To think being slim should be normal for most people.

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By slim i mean sizes 8 to 12.

Obviously you get a minority who are not in this range naturally but for 80% of people this size should be natural, say they eat a reasonable diet of between 2000-3000 calories.

Im so sick of people at work making out i am abnormally thin for being a size 10. I watch what I eat but dont deprive myself. The same people making me out to be lucky to be slim eat fried chicken or pizza for lunch and seem to be able to demolish a whole pack of biscuits at 3 o clock.

Aibu to think that the normal human man/woman should be a size 8-12 and that to attain or maintain this does not require super human discipline or strength.

I get what you are saying. We have become so used to seeing overweight people that it now appears normal. So to see someone of a healthy weight is now unusual.

Agreed. We're just fatter than we used to be, collectively

We have lost sight of compassion in the UK This is what i find far more worrying.

Meh. I was a 20, morbidly obese.
Disability and inability to mobilise along with steroids did that.

I'm having to go on a vlcd and I've lost a bit but considering I was eating a normal diet before, logging everything that went in my gob and averaging about 1500 cals and was still gaining weight I don't hold out much hope of keeping the weight off.

2000 calories is not the default for everyone! Do you know nothing about science and nutrition?!

At 2000 calories I’d be at least a size 18. As I’ve already said I gain weight at 1400 calories. And I’m not the only one.

If everyone could just eat 2000 calories and be a size 8 then there wouldn’t be hardly anyone on a flipping diet. You can eat a whole lot of shite on 2000 calories.

So many people critical of overweight people and yet the party that keeps getting voted back in is the one that sends ppl to carb heavy food banks.

Its as if the British public need a group of ppl they can feel superior to.

I am another who would be overweight at size 12. I'm under 5'3" & have a small frame - very small hands & feet. I would put weight on really quickly if I ate 2000 calories per day. I have to go below 1200 to lose, or 1400 if I'm doing the recommended weekly amount of exercise.

There are a lot of reasons why people gain or lose weight. I've been at both ends of the scale due to poor physical health. It's not always as easy as eat less & move more.

But yes, I agree with you in principle. Portion sizes, clothes sizes, & modern perceptions of what is healthy has become skewed. I have clothes from 15-20 years ago that absolutely prove that high street shops do go in for the whole vanity sizes thing. It's not a myth.

Have you been chatting to the woman who can't understand why parents eat?

Fuck off.

I don't think anyone wants to argue with you. I just don't understand why anyone gives a flying fuck about the size of others.

I agree OP. Some people have sweet food and fizzy drinks every day and think of it as normal not just as a treat. That's fine if they're happy but it's the "you're too slim" comments that are annoying.

In a way I do see where you are coming from, but could easily be taken the wrong way!!!

The animal world is the same - so many pets are overweight and think people have lost sight of what a healthy weight looks like.

Also not arguing. Just stating fact.

I would class a size 8 as very slim. But I am a New Zealander and overall as a nation
We are bigger people. I think the average size woman is about a 12-14, has been for years.

Ugh. What are you getting from this OP. Something missing in your life perhaps?

I'm a size 10 and couldn't give a flying f what size other people are. Clearly you have too much time on your hands op!

I'm a size 10, well I would be if only I was about 6ft 10 inches tall. So my problem is that I need to grow taller. Is there anything you can suggest I can do to make myself taller. As you are so smart and clever perhaps you can suggest something

I am really kind, self aware person who would not ever go onto a public forum to show off and make people feel bad about themselves.

So why is it that other people think it is perfectly ok to do this?

Kind of similar, except I can’t help being overweight (health problems) but you can help being unkind.

Poor you OP. So hard done by. My heart bleeds.

For all the people who say its not my business, so what about those who say your so skinny?

I actually agree BUT don’t practice what I preach. My parents are slim but I eat and drink too much and know why I am overweight, basically I eat crisps, chocolate & drink a lot. My kids are slim and fit and I preach to them that being fat is SHIT, they are healthy but I am a lost cause and have tried every diet under the sun. My cats are a healthy weight gain too!!

For all the people who say its not my business, so what about those who say your so skinny?""

They probably know you're judging the fuck out of them for not subscribing to your precious ideals of what people should be.

What a goady fucking post! I'm a size 8/10 and maintain on precisely 1300 calories a day. I know exactly because I have a feeding line. It's a shit existence but perhaps you could promote it as a way of controlling the weight of the masses.

If I ate 2500 calories per day, I would be fat. People's metabolic rates vary, and slow down as we age. Since I hit a certain age, I have to work out at least 5 times a week to stay in my size ten jeans. My sister has an under active thyroid which has made her jump from a size ten to a fourteen. Medical conditions and medicine (steroids) can make people gain weight through no fault of their own.

Agree. Nobody is born obese. It shouldn’t be seen as normal or average or even celebrated to be overweight. That doesn’t mean slim people can’t be unhealthy - literally nobody said that - but being overweight is an external sign of being unhealthy