In thinking that a disproportionate number of MNers are overweight/obese?

[anotherfatty]

...according to recent threads and that this is probably because we spend too much time in front of a computer stuffing our faces and not enough time getting off our fat backsides and exercising!

eh?

like, who cares?

Obviously huge numbers of people in the UK and US are too fat and for the first time in history we have more problems with obesity than starvation taking the world as a whole. We only just reached that point. It's a very interesting stage of human physical development to have been reached. Soon more people will be overweight than not so our appreciation of norms will change and those who are 9 stone or under like I am will be seen as bizarre perhaps.

More problems with obesity than starvation? Globally? That can't possible be true, surely. In the West, sure - but not worldwide.

yawn.are you bored op?
btw im underweight.i eat crap all day,dont do much excercise other than walking so your theory-'...according to recent threads and that this is probably because we spend too much time in front of a computer stuffing our faces and not enough time getting off our fat backsides and exercising! 'is crap.ive probably got crapper diet and do less excercise than people who are considered over weight.

Xenia you are bizarre
nowt to do with your weight though...

(only kidding)

lol at this thread and it's defensive posters...

i have met several and tehy are all gorgeous

what a very strange thread, and an even stranger place to put it.

but you asked so YABU to think that, as it probably isn't true, but so what if it is

Xenia, too fat for what? I'm too fat to wear hotpants. But so is the woman who lives across the road but she doesn't care!

I'd look terrible under 9 stone. When I am 10 stone I am a small size 10, can you imagine what size I would be under 9 stone?

How can you tell how many are fat/obese?

There are some that are obese, there are some who are desperately trying to gain weight, there are some like me just unhappy with body shape - I want to be a couple of lb lighter, but that is to make me the small size 10 rather than a bigger one, not because I am massive iyswim.

Tis the internet - there will be lots of different shapes, just like in life

The best, or should be the best, thing about MN is the fact that nobody knows what you look like, how big your house is etc and can just converse with you about topics and not you. This occasionally goes wrong when people take things personally (How could it possibly be unless you specifically ram info about them from another thread).
Who cares who's fat, thin, 'under nine stone' etc. I used to be under six stones, now that's fucked up!!

Don't know about disproportionate - why do you think that?

As someone else said, not all slim or thin people are healthy either, I know I'm not.

Don't people who are under 9 stone get blown away in the wind?

don't care TBH. It doesn't make you a bad person

I haven't been so far! (although my dd once did)

I'd like to weigh about 11 stone. But I would rather win the lottery!

I actually agree with you for once Xenia.

Obviously height is relevant. The average height for women is about my height 5 foot 5. The lowest safe weight for that is 8 stone (18 BMI which is normal and can look pretty good too) and in 1950 the average woman of that height was 8 stone 7 by the way (now she'll be size 16 and God knows what weight....)

10 stone at my height if healthy weight too so there's a good 2 stone margin I think to be healthy at my height but if you get up to 12, 13 etc it is over the recommended weights for height.

"More problems with obesity than starvation? Globally? That can't possible be true, surely. In the West, sure - but not worldwide." Yes globally - it astounded me when you think of all those thin Chinese (25% of the world's population is Chinese) never mind Africa and india - I'll look it up.

id like to put on weight.i think id like to be 8ish.

Why ARE people being so touchy about this.

I am a bit overweight and its just because I am too tired running about after my DD to think about healthy eating and knuckle down to a diet...i'm sure there are other mums like me, maybe thats why there appear to me more overweight people here?

Although I don't think there are really.

No I hadn't come to that conclusion. I am not even overweight but I've loitered about on the diet board or whatever it's called.

I know we shouldn't torture ourselves, but losing 7 pounds when you don't need to is just ........... sadly normal..

With summer coming I think, oooh quite fancy going down a dress size. Women the World over are thinking the same thing at the same time.

"size 16 and God knows what weight"!!!!

The chinese are tiny in the South, little legs and no bottoms!! They are obsessed with weight and advertise overnight weightloss pills everywhere. Of course they're low weight have you seen the size of their hips? When I was a 6-8 I was still a medium in Chinese sizing!!