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[keryx]

Hey, there's a thing on Tomato Nation about the carbohydrate counterrevolution. To paraphrase: get the fuck over it already. To which I say, hell yeah.

So, I think Sars is a regular-sized (smaller than I, I mean) grrrl talking to other regular-sized (most of you, I mean) grrrls. As a fat activist, I found myself cheering her essential message while enumerating the assumptions I think she had wrong. Did you? Or do I read more into this stuff?

I'm curious. As I'm a cheapskate (or rather, someone who already pays for a webspace elsewhere) I don't have a premium membership and can't actually create a poll about this. But answer me some questions if you will? Please? If you do, I promise to stop sulking about how boring I am, I swear...


1. Do you think there's a point at which one's size in and of itself affects one's health?
2. If so, what do you think that point(s) is(are)? And what are the health effects?
3. Do you think there is a crisis of obesity in America? If so, what exactly is it and what do you think is its origin?
4. Should people who are too fat/too thin try to lose/gain weight? If so, what measures should they take? And what if those measures don't work?
5. Do you personally have any diet restrictions against carbs? And why?

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I would like to be an attainable size - What does that mean for you, like being able to fit into certain clothing? I'm just curious, since it's the sort of thing that seems to mean different things to different people.

On a completely different note... In #1, it sounds like you're equating some things with fat that aren't necessarily related - losing weight won't necessarily do anything good for metabolic fitness.

[scarletts-momma.livejournal.com]

An attainible size to me is loosing the pregnancy belly that I gained from my two kids. I just want to be happy with myself and it has been ingrained in my head by my mother that being a double digit size is not acceptable. For me, being a 14 is exactly where I want to be. I know that's different for another people, but that's okay with me. I'm not sure if that is very fat positive, but it's but I'm hoping it is.