Need more accounts that brighten your feed, make you feel good, or make you think? These are 10 accounts that can bring non-diet messaging and fat-activism to your feed.
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Megan Jayne Crabbe @bodyposipanda
Megan is the bestselling author of Body Positive Power. Her account is a vibrant portrayal of her adventures in life and wonderful body positive messaging. Her outfits are stylish and her rainbow hair is symbolic of her bold feed. Megan is a survivor of an eating disorder and is sharing her light with the world through this account.
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Ragen Chastain @ragenchastain
If you haven’t heard of Ragen Chastain, follow her right now. She is an accomplished dancer and athlete on top of being a speaker, writer, and activist. I’ve heard her speak in real life, and let me tell you, she is the real deal. Follow her for everything fat activism; you will not regret it. Some fun additional information on Ragen: she is currently training for her first ironman and holds the Guinness World Record for being the heaviest woman to complete a marathon.
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Kimmie Singh, MS, RD @bodyhonornutrition
Kimmie Singh is a relatively new RD and a knowledge bomb when it comes to Health at Every Size®. I had the amazing opportunity to hear this wonderful human speak at the Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics Symposium in Washington D.C. this past September. Kimmie really knows her stuff. Her Instagram messaging is both educational and warm. Follow for content relating to eating disorders, intuitive eating, and PCOS.
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Brianna M Campos, LPC @bodyimagewithbri
Bri Campos is another wonderful human who I had the privilege of hearing speak at the Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics Symposium. If you are someone who appreciates an Instagram influencer who is active in posting to their story, Bri is your girl. Not only are her posts helpful, but her stories are real and raw as she shares her life as a body image coach and therapist. She adds some humanity to a space where lives are typically portrayed as being perfect, through the sharing of her own lived experiences.
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Anna Sweeney, RD @dietitiananna
Anna’s instagram bio says it all, she is, “a dietitian who gives a sh*t.” She has dedicated her career to advocate for those with eating disorders, chronic illnesses, and those who struggle with body image. On her website, www.wholeliferd.com you’ll learn that Anna is a relational nutrition therapist and registered dietitian. She has dedicated her career to help her clients and others heal their relationships with food, movement, and their bodies. Anna is a chronically ill and disabled human who shares these parts of her life and identity publicly as they inform her approaches to nutrition.
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Virgie Tovar, MS @virgietovar
Virgie’s stylish feed packs a serious punch. Follow Virgie for empowering messaging that is also informative. Virgie is an expert in issues relating to weight-based discrimination and body image and is an awesome role model to have on anyone’s insta feed. As a personal recommendation, I LOVED reading You Have the Right to Remain Fat with my book club and 10/10 recommend any and all publications of hers’.
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Corissa Enneking @fatgirlflow
We. Need. To. Follow. More. Diverse. Bodies. It is one of the ways we can unlearn and challenge the weight-biased ideas society has taught us about being in a large body. Corissa Enneking is a blogger into #plussizefashion. She has produced amazing content for some major media outlets designed to end the shame and stigma associated with living in a fat body. As an added bonus, her website has some seriously cool merchandise.
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Your Fat Friend Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend
I don’t know anything about the individual who is the face behind Your Fat Friend, but whoever they are, is awesome. This is an account you can go to for instructive ideas around topics relating to weight bias. As a person in a thin body, I highly recommend this account to my thin bodied peers who want to be a better ally to someone who lives in a larger body.
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Meg Boggs @meg.boggs
Are you a new mom? Do you like to work out? Do you appreciate talented writers? If you said yes to any of those questions this is the account for you. Meg kills it in the weight room and in motherhood. She is honest, she is brave, and she is strong. Meg is busting stereotypes, making moves, and taking names along the way.
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Da’Shaun L. Harrison @dashaunlh
Da’Shaun is a writer, authoring Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. Da’Shaun is the winner of the 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction. As a fat, Black, and non-binary trans-writer, Da’Shaun’s perspectives are critical to our outlook on body politics. Their activism is invaluable and insights are nothing short of a challenge, an invitation, to expand our outlooks beyond our own box that we each live in. Da’Shaun pushes us to look further than “body positivity” by challenging their readers to consider the systems in place that have rendered anti-fatness as a vehicle for anti-blackness. If you decide to follow just one of the accounts based on this list, Da’Shaun’s should be it.
Written by: Caitlyn Campbell, MPH, RD, LDN, CEDS
