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argh! fat! argh!
It turns out that even the great community Fatshionista has a secret number in its head. You know what I mean? Many people have 200 lbs in their heads as the number at which someone is about to DROP DEAD FROM TEH FATS OH NOES. Members of that community seem to stop at 500 lbs - which is, admittedly, rather large.
Over time I've amended my belief that what immobilizes fat and supersize folk who complain about quality of life is not their fat per se but the fact that they haven't continued to move their fat bodies around. Now I think what immobilizes them is a culture - including themselves - that makes it impossible to visualize a happy, contented, supersize person who is reasonably healthy (or at least, no worse off than an average person). So, you know what, if you are so sure for you personally that you can't be healthy without that weight? Try to lose the weight. I hope along the way you pick up habits that make you feel better.
Just. Please please please don't presume you can pick a number and declare that people who weigh more than that are at death's door. We're all limited by our experience and our paradigm. I remember 160 lbs or so making my quality of life suck, but 200+ (yes, the magic number! OMG!) is apparently just fine. My perspective's shifted quite a bit in those 10 years.
The magic number is always just a bit further than the fattest weight we can imagine for ourselves, but that magic, unliveable number is likely a size at which someone else lives just fine. So stop imagining. There, problem solved.
Over time I've amended my belief that what immobilizes fat and supersize folk who complain about quality of life is not their fat per se but the fact that they haven't continued to move their fat bodies around. Now I think what immobilizes them is a culture - including themselves - that makes it impossible to visualize a happy, contented, supersize person who is reasonably healthy (or at least, no worse off than an average person). So, you know what, if you are so sure for you personally that you can't be healthy without that weight? Try to lose the weight. I hope along the way you pick up habits that make you feel better.
Just. Please please please don't presume you can pick a number and declare that people who weigh more than that are at death's door. We're all limited by our experience and our paradigm. I remember 160 lbs or so making my quality of life suck, but 200+ (yes, the magic number! OMG!) is apparently just fine. My perspective's shifted quite a bit in those 10 years.
The magic number is always just a bit further than the fattest weight we can imagine for ourselves, but that magic, unliveable number is likely a size at which someone else lives just fine. So stop imagining. There, problem solved.
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Me: "Hey look, there's April! Remember April? You went to that party at her house, with all those nice people?"
Suley: "Yeah! Who were all those people?"
Me: "They were April's friends."
Suley: "Well, everybody that's not April better get out of her house."
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I totally didn't see you!
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I agree with you.
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I will say, though, that I think you're giving the comm waaaay too much credit - I think the "acceptable fat" threshold is much lower and, perhaps, much more arbitrary (i.e. "pretty fat" may be okay, but "ugly fat" is unhealthy... meh, I'm not explaining well).
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I'm contemplating wearing some really ridiculous outfit of silly shoes (highlighted by my pigeon-toed stance) cuffed up jeans, a t-shirt and a too small cardigan buttoned right under my breasts and doing an OOTD and waiting for the twenty-two year olds who slobber all over one another when they post outfits like that to drop into dead silence.
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Or at least I am when I wear that outfit every weekend! HA! Minus jean cuffs.
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More seriously... I like the vibe of multiple layers of different lengths. It makes me think of paper art and kimono and other cool layery things.
Cuffed jeans I cannot defend.
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But the 500lb thing went mostly unchecked by commenters, probably because they all did what I did: thought I'm not getting into THAT with THESE PEOPLE and went to whine on their ljs.
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