Sun, Jun-28-15, 09:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,247
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Plan: Atkins/Taubes
Stats: 270/168/160
BF:
Progress: 93%
Location: Dallas, TX
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Originally Posted by pazia
I'm seeing SO many younger girls now of very large size, where would they turn to make a significant change? It's not coming from doctors for the most part, or schools; and WW clearly isn't viable anymore. I've just started noticing this much more, but maybe since it's more prevalent the girls aren't as ashamed as I was, fat girls really stuck out among all the thin ones it seems when I was growing up.
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It is crazy, my daughter graduated HS last year, and I was a bit confused. I mean, there were overweight cheerleaders and drill team members? not slightly chubby, I mean easily 50-100 pounds overweight. to the point where the uniforms were bordering on obscene/ridiculous, as they were not designed for those body types. My daughter is considered "VERY thin!" now, where in the 70s she would have been normal. I was actually sat down and "talked to" not once but twice by very concerned teachers. "We think she may have an eating disorder..." Because she would do things like pass on the the muffin/bagel/etc offering of the morning, or whatever other disturbing behavior had caused her thinness. I would have to explain that she probably passed because she ate bacon and eggs at home, doesn't like the way she feels or how her skin breaks out when she eats grain, and stays away from it by choice. She will eat pizza with her friends sometimes, popcorn at the movies, etc. But has grown up low-carb and healthy, and for the most part chooses to eat that way herself LEAVE HER ALONE PLEASE. But SHE is the one with the problem apparently. Not the girl who just ate a third muffin, that needed a skirt with a 40" waistband special ordered. It seems like fat-shaming has just been replaced with thin-shaming from what I have seen. People always have to have somebody to label as "abnormal".
Kids aren't the only ones getting bigger. Parents are becoming incredibly large as well. At 270 back in 2002 I wasn't even close to the biggest T-ball or girl scout mom when I was involved in my kid's stuff. And when I lost 100 pounds, I was easily the smallest a lot of the time, and I am not "thin" at all. Maybe it's my imagination, but I seem to recall rooms full of much trimmer adult women in my childhood.
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