#Normalweight

[dykemd]

some people get tipsy on half a beer so consider urself normalweight 👍

ure right i should be grateful i get to enjoy up to 3 beers sometimes n i wish u could feel what i feel 🫂

[venovenous]

If anyone wants to ask if I got fat the answer is no: i am simply no longer underweight and severely mentally ill. now I am normalweight for a male my size and mild to moderately mentally ill

[zoya-thinks]

Come here and Calculate your Body Mass Index. Take a moment to know about your Weight Status.

[lifestyle-transformation-blog]

Classification of body weight based on BMI a.k.a Body Mass Index #life_styletransformations #bmi #obese #obesity #underweight #normalweight #overweight #fit #fitness #coach https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce3yodphZ8O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[femsolid]

A few years ago, I gave a presentation on self-objectification to a room full of psychologists. I was discussing how self-objectification leads to high levels of body shame in women and what we might do to reduce it. A colleague interrupted me with a question. “Wait,” he said, “isn’t it maybe good that women feel shame about their bodies? Maybe you should feel bad if you gain weight. It could keep you from gaining weight.” I’ve heard some variant of that question many times since that day, though rarely so politely. Recently I received a slew of angry emails in response to a New York Times op-ed I wrote. My basic arguments were that fat talk and body shaming aren’t good for women, and that we’re wrong when we assume that body shaming motivates healthy behaviors. The authors of these rant-filled emails (all men) took me to task for suggesting that body shame was a bad idea. They proposed that shame is a necessary antidote to the obesity epidemic. One went so far as to tell me that french women are all slim (not true, by the way) because french culture so effectively shames fat women. Another suggested that the very future of our country depended on women continuing to feel shame about their bodies. By suggesting that women shouldn’t have to feel bad about themselves all the time, I was literally putting our country at risk!

Let’s start by taking apart the idea that body shame provides a pathway to the ultrathin body ideal for women. Of all the research conducted on obesity, there is not one drop of evidence that fat shaming helps to move people toward thinness. In fact, the opposite is true. A research study in the Journal of Health Psychology showed that the more young women receive negative comments about their weight, the less likely they are to exercise. In a different study of over five thousand adults across the United States, results demonstrated that experiencing weight stigmatization and discrimination is associated with an increased likelihood of overeating and more frequent consumption of convenience foods.

When we’re in emotional distress, we will usually take action to try to make ourselves feel better, even if that means trading a short-term mood boost for less appealing long-term consequences. Feeling better may come in the form of a pint of ice cream or a bag of chips that relieves your emotional distress temporarily, but triggers a spiral of shame. You felt bad about your body, so you ate something to feel better, and now you feel even worse about your body. This is one of the routes through which experiencing weight stigmatization can lead directly to binge eating.

You absolutely do not need to have visible ribs, a thigh gap, or a perfectly flat stomach in order to be healthy. You’re kidding yourself if you think you can always tell by looking whether someone is healthy. In a study of over 5,000 adults led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, researchers came to a stark conclusion: in the United States there are many “normalweight” people (around 24 percent) who show poor cardiovascular and metabolic health, and there are many obese individuals (around 32 percent) who are metabolically healthy. Thanks in part to the pervasive nature of our beauty-sick culture, much of the purported emphasis on “health” is often a thinly veiled concern about aesthetics. The research above makes it clear that you can’t tell whether someone is healthy just based on their body weight, but even if you could, quite frankly, that’s no excuse to treat anyone badly. “Health” should never be a prerequisite for being loved or being treated with dignity and respect. Women who don’t meet our culture’s rigid beauty ideals don’t owe the world some demonstration of their metabolic rate or cardiovascular fitness in order to be treated well or to prove that they’re “just as good as thin women.”

You can see why I felt so incredulous when I received emails from strangers arguing that we need more fat shaming in this culture. Both weight-based discrimination and obesity have continued to increase over time—there’s no sign that one stops the other. I’m deeply skeptical of those who claim they’re trying to “help” women by shaming them for their body size or shape, or those who say they fat-shame because they are worried about women’s health. Don’t imagine for a moment that any woman in this culture who struggles with weight is under any illusions about what her body looks like compared to the ideal. There is never a need to point out this gap. You are not doing her a favor. She already knows, trust me. Given the rampant fat shaming in this country, how could anyone imagine that obesity is a result of the fact that we simply don’t make people who are fat feel bad enough about themselves? Please. Cruelty is not a health intervention. It’s nothing more than a misguided, self-righteous attempt to boost one’s own self-esteem.

Here’s what I have to say to everyone who seems to believe that we should encourage women to feel body shame in order to promote weight loss. Even if you’re not convinced by all the empirical data reviewed above, why would you ever want to employ a health intervention focused not on caring for one’s body and treating it well, but rather based on loathing your body? Why would you want women to hate such an intimate and important part of themselves? What we need instead is to feel so at home and comfortable in our bodies that taking care of them feels natural and automatic. You don’t take care of things you hate.

- Beauty Sick, Renee Engeln

[crimsonkingart]

Fun fuct: some weeks ago a person thought I'm almost normalweight. ((In italian normalweithg is normopeso, but isn't totally corretc, because in italian means healty weitgh, not normal.)) In any case I'm still very far from normalweight, and I want to say it, because it's important understand that you can lose weight slowly. Lose weight isn't a race, so take time and if you have panick attack, anxiety and similar, please, speak with a psychologist or a doctor who specializes in eating disorders. And if you don't feel comfortable with a healthcare professional, you can look for another one, because you can find the right person.

[slimlastforskolins]

Rollercoaster weight changes can repeat with second pregnancy, especially among normal-weight women -- ScienceDaily

Rollercoaster weight changes can repeat with second pregnancy, especially among normal-weight women — ScienceDaily

Everyone knows that gaining excess weight during one pregnancy is bad, but clinicians rarely consider weight gains and losses from one pregnancy to the next — especially in normal-weight women.

But researchers from Marquette University and the University of Michigan found that among normal-weight women, fluctuating weight gain and loss in the first pregnancy is often repeated in subsequent…

[maximusen]

#tbt #shorthaircut #beforelockdown #normalweight #whocares?

[thoughtfuldonuttale]

Who is Donut?

The boring introduction.

Recently I was searching for a weightloss  buddy but didn’t find one that had the same goals as me or was the same age-ish that me. It bummed me a lot so I thought that why not start my own help page for you guys? 

I’m someone you can ask question regarding weightloss. Been there done that. You can also just update me where you are on your journey and I’ll give feedback and post it if wanted so that you’ll have an opportunity to find your own buddy. If you are at a stage where you don’t know how to start I’ll help you. It’s totally free. I’ll give you a diet and workouts to fit your goal. Tips included.

I've been overweight since 2nd grade and it was really hard mentally. I hit rock bottom when I was 13. I wanted to kill myself. Very dramatic, I know. I had been bullied about my weight for many years. I knew nothing about weightloss so I started to starve myself. I was weak for a long time. One day my mum noticed that I had stopped eating so she forced me to eat. No-one wants to see their daughter starve themselves. In secondary school I was quite normalweight because of my height. My weight started to gradually rise and by the winter of 8th grade I was nearly 100kg (220lbs) and my height was 172cm (5'7). I absolutely hated myself. I cried everytime I had to look in the mirror. Nothing fit. My mum saw me crying about it once and had a peptalk for me. She helped me start my weightloss.

 I joined the gym eventhough I was too young for that. Most gyms only accept 16+. Our school nurse wrote me a remission to start at a gym because my weight was a risk for my health. My weight started to drop. I got muscles. I went to the gym with my mum and I was motivated. By the spring of 8th grade I had lost 15kg (33lbs). It was noticeable. Everyone talked about it at school and I had such a good self-esteem. My instagram followers rose and people started talking to me and I was more involved in things. People talked behind my back about my weightloss and I was often told that I looked great after the weightloss. Smaller clothes fit me. My stamina got better and my P.E. grades rocketed so that I was one of the top ones in that class. Then I made the mistake. I thought that I could stop with my diet and that I couldn’t gain back my weight that easily. Now I weigh 89kg (196lbs) and I feel worse than before. Because I know that I failed and it was all for nothing. I decided to start again.

It starts today. With you.

~With love, your little Donut.

[aridara]

BMI only look sat the relation of height and weight so it's not accurate. But the thing is... it's not incorrect in the way you may think. BMI actually OVERestimates people's health. If your BMI tells you you're normalweight, then there's still a good chance you have too much fat. However, if your BMI tells you you're overweight or obese, then there's only a very slight chance that you don't have too much fat. Some body builders have high BMIs... yes. So what?Sincerely, a fat person

Again: BMI doesn’t tell you how much fat do you have. It’s not an indicator of fatness. It literally cannot be an indicator of fatness, because fatness isn’t even considered by it.

Moreover: weight has not been an indicator of health.

Lastly: can you tell me why overweight and obese people tend to live longer than “normal” weight people, once you’ve considered equal medical treatment* and diabetes**?

(*: Fat people are overwhelmingly more likely to have their medical doctors dismissed by a doctor as “too much weight”, regardless of whether it’s the acutal cause of their health issues or not.)(**: Diabetes type 2 causes weight gain. It’s not caused by being overweight.)

[recovery-anorexia]

Good Morning

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#Overweight #Underweight #Migraine #BMI #NormalWeight #Weight https://t.co/hXzYSdDZz0

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[letsrecover]

How do I explain to people I know that you don't actualy have to look skeletal and emaciated to have an eating disorder?

Because an eating disorder is a MENTAL illness. The emaciation is a side effect of that mental illness. You would not have become skeletal if it were not for the mental disorder that drove you. Therefore, you can be ill long before you are even underweight. You can be overweight and have a restrictive eating disorder. Weight is NOT an indicator of an ED, and that, in my opinion, is where so many people are wrongly diagnosed. It’s the thoughts that lead to action. Without the thoughts, there wouldn’t be action. This is why normal people can go on a diet, lose a few pounds, and continue on with their lives and not get an eating disorder. Restriction starves the brain, which leads to all sorts of symptoms like warped body image, OCD, anxiety, and depression. Malnourishment happens long before an anorexic BMI is reached. - Brie