I'm fat, that's that.

[rabidsamfan]

But I take consolation in knowing that it ain't all that bad. I'll probably live longer.

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/11/fat-and-long-life-obesity-crisis-is.html

Comments

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Comforting, isn't it? And anyone who ever tried to tell me that a BMI of 18,5 should be something healthy is positively insane.

[mariole.livejournal.com]

What a great article! I'm passing it along.

Did you play the youtube story at the end? I'm watching it now (it takes time because I have a slow connection). I love this girl! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTJQIBI1oA

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! Love to think that there's a wide range of "me" that I can be! :-)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

As another fat person, that makes me feel a little less self-hating. *grins at you*

[frankymole.livejournal.com]

I'm fat too, I did manage to swim today but once or twice in 6 months isn't great :D

[clevertoad.livejournal.com]

Yep, comforting to know. Especially when I'm writing the romance where the heroine is 180 pounds and the hero thinks she's sexy as heck. Read one of the 'series' style where the heroine was (gasp) size 12 and about 135 pounds and getting ostracized from the TV industry for it. Size 12. And that's supposed to be romance's idea of a fat heroine? Rolls eyes, writes reality and figures they'll never publish it, but wottheheck, somebody has to try!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Sad part is that NONE of this is brand-new -- the New England Journal of Medicine debunked the "Fat = Doomed" crap in their January 2000 issue. But reassuring people that they're not going to die if they're a bit hefty doesn't sell $50 billion worth of pills, diets, quack cures and intestinal surgery every year, does it?

I used to have a physician who measured all my health by my weight. She tried to scare me in winter by weighing me with ALL my heavy winter clothes on and then passing that off as Dangerous Weight Gain. (I stripped down for a reweigh, DESPITE her protests -- and the Dangerous Weight Gain magically went away.) When I dropped 20 lbs due to raw stress when I bought my house, she praised me for losing the weight...and did NOT say a word about my higher blood pressure. Once escrow was over, I regained the exact same 20 lbs without changing a mouthful of food, my BP went down...and she went right back to nagging me. (She also kept giving me Weight Watchers biz cards...wonder what HER share of the take was for those $10/session weekly meetings WW does?)

Now, ironically, because I've stopped obsessing about my weight, my looks, or what I eat...I've been slowly and neatly losing a pound here a pound there. Go fig. (I also lost 125 pounds of irritating dead weight -- when I dumped that stick-bug bitch of a doctor.)