Posted on 04/22/2011 9:49:13 PM PDT by neverdem
I am old enough to remember when an obese person was a rarity. So was someone who was “stick-thin.” We ate a widely varied, mostly-unprocessed diet containing lots of meats, fats, dairy and poultry products, and natural starches, like potatoes and yams. Desserts were most often fruits, with an occasional sweet pastry for holidays and special occasions. We were all what was considered “normal,” in those days. A layer of fat under our skin of roughly one to two inches. A svelte movie starlet was about a size 12 or 14. Very few of us were emaciated, and very few were obese. Diabetes was RARE.
Are you doing low carb?
Yes, I’m LC (less than 10g of sugars a day) but I had to cut back on fat and calories in order to lose weight. Once I’ve lost the weight, I’ll maintain with straight LC.
The LC crowd is right one one thing - you can’t gain weight if you don’t eat carbs. But I’ve found that I can’t lose a lot of weight if I eat a lot of fat. I won’t gain, but I won’t lose. Calories do count in that sense.
As a 40 year old woman with PCOS and hypothyroidism, I had to do more.
My next to youngest, 17 year old son, had outgrown the ‘dress’ pants he was to wear today for Easter. He is 6’3 and 165lbs, he has 31 in waist and 36 inseam (try finding pants/jeans for that!). He was 10 lbs at birth; and was off the chart at his first birthday. By his second birthday he was average in weight (started running...never walked) and has been average to below average ever since. He is a HS athlete (basketball, baseball) so he is physically active/fit. He is at that point where he can eat a full meal; and a second one (like he did today...our relative didn’t want to ‘put away leftovers’) then come home and eat two bowls of cheerios before bed.
Did you have gestational diabetes? Did you eventually become type 2?
From the second link in the 5th paragraph, the abstract states:
Regression analyses including sex and neonatal epigenetic marks explained >25% of the variance in childhood adiposity.Check the abstract. P represents probability. P = 0.002 means that you would expect those results 2 times out of a thousand results if the results were just random. In sample populations, it's considered significant when P is less than P = 0.05, i.e. you would expect a random result happens less 5 percent of the time.
Hence, you want larger samples for smaller margins of error and the exhortations for the replication of results.
Right, in many cases the doctor or the husband are guilty of pressuring women to restrict their pregnancy weight gain to unhealthy limits.
However I still say that in some cases it is the women themselves who are being vain.
There is so much celebrity idolatry in our culture, and the media set up --as examples for us to emulate-- celebrity women who stay slim and chic while pregnant -- while pointing to the celebrity's cute little "baby bump." It's a narcissistic thing.
Do you know women who have done this? Have you ever been pregnant? I ask because your remarks don’t reflect what I encountered in my work. I’ve worked in a medical environment and have had contact with many, many pregnant women and with their doctors. I’ve also examined the medical records of thousands of pregnant women. I’m a mother myself with a number of pregnancies. And I never heard or saw or read about a woman who said, “I have to keep my weight down so I’ll look like Jennifer Anniston.” What I do hear them saying is, “I know I shouldn’t gain 75 pounds but I’m crazed with hunger, and if I don’t eat I get low blood sugar. Put an ox on the kitchen table and I’ll eat it all by myself.”
Sometimes women also don’t gain enough weight not because they’re vain or their husbands and doctors pressure them, but because they are so terribly nauseated.
Yep I've had four kids. And I gained at least 40 pounds with each pregnancy, thank you very much! (And lost ... well ... most of it with each post-pregnancy)
Do you know women who have done this?
Yes, two people very close to me (relatives) did. Once their children were born, they also insisted on giving them skim milk to drink -- another terrible mistake, since human childrens' brains need a higher fat content to develop properly, than is available from skimmed cow's milk.
I’m shocked! Those poor children.
However, my husband and his whole family are overweight. I can also say that the reason they are overweight is because they eat a lot. It is really that simple.
My girls and I are constantly mad because my husband will eat everything in the house. We have to hide food, so it is there when we want to eat it.
I really bought into the whole "it's just my genes" thing, until I spent time around heavy people. I had no idea that a family could put away that much food.
I have never had to diet or watch what I eat, and I also have a complete sweet tooth. However, I don't gorge myself to death, because I don't like feeling overly full.
I really think that is the big difference between skinny and fat people. They don't stop until they can't fit another bite. I stop way before that, because I hate that feeling.
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