The Obesity Epidemic

[English Lady]

"High fashion is a caricature of fashion, and high fashion models are a grotesque caricature of women.

Models have to have an unattainable shape, otherwise anyone could be one and fashion--which is essentially a never ending race to be in style--would come to an end. The consumer culture is driven by creating chronic dissatisfaction and then associating your product with the solution to that dissatisfaction, and we've gotten very, very good at that. Our models therefore have to be unattainable ideals.

---dr.M."

That is a very well put remark Dr M..I just had to post it agian..it deserves it.


Ok so right this moment I am in a detox. I am cutting out meat,wheat,sugar and dairy for the next 28 days. I am NOT doing this to loose weight but to clear out my dodgy system and hopefully end the year a hell of alot more healthy than I started it!

Anyone can see I am a big woman. I am an english size 24 and to be honest i'm happy with it most of the time,I feel sexy,confident and pretty damn fine thank you very much.

Being unhealthy is the epidemic....eating trashy junk food (why do you think it's called junk? you'd be better off throwing it in the bin!) is an epidemic that needs seeing too. You shouldn't label every fat person as being a junk food shoving, no excercise taking couch potato.

I'm not denying there are people like that out there but you can be healthy and "ovverweight"

I found the part about the BMI index fascinating in the gaurdian article. All those celebs who rate as being overweight or obese. That tells me theres something wrong with the bloody chart not with the population!

We should be encouraging people to eat well and excercise well and to be happy in themselves. being happy to be you has got to be the key to this I think. Stress and worry cause all kinds of horrid illness and death. What do women on a diet do? Woory and stress about ever mouthfull of food they do and don't eat. that can't be healthy.

Anyhow...I'm saying I am re-educating myself to eat more healthy and its working. Eating healthy does make a difference and as long as I am healthy i don't care if i don't loose a single pound. I am happy to be fat!

 

[Guest]

Lady, good for you. You sound as clear and sensible as usual (well almost usually ). I remember when I first saw an AV of you and thought - 'Great! I'm in fine company here.' You've always sounded smart, happy and sexy to me. Now it makes me glad to think you're trying to be healthy too.

best always, Perdita

 

[MathGirl]

Senorita Saccharina

Originally posted by perdita You've always sounded smart, happy and sexy to me. Now it makes me glad to think you're trying to be healthy too.best always, Perdita

Dear Perdita,
Good grief! After reading that one, I neen an insulin injection. You are really in rare form.
Huggy kissy,
MG
Ps. I know. I should mind my own business. I won't, though.

 

[Guest]

Re: Senorita Saccharina

You are really in rare form.
Ps. I know. I should mind my own business. I won't, though.

And you, muffin, are back to form. Guess I'm glad. Yeah.

Perdita

 

[McKenna]

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[Guest]

Mack, that is yet another utterly gorgeously sensual AV. Brava!

Perdita

 

[McKenna]

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[ClaireBlossom]

As long as we're on the subject and this is LitE...

I have an odd confession, so I'm figuring what-the-hell on it.

So one night, years ago, I dreamed I was in a bedroom dressing. I've always been on the skinny side (fucked up metabolism), and picked on some for it. I read a Hitchcock story a few months before that about a woman who was a little overweight and wore a wetsuit and liked it, aside from her many personalities the idea intrigued me.

So, to get to the point I dreamed I saw myself in the mirror about thirty pounds heavier than I am, and I loved it. I ran my hands all over my body and it was so nice feeling, warm firm flesh that tingled. So, it turned me on incredibly and the thought came to mind more than once while I was... having fun.

Also, as an odd addition, I have created a hobby out of tastefully sketching porn so it looks like art. Just pieces of a whole picture, or faces in the style of a Madonna icon (not the singer). Since I search out pictures from places like sublimedirectory.com I come across about 98% containing women too skinny to appear beautiful when sketched. It is odd, from that standpoint how skinny women with fake boobs would make me seem like a bad artist, no matter how accurate I was.

 

[raphy]

We should be encouraging people to eat well and excercise well and to be happy in themselves. being happy to be you has got to be the key to this I think. Stress and worry cause all kinds of horrid illness and death. What do women on a diet do? Woory and stress about ever mouthfull of food they do and don't eat. that can't be healthy.

Men on a diet do that too, y'know. As much as we're peppered with images of tall skinny skin-and-bones female model types strutting their stuff up and down the catwalk, we're also suffused by pictures of tall, broad-shouldered hard-body musclemen that us men are supposed to aspire to.

*shrug* .. Don't look at me. I eat nothing but pizzas, junk food and greasy fried breakfasts and I haven't put a single pound of weight on since I was 18.

 

[SlickTony]

*shrug* .. Don't look at me. I eat nothing but pizzas, junk food and greasy fried breakfasts and I haven't put a single pound of weight on since I was 18.

Yeah, I got one like that at home.