To wish it was seen as the most beautiful thing ever to be super overweight

[weeducky]

Okay I know I am being because health but I am sat here really bloody hungry because I need to lose weight and I've had my morning 300 cals and it's just miserable. Heroin chic thin was in and I feel like if a BMI of 26/27/28 was seen as the pinnacle of beauty life would be lovely and I could eat what I wanted. Eating delicious food is such a source of joy and life would just be so much better if it was without guilt.

Don't worry, I know this isn't sensible realistically (even though we're potentially going that way) just dreaming because I really really want something delicious and filling for my lunch and I can't have it.

Also, you can have something delicious and filling for lunch. In fact you should.

@Jourdain11

It's overweight in terms of bmi (which as pp has already posted about has issues of its own)

Slim or not is about looks. Not health

You’re BMI is usually 22? What are you on about then? You mean you need to lose about 6 pounds to be considered slim?

It's highly unlikely, verging on impossible that the weight loss required to take the op from overweight on bmi to healthy weight on bmi would even be noticeable.

So yes.

A bmi of 25.5 is already slim

This. Why aren’t you eating properly? Why aren’t you giving up calorie counting and focusing on exercise and nourishment instead? Perhaps you need to update your attitudes to bodies and nutrition, you seem to be stuck in the 1990s!

I have that exact BMI I am definitely not slim 😂

Overweight is fashionable though....its about confidence....not what the scales say. Some of the most beautiful ppl I know are size 14 +. Some thin ppl look dreadful! It's all about confidence and wgat you wear!

I guess your post is about beauty standards and how being a comfortable and achievable weight doesn’t fit in with what society deems beautiful (which is of course not what many people might find beautiful). But being beautiful for society seems important to you which is fair enough.
According to the youths (I am not one obviously) being ‘thicc’ is desirable - could you stay your weight and embrace that look?

@Simianwalk

Slim is not objective. There is no science to prove what slim is.

Slim people pretending they aren't is weird though

Eating delicious food is such a source of joy and life would just be so much better if it was without guilt.

There are lots of other things in life that are a great source of joy too. You could try to focus on something else?

I get it too. Trying to lose at the moment. It's hard when your partner presets you with a bowl of crisis when you have just finished eating. Then snarfs chocolate into his gob like there is no tomorrow.

Finding healthy food you love is the key I'm finding. And keep moving and some strength training. Doesn't have to be fancy in the gym, my weights are in the kitchen!!

Are you allowing yourself 300 kcals just for breakfast? Or breakfast and lunch? As you could have a super breakfast with 300kcals - egg on toast with mushrooms/spinach or tomatoes or something.

But you implied in your OP a BMI of 26/27/28 was “super overweight”? It is overweight according to the BMI, but reading your headline I thought you were talking about a BMI of 30+.
I personally try to maintain a healthy BMI, exercise most days and have a more or less balanced diet, but I certainly wouldn’t be sitting there hungry and miserable because I was slightly over the threshold.

Calorie counting and dieting is a miserable way to live and a good way to yoyo your weight up and down. Healthy it is not.
If you want to get smaller and remain that way look into a proper lifestyle overhaul - eat unprocessed food, lift weights, maybe look into intermittant fasting.

Super overweight = super unhealthy. So no it’s not something to be seen as a good thing. Anywhere.

You may feel overweight and want to lose weight and that is fine. But you are not super overweight.

and if a 300 calorie breakfast left you feeling starving you are not eating the right kind of breakfast. A 300 calorie breakfast based on protein would keep you satisfied all morning.

Increase your protein. Cut the carbs. It’s not all about the amount of calories but what those calories consist of.

Much of Africa. “You’ve put on weight!” is a compliment! If you were slim.

According to the NHS BMi calculator I'm overweight. Especially if you take my waist measurement. I'm also in Large sizes in almost all shops. Hardly slim!

'Snarfs chocolate into his gob'

Do you always talk about eating in this way?

A bmi of 25.5 is already slim

Honestly, I think that's unlikely.

I need to lose weight no you don't, your BMI is 25, normal range is 19-25

It is not. I have the same BMI aa OP and have a massive spare tyre. It’s all on my middle, it’s fat and that amount of fat can’t be good for my internal organs, never mind what if looks like.

@Simianwalk

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You're slimmer than someone of a bmi of 40.

Since when did women's clothes exclusively come in small or large? Have we stopped doing the numbers?

If you dont think you're slim, then you don't. Others will disagree

@HappyHourStartsNow

Then do something about it?

I dont care what you look like or if you're unhealthy

That's for you to worry about

YABU to refer to a BMI of 26/27 as “super overweight”.

I think lots of peolle confuse need for firming up body with need to lose weight