About Lindsay

Like so many plus-size people, I'd been convinced that being fat was the worst thing I could be and that I owed the world thinness. My mother and the rest of my family modelled hatred of their fat bodies (or fear of developing a fat body) to me from birth. Society and media conditioned me to view fat bodies as lazy, dumb, disgusting, undesirable, shameful, unloveable, unwanted, and something to laugh at. 

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I went on my first diet at 16 and thus began 25 years of torture, weight-cycling, hating myself, hiding from the world, weight loss surgery, and the development of a binge eating disorder. 

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In 2020 I finally cracked. I could NOT keep obsessing about my weight and I was no longer going to torture myself with starvation diets. They didn't work and I was fatter and unhappier than I'd ever been.

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Thus began my fat liberation journey and what led me to finally stop seeing myself as a thin person trapped inside a fat person's body just needing the right diet, and instead ...

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I came out as FAT! 

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I am a fat person. I love my fat body. I don't owe the world thinness and damn it, I deserve to take up space and live a full life regardless of my body size.