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For three weeks now, I have exercised every day and had a daily calorie deficit of at least 750. I have not lost a single kilo.
Next time some dude mansplains being overweight to me as “self control” and “calories in v calories out”, I’m gonna scream

It’s just so frustrating when people fail to recognise that bodies don’t treat inputs the same way, or expend energy the same way.

Important context: I have PCOS, which means I am insulin resistant. That also means my body just doesn’t treat calories in the same way as a non-IR person.

PCOS has really strange symptoms. You wouldn’t think that ovarian cysts would cause a low temperature, would you? And while people with PCOS have power average body temperature, it’s not because of the cysts. The cysts are one of the manifestation of a hormonal imbalance

PCOS affects somewhere between one in ten and one in five people during menstration. Yet doctors can’t even agree on *what it is*. Is it a disease caused by insulin resistance or does it cause insulin resistance?

Part of the reason this is on my mind (aside from my frustration) is because of this exchange I had on this trash website the other day (CW for major fatphobia)

*cue scream* (though this was not a dude)

The point of all this, in case it wasn’t clear enough, was to strongly reject the notion that one’s body is a direct reflection of one’s habits. In many, many cases, that just isn’t true. You should not make character judgements about people based on their body.