Average size of women-a statistic that does more harm than good.

FatVonD

bossymoo wrote: »

Shapes change after having children too.

I have to agree with this, weight aside I have a larger frame than before having a child, I blame it on that thing that happens (where I think your ligaments loosen up to allow your pelvis to become wider just before birth?) I always had a small waist (to the point that one friend would stare and ask 'but where do you keep all your internal organs??') but I swear even my ribs have expanded, I certainly need a bigger bra size (as in measurement below bust rather than cup size.)

Welshwoofs

sophief333 wrote: »

I am so passionate about being outside and making the most of my life. I mountain bike, rock climb, run, swim, walk, play sports! And then I go for a burger after!

Congratulations. You and your lifestyle have officially bored the crap out of me.

(Oh how I hate sanctimonious....'look at me, look at me, I jump out of airplanes, snowboard to work and live life on the edge. Woop! Woop! Go me!!!! people)

giantmutantbroccoli

I knew this thread wasn't going to go anywhere good. But thank you so much sophief333, for helping it to get there even faster. I hope to goodness you never actually become depressed or, god forbid, disabled or develop a long-term illness that affects your mobility.

sophief333

Generally very sorry if I offended anyone, I certainly didn't intend to. Deleted my previous posts as requested.

I was being honest though. I wont apologise for being extremely grateful for the healthy, fit body I have. I love my body and never take it for granted.

I do feel like a lot of you are coming across as angry, miserable and unmotivated. I have both disabled friends and family members, as most of us do, and I have met many disabled people through fundraising events that I take part in. Some of these people are the most inspirational people I know and are certainly not angry, miserable and unmotivated.

Again, very sorry I upset some of you.

Haters guna hate though.

Tiddlywinks

sophief333 wrote: »

Generally very sorry if I offended anyone, I certainly didn't intend to. Deleted my previous posts as requested.

I was being honest though. I wont apologise for being extremely grateful for the healthy, fit body I have. I love my body and never take it for granted.

I do feel like a lot of you are coming across as angry, miserable and unmotivated. I have both disabled friends and family members, as most of us do, and I have met many disabled people through fundraising events that I take part in. Some of these people are the most inspirational people I know and are certainly not angry, miserable and unmotivated.

Again, very sorry I upset some of you.

Haters guna hate though.

Now I have one answer to a question I posed earlier - you don't really have to try to be offensive, it obviously just comes naturally!

I was not angry and miserable in my response to your unfortunate posts - I wanted you to grasp that sometimes people with disabilities just cannot (no matter how motivated or possessing of a lust for life) be as active as they might wish.

It is not as simple as you seem to think - it's NOT 'mind over matter' or 'positive thinking', it's about basic physiology and biology - sometimes things just won't work.

Being shown 'inspirational' pictures (of guys missing limbs???) and 'motivational' videos (of wheelchair users on adapted skis - why was that relevant?) won't assist someone that has a medical condition or a disability that physically prevents them from being as active as they would wish for. Yes, having a positive outlook assists in life BUT sometimes it is not as simple as just that..... why can't you see that?

sophief333

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

It is not as simple as you seem to think - it's NOT 'mind over matter' or 'positive thinking', it's about basic physiology and biology - sometimes things just won't work.

Believe me, I'm more than aware of this and my posts were not aimed at disabled people.

They were aimed at those people with perfectly healthy bodies that take them for granted. I was using those inspirational, awesome people, to shame those lazy, excuse-ridden people.

BitterAndTwisted

Who are these allegedly lazy, excuse-ridden flab-buckets? No-one who has read this thread, I hope. That would be altogether far too patronising, even for you

FBaby

adouglasmhor wrote: »

A cup of tea's 8 calories with whole milk. a cup of ordinary coffee with milk is about 9 (and in both of these at elst half the calories come form the whole milk, drink it black tea is about 3 and coffee about 4). So unless you are drinking over 20 cups a day it's not hundred's of calories is it?

Wherever you got your info from it's wrong.

I don't think so. I googled it and on a number of sites a cup of tea came at about 20 calories average. Just 5 cups a day and that would be 1/5 of calories intake. Unless you are bed bound you would burn more than that daily.

Gloomendoom

I suppose it depends on how much milk you put in. 15ml of whole milk is 10 calories. That's slightly more than you get in those pre-packed individual milk portions. 15ml of semi-skimmed is only 7.5 calories.

FBaby

No need to enter a debate about it the whole point is that saying one can only maintain their weight by eating no more than 500 calories is almost inevitably miscounting how much they are consuming.