Dec 12 2008
What is fat?
This video raises a good point. Where do the “experts” come up with these “ideal” weights? When I weighed 117 lbs., I was too skinny, but they have my ideal weight between 117 and 121. I doubt I’ll ever be that thin again, and at my age, if I was, I doubt I’d look very good.
So how fat is too fat? I’m about 25 lbs. above my “ideal” weight. Being 20 lbs. over that is, I believe, considered obese. 20 lbs. overweight is the cutoff for getting prescription diet pills. So technically, I guess I’m obese.
Since when did a size 12 become obese? Marilyn Monroe was a size 12, after all.
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That guy in the video isn’t overweight! Sheesh!
By the way, 25 pounds overweight isn’t obese. It depends on your height, but at, say 5′ 5″, you’d have to be about 45 to 65 pounds overweight to be considered obese, according to the BMI charts. Anyway, that’s what I tell myself — I’m overweight, not obese!