AIBU to ask if anyone else is classed as obese?

[TheOpalFox]

Im
16 stone and classed as obese :( anyone else?

So 1 in 4 people have this disease. Isn’t this a pandemic proportion?

As I understand it, it’s a terrible disease that involves a body that stops releasing satiety hormones, while broadcasting constant food noise.

Yes 66 percent of the British public are obese or overweight. Weight loss drugs have not yet reduced the rate but will very shortly. As we have seen in the USA. Currently the nhs spends 12 billion a year on obesity related health issues.

howver as much as it is a disease, a disease is just this “A disease is an abnormal condition that impairs normal bodily functions, manifesting with specific signs and symptoms”‘ so basically it’s just a definition to say our bodies carry an abnormal amount of fat which impairs normal bodily functions.

a lot of people think the term disease means contagious or infectious or outwith someone’s control, when in reality that’s not what it means at all, it just means an abnormal state for the body to be in which impacts our ability to fully function corrrectly

As I understand it, it’s a terrible disease that involves a body that stops releasing satiety hormones, while broadcasting constant food noise.

And yet this 'disease' has only hit pandemic proportions since the enormous rise in high street takeways, 24/7 food deliveries, 2 and 3 car families, supermarkets selling multipacks of chocolate, doughnuts and fizzy drinks. And of course the rise in internet and mobile phone usage along with games consoles and 24/7 TV.

How fortunate that less than 3% of the UK population had this disease in the 1970s, compared to today's figures.

Yes the rise of cars, sendentary jobs, easier food access, processed foods, all have contributed to the rise in obesity. As well as increase in stress levels and sleep deprivation across the population.

your post reads snippy , like you’re personally offended by what the poster wrote. But as humans we evolve, our lifestyles evolve, we have more cars, do less manual labour, have easier access to foods, more processed foods available, and yes it’s resulted in an increase in obesity, significantly, no one is saying otherwise.

The difference between BMI of 25 and BMI of 30.1 for me is 24 pounds (or 1 stone 10). Yes, I am obese.

I think this is a stat thay needs contextualised. 25 is still over weight by the way, it’s 24.9 which is the very upper limit of a healthy bmi, which goes down to 18.5

but that 24 lbs, will be a significant percentage in terms of your recommended body weight. In isolation it doesn’t look much, but could be as much as 20mpercent of where you should be,

I’m a kilo into obese. Even when I was young and super skinny I would still have been classed as overweight, I’m shocked as in old photos I’m so thin. I’m short though. I did think I was fat though because my best mate was a size 6 (early 90s)

Chat forums don't really work that way.

In order to join in with the chat and post a POV, one does not need to be personally offended.

But the situation is the same for everyone, yet not everyone chooses to be or to remain overweight.

Those who do, can continue to blame 'disease' 'food noise' and everything else that pleases them as it's their life and their own health they're ruining.

But 'Ohhh I've got a disease' isn't particularly a helpful mindset for those who do want to take responsibility.

Yeah you’re not coming across well. No one wrote oh but I’ve got a disease, and ghe way chat forums work is everyone can read what was written before, so when you post shite everyone knows.

Oh no, an internet random thinks I'm 'not coming across well', however will I cope 🙄

If your idea of 'coming across well' is the way you post, I'm more than happy with mine in comparison.

I was classed as obese 18 months ago and it prompted me to do something about it. I knew I was overweight I just didn't realise by how much!
Now I'm a healthy weight and feel so much better I am determined to stay that way but I've had to rethink how I eat.
I usually have just two meals a day and I was particularly careful about portion size. I also cut out almost all bread and snacks. Now I have the very occasional snack and eat bread sometimes though nowhere near as often as I used to

I do take the weight charts with a grain of salt. At my lightest I was 69kg which is right in the middle of ‘healthy weight’ for my height. But I was very slim and had to work really hard to maintain it. My aim is to get to borderline healthy/overweight which is 80kg and much more sustainable and healthy looking. Unfortunately I’m way above that now!

You will not look emaciated at the top of a healthy weight scale. It is impossible to look emaciated when you are so far away from actual starvation. You will not look skeletal at BMI 23-25. Nobody does. No matter how big your frame.

I’m 162cm and 15st 3.5lbs.

At the end of March I was 16st 10lbs. I’ve lost 9.3kg and moved my BMI from 40.4 down to 36.8.

Just being and knowing you’re obese isn’t always impetus enough.

I’d known for a long time, and only decided to do something about it a few months ago.

No. You won't. It's denial.

Last year I was 5 stone overweight and though "I don't have 5 stone to lose, I'm not that big! I'll look ill at 11 stone! I lost 4 stone and thought I looked weird and lanky I didn't recognise myself. I thought I looked too thin and if I lost another stone I'd look emaciated. I stayed at that weight for a while then I got used to seeing myself at my new size then after a couple of months I realised I still had pockets of fat on my inner thighs, my love handles and on my tummy. That's when I realised if I lost the last stone I wouldn't look ill at all, if just lose those little pockets of fat that aren't supposed to be there. I've lost half a stone, I look slim and healthy, I'm still half a stone overweight and I just can't shift it. It's fine, I love how I look but I do absolutely recognise I'm carrying half a stone of fat that I don't need and I wouldn't look emaciated if I lost it, i'd look lean, which is what humans are supposed to be. We've just got used to people carrying excess fat being normal and have convinced ourselves it needs to be there. Only after finishing my weight loss journey have I realised all those years I thought I'd look ill at my recommended weight have I realised it was denial all along. No one looks emaciated at the top end of their healthy weight. Some do at the lower end but that's why it's a range, just getting into the top end of the range will not make anyone look ill.

<steps out looking like the hulk>
well actually

@TwoCatsandAnxiety although the who and the american medical association consider obesity a disease, many like the british medical association and the canadian equivalent don't.
the issue is that it does not automatically cause bloodwork or systems like the endocrine system to go off balance.
so obesity really is simply a height vs weight chart which oddly holds a lot of stigma.

No, nobody in the world, ever, has ever been classed as obese 🙄

I don’t want this to land wrong but I am very curious. How do you get to obese? I can’t imagine not noticing that I’d put on a couple of pounds and then eating a bit less to adjust. To put on 2-3 stone is quite some additional food - do you not notice?

5ft 6 and 16 stone . Started my diet at the end of May and now down to 14.5 stone . Still want to lose another 2 stone . But feeling better about myself already.

A lot of people just refuse to have scales in the house.

Very often the same people won't allow their children to be weighed either.

They can use their eyes but without the numbers, denial is a bit easier I expect.

I have been depressed

I was at my heaviest 21st and classed as morbidly obese (possibly severely my BMI was quite literally on the edge of the charts at that point

Now 13st 10lbsin the obese category and if I can shift another half stone I'll finally be in the overweight category