overweight

Don't you think you are "preaching to the choir"?

Becky P.

"curious" <curious@noemailshown> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Don't you think you are "preaching to the choir"?

i don't know, it seems like most of the people here feel that being
overweight (and losing it) is totally a matter of personal choice. so no,
IMHO, he wasn't preaching to the choir.

-kelly

Gary Nichols said:

If being underweight (anorexia, etc.) is an eating disorder isn't
being overweight the same? I don't think that anybody is at fault for
being overweight. Don't blame yourself. But do try low-carbing. You
can eat a lot of food and still lose weight.

Gary Nichols

You know, I don't know if being overweight is an eating disorder. I tend to
think it isn't. Here's an example -- my husband and I were out at my
mother's for July 4th weekend. DH ate milk and cookies for breakfast, a
half a big bag of chips and a whole pint of Haagen Dazs ice cream later and
then had the burgers and salad and steak and watermelon and berries and ice
cream that was the 4th of July feast. That is how my husband eats. He is
6 feet tall and weighs 165 pounds. If my brother ate like that (he has a
history of anorexia and bulimia) he would call it a binge. It would throw
him off psychologically for days. My husband just eats like that all the
time. It's not a disorder for him. He's not fat, his latest bloodwork was
fine, and he has no "issues" with eating like that. He's not even aware of
it. If I ate like that I would be the size of a house. I have to say, DH
is not sympathetic at all to overweight people. "Just eat less" he says.
He has no idea what it's like NOT to eat what you WANT to eat because you
fear getting fat. He just doesn't get it. However, my point is, I don't
think being overweight is always the result of an eating disorder (which
suggest psychological involvement). I think some people gain weight because
their metabolisms suck or have changed and they don't know the right way to
eat. If I ate like DH, I would be looked at as having an eating disorder
because I would be huge, whereas DH can eat like that all the time and it's
no big deal.
--
nimue

"If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater
influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF."
Joss Whedon

Being underweight is not an eating disorder. Anorexia is an eating
disorder, but you don't have to be underweight to have that condition.

Gary Nichols wrote:
|| If being underweight (anorexia, etc.) is an eating disorder isn't
|| being overweight the same? I don't think that anybody is at fault
|| for being overweight. Don't blame yourself. But do try
|| low-carbing. You can eat a lot of food and still lose weight.
||
|| Gary Nichols

nimue wrote:
|| Gary Nichols wrote:
||| If being underweight (anorexia, etc.) is an eating disorder isn't
||| being overweight the same? I don't think that anybody is at fault
||| for being overweight. Don't blame yourself. But do try
||| low-carbing. You can eat a lot of food and still lose weight.
|||
||| Gary Nichols
||
|| You know, I don't know if being overweight is an eating disorder.

How could it possibly be? Eating and what you weigh are different things.
One's weight is not determined solely by one what (or how much) eats.

I
|| tend to think it isn't. Here's an example -- my husband and I were
|| out at my mother's for July 4th weekend. DH ate milk and cookies
|| for breakfast, a half a big bag of chips and a whole pint of Haagen
|| Dazs ice cream later and then had the burgers and salad and steak
|| and watermelon and berries and ice cream that was the 4th of July
|| feast. That is how my husband eats. He is 6 feet tall and weighs
|| 165 pounds. If my brother ate like that (he has a history of
|| anorexia and bulimia) he would call it a binge. It would throw him
|| off psychologically for days. My husband just eats like that all
|| the time. It's not a disorder for him. He's not fat, his latest
|| bloodwork was fine, and he has no "issues" with eating like that.
|| He's not even aware of it. If I ate like that I would be the size
|| of a house. I have to say, DH is not sympathetic at all to
|| overweight people. "Just eat less" he says. He has no idea what
|| it's like NOT to eat what you WANT to eat because you fear getting
|| fat. He just doesn't get it. However, my point is, I don't think
|| being overweight is always the result of an eating disorder (which
|| suggest psychological involvement). I think some people gain weight
|| because their metabolisms suck or have changed and they don't know
|| the right way to eat. If I ate like DH, I would be looked at as
|| having an eating disorder because I would be huge, whereas DH can
|| eat like that all the time and it's no big deal. --
|| nimue
||
|| "If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater
|| influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF."
|| Joss Whedon