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welshwmn3 -> RE: BBW's, Is this something as a society that we should encourage? (5/12/2007 4:06:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: merrysbrat
There's a point people can reach where it's obvious they're not exercising enough, it's all fat and no muscle, and that's when it gets unhealthy.
Who gets to define that point?
I was walking 4 miles a day (5-7 times a week), biking up to 10 miles a day 2 or 3 times a week, swimming (not playing in the pool doing laps) for an hour a day, and was still over 100 pounds overweight. I'd tell the doctors what I was doing, and they'd call me a liar.
After I moved from the area I was doing that (which was midwest flatlands) and moved to the east coast mountains, I mountain hiked 2 or 3 times a week (on catagory 4 or 5 hiking paths, not QUITE into mountain climbing but pretty strenuous exersizing), did aerobics tapes at home every day, and continued walking 4 miles a day (only about 3 times a week though). Again, the doctors called me a liar.
One doctor went so far as to say, "If you are doing all that exersize, you wouldn't be as fat as you are."
I've now got doctors who have listened to me, and have started treatment, and I've actually been able to lose weight. To the tune of 71 lbs so far. (And I'm not exersizing near as much right now as I used to.)
As far as in shape goes, when I was doing all that exersize, I was really in shape (much better shape than I am now, I dare say). Yet all everybody could do was look at a woman who weighed 150 lbs more than her ideal weight and treat me with disgust. (Not everybody, again, my Sir has always thought I was beautiful, even when I was 270 lbs and a size 28 womans.)
I say, *I* am the only one who gets to decide if my weight is unhealthy or not. Especially since (general) you who only see me in a store, on the street (doing that exersize I was describing), or in a restaurant, DON'T know enough about me to make such a judgement call.
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