Sailor, you obviously have been squicked by an a very large mammal because no living person with any brains left would say what you have said.
People starve themselves into poor health and sometimes death just to lose weight. Encouraging thinness above health is moronic and contributes to the bizarre and sick zeitgeist where grown and otherwise sensible women vomit perfectly good food into toilets to maintain fashionable figures and look healthy. This same zeitgeist contributed to a doctor prescribing a diet that I followed faithfully until it landed me in an emergency room sick and starving to death and still “dangerously overweight” by the original doctor’s chart.
I have heard assholes of your ilk comment that one of the benefits of chemotherapy or AIDS is the weight loss.
You can’t judge a person’s health by looking at them. You cannot tell how clogged a person’s arteries are or how fit they are, or how long they will live, solely by their weight. I know skinny geeks that get winded running to the pop machine and some rather rotound ones that bike over 30 miles a night. My chubby great-grandmothers lived to age 89.
Fuck you, comments like yours help no one. No one should starve. No one should be made to feel they should starve themselves.
Well, I don’t need more excuses as I have enough already and as far as women starving themselves it does not seem to be a problem if you take into account that Americans are fatter than ever before. Any incentive to shed some pounds would be beneficial IMHO.
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He’s talking about psychologically-caused anorexia and mental cruelty to fat people!
Well, I think that lee and sailor are talking about different things here. lee is talking about isolated cases of anorexia and whatnot, while sailor is more in the area of the overall pattern of American health. I think the signals just got crossed. I don’t think there was anything wrong with what he said.
Of course, a clarification from sailor couldn’t hurt.
Hmm, my first pit post…not upset with anything at the moment…hmmm…oh well…
As sailor was responding directly to me, I think we were talking about the same thing. That is why I responded as I did. I stand by it too. Women should not be made to feel guilty for eating normally and should not be made to feel that they would be a better person if they starved themselves.
I was praised for losing weight and being so discplined by sticking to my diet. I had headaches and nausea all the time. I fainted and was weak, but I was told I was looking better and should stick too it. A few years later when I was starving again, this time because I had no money, I was again praised. I was so skinny I was nothing more than skin and bone and breasts. You could see every rib. I could no longer sit in the tub because it felt like my bones were poking through. I was told I looked great. When people I knew saw me eat something caloric, they me scolded for not having will power to stick to my diet.
At one point walking home from an appointment, I fainted in the snow at the side of the road. I was lucky because a man, (I think he was homeless), woke me and helped me up. I would probably have frozen there if it were not for him.
I want to say a big hearty FUCK YOU again to anyone who has made someone feel they should starve rather that be fat.
lee, the fact is that you have a problem that is the exact opposite of the problem that 99% of the people have. sailor is not evil for giving advice that’s valid for most people.
But now I’m curious. In your OP, you say you were
I don’t follow. You were skin and bones, so skinny that you couldn’t sit in a tub and a doctor told you that you were overweight? I find that extremely hard to believe.
Well, the time in high school was when I was taken to emergency room. I was 5 foot tall and 135 pounds. i was active and got sicker much more quickly. My doctor said I should weigh 95 to 100 pounds. I started eating normally after that and my weight rose to 150. I wore a size 14 and felt fine. My health improved and I was not sick as much.
The second time when I was starving because I could not afford food lasted much longer. I was down to 120-125 pounds. When I resumed eating more normally I gained even more weight.