Body Size & Shape

[hopperboo]

Nice post. I agree. I hate the word "fat" and when I hear someone making mean remarks about someone being "fat" my respect and opinion about is shot down big time.

The club thing sounds like a great idea!

I am working on losing 20-30lbs. This summer was not good and I gained way too much weight. We had some family issues come up and I stopped working out (I did Pilates and 20-30 minutes on my elliptical machine) and because we did so much traveling there was a LOT of fast food going on.

I'm '5"2 so 10lbs shows quite enough. Thankfully I have a pretty even weight on my body so I always look 10lbs or more less than I am...but it still doesn't make it any better when I am looking at the scale. Or in the mirror.



(I think we should have a thread where anyone wanting to lose weight or is trying to be healthy can cheer each other on!)

[shayna{L_D}]

(I think we should have a thread where anyone wanting to lose weight or is trying to be healthy can cheer each other on!)

thank you Hopper I agree!! I know i wouldnt have won the chub club *chub club 3 started today also! here i go again!!* without the support of my friends and my co-workers. It was great. Youd hear people yelling "whats up skinny!!?" down the hallway at me, it made me feel rather good.

[icey]

Nice post. I agree. I hate the word "fat" and when I hear someone making mean remarks about someone being "fat" my respect and opinion about is shot down big time.

i dont want to change the thread and i agree with this comment, but why is it that people dont think it mean to make mean remarks about skinny people! it should work both ways.
i didnt post as bluntly as i could have in regards to my feelings re ''fat'' because i didnt want to offend anyone but i noticed that many dont have a problem with referring to people as bony skinny twigs,thin as a rail etc

[lucy]

Are you physically attracted to or repelled by a fat person?
Very overweight persons are not appealing to me.

Are you physically attracted to or repelled by a thin person?
My Master is 1.93 m and just 83 kg. So, yes, i guess i'm attracted to thin persons. Or at least not repelled.
However, i found out that calling him "Spargeltarzan" and then telling him that this means asparagus Tarzan is a very stupid idea

What body type attracts you most?
Every from thin to moderately overweight. And although i guess that very large persons can just be as sexy and beautiful and nice to have sex with i think i won't ever date someone massively overweight. Just because there's that thing called "first impression" and i'm afraid those people won't make a very good one on me.

How have your own body issues affected your love/sex life?
When i realized that i started to gain weight i took up going everywhere by bike and took up jogging. Being in shape and comfortable with my body is also good for my sex life. But then again, being comfortable with ones body is probably a very good thing for most aspects of ones life.

Originally Posted by MissConfused View Post
Does anyone here have a body that approaches their avatar?

It's not too far off, however my butt isn't that boyish

When the government can go into schools and dictate what a child's BMI has to be in order to move on to the next grade - ...

Now that was quite some shocker. Which government does something as stupid as that?

[FatherTimejr]

Icey: You've got a point on that, I personally am not overly upset by the use of the term "Fat" when applied to me. Kinda how I dealt with being called fat in the past is I kinda just went, yep im overweight, i'll adopt fat -pats fat-. However for alot of other people fat was a traumatizing word like in highschool and in middle school, movies and so forth for that matter. Not to say super skinny people didnt get similair grief because I know they did, but...

Where skinny and thin were often compliments at least where I went, admittedly rail thin might not be the best descriptive term but for me, its one of the only ones I can think of to describe like realllllly skinny people.

But I have seen instances where people with really skinny legs or such did get ragged on, often times though they were made fun of using other words then skinny like, chicken legs or so on.

Thats not to say someone shouldnt be offended by the term skinny, if someone is im sure they have a perfectly good reason to be, but skinny and/or thin (which would thin be better?) are the only words I can think well, plus respective adjectives, that would be the most friendly I suppose.

[blythe spirit]

i dont want to change the thread and i agree with this comment, but why is it that people dont think it mean to make mean remarks about skinny people! it should work both ways.
i didnt post as bluntly as i could have in regards to my feelings re ''fat'' because i didnt want to offend anyone but i noticed that many dont have a problem with referring to people as bony skinny twigs,thin as a rail etc

That's you, icey, just being you. However, I have seen the terrible ridicule and abuse that obese people have to go through. And it's not too nice. Programs have been produced that show how people who are overweight are terrorized by others.

On the other hand, most people, who are extremely thin are not subject to that same ridicule. A glance or an omg might be expressed, but it's more discreet. Meaning they don't throw garbage and rocks at them, whilst name-calling.

lol and even if unspoken, you're still thinking it.