Re: Size 6 in your later years

December 31, 2003

i too have a goal of a 12 but mine is a 10/12. i agree with the

whole part of being ill while being older and already being tiny.

it's very difficult. i've seen my great grandma struggle.

also speaking of size six funny. yesterday i was thinking to myself

why can't my pants sizes be labeled like my underwear sizes? LOL

-- In weightlossbuddies2 , " MO Zark "

wrote:

> My mom is back in the hospital again. Had she been a skimpy size 6

> or less, she would have wasted away to nothing. She's been in and

> out of the hospital for the past year, and she has lost 50 lbs. I

> don't see how elderly women who are a size 6 or less and who go

> through a year or more of health setbacks make it. So often, people

> in this situation lose around 50 pounds. Can you imagine being 120

> lbs and losing 50???

>

> I think size 12 - 14 sounds just right for me (at the moment I am a

> size 18). At size 12 - 14, I will significantly reduce my risk of

> diabetes and heart disease, my back problems will decrease, playing

> soccer will once again be a possibility, and if, God forbid, I ever

> did become really sick, I would have a much better chance of

> bouncing back from it than if a was a size 6. I can't imagine that

> there are any significant health advantages of being a size 6 as

> opposed to a size 12 - 14.

December 31, 2003

Funnily enough (or not so much), I had a similar situation during my

last pregnancy. I was diagnosed with hyperemesis and was throwing up

every time I ate, brushed my teeth, or even drank water sometimes. I

was put on bedrest for five weeks while the doctors tried to get

medication into me to stabilize my system. I was told by my OB-GYN

that it was lucky I had been overweight, because if I had started my

pregnancy at or below the " normal " weight range, they would have had

to hospitalize me. My fat saved my son!!!!

JT

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