Body Positive or Promoting an unhealthy lifestyle
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honkytonks85 wrote: »What always gets me is the assumption that being big = unhealthy lifestyle and being slim = healthy lifestyle. Not really the case. It is possible to be overweight and still be healthy. It is possible to be slim and be unhealthy.
if you're 100 pounds overweight, how could you possibly have a healthy lifestyle?
http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit-or-thin-and-unhealthy/
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I see this thread has now degenerated into a debate on how obese people really are just as healthy as the non obese...
LOL interesting...0 -
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yopeeps025 wrote: »
yea, the 700 calorie deficit one????0 -
yopeeps025 wrote: »
yea, the 700 calorie deficit one????
Yeah I had fun with that. I think that is how @MrM27 used to have fun with my misinform self.
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I'd love to see more plus-sized models. It's hard to tell how clothing will look on me when it's only modeled by size 0 women. Do the clothes look good because they're nice clothes, or because she's so skinny? I'm sure the advertisers sell more clothes when they hang it on a very thin woman, so it's really just a marketing decision.
Women of all shapes and sizes deserve to have clothing that fits properly and is flattering.
I think it's been mentioned before, but the typical size 0 model promotes a very unhealthy lifestyle of constant dieting and food restriction; sadly, that's seen by some as normal. Personally I'd rather see "most" models at size 8 - 12 US.
I don't think we need to make a moral issue out of it.0 -
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EvgeniZyntx wrote: »Lourdesong wrote: »EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
The "fat" are "pitiable"?
Really, you went there?
Read the whole conversation. I am among this pitiable group that needs a self-esteem boost so is being encouraged to boast about qualities I do not possess.
So only the fat that don't have self esteem are pitiable?
And it's ok to call them that if you belong to them. Got it.
You don't 'get' anything. You clearly aren't following along and don't understand what my argument even was.
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Go to any water park or beach on a given day and you can see a lot of very heavy people wearing clothes that show you too much flesh, just like the model that is the subject of this thread. Should they all be offered modeling contracts?0
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I think she is beautiful0
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honkytonks85 wrote: »What always gets me is the assumption that being big = unhealthy lifestyle and being slim = healthy lifestyle. Not really the case. It is possible to be overweight and still be healthy. It is possible to be slim and be unhealthy.
yep
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her body is not beautiful. She has a nice very heavily made up face.-1
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My god, I want her hair. o_O And her chin! I'm several sizes smaller than her, yet I have the most frustrating double chin that will not go away, HOW DOES SHE DO..
Face tattoos (both tats of faces and tats on the face) aren't my cup of tea, but confidence is always sexy. ;D0 -
I see medically unhealthy. Nothing more nothing less.
I'm realistic.
She is gorgeous and looks beautiful but that means nothing to me.
My world revolves around whatever lifestyle she is leading how's her yearly blood work.0 -
My god, I want her hair. o_O And her chin! I'm several sizes smaller than her, yet I have the most frustrating double chin that will not go away, HOW DOES SHE DO..
Face tattoos (both tats of faces and tats on the face) aren't my cup of tea, but confidence is always sexy. ;D
One "trick" is to stick your head forward towards the camera. I read an article about how to take a good portrait photo, and after years of thinking I was unphotogenic I can reliably get a great photo.0 -
I think that the clothing and modeling industry has largely ignored women of a larger size. I think that this is good because it will increase awareness that people come in all sizes. There are large women (like me) that are doing something about our weight, but we still need to buy clothing in our current size, and still need to see women in the catalogs and websites that are similar to us. Do you know how hard it is to buy something online that is a size 20, but is modeled on a size 6? Its impossible to know how it will fit on a woman of that size.0
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melimomTARDIS wrote: »like I know a girl who wont wear shorts or swimwear, even in a humid midwestern summer, because she is fat. So she just sweats and suffers all summer long. That is no way to live! A little self esteem would go a long way in her case.
When you carry weight in your legs, there is often cellulite and other bumps that are hidden by longer pants. You can still tell that there is weight there, but you don't have to show the cellulite, bumps, spider veins, and other discoloration that often comes with carrying weight in your legs. People tend to look at my legs less when I wear pants vs when I wear shorts.
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