Fatwatch: 'Thin'
Posted Dec 24, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC
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God I wish it was only on this website. Fat is normal, in America at least. I'm 10lbs under the overweight mark and people tell me everyday that I went overboard with weight loss and that I'm too skinny. They give my girlfriend shit for "not feeding me enough".
Everyone's going to say "crabs in a bucket" but it's beyond that, it's not even malicious, just straight up ignorance. When I was fat I thought I was perfectly normal. Shit's fucked up and way out of control. It's easy to justify that you're normal when you can still function like a human and see planets that can't on a daily basis.
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I'm at a BMI of 25 and when I say I'm overweight, people go bananas (ok, just 0.1 but still that's overweight). I've been told several times that I'm verging on anorexia. Of course, muscles, but nowhere near underweight, much less anorexic. Normal healthy people are now the exception and thin-shamed for being so. We're living in a sick world where health is seen as abnormal and advocating for health, 'healthism,' is sick.
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A little off topic, but how accurate is BMI at determining healthy body weight for lifters? I'm 6'3'', 200lbs and according to the BMI scale that's overweight, although I feel like I'm far from it. Do I feel this way simply because of how overweight the average American is, and feel better in comparison?
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Yes. The qualifier for bmi is always that a muscular body will not be reflected accurately. Remember, although it's a really good guide, it's not designed to deal with statistical outliers. My bmi is 25.4, but it's obvious from the looking that it's not fat. Same with a ham - you can tell swole from a roll just by looking.
Edit; recheck on the bmi.
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IMO it depends on how new you are to lifting.
If you have been weight training for less than a year BMI is a good enough scale to determine if you're overweight or not. If you have been training for more than a year you need to go by body fat (Calipers or water displacement).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage
wiki says average body fat for males is 18–24% and fitness level is 14–17%.
Source: Asked my friend a similar question last year. He was in his last year of studying to become a physiotherapist.
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I've been lifting for 4 years so I'm gonna say I should go get a caliper test.
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The more muscle, the more inaccurate. Hard with lifters because you can have muscle and fat.
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Not directly, just implying that my desire to lose anymore was tending in that direction.
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Yeah as the fats become 'normal' so will their terminology which is warped as fuck. Healthy, middling BMI? Anorexic/thin. Elbows that have a slight point rather than being an extra one of muh curvez? skinny.
This fat I know was telling me I was too 'skinny' in my face (you know 'cause thin privilege is spot fat reduction) and that some girl with a muffin top (not proper fat) was 'boney'. They are so out of touch.
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Sounds good.
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Yep. "Not overweight" is not thin. I'm 5'2" and 90 lbs. I am thin. If I were to be 130 lbs. I wouldn't be over weight, but I wouldn't be thin either.
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I personally prefer "human-sized".
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The fatties use "healthy" & "normal" to describe themselves, and "thin" to describe anyone who is not overweight.
I think we need to reclaim the meaning of ALL of these words and their proper definitions.
I don't think we should avoid the word "thin" solely based on the context in which the hams use it. That would mean that we are forfeiting the word and allowing them a victory. I say this because I am thin in every sense of the word. This does not mean that I'm not healthy as well. Healthy is not mutually exclusive from thin, normal or fit.
Just like there are many terms to describe the diversity in fatties, there are many terms to describe the diversity in us and thin is one of them.
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How about fit?
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Just instaban people using the word "thin" repeatedly.
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I was actually considering making a post regarding this, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. I actually have also noticed some thin shaming going on in this sub as well. I understand not supporting anorexia, but this is r/fatpeoplehate, not r/thinpeoplehate...
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The fatties are surrounding us!!
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I dunno, I've never seen myself as thin or normal. I guess healthy or in shape is the best way to describe it.
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I agree completely with this. I would say I am a normal weight, although extremely jacked for it (visible lats are not something everyone can attain). I would say the people who are thin are people of the fight club Brad Pitt maybe the super skinny like variety. I wouldn't even say that big guys like Arnold etc are thin (old Arnold not new) that's just normal jacked IMO. I don't know I am cool with this. Then again until I was under 18% body fat I still called myself an obeast. I think that these body fat requirements are quite generous. TBH I was surprised to know that I could post here with 16% body fat in good conscious. Anyway I like this.
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I consider myself "normal", because I'm not quite "thin". I actively avoid using the word "normal" here though, because I don't want to be mistaken for a fatty. I like the idea of taking it back.
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Oh captain my captain
Oh Captain My Captain!