Fat Chance.

[rosiedoes]

So, today I'm starting a Dairy-Free Diet for 10-days, on command of jackie_brown.

I'm hoping not eating my ordinary volumes of cheese for a while will actually help me lose weight, instead of putting it on, even when I'm eating healthily.

The nurse at my new patient's sign-up, today, told me that 'according to the chart, you are obese'. Even after making me get on and off the scales twice, to make sure it wasn't broken because she didn't seem able to believe that it was right.

I know I'm over-weight. I know I have what a guy on my MySpace flist would call 'supercurves' - I mean, my measurements are 44-32-48 and I'm 5'5.5"; I have 36G/GG boobs, man! - but I don't think 'obese' is really fair. I don't look obese, really. I look plumper than is probably normal, but the average dress-size in this country is UK16, these days, and the average height 5'4".

Marilyn Monroe was a size 16.

And so am I. Although I often wear size 12 t-shirts, because otherwise they're way too loose around my waist.

So I'm a bit squishy in places, but obese people cannot fit into a size twelve, can they? Assuming they're not 3ft tall...

All of which kind of pisses me off, considering I was starting to feel better about my shape on the grounds that I thought I actually seemed to be a bit slimmer. I certainly look it in my bedroom mirror.

Goddamn it.

Comments

[pionie.livejournal.com]

Wow - good luck! Go you! I hope it helps x and don't think about the cheese ...

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon.

[icyaurora8.livejournal.com]

hun... i'm 5'8" and about 150 lbs... and the docs keep telling me to lose weight!! i'm sorry... but i definately don't think i'm fat.

i just think doctors are stupid and they too are conforming to the 'model-thin' ideas that everyone else seems to have. it's ridiculous.

plus..... women with curves are sexy!!!!! and as someone who likes women also... i would MUCH rather be with a girl who has curves than some stick-thin chick who doesn't even have a chest or an ass (unless the chest is fake... booo).

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks hon - and you really can't be overweight at those specs, that's insane!

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

Well, I too had crossed the border to "obese", meaning that i had a mody mass index over 30. Now they just call me "really overweight". First, I didn't really feel obese at all, I felt slightly fatty. I still fitted into skirts size 12 (if we count your kind of sizes). (and trousers size 16, but let's not focus on that)

The important thing is that body mass index sucks. First it doesn't care about whether you are big boned or not (i am), second, it doesn't care if you have muscle mass or not. It's not a good way of measuring weight at all.

Thirdly: you are very pretty. Fair enough if your doctor thinks loosing a few kilos would benefit your health, but obesity just doesn't cut it.

[psy-tyc.livejournal.com]

Meh, if you're happy with yourself go with it. :)
Me, I'm 5' 8", 140lbs and reasonably thin, so I've been told. I'm also a bloke, so hey ho.
I still think I'm fat, I worry myself silly sometimes if I feel bloated or something like that. I know I'm just self concious, but it happens to all.

You me dear Rosie, look and sound like an attractive woman who should be proud of who she is. But thats just my opinion. Its my honest opinion though :)