I respect that living in this world as a fat person is really damn hard- I mean, I live it every day so I get it! The solution isn’t to make our bodies smaller. The solution is to reduce medical anti-fatness, to create spaces that accommodate a wide array of bodies and abilities, to abolish the BMI and medical gate keeping, to increase clothing inclusivity, and so on and so on. When I talk to clients about why they want to shrink, these are the things that come up. They want to live more comfortably in a world that is biased against them. What we’re being served as a solution is individual- potentially harm yourself to make yourself as small as possible. The real solutions are way bigger than that.