I do love your blog and support what you stand for. However, in the 'Bikini Body' post, you said you were '170 pounds and 'fat'' - I know you put fat in inverted commas to suggest that people may believe that to be true, but as someone who is significantly shorter and weighing more than you, my gut reaction was to be hurt by your post. This ask is pointless really, but as someone who has suffered with E.Ds, I was triggered by your post and found myself feeling old habits emerge. I am sorry.
Anonymous

Don’t be sorry for sending this my way. Your ask brings up a valid concern. 

I feel weird using the word fat sometimes as a descriptor because it’s so damn relative. Like, I’ve never had a doctor call me fat, but my bmi is in the “overweight” category, I’ve had men who I wouldn’t sleep with call me fat, and women I who didn’t like me call me fat, but I don’t have the traditional fat shape. 

I don’t know if I am allowed to use fat as my descriptor. Who qualifies for the word “fat”? I know there are women who are shorter/weigh more than I do that don’t consider themselves fat, and there are women who are taller/weigh less than I do that consider themselves fat. 

I don’t think being fat is a bad thing, but I know that since it’s been hammered into us as this awful thing it can hard to get rid of the stigma surrounding the word. I know it’s technically not “reclaiming” because fat is not a slur, but I feel like the same rules for reclaiming words should apply to “fat”. 

I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I am glad that you contacted me and I will make sure to be more careful with trigger warnings next time.

You’re beautiful, anon, and I wish you the best of luck.