I saw an article last week titled “Sorry, But You Can’t Argue Being 500 LBs Is Healthy, Regardless Of How Beautiful You Look,” and let’s just say, it didn’t bring out the most positive of reactions from me.

Can we establish something here, which is that my weight and health is none of your business?

To be fair, and to try to give the benefit of the doubt, I actually read through the article.

Would not recommend.

The author’s argument that being overweight or “morbidly obese” in medical terms is equal to being unhealthy is a general and blanket statement that doesn’t allow for differing realities.

I have been overweight as long as I can remember, but I have never been told by a doctor that I was explicitly unhealthy or at risk for something due to my weight.

Sure, anything can happen, and I might eat my words at my next doctor’s appointment, but it’s really none of your business, regardless of who you are.

The original article's author referred to a social media influencer as her example, but as the influencer’s expertise was on make-up, why did the author feel like it was necessary to comment on her weight? Let alone write an article about it.

Noticing that someone is bigger doesn’t mean they are “very unhealthy and overweight.”

Also, how is it that someone simply being overweight means they are “flaunting their weight” and/or promoting “obesity and an unhealthy lifestyle?”

Because I am not the size that you deem “healthy,” I shouldn’t live my life how I want to? I should just “WANT to change,” right? That’ll make everything better?

It took me a long time to be comfortable in my skin and in my body, and I will NOT let someone else’s opinion on my health, wrongly based on my weight, make me feel guilty for loving myself.

It would be asking too much for people to mind their own business, but I don't think it’s too much to ask that you respect others’ choices. Especially when it doesn't hurt or hinder your own life and pursuit of happiness.

I don’t wake up every day loving my body, but body positivity is not something one just has. It is an understanding; an agreement with oneself that allows you to love and accept yourself in your own skin, and size.

Stop with the passive-aggressive, condescending pity you have for those of us who are plus-sized.

We are people just like you. We have our own issues. We don’t need your pity or your unnecessary opinions on our lives.

The article I read was offensive and unyielding in its narrow-minded perspective on life.

I am not “making excuses for being morbidly obese” by expressing self-love through body positivity. I am living my life, minding my own business, and taking care of myself the best I can as of now.

Thanks for your consideration, but no thanks.