Posted on 05/29/2012 6:15:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Bathing suit season is just around the corner. You don’t need a smokin’ hot body to look good on the beach this summer. And while LA has its share of high-end swimwear retailers who dress the “ideal” woman, finding an affordable swimsuit that fits the rest of us can be done here, too, if you know what you’re looking for. With Everything but Water’s fit expert, Audrey Jimenez, offering her tips, every woman can feel comfortable in the sun this summer.
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Lol.
One of the few benefits of getting older is that you, or at least I, do not give a damn about how other people think I look. I mean I don’t wear white socks with sandals and I am not obese, but I learned, long ago, that real beauty is in a person’s brain and in his/her actions. Blubber is, admittedly unpleasant to see openly displayed, but it’s their blubber. I think one has a right to be fat, skinny, whatever.
But, I ain’t no saint: I still care very deeply about how babes look, and I do look; but I think I can’t help that. In fact, I know I can’t help it.
And the Secret Service had to call for back up to keep the Greenpeace people from pushing her back in the water...
I’m the dysfunctional one? Yeah...Im a middle aged woman posting on a thread about bathing suit styles for (ahem) middle aged women. I’m not the one who trolled on by (with Al Bundy YouTube clips—which add SO MUCH to the discourse).
Look to your own motivations....a true Southern gentleman doesn’t pick fights where he has no standing.
I agree. That girl is flipping all my switches.
I’d hit it. Till I dropped.
Why are fat girls and mopeds alike?
You won’t understand until you’ve been in someone’s shoes who tried everything but will never look like the magazines say they should. I especially feel for the women who are constantly fed the message that looks and genitals are their only value. It gives the women that look that way a sense of entitlement and promotes mental illness in the ones that never will.
Everyone is different and your base metabolic rate is pretty much set at birth. Just like your face or hair color. IMO, the rate varies greatly from person to person. Far more than doctors realize. I recently dated a rail-thin girl that would eat chocolate and greasy food, non-stop, all day. She had a desk job, never worked out and would feel dizzy from hunger if she ever stopped eating or ate something low in calories.
When I was younger, I ate less and did the same activities that my friends did. However, I never had anything close to a magazine body while they were very lean and muscular. Eating 2-3 racks of ribs and a half-gallon of ice cream each in one sitting was common for them.
Later on, my metabolism slowed even more and I kept gaining weight while eating a fraction of what they did. I went up to almost 300 lbs and decided to completely change my diet. I changed to 100% organic, quit drinking completely and figured out I could only eat 1000-1200 calories if I wanted to lose weight. The problem with such a low rate is that your body still needs the same quantity of essential nutrients or you feel very hungry. You can’t eat junk food because you will gain weight while feeling hungry.
I was lucky to be self-employed and focused 4-6 hours per day on working out, measuring myself and perfectly measuring/cooking everything I ate. Most people are much busier and would be extremely obese if they had my metabolism. After about 1 year, I dropped to 180lb but still never had the body that my friends had without even trying.
Today, I am much busier but spend as much time as I can to not be obese. My friends are still very fit while working out less, eating foods I haven’t touched in years and drinking every week. In prehistoric times, the efficiency of my body would give me a huge advantage over my starving friends. Today it makes me an outcast because eating is such a huge part of our culture.
I’m a 200lb+ guy with a big build and get to work out 1 hour per day but still can’t eat anything resembling a ‘normal’ diet. Most of my friends would starve if they ate this little calories for a month. I’m so efficient that I only average 3-4 squares of toilet paper per day. Here is what I ate yesterday and have been eating similar for years. I’m pretty much never hungry but there is so much food that I miss out on.
Breakfast:
50 grams granola – 150 calories
1 boiled egg – 70 calories
1 cup fresh berry smoothie – 175 calories
Lunch:
1 cup crabmeat salad – 120 calories
4 oz pork loin – 160 calories
1/2 cup mashed potatoes – 110 calories
1 Orange - 60 Calories
Dinner:
1 cup beef and potato soup – 220 calories
1/4 Bagel with smoked salmon – 150 calories
1/3 lb boiled shrimp – 160 calories
1/2 lb strawberries – 75 calories
TOTAL – 1450 CALORIES
According to my age, weight and fat percentage, my minimum should be 3300. And that doesn’t include calories burned while working out.
We all have our strengths, weaknesses and appearances that were given to us through DNA. For me, a person’s character and what they do with what they were given is the most important thing. Few things make me more angry than people who won the looks lottery and feel entitled to everything while doing nothing.
Hey that’s me...no wait...that’s not me...I don’t hang my keys off my belt.
A real woman, natural without any implants not overstuffed claiming to be a size 6 when they are size 18. Where are these natural creatures today!
Nice try, but the thread title is "Swimsuit Guide for Real Women." Nothing at all about middle age.
Now, knowing quite well, that "real woman" is a euphemism fat women use, I found it appropriate to point that out. To me the thread is not about swimsuits. It is about exposing a fraud. The fraud being that fat women are "real", thus implying that fit women are fake.
The dysfunstion, I refer to is being overweight (unhealthy) and proud of it.
I take it you’re fat.
No lottery winner here. I have been on a whole food, plant-based diet for years to maintain my weight and health. (I highly recommend it, BTW). I also work out several days a week.
My compliments.
"Few things make me more angry than people who won the looks lottery"
Sadly, I missed the boat on that lotto.
I have nothing against fat people, even more so if they are trying to shed weight. What ticks me off, and I'm suprised to see some of it on this thread, is people defending obesity like its some type of special-needs group.
At least my ass isn’t colossal.
Bump for later
Tsch.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Obesity is not a disease. Being fat doesn't make you a special interest group, and it doesn't make you "average." It makes you, well, fat.
Rather than agree that yes, fat people should lose weight, he/she becomes affronted at the very suggestion that fat people should exercise. I suppose you want two airline seats for the price of one?
Well whatever. Your heart attack, not mine.
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