Chewing the Fat on the Left’s ‘Body Positivity’ Flip Flop

Lopez was just one of several “plus-sized influencers” who died young, and likely because we’ve been told for years that a person can be “healthy at any size.”

That, of course, is not true. Medical science has told us for eons that being obese leads to a slew of health issues, including heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, pulmonary disease, arthritis, and some types of cancer. But the work required to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle is, well, work.

Take it from me, who has spent the past two years working to lose weight. Most days, I work from the lounge of my gym. Breakfast and lunch are protein shakes, and dinner is sensible. I count calories and work out almost every day. No, I’m not perfect, and no, it’s not easy. But I’m making progress. My eldest son, with the advantage of a youthful metabolism, lost a lot of weight his senior year of high school.

We are both better for it.

But such hard work and discipline are anathema to the Left. So instead of telling people to lose weight by eating less and moving more, they pivoted to the “body positivity” movement, and they said obesity wasn’t anything to be concerned about, and that pointing out obesity was discriminatory, even racist, as CBS did.

With the ubiquity of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, however, losing weight is easier, and the discussion around obesity has shifted. Now it’s okay to point out that carrying a lot of weight is unhealthy, including on our joints.

Thanks to big pharma trying to sell us GLP-1s we are now allowed to admit that when you lose weight it takes stress off your joints and improves your health—a thing we were told was not true for a decade. pic.twitter.com/ODx81R2CmL

— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) February 9, 2026

Of course, the Left is really mad that we remembered all their pro-obesity nonsense, and now they’re trying to pretend the thing that happened didn’t happen.

The elites never told us being fat was bad for you” is one of the stranger right wing beliefs. https://t.co/amZwM3JSGi

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 9, 2026

Oh, really?

Activist and professor of “fat studies” Dr. Cat Pausé questioned the links between weight and health. Based at Massey University in New Zealand, she also presented a “fat positive” radio show, where she once said (emphasis added): “The science isn’t quite as clear cut as we’d like to believe and there’s not really quite a consensus yet about the relationship between weight and health. Obese people, and even morbidly obese people, have just as good health or better health than someone in the normal weight range.

The Department of Veterans Affiars even issued a “healthy at every size” paper.

Dept of Veterans Affairs: pic.twitter.com/nYx6fKvPf3

— Pam D (@soirchick) February 9, 2026

As did Johns Hopkins University.

Johns Hopkins University: https://t.co/QeFUi4fH2I pic.twitter.com/wwV3x4d8UI

— Pam D (@soirchick) February 9, 2026

And National Geographic.

National Geographic: pic.twitter.com/OeLUMx8pEk

— Pam D (@soirchick) February 9, 2026

So did Stanford University.

Stanford University: https://t.co/9K369Cw8IN pic.twitter.com/Qk9Q435DjT

— Pam D (@soirchick) February 9, 2026

Cosmopolitan Magazine ran covers featuring obese women with the caption “This is healthy.”

more cushion for the revolution ✊ pic.twitter.com/1jYJRuhoD2

— 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖 (@georg3) February 9, 2026

At UCLA, students were required to take a “health equity” class that taught them, among other things, that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor” and the word “obesity” is a slur meant to “exact violence on fat people.” Students were assigned an essay by “fat liberationist” Marquisele Mercedes. In that essay, Mercedes argues that “describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms” and offers guidance on “resisting entrenched fat oppression,” and classifies obesity as a “slur.” 

Despite ample proof, Hanania ignored those links and tripled down on calling the claim that obesity is healthy a “right-wing belief.” It’s not, and it never was. 

Obesity is a serious medical condition that not only costs billions in increased healthcare demand, but it’s one that can shorten lives by up to a decade or more. And it has.

Brittany Sauer, a TIkTok star, posted upsetting videos to her account, lamenting her life. Weighing more than 430 pounds, Sauer tearfully told her followers she had ruined her life with binge eating. She had Type 2 Diabetes, recurrent cellulitis infections, and couldn’t even bend to trim her own toenails. She died at age 28. So did Taylor LeJeune, another TikTok influencer. who posted videos of himself eating bizarre foods. He was 33 when he died of a “presumed heart attack.” 

The entire “body positivity” movement was meant to paint obesity as healthy and normal, and to shame and ostracize anyone who dared question it. Now that the medicine is available to make weight loss easier, the Left is going to pretend they had nothing to do with encouraging and applauding obesity in the first place.