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Plus-sized athletes to US first lady: Fat can be fit
AFP ^ | Feb 13, 2011

Posted on 02/12/2011 10:26:43 PM PST by PROCON

A lifelong acolyte of exercise and fitness, Sandy Shaffer works out three times per week, eats a diet loaded with fruits and vegetables, and somehow finds time to teach a weekly aerobics class, but at five-foot, five inches (1.65 meters) and 320 pounds (145 kilograms), Shaffer also is considered obese. But the plus-sized sports enthusiast insists that the label says little about the generally excellent state of her health.

And that is the single biggest problem she has with Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" health initiative.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: DemforBush
Just an FYI, the picture is Photoshopped.

Moochelle was added to the picture. They didn't use one her fashionable looks, not that it really makes any difference.

As far as the other women in that picture, oh my....

21 posted on 02/13/2011 1:04:21 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (They bring a Bible to a Memorial, we bring a T Shirt - Long Legged Mac Daddy)
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To: DemforBush
The thing that always cracks me up about that pic isn’t so much the difference in size. Princess Letizia and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are a couple of very petite women.

Carla Bruni is 5'9. Michelle is a giant.

22 posted on 02/13/2011 1:30:03 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: Finny

Well put. My thoughts exactly!


23 posted on 02/13/2011 1:45:00 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Finny
What a load of crap and spin this article is.

My sentiments precisely...a load of crap. No way in the world would someone eating fresh fruit and vegetables on a daily basis, exercising three times per week weigh 320 pounds. I don't buy it at all. She may be eating fresh fruit and vegetables, but is also consuming thousands upon thousands of additional calories per week to stay at that weight. And yes! 320 is just down right fat ugly! And unhealthy...only a lunatic would think that 5'5" and 320 pounds is healthy. A nutjob to be sure. Sheesh!

24 posted on 02/13/2011 2:33:04 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: goseminoles
Yes, but they are ususally over 6ft tall as well and very muscular.

A woman who is under 5'6" and 300 is obese.

25 posted on 02/13/2011 2:54:49 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Moonman62

I think a lot of these women who claim to be 5’ 9” tall are giving their height information wearing 4” heels. We have a “fashion model” in the extended family who does that. The last real interaction I had with her went like this: She says, “Oh, I’m 5’8”!” She was wearing 5” heels. I was in very flat sandals. I thought, “Well, in those 5” heels, I’d be 5’ 9”.” Of course, I didn’t say it, should have, but didn’t. Of course, she majored on diet discussion. They can have the 5” heels.


26 posted on 02/13/2011 4:40:33 AM PST by Twinkie (Two wrongs don't make a right.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
This was photoshopped w/Moochelle added?

Even so, the "Mooch" is far below the 2 French ladies in style and class.


27 posted on 02/13/2011 4:46:59 AM PST by newfreep (Palin 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Oops. I honestly didn’t know that.

*Our hero turns rather pink in the cheeks, begins wiping egg from face*


28 posted on 02/13/2011 5:17:37 AM PST by DemforBush (Eat steak, eat steak, eat a big ol' steer)
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To: PROCON

the first wookie needs a “wide load” sign on her butt.


29 posted on 02/13/2011 5:46:46 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Just an FYI, the picture is Photoshopped. Moochelle was added to the picture. They didn't use one her fashionable looks, not that it really makes any difference.

As far as the other women in that picture, oh my....

Yes, the picture is shopped, but IIRC, the pic of Mooshelle is from the same event on the same day. The 'shopper was making a point of how badly Mrs. BO dress compared to the other two ladies.

30 posted on 02/13/2011 6:30:53 AM PST by StrictTime (I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Just an FYI, the picture is Photoshopped. Moochelle was added to the picture. They didn't use one her fashionable looks, not that it really makes any difference.

As far as the other women in that picture, oh my....

Yes, the picture is shopped, but IIRC, the pic of Mooshelle is from the same event on the same day. The 'shopper was making a point of how badly Mrs. BO dressed compared to the other two ladies.

31 posted on 02/13/2011 6:31:19 AM PST by StrictTime (I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
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To: newfreep

Correction, one French lady and one Spanish lady.


32 posted on 02/13/2011 7:58:07 AM PST by gusty
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To: gusty

Moochie better lay off the broccoli it’s starting to show in the truck


33 posted on 02/13/2011 2:34:16 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: PROCON

I think it’s funny that mo thinks people are going to listen to her and do whatever she demands. They can take their BMIs and their vegan diets and shove them straight up their you know whats.


34 posted on 02/13/2011 2:57:11 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Finny
Shaffer, at 5'5 and 320 pounds, is considered obese? That IS obese!

Actually that's a BMI of 53.2 which is beyond obese.

Point of comparison William Howard Taft, fattest US President had a BMI of c.43.

35 posted on 02/13/2011 4:37:21 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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