What is considered a "fat girl" these days? I really want to know.

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could someone summarise the findings of this thread. preferably in a neat table with a diagram.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

findings of this thread are (i think) that vic has had someproblems with a woman in the past who was abusive, this has fucked a few things up, some ppl were offended a little by the genrealisations, and geoff remembered some lyrics to old queen songs.

― geoff, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I understand that today everyone is into slim. but I go back a bit to when I almost lost my Mom to cancer. she weighed about 140 and went down to 100lbs. Does a thin person have a chance to pull through? My mom is still alive today having a little extra to fight with, & the best of doctors & God's help. I really think so anyway. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight months pass...

BWAHAHAAHA........i'm printing this thread out and i'm gonna leave it on buses and dentist office waiting room tables

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ohmigod this thread is sill here??

― V, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i guess old things on ILx remain for forever then? how nice that one of my mental meltdowns is documented in real time in the archives here for the rest of time

― V, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

bro.....my bad if this dredges up something awkward.....I was googling for ethan's old fat chick thread and found this puppy......sorry, i didn't know......pretty ill though!

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

no um, it's ok... i am pretty detached from all this enough now so i can just sort of smile at it...and er, it's from a "Vic," and I'm, ahem, V

― V, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

umm.. what is normal weihgt for a girl who's 15 or 16?? am curious too... lol neways.. i dont consider girl overweight fat! U KNOW why? cuz they could burn it off.. hehehehe just takes 25 to 30 mins a day for 3 month.. to burn ur fat calories.. and dont eat to much fat!! cuz then whats the point... you get the fat again.lol!! Well my point is.. if you really care for your body, and wanna look good to others.. just do ur 10mins exercise at home everyday.. thatz all!

― neko, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

neko that is pretty great advice.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry but if I see one more post with "u no" and other such SMSisms in it I am going to SCREAM. Why is it so hard to take the time to spell and type properly?

Sorry.. hread hijack I know... personal gripe of mine, don't mind me, carry on.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

But fwiw I agree neko that is sensible advice. Lose weight? Sure! EAT LESS AND MOVE MORE. Its not hard.

God I'm grumpy today aren't I?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

if you really care for your body, and wanna look good to others..

I agree with the first part, but not with the second. Who says everyone likes slim girls?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

damn right

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 08:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was reading something somewhere recently about a woman... OH, yes. It was Colette. She died weighing 180 pounds and this book I was skimming through was mentioning how that's horribly obese and she loved food too much and so on. And I'm thinking, Hey, I weighed 180 just a year and a half ago and sure I felt a wee bit unhealthy but I don't remember feeling obese. That's weird. I don't even know what I weigh now, but it's less than I used to - and I'm almost six foot so that makes 180 not so fat, right? And my mom weighs over 200 on and off and she's only 5'6" but I never felt like she was really fat.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's all about body proportion; weight is a red herring.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like if all the fat is in the breastesses then it's ok, right DAn? :)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was a question that answers itself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was gonna say!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I finally hit the 200 pound mark last month, damn it all. (I'm 5'4".) I'm glad that I'm going to be able to afford a health club now.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hate to be an ass, but if you're
5"8 and over 140 you're probably fat.

― masta ace (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Unless you work out and have lots of muscles. Which
is very sexy, BTW, but I think most girls are scared
away from weights from seeing freakish female
cover models. It's a shame, too, since lifting
weights is such a healthier way to get slim than
starving yourself.

― masta ace (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 02:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

okaayyy... so you go off about being "probably fat" but in the same sentence say its bad to starve oneself.

We can't win, can we? :)

PS: being a certain size and being a certain weight are not mutually inclusive.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like I said, it's hard to say, some girls are like 160
but and look fit and trim. probably fat isn't the worst
thing in the world, there's a saying of lads round
here that goes "more cushion for the pushin"

― masta ace (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

er, i'm no fitness expert, but I don't think lifting weights helps you lose much weight, does it? (or were you referring to exercising in general?)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

lifting weights converts fat to muscle, which is not technically losing weight but it is "losing weight" ie becoming less "fat", according to the informal way we use language

― jowburd (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

right, they'll wind up looking like a softball player

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

140 lb = 66kg
5'8" = 1m73

Sounds fairly emmaiciated to me.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's not emaciated, but it's far from fat.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good god, NO WAY, Ed. I mean christ that's slim, not emaciated. I am 1,66 meters and weigh about 58 kilos.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

How does one work out a square root? (I used to know this, but it has been consigned to the dustbin of my brain, along with the rest of my numerical ability.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

?ã

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

doh!

try ?ã

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

*cries*

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

*also cries*

I still don't know what you mean! Speak in Spanish?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was being a smartass and it backfired on me

if there's a non-calculator way, i have no idea what it is

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

there is no a non-calculator or tables way for doing square roots.

Why do you need the square root, anna?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, I didn't even mean that. I meant how do you square something.

(I am such a maths dunce. It's very embarassing.
T: You can't be that bad. What are eight sevens?
[long pause]
[painfully long pause]
Anna (brightly) 58! )

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

squaring is a number multiplied by itself

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fuck it. I found an on-line body mass index calculator and used that. Sorry for thread derailment.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fat and muscle are entirely different substances. One doesn't change into another. Muscle burns more calories than fat therefore in your resting state you have a higher metabolism. It's funny, I started working out last year 4-5 times a week. I weigh the exact same now than I did before but i redistributed my weight differently and got muscles in different places so trousers I could wear before I can no longer button and my shoulders are broader thereby giving my waist a narrower impression.

My weight fluctuates between 130 and 160, depending on my environment, and I'm 5'5". And the only difference I see when I'm at my peak weight is that I go up a size. I kind of always look the same. 160 is by no means fat. I kind of like it because I find it very soft and rounded and I still think I'm attractive and healthy.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm 5'8 and go between 130 and 140 and I look about as emaciated as a pug. One that gets food on a regular basis. Just FYI.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

there is no a non-calculator or tables way for doing square roots.

yes there is! there are lots, in fact. kids used to have to learn them about 100 years ago.

my party trick when i was 11 or so was taking square roots of largish numbers to 1dp in my head. this probably explains why i didn't get asked to any parties.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

LOL!!1 i'M gald everything is so black and white to you, adn its sure great you showed me how its so simple lol! Clearly U understand that every1 who has a hard time losing weight can't because they don't have willpower and don't really care about their body.

You fucking retard lol! u r fat!

(The spelling and typing errors in this post are intentional.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

my party trick when i was 11 or so was taking square roots of largish numbers to 1dp in my head. this probably explains why i didn't get asked to any parties.

-- toby

BUT YOU STILL DO THIS!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am looking forward to the next FAP...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 May 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

in fairness i do stuff like checking if phone numbers are divisible by small primes in a somewhat obsessive-compulsive way, but i don't tend to sit around taking square roots these days. i'm probably more than a little rusty.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 22 May 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

lifting weights converts fat to muscle, which is not technically losing weight but it is "losing weight" ie becoming less "fat", according to the informal way we use language

Also, a larger muscle mass usually leads to a higher metabolism, which makes it easier to keep off or lose body fat.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fat doesn't matter. You should really find out if she's into shrimping.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

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