b) I've seen the biggest loser; in the first season alone, 3/4 of them had starting weights below my pre-pregnancy weight.
Yes, but I'm also guessing that they were several inches shorter than you. Ignoring the BMI calculation, you're above average height, you should be above average weight too, so yeah, you might be heavier than some people on the weight loss shows. A lot of super models weigh more than I do but look WAY skinnier and wear WAY smaller clothes (and have ribs sticking out and other disturbing looking things) again because of the height thing. It's all relative. And they're finding out BMI isn't a good measure of anything anyway. You look fine and you seem healthy enough to me.
I hear you on the sports bra thing. This is the first time in my life that I've had to wear one and it is damned annoying. I've been blessed up to now and didn't realize it. As for sports-bra-free activities (or an exercise that will create less bounce) try roller skating. It's pretty strenuous and yet not bouncy. We had a lot of larger girls in roller derby and they seemed to like it well enough.
overweight people get laughed at for exercising and shit on for not exercising.
Yeah, I know about that one too. One of the girls I used to do derby with told me about how uncomfortable it was for her to skate in the park with us one day when it was just her and I. People who laugh are douchebags. I always get inspired when I see heavy people out running because if they can do it, what's my excuse? I get how hard it is for them, both physically and emotionally, and am seriously impressed to see them out there. Honestly, I think that is how the majority feels, but people don't express encouragement as often as say a gaggle of teenage boys will be assholes and snicker. There's also the issue that I think people who are feeling insecure may misinterpret it when we express encouragement. One of the first times Brigit went running she almost gave up because people kept saying things to her and she thought it was weird, and the first time I went I thought so too, but my running-club Dad explained that runners always say something encouraging when they pass each other. It's nothing to do with the person receiving the remark, it's that the person giving it says that (or something similar) to every runner that they pass, it's part of the brotherhood of running or something. Runners are odd ducks.
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Date: 2009-07-14 10:33 pm (UTC)Yes, but I'm also guessing that they were several inches shorter than you. Ignoring the BMI calculation, you're above average height, you should be above average weight too, so yeah, you might be heavier than some people on the weight loss shows. A lot of super models weigh more than I do but look WAY skinnier and wear WAY smaller clothes (and have ribs sticking out and other disturbing looking things) again because of the height thing. It's all relative. And they're finding out BMI isn't a good measure of anything anyway. You look fine and you seem healthy enough to me.
I hear you on the sports bra thing. This is the first time in my life that I've had to wear one and it is damned annoying. I've been blessed up to now and didn't realize it. As for sports-bra-free activities (or an exercise that will create less bounce) try roller skating. It's pretty strenuous and yet not bouncy. We had a lot of larger girls in roller derby and they seemed to like it well enough.
Yeah, I know about that one too. One of the girls I used to do derby with told me about how uncomfortable it was for her to skate in the park with us one day when it was just her and I. People who laugh are douchebags. I always get inspired when I see heavy people out running because if they can do it, what's my excuse? I get how hard it is for them, both physically and emotionally, and am seriously impressed to see them out there. Honestly, I think that is how the majority feels, but people don't express encouragement as often as say a gaggle of teenage boys will be assholes and snicker. There's also the issue that I think people who are feeling insecure may misinterpret it when we express encouragement. One of the first times Brigit went running she almost gave up because people kept saying things to her and she thought it was weird, and the first time I went I thought so too, but my running-club Dad explained that runners always say something encouraging when they pass each other. It's nothing to do with the person receiving the remark, it's that the person giving it says that (or something similar) to every runner that they pass, it's part of the brotherhood of running or something. Runners are odd ducks.