Just ****** Me Off

I have actually seen research on this.  Bone density is positively correlated with weight - up to a certain point (basically, if you're so heavy you can't move around much, you're not participating in wt-bearing exercise).  This means that as weight increase, bone density increases.

Whether you keep that advantage depends on how much calcium, D, and K you get.  You know you need to monitor your PTH, right?  You should also monitor your osteocalcin, which isn't typically done.  Osteocalcin is the factor that builds bone matrix.  If your osteocalcin is high, you're not building new bone.  If your PTH is high, your body is taking your calcium from your bones to maintain a healthy calcium blood level since your cells need it to survive.

OMG I am so with you.....I have always felt that way....it IS all bull ****there is nothing beautiful about 100lbs dripping wet ...... we live in a sick world and most men feed it!!!!!!!!!

You know that most of the men that feed into this never actually see these woman in person just based on a camera.  They say a camea can add 15 pounds on ya...hence why they are so thin.  So really these guys never see a real woman for what they are. Thanks also to photoshop and airbrush...they see the idea of a perfect woman...which we all know is not realistic...no matter how much Plastics and WL that one endures. 

Amazing to me too....At one time your girth told of your status in society.  Meaning the bigger you were meant that you were weathly as you could afford to eat.  My... my have times have changed. 

Fantastic post & very very true!

Here's an interesting thought for you.. I took off for almost a month about 5 years ago to clear my head and have a much needed mental reset. Left work, left my loving husband at home with the cats and went to Hawaii.. this was not entirely a pleasure vacation, I lived in a tiny off the grid shack and worked on a woman's property with several other WWOOFers for our room.

I was away from all media, social networks, magazines, eating what I could scrounge and buy at the local organic markets (lots of tuna and avocado (they are everywhere..) So, I was basically disconnected from any outside sources of what I was supposed to look like, eat like, TV violence & stupidity etc.. It was the most grounding feeling in the world and I felt good about me, despite being 250ish lbs at the time.

When I traveled back the first thing I saw were the magazines, with those same women on them.. it hit me really hard, everything did.. before that I thought I wasn't effected by that stuff. That little break proved me wrong. I was, I just was so used to it I was just numb to it's influence. We both gladly gave up TV when I got home too, what a joy not to see 20 ads per show of some gross fast-food junk.. we let media do too much to our heads, not only dictate how we should look.

What is really stupid is that if a celebrity does happen to be the size of a regular human woman, the magazine people will Photoshop her photos until she looks like she weighs about 80 pounds.  I have seen this over and over.

This causes two major probelms.  ONE, people like me, who just give up.  I was 175 pounds when I was 25, and several in my husband's family always told me I was HUGE.  So, I guess I just gave up and thought, "What the hell?  I might as well eat whatever I want because they are gonna call me fat no matter what I weigh."  (Sick on my part, I know.)  And TWO, some people become anorexic or bullemic, trying to achieve "perfection".

Thanks for posting this, deborah72.  It is true and I loved your post and every response!

Size 2 would not fit on my skeleton!  I am 5' 11" and 165 pounds.  I wear a size 10/12 and for my frame, this is perfectly normal.  I am not a small woman, skinny or heavy.  I have weighed less than this and I don't look good.  The point is having a normal BMI and a good quality of life.

I agree.  Have you seen pictures of Angile Jolie lately?  She looks like a Pez dispenser.  All head and a grossly skinny body.  Not attractive at all.

When I see her I think "bobble head" lol

What a wonderful post.

Something else that ****** me off is that so many people lie about their weight, but especially celebrities. It makes this whole situation that much worse because people feel like they are fatter than they are because people the same height and general shape as them weight less. Except they don't.