounds. Then I started to give a shit. I ate healthy, I worked out. I lost 40 pounds and kept it off for 15 years. My blood work is nearly perfect, and at 67 years old, 5'3", 120 pounds, I feel fantastic. These fat activists are annoying.

[@elleh6642]

Congrats! You took responsibility for your life instead of wallowing in self-pity like this "doctor".

[@NightmaresWonderland]

You go Donna!

[@Sheepcakezzz]

He doesn't give a shit? You don't know anything about that person's life . Way to project onto other people

[@elleh6642]

@@Sheepcakezzz She's not wrong. To love yourself and your health is to "give a shit" about what you're putting in it. When I made the decision to get healthy, I started "giving a shit" about my body and my health, esp. my future health.

[@Kessiebear81]

How does your specific, individual story equal “fat activists are annoying” exactly..? 🤔

[@alospm]

“I would never compare the holocaust…” as she’s literally doing just that. Wild.

[@truepeacenik]

And to that, I say to her F*off. (Grandchild of a survivor)

[@sergeipohkerova7211]

If she was happy she would just be happy and live her life and laugh at haters. But she is obviously deeply insecure and unhappy and envious of fitter people, and masks that by pretending to address others' supposed bigotry. Not working.

[@stina9659]

As a physical handicap, I literally could not get out of the wheelchair if I was without muscles and overweight, I simply would not be able to carry myself. With autoimmune diseases I can also say how strange I find it that a healthy person will dig her own grave that way.

[@cdjxwubcyex]

No, no actually you're not handicapped at all, it`s all just a social construct like race and gender. You can walk just fine, but society hates you and doesn`t want you to do so....

[@caitlin8349]

Completely agree. I have ME/CFS and I put I put a huge amount of effort, time and money into being as healthy as I can be (which is still extremely ill) and I really struggle to understand these people who choose to make themselves sick.

[@cdjxwubcyex]

@@caitlin8349 When something bad happens in my life or there is some struggle and I want to complain and feel sorry for my self, I have this mental exercise when I imagine waking up without my legs or arms that day. This helps me understand that many people like you would gladly swap their body's with me, taking all my problems and struggles with them. My worst day would be the best day of their lives. We are taking for granted what we already have and worrying about things that doesn`t mater in the long run. She will not care about her health until she loses it and then it can be to late...

[@fawnieee]

I'm nowhere near as bad as you but suffer with my own chronic illnesses and absolutely share the same sentiment. I'm so envious of people who can just _do_ things, no thought or great effort into it. Or, they end up having little to no consequences for straining themselves.

[@DanteBrian]

She REALLY compared being ostracized for being fat to being slaughtered in the Holocaust 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️….

[@rosiered2357]

you know THEY are Jewish right .....

[@msfs19941]

@@rosiered2357 that makes it worse

[@Notnow909]

The way she stares into the camera unblinking (or rarely blinking).... its just... unsettling

[@thatvalensteingirl]

The sheer privilege of smirking and saying that the idea of eating yourself into diabetes doesn't bother you at all. The absolute privilege.

[@salsathemonkey22]

I know right the privliege

[@yasminemobley7858]

While other people already have it and are desperate to lose weight because they know if they don't, they'll die. This doctor is insensitive as hell!

[@salsathemonkey22]

@@yasminemobley7858 can you believe the privlege

[@RubyBlueUwU]

Not to mention the privilege of feeling able to compare being fat to being a Jewish person in the holocaust is just…there are no words.

[@salsathemonkey22]

@@RubyBlueUwU seriously the privilege

[@wendyposten8862]

I’ve been on a diet for 38 years without long term success. Now I don’t weigh myself, I go to the gym 4-5 days a week, and don’t freak out about food. After a few months, my jeans are super loose and my knees don’t hurt! I’ll slip into eating disorder behavior if I weigh myself and count calories. No pills. No shakes. No MLM. Just kindness to myself.

[@galeforce3192]

I both envy and respect you. I have to drink 1-2 protein shakes a day, because that's the only way I can get the protein I need. Early in my weight loss journey my upper arms got sore on a regular basis despite not exercising. I remembered hearing something about how your body will start eating away at protein after a long enough period of time. Once I started drinking protein shakes, my arms were fine again.

[@Amy-ky4bc]

Yess!!

[@vinnitravis4242]

Wow, that is amazing, people like you honestly inspire me, wish you well :)

[@dalkay]

@@galeforce3192 I used to use shakes but I hated every flavor I tried so I just eat lots of steak and fish instead. It’s more prep but oh well.

[@gaoda1581]

Intermittent fasting works for many. Basically, eat in an 8 hour window each day (likely two filling meals), and in a week or less, you won't feel hunger outside that time.

[@Ree-rr1js]

"Not only I have chosen to remain fat and happy" She said the sentence with anger and negative emotion lol

[@thrillingalteration6281]

I thinks she's the one who leads a miserable life, you can even tell based on the anger and frustration displayed on her face.

[@aideenohalloran]

I agree, they come across as very angry

[@lambchop58]

@@thrillingalteration6281 the eyes can't lie, she is miserable

[@umbrellacorp.]

How do these people still have doctors licenses for giving bad advice on social media?!. 😡 Yet when a regular guy takes a pic of some people stealing he gets fired.

[@colossusX1]

"I'd rather have diabetes than be miserable" - I am in shape and have diabetes and I can tell you that diabetes management takes a considerable amount of my time and energy everyday...

[@tektako]

It’s like it hasn’t occurred to her that she could be free of both diabetes AND misery.

[@MoistNasa]

This is fucking wild. If she were my doctor, I would still be wheelchair bound. Losing weight not only helped me walk again, but it’s made a dramatic impact on my disease course in general. It’s easier to get past new disease attacks because I don’t have so much excess weight to carry around and can do more for myself to get through them. (I have MS)

[@valeriejean6507]

My morbidly obese grandmother had uncontrolled diabetes for years. After years of diabetic trips to the hospital and multiple surgical procedures, she died with both legs amputated to the hips. This all took years of misery. This woman is addicted to food, especially sugar, and stark raving mad.

[@peacemaster8117]

I just saw that the fat doctor chose to go on a diet (1,400 calories a day) and exercise regime in 2021 to lose weight, after learning that obesity was a risk factor for covid. She dropped a couple stone and says she's now happier and will continue to live a healthy lifestyle... BUT she's still not backing down from any of her previous fat acceptance rhetoric, and is actually promising that she won't lose any more weight. Absolute psycho.

[@helengroenewald1271]

As an obese class 3 person, I can actually understand where these women are coming from. Losing weight isn't easy, and denying the fact that you are unhealthy is a much easier route. Doesn't make it right but is still true

[@tektako]

Except being fat is incredibly hard too.

[@babycakes84]

@@tektako yes but changing habits is never easy, people usually prefer to stay in their comfort zone (even if it proves to be more difficult in the long run, but they’re blinded to that)

[@GW-gz8jh]

@@babycakes84 life isn’t easy. Most people get up and do things every day that aren’t easy. Ease shouldn’t be the primary decision maker in good vs poor choices.

[@Astrum11]

Cut out the refined/processed foods, no rice, potatoes or pasta, and it comes off fairly quick tbh. Speaking from experience after years of eating too many carbs and processed sugar.

[@defeqel6537]

@@Raya-ir4tm she isn't completely wrong, the medical categories of obesity are somewhat arbitrary. There is some association data behind them, but it's not like the hard limits of BMI > 30 where your health falls off. She is absolutely wrong about visceral fat though, which actually is a much more important metric than weight.

[@venusforfran]

As someone who is, admittedly, overweight, and currently trying to loose 50lbs, when I was a teen I fell into this rhetoric of "fat-positivity". Larger people can still be healthy of course and we should always love eachother no matter our body type. But pushing the idea that this isn't self destructive is just damaging.

[@empty-sky]

Me too. Overweight and trying to lose, that is. I was older when got into the FA rhetoric, but realised after not very long that I was actually just hiding how unhappy I was with my size, and glossing over it with anger more than anything else (so many fat activists express more anger at "fatphobic society" than love and joy for the bodies they have chosen).

[@andrihusainsudra]

I saw FA during my teenage times and I could tell right away that something isn't right. Like, i was super morbidly obese back then and I felt something isn't right

[@angrypizzagirl]

Why is she so aggressively close to the camera? I literally pulled back in my chair every time you showed one of her clips, LOL.

[@susiethomas6909]

I know! Me too! Creepy!

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

I've been looking for this comment. I bet its so she can cry "fat phobia you hate fat faces!" even though no, most of us would be just as uncomfortable if a skinnyass model with a perfect face was fogging up the camera lens

[@lydialevorson3681]

“I’d rather be diabetic than be miserable” you say that now but when your toes come off with your sock due to the diabetes, I think you’ll say “I take it back”

[@Champagnebear]

That “doctor” should lose her licence. You simply can not be spreading harmful rhetoric like this when you are a trusted medical professional. Opinions aren’t facts

[@redmaple1982]

Idk how things work in the UK but in the US there a plenty of doctors who run practices that are just "pill mills" and it takes a while for law enforcement or an ethics board to get involved since these doctors are unlikely to be sued by their own patients. With this doctor a similar thing may be at play.

[@Champagnebear]

@@redmaple1982 I dunno about US either but I do know doctors are paid bonuses by pharma companies to prescribe a certain medication over another. That’s a whole other ethics issue. This doctor is actively giving out advice that will negatively effect patients. This is a much more blatant ethics issue. You simply cannot say these thing without facts. Just like the “doctor” who said vaccines are linked to autism. She should lose her licence and be discredited just like him.

[@redmaple1982]

Oh I mean I agree that her advice is detrimental to her patients..my point in brining up pill mill doctos is that sadly there are a decent amount of people that maintain their licenses despite handing out harmful advice while violating the law..I'm thinking it more likely she will leave the NHS and opt for a less regulated job title like health coach

[@Pisceswildfire]

@@redmaple1982 in the UK you are adhering to a code of conduct and you are a professional first and foremost so if you are spreading false and harmful information it may well be against the code and subject to sanctions. But there's a process to even be reported, invited to a fitness to practice, let alone taken off the register... I'm not saying this is a regular practice but there are many cases where doctors did far worse things and did not lose their licence... so I don't have much hope.

[@redmaple1982]

@@Pisceswildfire sigh... yeah I was suspecting as much. What worries me the most is the fact that she does general medicine, maximum position to misinform people

[@00smodels]

Kiana, this woman made a video about you and just posted it. She points out immediately that you’re white, cis-gendered, and have zero medical knowledge. Of course she would, because your argument is correct and the only thing she can do is insult you about it. It makes me nauseous. Then she limits her comments and doesn’t accept messages from everyone. What a disaster.

[@00smodels]

@@Raya-ir4tmgenuinely confused or sarcasm because I can’t tell.

[@Raebeing]

The way she's also a white cis gendered while calling Kiana that baffled me 😭

[@AshtonGarland]

Calling Kiana Cisgender isn’t an insult it’s what she is, it is however irrelevant to the conversation.

[@00smodels]

@@AshtonGarland Wow, this was almost one year ago and you’re still mad about it? Care for it that much? I wrote that down because the fat activist used those reasons as to make Kiana look bad. Already, she shut down any kind of conversation to be made over the topic.

[@AshtonGarland]

@@00smodels well you did say it was an insult to call Kiana Cis, it’s not. I’m a fan of Kiana and agree with her. I’m also trans and want to pop in and tell you calling a Cis person Cis isn’t an insult.

[@stevebetts1275]

As someone from the UK, if she ended up as my doctor I would be seriously worried about her competence

[@nefertitig4782]

It only takes a few minutes to raise a concern on the general medical council website. All you need is their name and gmc number shown at 2:43

[@Ultra1884]

It's better that people like this out themselves so we can avoid them

[@stuartdryer1352]

The blindness, neuropathy and renal failure that come with type 2 diabetes will make her miserable.

[@thearodriguez8073]

Type I

[@Parbfh173bcja]

Hi, I know maybe you are not going to see this commentary, but I was deep into the "fat positivity" movement, but then I found your videos, and after getting a sleep apnea diagnosis, I started losing weight, very slowly. I'm still obese, but I'm doing better. Thank you so much for all the videos 💖 You've helped me a lot

[@ingridsuperfreak]

Lossing weight is not fast at all, gaining weight neither because we became overweight in years , not months or days. I've lost 25 kG in 4 years , but I am very proud of every single lost pound 😉

[@JuiceBoxBoiii]

Lol the doctor made a response to this video on TikTok. Honestly kiana thanks for keeping us up-to-date. I’ve been a huge fan of your content.

[@NadiaSeesIt]

What did the doctor say? I can't find it

[@TheZanReviews]

It’s so sad that she gave up like this and is trying to come to terms with her decision

[@shhhhrini9088]

Not at all the case

[@WaterPuppy]

"I'd rather get diabetes than be miserable!" Me, having grown up watching my mum struggle with the side effects of her medication and insulin: ...

[@jessa7323]

I love that your passion shines through in your videos. I love the way you edit and how straightforward and to the point you are! Just love your videos. Haven't seen a single one I haven't enjoyed.

[@KianaDocherty]

so sweet

[@samsara801]

I had the misfortune to interact with her briefly on instagram when I pointed out that she was being hypocritical telling people off for not including marginalised communities when she didn’t caption her content, she responded aggressively saying I had no right to criticise her and trying to tone police me while she constantly complains about other people tone policing her. I got the impression that she just likes being the victim and picking fights on the internet. A true Karen.

[@brunetteviking247]

I can't believe they are spewing that much misinformation. I'm only 10kg above my ideal weight and I get knee pain, can't imagine what that must feel like when you're severely overweight. Incredibly irresponsible, especially considering they are a doctor.

[@Komnenos83]

Who are they?

[@AnusiaLA]

I’m a medical ICU nurse and rarely do I have a patient who is not obese, alcoholic, drug addict or smokes excessively. Just had a 450lbs patient and she told me she actually lost 300lbs already aghhh

[@j.c.jeggis1818]

The HAES people always say things that take me right back to being suicidally depressed and using opiates. I remember having a thought almost identical to Dr Larmie's at the beginnning of the video- I'd rather use until I die of an OD than be sober and miserable. Obesity is an addiction issue.

[@emma2370]

Exactly. At least society doesn’t pretend like being a smoker, alcoholic or drug addict is healthy. That is what makes this so terrible. Food addiction should be treated with the same alarm as any other addictions.

[@lavenderdust7912]

I actually was overweight I had you same thought on the addiction part of it. At some point I was like "I'd rather dig myself a hole rather than make any effort to get out of here". I got help, recovered from my binge eating disorder and food addiction, started a healthy diet and lost the excess weight, and I did that because at some point I was tired of sitting in that hole, and I had to break the cicle. The way they speak really sounds dangerous on so many levels, it enables addictions and makes it sounds a lot like "hurting yourself is your own right", which is something I always told myself when it comes to addictions

[@Kessiebear81]

What?! How is it an addiction issue, when there are so many different reasons people are fat..?

[@salmonsynth]

She is the definition of "You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain"

[@RamitaArora]

I believe the reason they tend to use statements like, “Everybody is against fat people” is because this kind of thinking creates an isolating effect. When we start thinking “me against the world”, I think it creates this distorted sense of reality. I went through this because of bullying and I started thinking the negative thoughts in my head were things people have said, but no one was saying anything. I think they even confirm this later by saying something like, “Fat people are my community.” To someone who feels isolated, this is probably one of the most important things to them.

[@Kessiebear81]

Or it could be because being fat is the only remaining acceptable (socially and legally) form of discrimination, that is a constant and incredibly harmful (both mentally and physically.. and also sexually in many cases) for those who live with it - but of course you don’t believe it exists if you’ve never lived it

[@ingridsuperfreak]

Welcome to the VICTIVISM movement . More easy than doing things for and by yourself, let's just blame society about our issues

[@soft1447]

i literally just saw them on my fyp and then tried to escape them on yt and this is the first video that i get suggested.. I CANT ESCAPE THEMMM

[@georjiep4338]

Okay but it's kinda scary a genuine doctor has this option. Can you imagine if you go to them and they give you a wrong diagnosis because they refuse to acknowledge real research and evidence....

[@dummyyogurt5375]

Honestly as more time goes on the more unqualified people are allowed in high positions. It is quite scary

[@georjiep4338]

@@dummyyogurt5375 yes well it certainly feels like that....

[@lostinthevdd]

People who say they'd rather be "fat and happy" than "skinny and miserable", were they ever skinny, fit? I think not. When you're fit the whole world is yours. When you're fat... well, there's food. You feel physically and mentally good when your body is healthy.

[@LifeAdviceSite]

Wait. A doctor who profits off caring for those presenting with obesity related disease is supporting obesity? HOW CONVENIENT. 🤔