But Have You Tried Diet and Exercise?!

An open letter to my fat-shaming concern trolls—past, present, and future

Yesterday I received an email. It was not a remarkable email. It was indeed so unremarkable that I’m reproducing it here, in anonymized and abridged form, to make a few points to people with this mindset. And in the hopes that you too, dear reader, may get a chuckle out of the exercise or perhaps even find my responses helpful.

Fair warning: what lies ah…