Guest guest Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 This brought tears to my eyes. I have two beautiful little girls. I also have family members that have been on the otherside of bad weight. I have a anorexic sister in law who just about died cause of bad body image. I grew up in an Italian family although I am all Irish by blood. I looked very different then the rest of the family. I was rail thin as a little girl and I got the opposite responses on how I was not curvy and not beautiful cause I was too thin! The world is just too screwed up. I am not looking to be " skinny " in life again. I am looking for health so I can enjoy my children's, children, children's! This is why I am just so happy to hear you guys all cheer for the small losses each week! We need to lose yes and some of us have a hell of a lot to loose like my husband does but he and I need to loose weight healthily and then maintain it in a healthy practice! RE: Happy things? > My husband has the same issue with that word. Especially > since the medical term and weight for it is lower than it > used to be. He is working hard to get rid of the word out of > his life too and is looking forward to being overweight! It's such an emotional word. I wish that somehow we could find a way to use a different word or take the emotion out of it. When I was teaching health one time I had this absolutely beautiful girl in my class. Picture n at about a curvy, beautiful size 14. We were talking about health and nutrition and I was sharing the different schools of thought in the medical community related to being overweight (from even 5 pounds overweight is unhealthy, to we're not all meant to be the same size). She raised her hand and stood up and said, " Mrs. K am I obese? " I was shocked. First of all, it really took a lot for her to do that in front of her classmates. I said " No honey, not at all. You're beautiful. " She just burst into tears (she was beautiful inside and out, I should add). " My doctor told me yesterday that I'm obese. " It was all I could do to not find that doctor and wring her neck. As teenagers, girls are SO affected by terms like that. She was crushed. Here was this bright, well adjusted, beautiful, kind, sweet, together girl completely undone by that horrible word. I'm sure the doctor didn't mean it that way, but she did indicate that her doctor had been kind of " mean " about it. (That may have just been her emotional perception. I don't know.) I just hate that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 This brought tears to my eyes. I have two beautiful little girls. I also have family members that have been on the otherside of bad weight. I have a anorexic sister in law who just about died cause of bad body image. I grew up in an Italian family although I am all Irish by blood. I looked very different then the rest of the family. I was rail thin as a little girl and I got the opposite responses on how I was not curvy and not beautiful cause I was too thin! The world is just too screwed up. I am not looking to be " skinny " in life again. I am looking for health so I can enjoy my children's, children, children's! This is why I am just so happy to hear you guys all cheer for the small losses each week! We need to lose yes and some of us have a hell of a lot to loose like my husband does but he and I need to loose weight healthily and then maintain it in a healthy practice! RE: Happy things? > My husband has the same issue with that word. Especially > since the medical term and weight for it is lower than it > used to be. He is working hard to get rid of the word out of > his life too and is looking forward to being overweight! It's such an emotional word. I wish that somehow we could find a way to use a different word or take the emotion out of it. When I was teaching health one time I had this absolutely beautiful girl in my class. Picture n at about a curvy, beautiful size 14. We were talking about health and nutrition and I was sharing the different schools of thought in the medical community related to being overweight (from even 5 pounds overweight is unhealthy, to we're not all meant to be the same size). She raised her hand and stood up and said, " Mrs. K am I obese? " I was shocked. First of all, it really took a lot for her to do that in front of her classmates. I said " No honey, not at all. You're beautiful. " She just burst into tears (she was beautiful inside and out, I should add). " My doctor told me yesterday that I'm obese. " It was all I could do to not find that doctor and wring her neck. As teenagers, girls are SO affected by terms like that. She was crushed. Here was this bright, well adjusted, beautiful, kind, sweet, together girl completely undone by that horrible word. I'm sure the doctor didn't mean it that way, but she did indicate that her doctor had been kind of " mean " about it. (That may have just been her emotional perception. I don't know.) I just hate that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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