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Most people are obese because they're meant to be. What?!

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  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    edited December 2016
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    I read a study on Biggest Loser Competitors and what they do on the show is not healthy or sustainable and causes issues with ED's and severe metabolic damage due to the VLCD and extreme amounts of exercise.

    In the "real world", weight loss is achievable and is sustainable if you want it enough.

    That reminds me of the last season that I saw a few episodes of and everyone at the finale looked appalled at how skinny Rachel had gotten.

    a9cak5ce1tuz.jpg


    The Biggest Loser is 100% not a show that teaches people how to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way. If you want that in a show, then from what I've seen what comes closest is Extreme Weight Loss (although I think that ended...?) since it's over the course of a whole year, rather than a few months, and they deal with the emotional issues as well as eating issues.

    Regardless, OP, your mom is definitely wrong. The reason a lot of people gain the weight back is simply because they continuously ate over maintenance again, whether that be because their weight loss strategy was unsustainable or they just stopped caring, etc. But either way, I think your mom is just saying that so that she has an excuse to not lose the weight herself. It's her way to make herself feel better about it.

    You do you.

    I never understood people bagging on her. I thought she looked fine, other than maybe her big head, but that had nothing to do with the weight loss, and I have no room to talk. I possess a rather oversized noodle myself.

    I disagree that she looks fine.. It's not that her head is in actuality too big, her undersized body just makes it appear that way.

    She has "that look" that i'm not allowed to mention on here...

    I find it interesting that you mention "the look" because years ago I was talking with a good friend of mine, who is a psychiatrist and we were talking about a famous woman. She treated alot of EDs and said "I'm sure she is__. You can see it by her face".

    Yep, you can just SEE when someone has some type of ED or is too thin to be healthy or is restricting calories to the extreme in there face.

    Oh, absolutely. However, 18.0 is BARELY underweight. People were making it sound like she was an unwrapped mummy. I feel like this likely ties right back into our societal perception of people leaning more toward "fat is normal" as time goes by. If she were to have put on an easy three pounds, she'd be back into "healthy".
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    I read a study on Biggest Loser Competitors and what they do on the show is not healthy or sustainable and causes issues with ED's and severe metabolic damage due to the VLCD and extreme amounts of exercise.

    In the "real world", weight loss is achievable and is sustainable if you want it enough.

    That reminds me of the last season that I saw a few episodes of and everyone at the finale looked appalled at how skinny Rachel had gotten.

    a9cak5ce1tuz.jpg


    The Biggest Loser is 100% not a show that teaches people how to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way. If you want that in a show, then from what I've seen what comes closest is Extreme Weight Loss (although I think that ended...?) since it's over the course of a whole year, rather than a few months, and they deal with the emotional issues as well as eating issues.

    Regardless, OP, your mom is definitely wrong. The reason a lot of people gain the weight back is simply because they continuously ate over maintenance again, whether that be because their weight loss strategy was unsustainable or they just stopped caring, etc. But either way, I think your mom is just saying that so that she has an excuse to not lose the weight herself. It's her way to make herself feel better about it.

    You do you.

    I never understood people bagging on her. I thought she looked fine, other than maybe her big head, but that had nothing to do with the weight loss, and I have no room to talk. I possess a rather oversized noodle myself.

    I disagree that she looks fine.. It's not that her head is in actuality too big, her undersized body just makes it appear that way.

    She has "that look" that i'm not allowed to mention on here...

    I find it interesting that you mention "the look" because years ago I was talking with a good friend of mine, who is a psychiatrist and we were talking about a famous woman. She treated alot of EDs and said "I'm sure she is__. You can see it by her face".

    Hope no one compares the size of my skull to the rest of my body.
  • Samarisa
    Samarisa Posts: 22 Member
    If I saw her running a marathon I'd think nothing of it. A lot of dedicated runners have a gaunter look than even the leanest non-runners. And on some people, the baby face goes before the 'baby belly'!
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    I read a study on Biggest Loser Competitors and what they do on the show is not healthy or sustainable and causes issues with ED's and severe metabolic damage due to the VLCD and extreme amounts of exercise.

    In the "real world", weight loss is achievable and is sustainable if you want it enough.

    That reminds me of the last season that I saw a few episodes of and everyone at the finale looked appalled at how skinny Rachel had gotten.

    a9cak5ce1tuz.jpg


    The Biggest Loser is 100% not a show that teaches people how to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way. If you want that in a show, then from what I've seen what comes closest is Extreme Weight Loss (although I think that ended...?) since it's over the course of a whole year, rather than a few months, and they deal with the emotional issues as well as eating issues.

    Regardless, OP, your mom is definitely wrong. The reason a lot of people gain the weight back is simply because they continuously ate over maintenance again, whether that be because their weight loss strategy was unsustainable or they just stopped caring, etc. But either way, I think your mom is just saying that so that she has an excuse to not lose the weight herself. It's her way to make herself feel better about it.

    You do you.

    I never understood people bagging on her. I thought she looked fine, other than maybe her big head, but that had nothing to do with the weight loss, and I have no room to talk. I possess a rather oversized noodle myself.

    I disagree that she looks fine.. It's not that her head is in actuality too big, her undersized body just makes it appear that way.

    She has "that look" that i'm not allowed to mention on here...

    I find it interesting that you mention "the look" because years ago I was talking with a good friend of mine, who is a psychiatrist and we were talking about a famous woman. She treated alot of EDs and said "I'm sure she is__. You can see it by her face".

    Yep, you can just SEE when someone has some type of ED or is too thin to be healthy or is restricting calories to the extreme in there face.

    We were discussing it because to me she just looked very thin. For my friend, a professional, she could immediately pick up the signs.
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    I'm hovering around 18.5 to 19.5 right now and I can truly see how a loss of just three more pounds would make me look much too gaunt. So it may depend on build, bone structure, musculature, but some people look ok at underweight, some don't. I'm trying not to judge but IMO, she looks scary skinny to me.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    I read a study on Biggest Loser Competitors and what they do on the show is not healthy or sustainable and causes issues with ED's and severe metabolic damage due to the VLCD and extreme amounts of exercise.

    In the "real world", weight loss is achievable and is sustainable if you want it enough.

    That reminds me of the last season that I saw a few episodes of and everyone at the finale looked appalled at how skinny Rachel had gotten.

    a9cak5ce1tuz.jpg


    The Biggest Loser is 100% not a show that teaches people how to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way. If you want that in a show, then from what I've seen what comes closest is Extreme Weight Loss (although I think that ended...?) since it's over the course of a whole year, rather than a few months, and they deal with the emotional issues as well as eating issues.

    Regardless, OP, your mom is definitely wrong. The reason a lot of people gain the weight back is simply because they continuously ate over maintenance again, whether that be because their weight loss strategy was unsustainable or they just stopped caring, etc. But either way, I think your mom is just saying that so that she has an excuse to not lose the weight herself. It's her way to make herself feel better about it.

    You do you.

    I never understood people bagging on her. I thought she looked fine, other than maybe her big head, but that had nothing to do with the weight loss, and I have no room to talk. I possess a rather oversized noodle myself.

    Not to mention - she won. Yup. $250,000 was her prize. It was a competition, and she plain and simple won the prize.

    I still have kudos for her winning the quarter of a million. She was "in it to win it".
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