Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would get the respect it deserves...

[attack_laurel]

Yup, gonna post even though I have had no time this week...

New Year resolutions, and all that. Next week should be slightly less hectic; This week I've been taking down Xmas stuff (it's a fairly wide-spread UK superstition that all Christmas decorations need to be down by the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan 7, also known as 12th Night), returning stuff

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[christianet]

I really liked what that doctor had to say.

I'm on WeightWatchers, after having been lax with it for awhile, but I've found that I need to track my food and activity levels. Or else I am sitting on the couch hosing down pasta and meatballs and not really moving, as I was during the holidays when my classes weren't in session and I wasn't going to the gym.

I had a doc's visit after Thanksgiving and my blood pressure readings confirmed that if I don't lose more weight, I will have to go on medication (high blood pressure runs through my family). And I really, really don't want to do that. Bless those who are fat with normal blood pressure and otherwise healthy. Unfortunately I don't fall into that category. And I know why I gained all this weight. I ate myself there.

[fabricdragon]

amen sister.
and WHERE and HOW you are fat makes a difference....
they have known for years that apple shapes tend to correlate with metabolism issues and diabetes (tend, not absolute) so you would think that someone with a few extra pounds right there would get a lot more attention from the doctor than soeone with more extra pounds all over.
wrong
its all about the charts.

i have friends who are size 16 who get continually told "exercise more" who do strenuous exercise every single day, and could bench press the doctors car i bet.... they are healthy as horses, but "too big"
their resting pulses are low, theiur arobic endurance is fabulous. does it matter? no.

meanwhile you have people like me, where my weight is CAUSING some health issues , but is also the symptom of health issues (vicious circle time)
but i get told "take up jogging"
hello? bad knees? part of the issue????

[green_martha]

Amen to that !
Thin doesn't equal healthy either. Thin isn't necessarily something that makes you happy. I get so annoyed with people being envious because I'm "thin". Except it's not a blessing, it's a symptom of a not so nice disease, and all I want is to keep some of the pounds from this pregnancy after it's over.

[living400lbs]

May I link to this?

[attack_laurel]

Sure!

[sewaddicted]

So so true. I found out late last year that I'm not PCOS although I've too high levels of androgens, and that causes slow & steady weight gain. That's what made it impossible to lose any weight despite doing more exercise and being fitter + stronger than my size 8 colleagues. If the absurd "calories in/out works the same for everyone"m really did work the same, I'd have been leaner than most of the people I worked with who ate lots of take away and did virtually no exercise.

At least I have low blood pressure, enviable cholesterol, and are physically stronger than my height+weight leads many to assume I am.