More than 75% of US adults may meet criteria for obesity under new definition: Study

[Bettie]

43. (Warning: Ranty) Fat people being unhealthy is not universal any more than

thin people being healthy is.

I am fat. According to those charts, I'm....dead, obviously, of the scourge of fat. Oh, and I have the beginnings of osteoarthritis in my joints, like all four of my grandparents and both my parents...thin and fat.

My only other health issue normally is slightly elevated cholesterol. I take a minimal dose of a statin and I'm good to go.

I was in a car accident on the 19th, so right now, not so healthy, because I am injured, but I am strong and, yes, fat. The PT people and nurses kept commenting on how strong my legs and core are....and yet, I am very fat. The kind of fat that most people here would look at and assume I wear a red hat and am not very bright.

The not very bright thing could be up for debate on any given day.

Most of the people who "look healthy'...which is based solely on the fact that they are thin, have many more health issues than I do.

Right now, I am having some walking trouble....because my right side got hit dead-on by another car. My right hip took a direct hit, so I'm having trouble with that. I'll get past it and I'll admit, I'm being a giant baby about it, but I'm hauling myself up (we do have a wheelchair, not because I can't do the walker, but because our bathroom is 55 feet from where I am sleeping and I can't do stairs yet...seems that a 100 foot round trip to the bathroom was not what PT envisioned when they sent me home). Sorry I digress, I'm not entirely myself right now.

Nearly everyone I know is on some form of GLP1. One of my friends (my best friend for over 40 years) was on one that mentions a specific kind of cancer in the perinium in the warnings on its ads. She's dead now...but she died thinner than she had been in her adult life, so I guess that's a win in terms of how our society functions. Personally, I don't trust them any more than I have trusted any of the weight loss "miracles" on the market.

Remember Phen Fen? Lost a friend to that one... Weight Watchers and all the other diet snake oil? Lose....body adjusts to fewer calories, makes it easier to gain it back and more, then, you end up with disordered eating. For years, I wouldn't eat a simple piece of toast, because of weight watchers...or I'd make a lovely meal and sip a cup of salt-free chicken broth while everyone else ate the delicious food I had prepared.

Weight loss surgery....of the many people I know who have had that, all have had some kind of complication afterward, the ones who got it the longest ago are the closest to their beginning weights again, several with major addiction issues, because when you can't eat food, alcohol makes you feel like you have something.

People are individuals and most of the drama around people's weight isn't about health.

You don't know what someone's health is like by looking at them from a distance...it's about aesthetics. I'm never going to meet those aesthetics. I'm tall, broad, big...I look like the women in my grandfather's family going back to the earliest pictures we have from the mid 19th Century. They were big women, tall, broad of shoulder, with large bellies once they had kids. Nothing dainty about my people.

But sure, my "max weight" by these tables is 165....never going to happen, unless I get some kind of terrible disease that wastes me away.

Sorry Old Crank....your post was where my thoughts bubbled up! Not directed at you personally!