Jainaday wrote:
unlikely.
From personal experience; I spent four months dancing or working out five to seven hours most days and eating a very careful diet. At the start, I was 5'7 and 176 pounds. At the end, I was 5'7 and 176 pounds, with possibly a 1% difference in body fat percentage. I had a great time, and I pretty much gave up on the idea of changing my body.
I never lost weight till I (accidentally- emotional problems and stress) dropped to a 1200 ish calorie a day diet with at least four hours of exercise. The FDA would have said I needed at least 2700 calories under those circumstances. To loose weight, they'd recommend cutting back by about 500 calories, which was what I'd been eating before.
On a less personal level, the book Ultimate Fitness by Gina Kolata tells me that fully 10% of the population doesn't significantly respond to cardiovascular training.
Furthermore, all the studies we have that shows a connection between weight and health problems have been interpreted from the point of view that the relationship is cause and effect. I'd have to guess that the actual relationship is one of associated causes; I'd guess that morbid obesity is often caused by a high calorie diet and high stress, which also cause pancreatic problems, heart problems, etc.
However, I know for a fact that obesity isn't always caused by a high calorie or badly selected diet, or by inactivity.
Regardless of how hard this is for some people to believe, a simple calories in/calories out model doesn't nearly do the human body justice in it's complexity.
Therefore: current obsession with thinness isn't legitimately based on health.
There is much other evidence, as well, that pervasive marketing changes our perceptions of beauty. This is not just through cleverly marketed miracle claims, but by associating products- and the problems they claim to solve- with unrelated issues. Beauty and specifically thinness, for example, have become dreadfully confused with sexuality, love, and even romance. While they are not unconnected to these things, they are not, in my reality, remotely interchangeable.
Thoughts?
*note; this is from one of my very early posts. . . was glancing through my stuff from when I first got here. It was in the wrong place, to get answers to the question, and I'm curious what people think. Sorry for cross posting.
Some times especially when your body is so use to a low , low, calorie diet your metabolism get stuck and there’s nothing you can do to lose weight you can't just keep eating less and less until your not eating, you might try going the other way and eating more of things like fruits and steamed vegetables, steamed rice, may be some lean turkey or hard boiled egg or grilled chicken at least once a day, but nothing with fat in it like mayo, avocadoes ,butter or margarine, milk, cheese, chips or sweets and also you might try taking some kelp supplements especially if your thick in the middle it will jump start your metabolism and eating more low fat calories will allow your body to work and burn the calories, at lower calories intake a day, your body shuts down because it thinks your starveling it will start borrowing nutrients from your least important body parts first like your hair, skin teeth and bones. You need to take vitamins more than just a multi that will help but they are only designed for people that also eat a balanced diet.
Having it in your head that you need to look like Barbie to be loved is a hard one, one that I have no right giving advice about, common scent tells me that lots of fat girls have boy friends and your not fat at your height you probably look good. But bad dieting can make you look ugly, unhealthy and shinny hair, and good skin is attractive too
keep dancing! do you zumba?
22 Jul 2008, 3:32 am
