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Starving is good habits?
I can tell you that I eat much healthier, and get better exercise now, than I ever have in my life, yet, I am 20 pounds overweight. When I was younger, I ate whatever I wanted, and did whatever I wanted to, and my body looked good. I was ideally fit. My point is that anyone who says that being overweight is a sin, is being shortsighted and presumptuous, because a lot of assuming is going on with that judgement, and it can be blatantly wrong.
No starving is not good habit and I was using a extreme example to draw focus that it is the over eating that produces the fat, otherwise we would see over weight starving people.
20 pounds over weight is nothing. Not what we are addressing here
To answer your question though, I actually have known very obese people who have starved themselves for too long,without losing weight.
I am merely suggesting that people take the focus off of the appearance, and put it on healthier habits, does that make sense?
You can have good habits and still be over weight?
Show me one person starving that is over weight.
Should prove, that eating too much contributes to being over weight.
The thing is you can have bad habits and be underweight(my case). You simply can not judge a book by it's cover. Also gluttony is still gluttony even if you spend half your day exercising to be trim because you over ate.
Then we should be able to find a fat starving Ethiopian?
I dare say your friend was not really starving themselves
wow, do you have any idea how hurtful comments like that areto people who struggle with their weight and body image?just keep it as a Godly vessel instead of a Titanic
How many times have you actually been to Ethiopia?
Furthermore, a person can stave themselves for months, and it is starving themselves. In a third world country where a whole nation is perpetually starving, you are talking about generations of starvation. Iow, children are born starving. They come out of the womb malnourished. Those aren't even comparable.
I have to say that these remarks concern me, because body image is a huge problem in the USA. I really hope someone who struggles with body image isn't reading this thread. Some of the statements on here could really cause a person a lot of pain, and cause a person to delve firther into anorexia.
Exactly romans...the emphasis should not be placed on weight but rather health and balance. Skinny does not always equal healthy or mean that that person doesnt struggle with sloth or gluttony. Also, spending too much time each day dedicated to ones appearance would be vain. Im not loving the tone of judgement in this thread...judgement based on appearance alone.
Right Dreamer! An extreme focus on one's weight can easily stem from vanity, and not from a desire to maintain our Godly vessel.
just keep it as a Godly vessel instead of a Titanic
The thing is you can have bad habits and be underweight(my case). You simply can not judge a book by it's cover. Also gluttony is still gluttony even if you spend half your day exercising to be trim because you over ate.
Please 3rd..this is going to be hard enough to have a proper discussion about this without being judgmental or sounding harsh.
Please mellow your tone - I'd like to keep my thread respectful.
-Niff
Obesity is a larger problem in the USA
Sorry, but Titanic seemed like a natural response to the God vessel
(I will unsubscribe before I slip again)
ahh, I get where you're coming from now..vessel, as in boat as in titanic..got it...and while punny, probably not the best time for that joke.
Speaking of weight and health; while its true I haven't suffered from over-eating, some of you may remember my issues with under-eating.
Another huge issue, and a sin - that I fell into while trying to fulfill certain worldly standards of beauty.
Okay, so another question - stores are all carrying bigger sizes to accommodate for the obese, and we have ad campagines that promote the whole 'big is beautiful' thing, and while size doesn't always equate health, it's a generally accepted fact that to have a healthy BMI and be a proper weight is the healthiest for you.
So! Why should we cater to an unhealthy lifestyle? Or promote it for that matter?
What if we had ads promoting that to be only 100lbs at 6'2 was a good thing? That being underweight was more beautiful? If we had photo's of seriously anorexic women portrayed as an acceptable lifestyle choice?
I doubt anyone would say: "There's nothing wrong with that."
We all know how horrible unhealthy anorexia/bulimia are, how it can kill you, but the same is true for obesity - so why is it portrayed as being "good"?
Is it because the majority of the population is obese? (Or close to the majority) so they just cater to the highest denominator?
Thoughts?
-Niff
ahh, I get where you're coming from now..vessel, as in boat as in titanic..got it...and while punny, probably not the best time for that joke.
Speaking of weight and health; while its true I haven't suffered from over-eating, some of you may remember my issues with under-eating.
Another huge issue, and a sin - that I fell into while trying to fulfill certain worldly standards of beauty.
Okay, so another question - stores are all carrying bigger sizes to accommodate for the obese, and we have ad campagines that promote the whole 'big is beautiful' thing, and while size doesn't always equate health, it's a generally accepted fact that to have a healthy BMI and be a proper weight is the healthiest for you.
So! Why should we cater to an unhealthy lifestyle? Or promote it for that matter?
What if we had ads promoting that to be only 100lbs at 6'2 was a good thing? That being underweight was more beautiful? If we had photo's of seriously anorexic women portrayed as an acceptable lifestyle choice?
I doubt anyone would say: "There's nothing wrong with that."
We all know how horrible unhealthy anorexia/bulimia are, how it can kill you, but the same is true for obesity - so why is it portrayed as being "good"?
Is it because the majority of the population is obese? (Or close to the majority) so they just cater to the highest denominator?
Thoughts?
-Niff
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