Comments on: Pathetic insults- Overweight women

By: marie

marie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:39:28 +0000

Unfortunately, people judge others by their covers.

I don’t think it will ever change.

Maria

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:17:24 +0000

The major problem with people judging weight today is that they go by the BMI, and not by the fat/muscle ratio. BMI simply says that a person who is a certain height should weigh a certain amount. What most people forget is that muscle weighs more that fat. I took a kick-boxing class in college to loose some weight and lost at least one pants size, but gained ten pounds. My first reaction was confusion, but then my doctor reminded me that I actually lost fat and gained muscle.

My mom has struggled with her weight for years and years now, but is finally making some changes and is slowly winning the battle.

The media is also to blame. A size 10 is considered ‘plus sized’ in acting, modeling, whatever. I’ve always told my daughters that they are perfect no matter what size they are. That’s the real key. Informing our children (men suffer with weight issues too) that no matter what they look like, they are perfect the way they are.

By: Gary (aka Old Dude)

Gary (aka Old Dude) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:21:40 +0000

its easy to mock and denigrate strangers—but I have found that if I get to KNOW the individual, I also become “blind” to his/her physical disparities—the person becomes a friend.

Gary (aka old dude)

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:11:37 +0000

I am about 30 lbs overweight, I wouldn’t say that I’m fat. In fact the only person that has ever called me fat was my ex and I wasn’t overweight at the time.

Personally, I would rather see someone that has some meat on their bones than someone that is so thin they look like a walking cadaver.

I eat healthy, I get exercise, I am 50 years old and the weight doesn’t want to come off. I’m not worried about it. Why should someone else be?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:07:15 +0000

People can be so cruel, some never grow up, I was on the receiving end of a lot of these type of insults when I was a kid, lost 70 pounds quite a few years ago for health reasons, I know how hard it can be to loose weight.