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What's to blame?

What's to blame?

It isn't willpower.

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Kathryn Gates, LMFT
Jul 27, 2023
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Science has known for awhile that “it isn’t your fault" if your body is larger than someone else’s.

Sadly though, there are still lay people who think all fat people are fat because they choose to be. Some still have the outdated assumption that people who are fat, and don’t want to be, aren’t doing what they “should” be doing. Sadder still, there are p…

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