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Sure hope I spelled Brittney's user name right.
I read this on her journal (she got it from an article in a teeny mag) and suddenly felt the need to beat 15-year-old perky tight ass....
I am writing in response to the people who have praised Seventeen for "embracing many body shapes." Being fat should not be accepted. It's unhealthy to be overweight and even more unhealthy to be praised people for being "curvy" like this magazine does. Both my parents are doctors, and I know I'm not the only one who is disgusted by looking at all the fat people who seem to be everywhere. There are options: diet and exercise. It isn't hard to be skinny, trust me.
Point one-both your parents are doctor's, my dear, it must be SOOOO hard to manage a healthy lifestyle when you have money to pay for good food, trainers, a good school, and after-school activities to keep you active.
Point two-let me guess, you doctor parents didn't explain genetics to you either.
Point three-let's wait till your out of college, married, with three kids, and are looking 35 hard in the face. I'll remember this statement when you start complaining about middle age spread.
Point four-why are you looking at fat people?
I want to state something, I've been heavy since I hit 14. I was an active child, but I admit, my parents had poor eating habits, which they taught me, and we never had the money for 'healthy food', we went for cheap, filling, and easy to get. Lot's of potatoes, rice, and fried chicken do not make a girl skinny, but if you want to eat, that's what you got. Add to this my genetics are against me, there's no way around that. And I have more joint issues than anyone under 30 should have at my age, due to a condition I've had since I was 4.
So tell me, how is it easy to be skinny again? I want it explained to me, perhaps my old, college addled brain doesn't get it.
I do exercise. I have changed my eating habits. I now park far from places, I take stairs instead of elevators. I don't drink soda, I try to go easy on the sweets, (I at least watch how much of any sweet I eat in a sitting). I rarely eat fast food, I have almost cut pizza out of my life completely. I don't drink like a mad woman on weekends, and have cut it to a moderate amount. I do like my greasy spoon food once on the weekends, but through the week I eat healthy and try to watch what and how often I eat at my extremely boring job. I don't even drink my much beloved tea lattes but once in a while.
And yet I'm still 185 lbs at 5'6 in. even. I want to know, how in the hell is it to be skinny?
Perhaps on your diet of grass and skittles it might be easier to manage. I'm fighting an uphill battle with a lifetime of poor eating, bad joints, and an office that doesn't lend itself to activity. I have a family full of heavy women, born of stout Midwestern stock. This is NOT an easy thing. When you live in a city full of rail thin-glamourous girls who live in gyms, and you are trying to find time to do a work out video at home, then you tell me how easy that is.
And you know what, thin is not beautiful. I look at some girls and don't find them attractive. Overweight isn't a good or healthy thing either, trust me, I know, hence why I try so hard to not get any worse than I am. But it isn't EASY to try and be thin, anymore than it is easy to stop smoking, or to run a marathon. It is something that you work with day in and day out, and you keep trying, and it isn't made any easier by ignorant teenagers who feel that they have the right to be condescending and judgemental. There is a reason people like this are hated by other high schoolers, they are elitist snobs who have no idea or concept of the world outside or how difficult it is to live with such things.
And you know what, to be told that I'm beautiful and pretty once in a while despite the fact I am not thin is awful damn nice, thank you very much. It helps make this loosing weight thing a bit 'easier' as it were.
I read this on her journal (she got it from an article in a teeny mag) and suddenly felt the need to beat 15-year-old perky tight ass....
I am writing in response to the people who have praised Seventeen for "embracing many body shapes." Being fat should not be accepted. It's unhealthy to be overweight and even more unhealthy to be praised people for being "curvy" like this magazine does. Both my parents are doctors, and I know I'm not the only one who is disgusted by looking at all the fat people who seem to be everywhere. There are options: diet and exercise. It isn't hard to be skinny, trust me.
Point one-both your parents are doctor's, my dear, it must be SOOOO hard to manage a healthy lifestyle when you have money to pay for good food, trainers, a good school, and after-school activities to keep you active.
Point two-let me guess, you doctor parents didn't explain genetics to you either.
Point three-let's wait till your out of college, married, with three kids, and are looking 35 hard in the face. I'll remember this statement when you start complaining about middle age spread.
Point four-why are you looking at fat people?
I want to state something, I've been heavy since I hit 14. I was an active child, but I admit, my parents had poor eating habits, which they taught me, and we never had the money for 'healthy food', we went for cheap, filling, and easy to get. Lot's of potatoes, rice, and fried chicken do not make a girl skinny, but if you want to eat, that's what you got. Add to this my genetics are against me, there's no way around that. And I have more joint issues than anyone under 30 should have at my age, due to a condition I've had since I was 4.
So tell me, how is it easy to be skinny again? I want it explained to me, perhaps my old, college addled brain doesn't get it.
I do exercise. I have changed my eating habits. I now park far from places, I take stairs instead of elevators. I don't drink soda, I try to go easy on the sweets, (I at least watch how much of any sweet I eat in a sitting). I rarely eat fast food, I have almost cut pizza out of my life completely. I don't drink like a mad woman on weekends, and have cut it to a moderate amount. I do like my greasy spoon food once on the weekends, but through the week I eat healthy and try to watch what and how often I eat at my extremely boring job. I don't even drink my much beloved tea lattes but once in a while.
And yet I'm still 185 lbs at 5'6 in. even. I want to know, how in the hell is it to be skinny?
Perhaps on your diet of grass and skittles it might be easier to manage. I'm fighting an uphill battle with a lifetime of poor eating, bad joints, and an office that doesn't lend itself to activity. I have a family full of heavy women, born of stout Midwestern stock. This is NOT an easy thing. When you live in a city full of rail thin-glamourous girls who live in gyms, and you are trying to find time to do a work out video at home, then you tell me how easy that is.
And you know what, thin is not beautiful. I look at some girls and don't find them attractive. Overweight isn't a good or healthy thing either, trust me, I know, hence why I try so hard to not get any worse than I am. But it isn't EASY to try and be thin, anymore than it is easy to stop smoking, or to run a marathon. It is something that you work with day in and day out, and you keep trying, and it isn't made any easier by ignorant teenagers who feel that they have the right to be condescending and judgemental. There is a reason people like this are hated by other high schoolers, they are elitist snobs who have no idea or concept of the world outside or how difficult it is to live with such things.
And you know what, to be told that I'm beautiful and pretty once in a while despite the fact I am not thin is awful damn nice, thank you very much. It helps make this loosing weight thing a bit 'easier' as it were.