Reply #95: That's something that people just don't get.

[Marr]

I think a lot of people figure if you don't look like a Soloflex ad, you aren't fit. And if you're thin, you're healthy. Bodies vary as much as faces. People have short limbs, long limbs, thick waists, narrow waists, you name it.

That's one of the problems I have with the whole "fit but fat" argument that was popping up around here recently. What people call "fat" is often nothing remotely similar to obese. It's often just a sturdier frame. I know a woman who was an alternate on the last Olympic swim team, and I heard someone describe her as 'a little chunky' or something to that effect. She's got hardly an ounce of fat on her. She's in incredible shape, she's just not built like a stick.

Oh and I do know of *one* pairing of a fit male and an overweight woman on television. Since this is the intarweb and my buddies can't hear me and make fun of me for the rest of my life, I will tell you. Days of Our Lives had one of those model guys married to an overweight woman. Yeah, I watch Days on my lunch sometimes. lol.

Anyway, just the exception that proves the rule.