Fat Chance.
Friday, 1 December 2006 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiedoesSo, today I'm starting a Dairy-Free Diet for 10-days, on command of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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on 2006-12-02 11:12 am (UTC)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.