Why Women Lose Weight—or Don’t

Many people that haven't had to deal with the fact they have a weight problem do not really understand the struggle other people have with maintain a normal body weight. I myself was just at the higher end of the normal bmi since high school and did not start gaining weight excessively until my children were born. Everyone has a different metabolism and it is up to them to do what they need to do to kick start it. When you are already obese You can't just strap on a pair of running shoes and drop the pounds. It takes patience and guidance,support from those around you and the will to want to change your life. No one wants to have some egnorant person how knows nothing about another person struggle with their own self image to come by and say hey, your just a FAT ASS. What kind of idiot is that? My mother did bring me up to talk about another person like that. And until you walk in my shoes or another obese person's shoes, if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all. Losing weight is very difficult and for some of us who are lucky there are support groups to help guide you through it and give you the confidence to make a lifestyle change that a "skinny" person would never dream of providing for anyone.

It should never be acceptable to be fat or obese. It is putting your own life in jeopardy. Put own the chips and soda, and get out and exercise. You WILL lose weight, I don't care what some people say. I love to hear fat people say, well, I don't eat hardn't anything"... Bull ***, you would be skinny... It is a LIE!

It should never be acceptable to be fat or obese. It is putting your own life in jeopardy. Put own the chips and soda, and get out and exercise. You WILL lose weight, I don't care what some people say. I love to hear fat people say, well, I don't eat hardn't anything"... Bull ***, you would be skinny... It is a LIE!

These comments really make me wonder where all of this tension between so-called "fat" and "skinny" people came from. In regards to overweight people, no one likes to hear that they aren't right, in fact, there is something wrong with them. So I think they find it comforting that 2/3 of women are just like them, regardless of whether or not it is healthy. As for thin people, I understand the frustrations when overweight people use excuses, but really calling them "fat whores" doesn't do anything but hurt people. This board reminds me of grade school with all the name calling. We are adults, and as adults we should want to be supportive our fellow human beings.

Wow! I have to admit I am surprised by how many comments have come from this article. The ones that stun me the most are the ones that sit in judgement of plus size people. Yep! You guessed It! I am a plus size woman. In fact, have been most of my life! (So were both of my grandmothers, mother, and most of 14 aunts). Hmmmmm, something in the gene pool? I don't know, but I would bet that I can out pace most of my skinny sisters. I walk 5 miles a day ( have a great work-out tool called "large dog", Or Grace that demands the execercize.). Also do weights at least 3 x's per week. I volunteer with urban youth both mentoring and coachin (yep! a dance team), and.....run my own business! My days are long, and full of reward, and can not be catogorized as lazey, or undisciplined! Iprepare my meals (all of them) on Sunday using nothing but fresh fruit and vegetables, chicken, fish etc. (no cheese sauce on veggies, just steamed). I am not diabetic. Do not have high cholesteral. Nope, no high blood pressure either. Do I like being a plus? Not really. Why not you ask? Cause I want to wear great clothes like skinny sisters! Hey, but I remedied that too! I started my own plus size clothing line to give me some of the looks that my skinny fashion friends find at their fav stores! You see, regardless of your size, how you present yourself matters. and there just are not relevant fashion styles out there for plus folks. Any one looks crappy in ill fitting, slouchy, oversized T's and pull on pants! But I am off track. One thing I have found in working with plus size woman customers is that most of them put on weight because.......are you ready for this??!! They sacrifieced themselves to take care of you! Her husband, children, parents, job, volunteer work all come before her. How bout you get off you duff, take over some home chores, take the kids on Saturday so she can go to the gym, fix dinner for her and have it ready when she get home (no frozen pizza or carry-out). Give women back some of the time they need to take care of themselves and they will. Watch them! Especially you 20 somethings that still live at home or bring your laundry to her!

All these COMMENTS that are negitive are the reason i am fat. That is ok because those of you who are making these absurd comments need to take a look at your own life and see why you are so unhappy, you want to make someone else sad. Please get a life or someone to talk to...A shrink maybe!!!!!!!!!1

Anorexia, bulimia, -LAME- we have allowed our media and society to brainwash us all in thinking we all have to look like famous people that are constantly doing plastic surgery on themselves to look the way they do. How depressing! They could use this money on other serious issues like hunger, AIDS, and war victims ECT. I could go on-shame on us all. Imagine what women would have thought of us 60 years ago.

Anorexia, bulimia, -LAME- we have allowed our media and society to brainwash us all in thinking we all have to look like famous people that are constantly doing plastic surgery on themselves to look the way they do. How depressing! They could use this money on other serious issues like hunger, AIDS, and war victims ECT. I could go on-shame on us all. Imagine what women would have thought of us 60 years ago.

Why does it matter so much to everyone anyway? A person who is overweight knows it and deals with it; they either diet or they don't. Why should it be an issue for anyone else? Why are there so many articles written about being overweight when clearly, the only people that it affects are those who are overweight. And guess what? they know they are overweight and the also know what they need t do to stop being overweight. As far as making life difficult for those who are not overweight, if it becomes necesary for an obese person to buy an extra ticket on a plane or other mode of public transportation, or to sit in a movie theater, so be it. That issue is between the obese individual and whatever public issue he/she is dealing with at the time. It's not anyone elses problem. Jay Leno seems obsessed with the overweight. Why? It isn't his problem;he isn't overweight. Unless someone insinuates themself in Leno's space, why should it bother him that someone is overweight, or that people in this country are getting so lazy that they are getting fatter. It seems stupid to me.

I FEEL DISGUST FOR THE TWO WOMAN POSTED ON THIS COVER PAGE. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF BEING THAT HEAVY. EVERYONE HAS ISSUES AND HEAVY PEOPLE TEND TO EAT TO DEAL INSTEAD OF DEALING AND THEN EATING. IT SEEMS TO BE THE EASY WAY OUT. WORK ON THE INSIDE FIRST AND THE OUTSIDE WOULD RESUME TO ITS NORMAL SIZE. WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

I just returned from vacation in Thailand. Obesity is non-exsistent there. They eat healthier (no fast food), are geneticly inclined not to be overweight, do not watch alot of TV, do not hibernate on the couch watching Dr. Phil and Oprah,do not recluse with store bought goods from Walmart or Costco after they have won their competition amongst other women and landed" their" man, and are not obsessed with self image. Weight is not a "big deal", Thus, it is not a problem.
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