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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:58 pm
I'm aware that this guild is about being proud to be soft and sexy but are any of you dieting for health reasons or anything? Or is that something you're against.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:13 pm
Every other day I say I'm goin' on a diet... for looks reasons.
I was trying to be healthier, though... but then I got so stressed with work that I gave up.
I'm going to start doin' yoga and stuff again, it's just every mornin' I wake up and my back feels like it's breaking. And I'm trying to drink water, but I loves me some soda.
So both looks and health for me when I do do it, I get further goin' for health 'cause I can only be so much hotter
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:16 pm
Yeah, I have joint problems, too. I can't do much physically. But I'm going on the "Take Shape of Your Life" diet by Medifast. I'm hoping it'll take enough weight off for me to be able to move a little better. I'm not large, but when you're weak in the first place, any amount of weight increase make it that much harder.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:48 pm
If I was dieting, it would be for looks, not health because I went to the doctor and she said I was healthier then most of her thin patients(sp?)
But I also don't see a reason to do it for looks because I like the way I look. My boyfriend absolutely loves the way I look. So why change it?
Would I like to fit into some of those little clothes that some girls do? Sometimes.
But what's a woman without a few curves?
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:25 pm
Pebkac If I was dieting, it would be for looks, not health because I went to the doctor and she said I was healthier then most of her thin patients(sp?) But I also don't see a reason to do it for looks because I like the way I look. My boyfriend absolutely loves the way I look. So why change it? Would I like to fit into some of those little clothes that some girls do? Sometimes. But what's a woman without a few curves? It's great that your healthy as you are, but I think it depends on how much you weigh and whether or not it'll effect you when you get older.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:57 pm
"Sure, you might be healthy now, but what about when you're older?
When you get older, you have to deal with all sorts of pains in the form of arthritis, joint failure, letters from the AARP, and condescending children. People who excercise, however, have spent most of their life in pain, and will make the transition smoothly."
-paraphrased from Dave Barry's "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead"
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:43 am
Lexia_Starr Yeah, I have joint problems, too. I can't do much physically. But I'm going on the "Take Shape of Your Life" diet by Medifast. I'm hoping it'll take enough weight off for me to be able to move a little better. I'm not large, but when you're weak in the first place, any amount of weight increase make it that much harder.
All I'm going to try to do, when I get around to trying it again, is eating healthier and excersizing.
I'm trying to get started on yoga not really to lose weight so much as to gain flexibility and hopefully feel healthier.
I'm trying to drink water to be healthier, but since I get free soda at work it's a hard habit to break... although I've heard drinking no sodas or less sodas and mostly water helps you lose weight.
I want to try running again, but I have no time anymore with work and school and when I do have time I have friends that need hanging out with and a boyfriend to talk to.
So mine is mostly for health reasons when I do anything that could possibly help me to lose weight, but multiple times lately I've looked at myself in a photo or something and disliked one part about myself that would be different if I was skinny.
And yeah, last time I went to the doctor he said I was healthy as a horse and to just maintain my weight and if I wanted to lose my weight cut out sugars or something (although, then upon hearing my diet he realized I don't eat that many sugars except for soda).
So just 'cause the doctor says you're healthy doesn't mean you shouldn't attempt to lose weight for health reasons, having over a... 35 inch waist in women raises your risk of getting diabetes... you might not get it right away, or ever at all, but it's still a risk to your health from your weight. My skinny friend recently has lost tons of weight by working out almost every day because of school and her personal trainer, and she's cut out beef and chicken (I can never do that) and she feels better... mostly because she eats organic and stuff... but she's eating healthier... and before if she had gone to the doctor they would have told her she was healthy... so you can always feel better. Not sayin' you need to lose weight for any specific reason, or at all, just putting that thought out.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:25 am
I have to disagree with dread pirate ghosty on one point. If the doctor says your healthy, don't lose weight to improve your health. If it aint broke, don't fix it. You can't seperate every food and action into "healthy" or "unhealthy" because healthy is just a vague range of things that create ideal living conditions, and methods you take to try and lose weight or the simple fat reduction itself might upset that balance.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:30 am
Actually, you just reinforced my point... at least in my mind.
When a doctor says you're healthy, that's just a vague range and you could more than likely be somewhat healthier... so you can't say you're perfectly healthy because there's likely something you need to improve, not that me or anybody else is going to force you to.
I'm sure it came across as saying going on a diet and tryto lose weight in an effort to be healthier, but I really meant that I think it's important to tyr to be healthy, and you'll likely lose some weight in the process. Eating healthier and being more active to me is important not so much for losing weight but as for being healthier... losing weight and being healthy aren't one and the same to me... but I hate to see people think "Well, all healthy is equal" when it isn't.
Also, I think it's more successful for most people to go on a diet for health reasons, rather than superficial reasons sweatdrop
And like what was said before, just because you're healthy despite something now, the choices you make will come back to haunt you in the future... While it's easier for you, it's better to lose weight then to have to make a dramatic life change later in life because you have diabetes... Just like I don't have wrinkly skin or skin cancer now, but it's not a bad idea to wear lotion with some sort of SPF in it. By putting some effort into your life now, you can hopefully have a more fulfilling life later on.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:57 am
I'm doing what you might call dieting, and have been for the last two to three years or so. I prefer to call it healthy living. You know, cut out the junk, work out, all that good stuff. I started doing it to lose weight, both for health and personal reasons. I had high blood pressure, wacked-out hormones, a high diabetes risk, and really bad knees. Throw that in with a low-self esteem and friends who were all varsity high school athletes that I couldn't keep up with, and the weight had to go.
I've lost quite a bit of weight, and for me, at least, the trouble of changing my lifestyle was worth it. I'm much healthier now, both physically and mentally. And I can't tell you how amazing it feels to be able to go into a random store and know that there will be something in your size.
The important thing is that if you diet, do so safely. Extreme diets (i.e., Atkins) are more likely to fail, because not only are they not balanced, and probably worse for your health, they're very hard to maintain. And throw in some exercise. Even if you aren't looking to lose weight, exercise will tone you up, and make it easier for you to move around at any weight as well as help increase the health of your cardiovascular system, which is pretty important for people of all sizes.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:17 am
My point is that people talk about healthy as if it was a 1 to 10 scale, like everything you do is pushing it one way or the other. "Healthy" is when most of your bodily fluids and nutrients are properly balanced, and everything's working. Pushing too far in one direction could screw things up. Salt, you need. Not enough salt, and you die. Too much salt, and you start getting bloated and have various medical comlications.
Most of the time, you can't recommend any single course of action (other than something to not do, like "don't eat 25 mallomars in a single sitting" or "don't drink paint") as "healthy" unless you have intimate knowledge of their person you're recommending it to, their dietary habits, their metabolic excentricities, and their body chemistry.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:28 am
It's true, health isn't a 1-10 scale, but there are varying degrees of it...and I would rather go up in the scale than down, as would most people I imagine. And no, you can't tell anybody whose lifestyle you don't know what to do and that they need exactly to be healthier, but that wasn't done in here. It was generally stated it's better to be healthier and some things that often regular (skinny, fat, etc) tend to not do.
Even if I tried to force diets and healthy eating I'd just be a hypocrite... I'll be the first to admit I get so frazzled with life I just get the easiest thing possible, and most likely the unhealthiest. I honestly don't do everything I can to be healthier. I was raising a thought to the whole "Well, I'm already healthy" idea that a lot of people seem to have. I didn't say she had to diet. just a thought to throw out there for anybody to chew on about how they could likely be healthier.
Plus, the things I suggested were different from a diet in that I never said to eat none of one thing and tons of another, don't hardly eat at all and count calories and stuff. No "You better not enjoy any of your food." And I never said to go extreme and work out constantly and stupid s**t like that.... I know I mentioned my friend, but that was as an example of how a healthy person changed their lifestyle and now feels healthier.
And most people have similar body chemistry, so in general you're never gonna reccomend to somebody "drink more soda!" unless you're trying to get them to gain weight. Yeah, I can't reccomend exact vitamin intake and what food to get it with, I'm not trying to. Nobody has ever complained to me that drinking only water has made them feel sick. Most people will have it reccomended to eat an apple a day or something like that to get some vitamin out of it....30 minutes of excersize a day is reccomended... for everybody.
In the end I just want everybody to live a happy and fulfilling life, however they choose to do it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:08 am
I'm dieting so I can wear my first bikini this summer, I want to be a size 12 by summer so I'm still curvy ^^
I'm now a 16 but I can fit into 14 clotehs now *yay*
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:13 pm
Miss Ann Thrope_x I'm dieting so I can wear my first bikini this summer, I want to be a size 12 by summer so I'm still curvy ^^ I'm now a 16 but I can fit into 14 clotehs now *yay*
My friend wore a bikini one time when we went to the beach in highschool... I was maybe a little bigger than her at the time. She looked awesome in it, I was jealous/am jealous of anybody that can wear bikinis xp
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:02 am
The Dread Pirate Ghosty Miss Ann Thrope_x I'm dieting so I can wear my first bikini this summer, I want to be a size 12 by summer so I'm still curvy ^^ I'm now a 16 but I can fit into 14 clotehs now *yay*
My friend wore a bikini one time when we went to the beach in highschool... I was maybe a little bigger than her at the time. She looked awesome in it, I was jealous/am jealous of anybody that can wear bikinis xp
I've never wore one in my life. I don't go swimming often as it makes me really self concious D: Its the only thing that really does it to me apart from my drama group.
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