Fabulous New Fashion chat - Dressed up or Down - Everyone Welcome!!

tara747

p.s. for all our London friends:

lostinrates

moggylover wrote: »

You know LIR - many, many years ago I used to go to the gym a lot and used the sauna there regularly. I was young and everything was firm and I used to look around (not too obviously) at the other ladies there, especially the older ones, and the most glaringingly obvious thing was that the incredibly thin ones aged far, far worse than those of average or even slightly over, weight! They simply had no flesh to stay plump or firm and the wrinkles were in places I definitely never want to have wrinkles:D

For almost anyone over 5' in height a 6 or an 8 is far too thin and they will pay for it as they get older. Slim is one thing: the fashion for skin and bone is neither healthy, nor attractive imo. I find painfully thin women who diet to stay that way as sad and worrying as those that are truly obese:o

Yes!

Actually, its also worth mentioning that I have been told repeatedly by my doctors/dieticians etc that, apart from extremes, its a little less healthy to be a little underweight than a little overweight.

BMI is flawed, but i makes a good place to start an evaluation from. One of the things I loved about being inItlay is while there were far, far fewer overweight women, there were also far fewer underweight ones. Women look like women, light enough to lift, big enough to hold... (something set to change in the future as Italy has, I believe the fastest growing rate of childhood obesity inEU )

piratefairy

thats rather cute tara..i'm currently trying to track this down:

daisybella

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes!

Actually, its also worth mentioning that I have been told repeatedly by my doctors/dieticians etc that, apart from extremes, its a little less healthy to be a little underweight than a little overweight.

this is very true

piratefairy

i agree about bmi being almost totally flawed, just a good starting point really..

goanmad

piratefairy wrote: »

i agree about bmi being almost totally flawed, just a good starting point really..

Darn it, so when I get a buzz from the Wii Fit cheering me and telling me I'm perfect it's all a lie?

giddynici

I think I'm looking at the classifieds too early for my break. Now gutted as theres a vintage fashion fair on but it's this weekend *tear*

goanmad

giddynici wrote: »

I think I'm looking at the classifieds too early for my break. Now gutted as theres a vintage fashion fair on but it's this weekend *tear*

Yes, we've got one fairly nearby to me on Sunday. I'm hoping Bf doesn't mind a day out looking at frocks, he's usually pretty cool.

piratefairy

hehe, i get madly excited about that too goan..

daisybella

*not a BMI fan*