overweight but healthy

mfpcopine

Some doctors are reluctant to tell patients that they need to lose weight, especially if the doctor is himself or herself overweight.

Go to a health-conscious, trim doctor and ask him or her to candidly assess your health now, and in the future.

Gt3ch

Fat is bad mmkey, adipose tissue that is. Stores toxins which leads to lots of fun things(or so I've heard). Then there is the fat around your organs which leads to pretty much every major disease.

That's weird. I always thought fat was energy stores.

It is. But it also stores other compounds as well. Are you aware of this process- usually no. But Dr's are. They are aware of fat soluble drugs, for instance, and how their effects can be re-experienced long after taking them when there is very rapid weigh-loss. There are many fat-soluble toxic compounds. It's not touchy-feely BS, it's science.

dotido

Thanks everyone for your responses so far.

Now to make some things clear:

I was 18 years old at the time at 165-170 pounds.

I decided to lose weight because of how I looked not at all about my health.

After 4 years, I am 116 pounds but my goal is 95 pounds.

Dotido:

SW: 165 pounds

CW: 116 pounds

GW: 95 pounds

Age: 22 years old

Height: 4'11

joejccva71

If we are talking a little overweight it's fine, but if you're obese then no you aren't healthy. I don't care what your diet looks like. You need to lose bodyfat before you can consider yourself healthy. There are many diseases associated with being obese and having a tremendous amount of fat surrounding your organs.