tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757983015298693392.post8303684544789473978..comments2021-08-02T22:00:27.944-07:00Comments on Fictzophrenic Musings: On 'Skinny-Fat'R.S. Emelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10214750549547046755noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757983015298693392.post-41266752915992009912012-04-02T04:55:13.696-07:002012-04-02T04:55:13.696-07:00Well this post is a heavenly education in itself! ...Well this post is a heavenly education in itself! Jeepers maybe I'm a skinny fat?? Either way I have learnt another shocking fact about our size obsessed society that I don't like. You write so wonderfully too. Delighted to stumble across your work. Thank you for sharing :)Aly McLoughlin-Hartehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853231720645185646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757983015298693392.post-11431985181514608192012-03-22T07:07:04.644-07:002012-03-22T07:07:04.644-07:00Ohhh that's just despicable! I happen to know ...Ohhh that's just despicable! I happen to know a lot of skinny girls who wish they weren't skinny. It's all metabolism problems, people either have too much or not enough. It's really frustrating to see stuff like this out there. Rhiannon Paillehttp://www.yafantasyauthor.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757983015298693392.post-42850876926062720712012-03-22T01:44:13.786-07:002012-03-22T01:44:13.786-07:00Skinny-fat is actually referring to people who are...Skinny-fat is actually referring to people who are thin but unhealthy. I'm sure you know people like this: they are thin but don't exercise and eat a ton of junk. While the Urban Dictionary might make it sound like a social concept, it's actually a medical one. Too many people judge a person's health ( or value?) by their jeans' size. A person can have a "healthy" BMI but have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and be at risk for type II diabetes. Contrarily, a person with an "unhealthy" BMI can be fit, strong and healthy, with none of those risk factors. <br /><br />Slimness is not the definition of healthy, and looking to the Urban Dictionary to define a medical term is not a realistic concept.Ginahttp://ginadenny.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1757983015298693392.post-17897643524135982012012-03-21T16:19:41.689-07:002012-03-21T16:19:41.689-07:00People need to realise it's actually not natur...People need to realise it's actually not natural for women to have perfectly flat stomachs. We naturally carry a higher body fat ratio than men. We are the way we are because, like it or not, nature made us baby-making factories (no matter what else we might be at the same time, you can't really escape the fact you're a woman without having a sex-change operation...) . <br /><br />Even when I was 17, 47.5kg (104lbs), and my doctor was telling me to put on weight (I wasn't aorexic, just as the low end of my healthy weight range) my stomach was NOT perfectly flat. And after a woman has children, it almost certsainly never will be again without a tremensoud amount of effort, and who has the time and energy for that while working and/or mothering? I'm a full-time lawyer and mother, and I know I don't. <br /><br />I read somewhere that obsession with the perfection of physical form is a precursor to the fall of a civilisation. That worries me more than the fact my stomach is not and never will be perfectly flat.Ciara Ballintynehttp://ciaraballintyne.comnoreply@blogger.com