Perceptions of 'healthy' or 'overweight' are really skewed by the area you live in?

For me, regardless of the clothing that a person wears, I do worry about the normalisation of being overweight and obese.

I worry that WLIs are going to be treated like the tablets from the Hunger Games... Keep eating rubbish, and take the WLIs to enable you to keep eating rubbish (albeit lower amounts).

I don't know what the solution is - there's no one size fits all win here (no pun intended). What I do know and hope, is that I am a better role model to my children when it comes to food and exercise.

It’s very true, there was no culture of snacking at the office and no one bought in cakes and biscuits all the time. The women were all very slim and wanted to stay that way. I am glad I worked there at a young age as I lost weight and now appreciate being slimmer.

I attended the HS concert and noticed the same thing. Lots of girls (they all tended to be mid teens to early twenties) who were overweight and not wearing very much. Interestingly, the older people (by older, I say 30 - 40 years) were dressed much more conservatively, regardless of size.
I think people are getting bigger and, in turn, there has been a big “body confidence” movement. My Instagram feed is often filled with morbidly obese people sharing their outfits and bikini pics and the comments applauding them. On the one hand, I do admire the confidence to wear the outfits. I thought I was fat my entire teens/twenties (was never above a size 10) and would never have dared to wear what they were wearing. I grew up in the 90’s/00’s though where we had the opposite end of the spectrum.

Sorry posted twice.

In London people walk a lot more plus much more awareness of health and nutrition than many places.

This comes down to activity levels again. In bigger cities people walk around more and are also more inclined to use PT, cycle or walk than drive because the infrastructure is there to support it.

In London people walk a lot more plus much more aware of health and nutrition than many places.

This to me is the crux of the problem here - food has been disconnected from genuine hunger.
Sophisticated European and Asian countries have held on tighter to their formal mealtime cultures and they aren't constantly grazing on crap.

I just came back form a cruise around the Med and I was shocked at the size of some of my fellow passengers. These were really big people that I just do not see very often where I live. Some were so big that they were probably the biggest people that I have ever seen outside of a TV documentary.

I felt slim and I am overweight.

This led me to conclude that it was something to do with culture ie in certain parts of the country being that size is just seen as normal or less remarkable anyway.

We always blame food but I was chatting to DH about this last night and I think it’s more heavily related to everyone being sedentary. UPF’s were everywhere in the 90s and 00s so it’s nothing new, I grew up on them! I wasn’t overweight because I played out all of the time, I was constantly moving around. Now kids sit around on their iPads/consoles. In my year at primary we had one fat kid, that was it. It’s way more prevalent to see it now.

But healthy food doesn’t need to be expensive. Rice and pulses and veg. I thinks it’s education and culture and being surrounded by other overweight people who also have portion sizes that are too large etc

It's an interesting post and a subject I've thought about many times. I live in a working class town and the average dress size here is probably 16. I'm a size 18 although I go the gym often and my diet isn't appalling. If I go to London or Manchester, I don't see many overweight people. When I visited Milan I didn't see any overweight people until I arrived back here at the airport.

Is it that city folk feel more pressure to conform? Are they wealthier and therefore happier and less likely to comfort eat? Do they just walk more and drive less?

As for clothing, I don't believe a fat lass needs to cover up. Live and let live!

There was a recent post asking why everyone isn't one the jabs, and many answers mentioned cost, so I don't know if this is relevant.
It is amazing how judgmental some people can be; if you put on weight, despite eating very little, people treat you in a noticeably different way. I don't suppose you can wear a sandwich board saying you used to go to the gym 5x a week/eat a perfect diet etc. But several of the previously superfit people I know who are now overweight (one had a brain tumour, one had cancer, and due to medication/not being able to exercise) look very different-and they get treated very differently, which is sad.

Wembley Stadium does have vegan hot dogs.

Are chips fried in some sort of veg oil not vegan?

There is a strong correlation between wealth and area (certainly in the examples you give), thus you're pretty much agreeing with OP.

For a lot of people on Mumsnet it seems like the two go hand in hand 🙄 Huge amounts of assumption and judgement.

It's quite easy to be overweight and also eat reasonably healthy meals a lot of the time. Plenty of people are.

It's related to wealth not area. You don't see many overweight people in Chelsea pop over to Croydon and it's a different story. Access to food and money to buy healthy food is key. Plus money for fitness, weight management etc

I don't purport to know anything about you - It's not a personal attack to completely disagree with your proposed solutions and explain why.

Who is saying “they’re” not getting proper nutrition, the pp who has raised it seems to have determined that from her own survey of MN posts.

What on earth are you on about, OP?

Here are the dining options, including Thai, Greek, Indian, Sushi and many others.

www.boxpark.co.uk/venues/wembley/food-and-drink

This is basically a thread to smirk and sneer at overweight girls daring to wear cool clothes in this heat. At least own it.

Seriously, give your head a shake.

These drugs are not for short-term use only for many people. You're showing an astounding level of ignorance. Obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease and should be managed as such, as are other chronic diseases.

I very rarely see this kind of rigidity of thinking outside of Mumsnet. It's such a strange phenomenon.

Teens in my area are mostly an average weight, with some above that and some below that. Same for the adults really.