Fat, calories, and weight
There's a long discussion thread on gymrats, starting with a post linking to this article, Being Fat Sucks. In the article, Barbarella, the mononymous author, tells of finally deciding to lose weight, and what that does to her image of herself as a fat chick. She says some things that I've felt (like the "safety/backup/wingman"), and things I felt guilty
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These look pretty interesting to me.
uh, not that I've had a chance to read them through.. maybe tonight on the elliptical machine -
Do we really know what makes us healthy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16epidemiology-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
[v. briefly, no. Cause the studies that are the basis of the reccomendations that are spread abroad are mostly based on epidemiologic studies, which are very unlikely to account for all the variables.]
The Scientist and the Stairmaster
http://nymag.com/news/sports/38001/
[v. briefly, little evidence that exercize makes most people skinnier]
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