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post 1593261371 12-10-2019, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
I remember growing up when everyone knew the 1-2 fatties.
It's pretty crazy. If you watch a movie from the 80s, the fat kid is like an average sized kid nowadays.

I remember in the 90s in school, each grade had 1 or 2 fat kids. Now every other kid has moobs.
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Originally Posted By PenorBrahNoHomo⏩
The rule of thumb for ideal sloot bodies is 100lbs at 5' and an extra 5lbs per inch of height. So at 5'10" a sloot could be 150lbs.
Yeah, but my body has never cooperated with this.
Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
I feel like maybe the people ITT don't fully comprehend what "average" means. The distribution of weights in the U.S. isn't precisely a normal curve. The issue is that there are extreme outliers on the obese side. That is--there are no living adult women who weigh 20 pounds, but there are now many(!) who weigh 400+. Those numbers bring up the average.

I would bet that the median weight is quite a bit lower.
Originally Posted By Destor⏩
In 2016, the median weight for a female was 161lbs versus an average of 170

According to this source anywayshttps://dqydj.com/weight-percentile-...tor-men-women/
Actually kind of interesting. More so than this thread usually is.
Originally Posted By devin45k⏩
It's pretty crazy. If you watch a movie from the 80s, the fat kid is like an average sized kid nowadays.

I remember in the 90s in school, each grade had 1 or 2 fat kids. Now every other kid has moobs.
I was a 70s fat kid. 80s too. Look at pics of me from then now and I don't "look fat".

IDK...do believe that genetics contribute though based on personal experience. Ate the same and moved around the same as other kids but was always chubby. Spent a lot of time outside, played sports, rode bikes, very limited screen time and practically no snacking at all before age 10 or so...was still the fat kid.

I was also growing faster than most other kids and as a parent now I recognize kids have a tendency to get chubby before getting taller. Got near my adult height at age 12.

Being shamed about it wasn't helpful at all. If anything shaming helped push me from chubby to obese around age 13. Because f*ck it- if people are going to be hateful to you because you don't look like a couple of McD's french fries shoved into a pair of jeans might as well eat all the things. Going to take a verbal beat down either way.
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Originally Posted By Cass40⏩
I know, I need to be fat shamed.
Fat shaming never worked for me. Only thing that did was having my son and realizing my fat ass couldn't keep up with him.
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Originally Posted By eatliftskate⏩
Holy fuk. Now it’s up to 170 apparently

https://www.healthline.com/health/wo...ight-for-women
lol take a guess what it is up to now? 3 years later....180?

"data through 2016."
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Originally Posted By RedRusty⏩
Fat shaming never worked for me. Only thing that did was having my son and realizing my fat ass couldn't keep up with him.
People who say that fat shaming will "cure" the obesity epidemic don't realize that fat shaming is not the only thing that has changed in the years since the obesity crisis has begun. It's sort of just an ancillary social effect: when obesity became less and less rare, fewer and fewer people could afford to point fingers without getting an "et tu?". Fat shaming isn't all that helpful and can be counterproductive because people who feel disempowered will just give up--which is what's happening. Plus, then, you get the swing in the other direction where obese people get angry and rebel against shaming by asserting themselves too far in the other direction, proclaiming obesity a soruce of pride and identity, etc.

Which is silly: obesity is a (potentially) transient state, not an identity.

I think we should really look at other systemic shifts, like the food industry, cultural norms that have decentered eating home-cooked meals, portion sizes, between-meal snacking frequency, etc. Most traditional cultures have built-in controls on food consumption BECAUSE humans have evolved to prefer overeating. Deviating from that and letting humans freely eat ad lib from ultra-processed calorie-dense stuff is the obvious culprit. How to fix that isn't clear.

But saying the decrease in shaming is to blame is reversing cause and effect.
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Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
People who say that fat shaming will "cure" the obesity epidemic don't realize that fat shaming is not the only thing that has changed in the years since the obesity crisis has begun. It's sort of just an ancillary social effect: when obesity became less and less rare, fewer and fewer people could afford to point fingers without getting an "et tu?". Fat shaming isn't all that helpful and can be counterproductive because people who feel disempowered will just give up--which is what's happening. Plus, then, you get the swing in the other direction where obese people get angry and rebel against shaming by asserting themselves too far in the other direction, proclaiming obesity a soruce of pride and identity, etc.

Which is silly: obesity is a (potentially) transient state, not an identity.

I think we should really look at other systemic shifts, like the food industry, cultural norms that have decentered eating home-cooked meals, portion sizes, between-meal snacking frequency, etc. Most traditional cultures have built-in controls on food consumption BECAUSE humans have evolved to prefer overeating. Deviating from that and letting humans freely eat ad lib from ultra-processed calorie-dense stuff is the obvious culprit. How to fix that isn't clear.

But saying the decrease in shaming is to blame is reversing cause and effect.
You shut your mouth.That is how you cure obesity.
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
You shut your mouth.That is how you cure obesity.
The problem is that people know that--they try to just "eat less" but then may eat too much less and get overwhelmingly hungry, or may eat all of the wrong things and become unhealthy, etc. Obviously, eating fewer calories is the solution. Achieving that is the problem. At least on a population level.
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Originally Posted By x-trainer
lol take a guess what it is up to now? 3 years later....180?

"data through 2016."
Average female waist size is now38.7"
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Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
The problem is that people know that--they try to just "eat less" but then may eat too much less and get overwhelmingly hungry, or may eat all of the wrong things and become unhealthy, etc. Obviously, eating fewer calories is the solution. Achieving that is the problem. At least on a population level.
You misunderstood me. I was agreeing with your post, and stated that it was indeed how you cure obesity.

The part about you shutting you mouth was just because I was tired of listening to you.
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Originally Posted By Halfway⏩
Average female waist size is now38.7"
Jesus and I thought the 33" inch waist was bad. That feel when the average 5'4" woman can't even fit into the pants I wore when I was 235 lbs and thought I was getting fat
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People in North America have the highest average body mass in the world, according to a 2012 study. More than 70 percent of the population falls into the overweight-to-obese ranges.
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Originally Posted By RedRusty⏩
Fat shaming never worked for me. Only thing that did was having my son and realizing my fat ass couldn't keep up with him.
Same.

Not that I didn't sincerely try many many times before to take it off and keep it off. I would stick to something and lose 20ish pounds most times before stalling out, getting frustrated, and eventually drifting back into old patterns.

It's hard to do and a never ending process.
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Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
For natty women it's unquestionably (based on my understanding of women's maximum attainable fat free mass) accurate.

For men maybe less so, maybe move the upper limit of "normal" to 27.
I’m a lifetime natty woman and it’s not even close to accurate for me.
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It's not even food. It's sugar and alcohol. Everyone thinks it's cool to go out and get wasted. In reality, the sh!t just makes you a fat alcoholic.

And soft drinks are terrible for you.

Also don't understand how people get SO fat. I hate eating. I have to force myself to eat in order to bulk. Hate cooking, hate meal prepping, hate eating. I could legit eat 1-2 small meals a day and be satisfied (and crazy skinny).
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Originally Posted By Legz422⏩
I’m a lifetime natty woman and it’s not even close to accurate for me.
As in "fat on misc" crew?

I don't know what my FFM is. I honestly don't think I'm that built/muscled up.

Maybe we are outliers. At 5'6 or 7ish and 160 and just not that big.

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Originally Posted By TBO1313⏩
Jesus and I thought the 33" inch waist was bad. That feel when the average 5'4" woman can't even fit into the pants I wore when I was 235 lbs and thought I was getting fat
Yeah I remember measuring my gut at 39" when I was permabulked to 260+, bloated to hell with special supps and feeling like I was going to die just doing 5 mins on the treadmill.

It's amazing that a woman 100+ pounds lighter could have the same waist size, how does that even work?
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Originally Posted By colormeconfused⏩
It's not even food. It's sugar and alcohol. Everyone thinks it's cool to go out and get wasted. In reality, the sh!t just makes you a fat alcoholic.

And soft drinks are terrible for you.

Also don't understand how people get SO fat. I hate eating. I have to force myself to eat in order to bulk. Hate cooking, hate meal prepping, hate eating. I could legit eat 1-2 small meals a day and be satisfied (and crazy skinny).
sugar, salt, quick foods with zero nutritional value and bpa in plastics changing things in your body.
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I don't remember my waist size. For me it will always be too big. Shruggy guy.
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The women on here lift and some are not natty, so you can't compare them with the average. But most American women don't lift weights.
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Originally Posted By RedRusty⏩
Now BDD keeps me from getting fat again. Mixed blessings and whatnot.
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Originally Posted By eatliftskate⏩
Holy fuk. Now it’s up to 170 apparently

https://www.healthline.com/health/wo...ight-for-women
59.6% of women 20-34 are considered overweight or obese. 34.8% are considered obese
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Originally Posted By colormeconfused⏩
It's not even food. It's sugar and alcohol. Everyone thinks it's cool to go out and get wasted. In reality, the sh!t just makes you a fat alcoholic.
I've lived in Asia. Drinking culture is huge over there. After work go get some Korean BBQ eat a ton and drink a ton. Yet 99.9% of people are skinny/small. lol

But then again portion sizes are tiny compared to the West and you have to walk everywhere

I only saw one overweight female my entire time there. (All she ate was rice)
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