You can be fat AND fit!

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  • Lina4Lina
    Lina4Lina Posts: 712 Member
    Yeah but you won't look good with your clothes off..

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    I'll never look good with my clothes off so what do I care?
  • yourenotmine
    yourenotmine Posts: 645 Member
    Yeah but you won't look good with your clothes off..

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    I'll never look good with my clothes off so what do I care?

    Awww... :(
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    If you're obese, you still need to lose weight, even if you're "metabolically fit." This is the kind of crap that has obese people thinking they don't need to lose weight because they aren't sick... yet.

    Why?

    The study revealed that obese people who were metabolically fit were as healthy as skinny people who were metabolically fit. While skinny people who were not metabolically fit had the same health issues as obese people who were not metabolically fit. The study found that it is not a person's weight that is important.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    Yeah but you won't look good with your clothes off..

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    I always have to laugh when people say this. It is strange to me that this is actually a goal for some people. (Maybe it's because I've been married for nearly 20 years) :laugh:
    I too have been married a long time and I am 61. I still couln't imagine not wanting to look hot for my wife and vice versa. We are a long married couple. Not dead!
  • MarisaLWood
    MarisaLWood Posts: 44 Member
    I'm quite muscular when I'm at or close to my ideal weight... yet according to the BMI charts I still have a BMI in the high 20's. Charts don't tell the whole story.

    Right now I'm at the low end of obese (BMI about 31)--but I can bench-press 90 pounds, can do 45 pushups before tiring out, AND regularly do moderate to strenuous hikes. My resting pulse is 68--same as it was when I was 18 years old, and I'm in my 40's!
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    Yeah but you won't look good with your clothes off..

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    I'll never look good with my clothes off so what do I care?
    Can't imagine that being true! Women's fit bodies are beautiful!!
  • lwagnitz
    lwagnitz Posts: 1,321 Member
    In high school I always was considered "over weight" but people said it looked like I need to lose 5 or 10 lbs absolute max, but in reality I'm considered obese. My dad is the same way (5'8 and 200). But my dad is super muscular and strong it's insane. Just naturally. And that's the way I am too (not that muscular looking, female, hello). But I was always in good shape, always ran the fastest sprinting, and distance. I played soccer competitively, was a competitive cheerleader, and played basketball competitvely. I also did track and cross country. I can lift 3x more weight than my husband can for lower body strength. In leg presses, he is no match ;) I was injured, so put on some weight, but I'm still fit and strong, and more fit and strong than my other "skinny and fit" friends. So i'd say, yeah.

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