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Because I get treated like one. I lost 27 kilos being sedentary. I think that is huge. So huge that it scares the ***t out of me. Now I have gone from wearing size 20 pants to a nice size 14. You could say I look voluptuous now. I have an hour glass figure however not the shredded defined look that women aspire to.
On the weekend I dressed for a party wearing tight legged, stretch pink jeans. My daughter commented that fat people should not wear tight clothes. Her father informed her that I looked smashing and he preferred me to wear tight jeans than the bagging clothes I wore previously that made me look fatter.
Anyhow, at the party, the majority of the women my age were fatter than me wearing those loose baggy clothes to hide their figures. They previously thought of me as a bit of a crazy scientist with funny notions of drinking OJ, drinking milk, gelatin and fruit and thought ahhah so that's why she is so fat. For a scientist, she is kinda dumb eating foods that make you fat. However, all eyes were on me. My husband noticed and commented they are all wondering how on earth you are losing the weight without exercise. I still have not fully gotten my head around it either. Time will tell if it is a good or bad thing. I am trusting Peat on this.
I am still the same person fat or skinny but living as a fat person, has been an eye opener to me. I remember looking for clothes in a dress shop. The lady serving me said I looked good in the outfit. She commented has she loved dressing people like me because she knew how important it was for people like me to feel good about themselves. I never felt any different about myself being fat. I was not angry, unhappy or depressed. Yes, hell it was a bloody nuisance not being able to find clothes that fitted, but as long as I had health, energy and vimp for life all was good. Life was too busy for me to even think twice about my weight. I had more important issues that I was dealing with than my weight. Being skinny was not going change or make my world any better for me. It was only when other people commented about my weight that it greatly concerned me. "Comments like you need to lose weight to find a job" "You need to exercise to lose weight" "You need to join the gym", "When are you going to step on that treadmill?" "I don't want my friends to see that I have a fat mum" or the worst one "how can you help others when you are fat" ouch. This implies you can only being of service to others if you are slim and attractive. My qualifications and wealth of life experiences are meaningless.
So I have gone from a size 20 in pants at my biggest to a size 14. That is 6 sizes smaller. Now I consider that quite a feat without any exercise and I don't think I will gain the weight back like those biggest loser contestants. I have tried to eat heaps but the scales don't go up. I was never interested in weight loss as a research topic but Ray has helped me see that weight gain is not about gluttony but goes hand in hand with the stress response and it is an adaptation state when in a low energy state. Stress and its connection to inflammatory disease was the primary reason I started my research career. It has been quite a journey and so much more to learn.
Peat has suggested that a BMI of around 30 to be ideal for longevity, so we need a bit of padding to see us through stressful events and if the padding is the saturated type then our resistance to stress will be greater.
Because I get treated like one. I lost 27 kilos being sedentary. I think that is huge. So huge that it scares the ***t out of me. Now I have gone from wearing size 20 pants to a nice size 14. You could say I look voluptuous now. I have an hour glass figure however not the shredded defined look that women aspire to.
On the weekend I dressed for a party wearing tight legged, stretch pink jeans. My daughter commented that fat people should not wear tight clothes. Her father informed her that I looked smashing and he preferred me to wear tight jeans than the bagging clothes I wore previously that made me look fatter.
Anyhow, at the party, the majority of the women my age were fatter than me wearing those loose baggy clothes to hide their figures. They previously thought of me as a bit of a crazy scientist with funny notions of drinking OJ, drinking milk, gelatin and fruit and thought ahhah so that's why she is so fat. For a scientist, she is kinda dumb eating foods that make you fat. However, all eyes were on me. My husband noticed and commented they are all wondering how on earth you are losing the weight without exercise. I still have not fully gotten my head around it either. Time will tell if it is a good or bad thing. I am trusting Peat on this.
I am still the same person fat or skinny but living as a fat person, has been an eye opener to me. I remember looking for clothes in a dress shop. The lady serving me said I looked good in the outfit. She commented has she loved dressing people like me because she knew how important it was for people like me to feel good about themselves. I never felt any different about myself being fat. I was not angry, unhappy or depressed. Yes, hell it was a bloody nuisance not being able to find clothes that fitted, but as long as I had health, energy and vimp for life all was good. Life was too busy for me to even think twice about my weight. I had more important issues that I was dealing with than my weight. Being skinny was not going change or make my world any better for me. It was only when other people commented about my weight that it greatly concerned me. "Comments like you need to lose weight to find a job" "You need to exercise to lose weight" "You need to join the gym", "When are you going to step on that treadmill?" "I don't want my friends to see that I have a fat mum" or the worst one "how can you help others when you are fat" ouch. This implies you can only being of service to others if you are slim and attractive. My qualifications and wealth of life experiences are meaningless.
So I have gone from a size 20 in pants at my biggest to a size 14. That is 6 sizes smaller. Now I consider that quite a feat without any exercise and I don't think I will gain the weight back like those biggest loser contestants. I have tried to eat heaps but the scales don't go up. I was never interested in weight loss as a research topic but Ray has helped me see that weight gain is not about gluttony but goes hand in hand with the stress response and it is an adaptation state when in a low energy state. Stress and its connection to inflammatory disease was the primary reason I started my research career. It has been quite a journey and so much more to learn.
Peat has suggested that a BMI of around 30 to be ideal for longevity, so we need a bit of padding to see us through stressful events and if the padding is the saturated type then our resistance to stress will be greater.
