To wonder if the proliferation of threads about weight at the moment

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Are a result of much of MN being on a new year diet healthy living drive? And thus a little preoccupied?

There are trillions at the mo!

Probably

I am taking these threads personally. I want to be a bit thinner but am a pig. This is not normally a problem because I get lots of exercise, but I am put off going on a 2 hour dog walk by the 3 foot deep snow.

So I blame the snow for the threads.

Yep, same reason the papers are full of diet/exercise specials.

January is not really the best time to start trying to lose weight, is it? It's too cold and dark and you just want to eat hot stodge and NOT go outside.

Every time I look there is a new thread about FAT PEOPLE EATING and THIN PEOPLE BEING THIN and I keep getting drawn in.

No idea why though it's not something I really think about in RL.

You're right about eating stodge though, my mum said in waitrose the day after the big snow, they had sold out of stewing steak. And she had a long conversation with a woman at the checkout about it being stew weather.

The main result of my mum telling me this, and me avidly listening, was that I realised that we both desperately need to get a life

Stay away from them MillyR - it is one of the few topics that I am having to avoid. Am always amazed at the vile attitudes towards the overweight on Mumsnet. It is like all of the hate that can no longer be applied to race/religion etc gets heaped upon fat people instead.

It is so very very hard to lose weight it really is, it takes as much "head" work as it does physical and reading the stuff on here will only make it harder.

OP you are right, I've noticed this as well.

TBH I am amazed by how many people seem to have such a preoccupation, nay, obsession with body size. Can't be healthy.

I too am amazed by how preoccupied people are with it when they could be feeding their mind mumsnetting instead.

It's because lots of people overeat at christmas and put on weight

for me its about having put on weight like I never have before
being heavier than I ever have before
realising how unfit I am
and not wanting another thing to feel depressed about
I have enough

Good point HB.

There are some posters who will pop up, without fail, to bang on about how anyone over a size 10 is obese, draining the NHS of all resources, responsible for all things wrong with modern society etc.

macaroni cheese here tonight - and that's as a result of a thread [suggestible? Moi?]

Good luck with your weight loss Trinity and if helps you to post then fair play to you - not that you need my approval of course.

I posted my thread on the size 14 thing as a result of a comment made by a distant relative. I really wanted to know if size 14 was considered big. I had no idea it would get so many replies. Then there was a massive debate about bones and stuff and I lost interest.

I've been posting manically on all of them including yours coldhands. it's still running and running isn't it! Must have been a great OP to garner so much interest, be proud!

It's one of those MN topics that is always guaranteed a good turn out

janos nice turn of phrase

I am actually quite proud that I have had such a response. I honestly didn't think it would.

Although I did stop reading the replies a while ago, there are just too many.

Morloth - the vast enormously huge majority of Mumsnetters are not mean, bitchy or judgemental about the overweight. There are a few (I could name all of them) who always crop up on those threads but, tbh, I think most of them have issues of their own.