I appreciate the detailed reply. I feel as though your comment here only serves to underscore my original point. We can speak at the population level about fat

I appreciate the detailed reply. I feel as though your comment here only serves to underscore my original point. We can speak at the population level about fatness overall, but we still do not have any definitive answers for why we see rates increasing or what fat individuals could do to lose weight. Aubrey Gordon has extensively studied diet and weight loss trends that suggest fat people can become skinny people, and has done an incredible job documenting the ways in which these schemes fail to achieve results for most people. If what fat people really want is to be healthy and feel good about themselves, focusing on weight loss may be entirely the wrong objective. If you are eating a healthy diet and getting moderate exercise, you can be healthy even if you are not losing weight. Conversely, people who are naturally skinny can eat a horrible diet and be very unhealthy without being chastised as "unhealthy" by the casual observer. The focus on fatness and weight loss leaves people who struggle to lose weight feeling horrible about themselves, and helps perpetuate anti-fatness in our society which only serves to make fat people's lives even worse. It can simultaneously be true that we are getting fatter as a population and also that common weight loss beliefs are incorrect. Aubrey Gordon's work is crucial in helping us understand how our society mistreats fat people and how common misconceptions about health, weight loss, and what it means to be fat perpetuate harm against fat people.