Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement

Fat Beach Day events are springing up across the US in an effort to fight back against fat-phobia, reclaim safe spaces for the community and honor plus-size culture. Today, one of these celebrations is being held to coincide with Pride month at Jacob Riis Beach in New York, a location deeply ensconced in the city’s activism space.

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    05 months ago

    Unless you’re an elite athlete, your body consumes more calories per day just to exist than you will burn through exercise.

    It takes 30 minutes of decent exercise to work off the calories in a single can of pop. An bowl of chips can set you back an hour.

    It’s not even hard to eat 4 hours worth of exercise in a single afternoon snack.

    • @ampersandrew
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      35 months ago

      That doesn’t make exercise worthless for weight loss.

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        5 months ago

        Of course not and that’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying that trying to outrun a bad diet is never going to happen.

        You could run a marathon every day and then still gain weight because you ate three birthday cakes, five burgers a bucket of fries and a whole pizza for breakfast , lunch and dinner.

        Enablers hate admitting it, but weight is lost in the kitchen.

        If you want to lose weight, eat less, if you want you can also get fit. That’s the difference between being a healthy weight and being fit and healthy.