5 reasons we shouldn’t ‘compliment’ people who lose weight
- Written by Evangeline Gardiner, PhD Candidate in Public Health, The University of Queensland

“You look so great! Have you lost weight?”
“Wow, you’re looking so healthy now! Good for you.”
As fat people, we’ve heard comments like this for most of our lives. At the times when our bodies were smaller, these comments made us feel proud and accepted. We felt like we were finally “good...