Why??

Sep 27, 2007 15:09

There really are times when I want to reach through the laptop screen, and choke the people on the other end.

What's got my dander up this time? SBDieters who want to go from 127 to 117 (They already went from a size 8 to a size 4), and wondering if this is a good idea. ( Read more... )

south beach diet, venting

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sarahbellem September 28 2007, 13:36:58 UTC
I think you may have pushed one of my buttons. ;)

People are dumb. I am one of them. However, I can say that at 120, I was pushing the upper boundary for ME with MY body. And I'd get that constant smackdown from other women, twice my size in both height and weight, with the "I wish I was 120! I'd be anorexic if I were weighed that much!"

I am not even 5 feet tall, and those are numbers that don't mean anything if you take the height part out of the equation. I know my body's happiest in the 105-110 range, as that's where I naturally settle when I'm active and eating right. And because of my small frame, a smaller weight gain numbers-wise is a huger deal because there's not a lot of room for that weight to distribute. Tall people (anyone over 5'1, in my book), tend to forget this. ;)

That said, people are dumb. I was reminded recently of my own stupidity when I found "fat" pictures of myself (like, I'd actually labeled them "fat") from five or six years ago when I was all of 105 pounds. Oh, how I wanted to smack the shit out of my dumb 23 year old self! And even more recently, I was looking at pics from my London internship, when I got down to 100lbs and was wearing size 0 jeans... And I was thinking at the time that I was sooooooo out of shape and fat. All the while I was having to buy a whole new wardrobe from H&M, not so much because I liked the clothes, but because the clothes I brought with me were too big. I don't think I'll ever be able to get that lean again... The American lifestyle just isn't conducive to it without being at the gym every day.

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sstormwatch September 29 2007, 00:41:55 UTC
I am sorry to have hit your buttons. My mom was 5'0" herself, and rarely got over 95 pounds when she was healthy. That's where her body was at naturally, and she was fine there ... until she got sick. I think the highest she ever weighed was 105, during her worst year of depression when her fiance died. Her lowest weight was about 70 pds, when she died from cancer.

The person never gave a height reference, so I don't know how applicable her height to weight is. And why she wants to ask us if she should lose more weight, when we aren't her doctors, is what also got to me. For me, it is that some of us really do need to lose the weight for health reasons, and some use the diet system as just another weight lose means.

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rwfranz September 30 2007, 04:38:00 UTC
"Fat" is in the eye of the beholder, I fear. "Overweight" and "obese" have medical definitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity

Fat?

For the brave.

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