EffEmDoubleyou
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I'm fat and dead sexy.
+1. and i hate when people are like "oh you're looking so thin lately!" i know it's meant as a compliment, but it's not their place to decide what weight is best for me.
Yep. This is something I never understood until recently. A few months ago someone complimented me on how good I'm looking since the weight loss, which was nice, but she then told me I "don't need to lose any more" which annoyed the hell out of me. My inner reaction was like, 'WTF?? Don't tell me what to do!" I've never been on the receiving end of such comments before, and I was surprised by how much it irritated me.
True. Men are notoriously bad at delivering compliments that are custom tailored to maneuvering around the infinite range of specific body image issues women tend to have, but we're working on it.
No I don't mean do other people think you're fat? I mean do you, yourself deep down think you're a fatty? I'm just curious of what people's perception of their bodies are on this, site and feel free to either post a picture or link to a post in the picture thread, but that last part is not needed.
I think of myself as petite and curvy, a bit of both. My bone structure is tiny, I'm very short (5'0'') and not too heavy (110lbs) and my proportions are 33B-24-38. I'm "pear-shaped." Such a ridiculous name. So no I don't think I'm fat.
I'm overweight by objective standards. My BMI is 28. If you're above 25, you're considered overweight. It seems like everyone on this forum is so damn skinny but the overweight people probably just aren't posting or are disillusioning themselves into thinking they're thinner than they are. There's people on the forum far skinnier than I am, yet they still are dissatisfied with their weight. I'm thinking, I'd love to be your weight. Genetically, I know that's not realistic. A few years back I went through a health nut phase where I obsessively counted calories and did alot of vigorous exercise but even then my BMI was still at the top end of the normal range. I could never get it lower than that without feeling like I'm starving myself. I still eat healthy now and exercise regularly without being overly obsessed about it. I'm doing it more for health reasons than for just losing weight, although I'd really like to drop about 20 pounds. The weight tends to stubbornly stay on me and I must have large bones or something because if I tell people my real weight, they don't seem to believe I could possibly weigh that much.
BMI is crazy. When I got down to the top range of my BMI, everyone thought I was getting too skinny. I can't even imagine what they would have said if I would have dropped down to the middle range.
I don't know if BMI is crazy, or we're just outgrowing it, (physically).. Since we're getting so big as a society. People are getting used to looking at big people. So, morbidly obese people just look big... Obese people just look large. Overweight people look normal. Normal people look thin. and so on down the line.