Reply #27: Hell yeah!

[UncleSepp]

I'm 5'2" and usually around 140 lbs. All the charts and tables tell me that means I'm overweight and that I ought to weigh 90-100 pounds. What am I supposed to do, cut off a leg? I spent three months on a 1400 calorie a day diet, and then a month on 1200 calories a day. I was exercising too during this time. I lost less than five pounds. So after that I decided "screw it!" and just had whatever I wanted - for me, that means some cream in coffee or cream sauce instead of tomato, or a peanut butter sandwich, or a dinner that doesn't fit in a saucer. I haven't gained anything. My body wants to weigh what it wants to weigh, and it's nobody's business but my own.

I'm not sure I believe the "Americans are fatter than ever" opinion or even the research. I look back at nudes of women from decades ago, even a century ago, and I see women whose bodies look like the bodies of people I see all around. I don't remember this past when people were all skinny and fit. When was that? There must be something funny going on either with the math or the terms. I am just not buying it.