Tue, Jul-20-04, 07:27
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Plan: My Own
Stats: 280/118/117.5
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Progress: 100%
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Even when I was really fat, getting weighed at the Drs office didn't really bother me much. I mean, I certainly didn't like it, but I don't have the struggle with the actual "weight number" that some people do.
I look at it this way. When I was 280 lbs, anyone could look at me and see I was huge. What difference does the number make.
Now that I know I'm thinner, people look at me and I figure they must know I am a reasonably healthy weight. What difference does it make if the actual number is 125, or 135, or 145, or whatever... I doubt anyone cares.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not the number. It's the way you look. I see so many women on this forum who are obviously very thin, don't have an ounce of fat to lose, but because they happen to have higher scale
weights than other people, they trick themselves into thinking they need to lose like 30 pounds. It's insane and unhealthy. At 126 (on my home scale, 130 on my doctors scale) I have a higher body fat percentage than a lot of women who weigh significantly more than I do. The number itself is just a rough estimate, and it can never ever tell the nitty gritty details of body composition.
In my opinion equating self worth and body image with a meaningless number is pretty stupid. It's bad enough that the way we actually look heavily influences our self-perceptions and perceptions of others... do we need to worry about something as meaningless as a number, now, too?
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