

Professor and Chair of Physical Therapy at Plymouth State University; Editor-in-Chief, Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal
Why don’t you just lose weight? tells met that you are one of the 75% of Americans who believe that my size is a failure of my character, despite the growing understanding that the size of any body is infinitely more complex than the simplicity of will. It tells me that you don’t know or care that judgment of fat people persists from all sides, and has been corroborated time and time again. It tells me that you do not care to solve the problem of my dignity — you only want to solve the problem of my body. The body that brings me to you.
Part of dabbling is giving yourself the freedom to stop when you want to. Talented as he was, Shannon didn’t finish everything he started. While that might also run counter to a lot of modern advice on productivity, we think there’s real…