...Until Eating Disorders Are No More
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An eating disorder is nothing to be ashamed of!
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How to handle a drunk girl passed out on your couch.
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“Understanding what intersex means also helps with understanding what it doesn’t mean. Our bodies are natural and normal and healthy; while some...”
Hell yes. Still think fitspo is harmless? All that crap is promoting a very narrow body type which many people couldn’t hope to achieve through any amount of exercise or dieting. But HEALTH - we’re all capable of being healthy and happy.
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What’s metabolically healthy mean?
Your metabolic health is determined by several factors: High blood pressure, high triglycerides, low HDL - or good - cholesterol and high fasting glucose levels. For this study, a participant was considered metabolically healthy if they displayed zero or only one of the above symptoms.
Ortega and his colleagues use several terms to describe the study participants who were obese but metabolically healthy. They call it “uncomplicated obesity” or “metabolically benign obesity.” Basically that means the obese individuals saw few negative health effects of their extra weight.
The results
The researchers found that the metabolically healthy but obese participants had a 38% lower risk of dying than their metabolically unhealthy peers. There was also no risk difference between the metabolically healthy obese and the metabolically healthy normal weight participants.
“Our study, together with previous literature, strongly suggest that a better cardiorespiratory fitness will make you healthier regardless of your weight status,” Ortega told CNN.”
I’m not pretending anything, sugarplum. Unlike smoking, alcohol, or drug abuse, being fat is a state of being that your body is in, while those other three are documentedly harmful activities to do to your body. You know what else is harmful? Verbally abusing fat people because you think you have the fucking right to do so, when in fact, our bodies are none of your business.
Of course, eating a lot of unhealthy food, and having an inactive lifestyle isn’t going to lead to a whole lot of bodily wellness. But what you’re forgetting (or, more accurately, purposefully ignoring) here, is that plenty of fat people do just that! They put good food in, put a normal level of physical activity out, and they’re still fat?!?! What?!
Bodies are different. They do different things, react to nutrition and exercise and medications and hormones and environmental factors and everything differently.
And finally, “overweight?” Over what weight? The weight of the fattest woman you’ve ever seen in a magazine or on T.V.? Over the acceptable weight of a scale that does not take into account muscle mass, and is confirmed to be flawed? Or the weight of what you deem low enough to make someone a valuable person?
Maybe you should examine how and why you value people, before coming into my askbox and telling me I “have a problem.”
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This X1000.
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submitted by absolutelyarsenic:
We’ve all heard it before.
“Being overweight or obese isn’t healthy.”
“This is a medical issue.”
“I’m just concerned for your health.”
For the most part, if a serious medical issue is being discussed, people offer half-hearted advice, which is good,…
Well, this is an interesting follow-up to the ‘fitspo’ discussion last week. Sarah Robles, the top weight-lifter in America, is bound for the Olympics and can barely pay rent.
…And even though she’s the U.S.’s best chance at an Olympic medal, she’ll never get the fame or fortune that come so easily to her fellow athletes — in part because, at 5 feet, 10.5 inches and 275 pounds, she doesn’t fit the ideal of thin, toned athletic beauty.
“You can get that sponsorship if you’re a super-built guy or a girl who looks good in a bikini. But not if you’re a girl who’s built like a guy,” she says. The 23-year-old from California became the highest ranked weightlifter in the country last year after placing 11th at the world championships, beating out every male and female American on the roster. On her best day, she can lift more than 568 pounds — that’s roughly five IKEA couches, 65 gallons of milk, or one large adult male lion.
(full article)
The thing is, if you passed Sarah on the street, a lot of people might make assumptions about her health based on her height and weight, and I doubt anyone would assume she was an Olympic athlete. She’s a prime example as to why I can’t stand that ‘fitspo’ crap - it promotes very narrow ideas of health, fitness, and attractiveness. If ‘fitspo’ is about motivation to work out, why isn’t there any with Sarah Robles? After all, she’s pretty damn fit!
“Work hard, eat well, and maybe you’ll make it to the Olympics, just like Sarah Robles!”That wasn’t so hard, was it? I’m sick and tired of only a single body type being represented as a healthy body. Sarah even did a great write-up about bone mass, body type, and physical health on her blog:
In a book I have about sports and exercise science, the definition of obesity is, “A pathological condition in which a person’s body weight is is 20-25% above their skeletal and physical requirements for a male and 30-35% for a female.” It says nothing about body fat, and it says nothing about your clothing size.
For my sport, MY physical and skeletal requirements are based on my weight class and levers. Because I am 5’10 and have a larger frame and long levers, I am best suited for the 75+ weight class and need my body weight to lift large amounts of weight. Am I considered, “obese?” Am I “unhealthy?” It depends on who you ask.
I weigh about 275 lbs. I’m assuming if my weight were actually on the [BMI] chart, I’d be considered “obese.” I think this chart is relatively bogus. Athletes, especially power athletes like myself are going to have a large amount of muscle mass, making them weigh more for their height than the average person. I can understand using this chart for the average or sedentary person but it is not applicable to all people. Why is there only one chart? Shouldn’t there be one for each gender at least?
In 2010, I had a Dr. tell me what my BMI was and it was 39.1 at 266 lbs.
(full post here)
Hearing her discuss it like that, I think the ‘fitness inspiration’ crap isn’t so much about being ‘fit’ as it is about fitting in: fitting into the image, clothing sizes, and arbitrary standards set by our culture, media, and beauty/diet industry.
There’s currently a fund to help Sarah make it to the Olympics and ensure her coach can go with her. They already met their modest goal of $2,500, but donations are being accepted throughout the month. The donation page can be found here.
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“Fat” is an adjective - not an insult.
In just 47 seconds, Minor Threat set off a chain reaction of a new way of thinking. Realizing there was a whole sub-culture philosophy of punk that went against the grain of the party scene was huge for me. It just made sense, and knowing there were other people who felt the same way validated that interest in being sober instead of feeling like an outcast among my other friends.
When I developed an eating disorder in college, I believe now that if I hadn’t been disinterested in drinking or doing drugs that I would have been a lot worse off, as I would have had one more way to numb myself from how horrible I felt. When anorexia was in control, I hated myself and the entire world. I don’t think I would have found the motivation and will to seek recovery if I had been open to drinking, and I’m eternally grateful for the factors and people in my life that led me to being able to verbalize something I had always felt but never felt welcomed to express among my peers, that I just had no interest in using intoxicants.
You aren’t fat and you aren’t skinny. You’re a consumer and they want your money, and they will exploit every insecurity you have to get it.
Oh, how times have changed!
Except, not really. Companies are still trying to profit off of our insecurities, many of which they manufacture themselves. New faces, same system.
