Posted on 06/30/2005 3:37:52 PM PDT by beavus
LONDON, June 30 (UPI) -- Only 1 percent of overweight women in a British survey said they are happy with their shape, blaming the celebrity culture for their attitude.
Of the 4,000 overweight women questioned by the National Slimming Survey, 83 percent said they suffered from deep "self-loathing". Some 91 percent felt depressed and 79 percent said they felt "utter despair."
Two-thirds of overweight women said they have felt like "life is not worth living," Sky News reported.
The survey also said 74 percent admitted to hiding food in their bedroom, car, garage or garden. About half of respondents removed size labels from clothing.
Among 1,000 men questioned in the same survey, 94 percent said they felt "like second-class citizens."
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Wow!
That is just sad.
Well...funny in a sad way. ;o)
I was starting to wonder if anyone else had noticed that the group running the survey might have been just a tiny bit biased towards a survey outcome of "FAT=BAD, Slimming = good"
"Of the 4,000 overweight women questioned by the National Slimming Survey, 83 percent said they suffered from deep "self-loathing". Some 91 percent felt depressed and 79 percent said they felt "utter despair." Two-thirds of overweight women said they have felt like "life is not worth living," Sky News reported."
I can't imagine any of these responses. I am definately overweight, but Mr. Passionfruit and I have "grown together" and we both try to eat healthier, and work out as much as possible. Neither of us is insulting or rude with the other about our weight.
I was very slim in my younger days. I nearly didn't get to join the Air Force reserves, because I was right at their lower weight limit, and they told me that if I lost any weight, I couldn't join.
As a young woman my metabolism changed, and suddenly the weight started adding up. From about age 30 to 40, I managed to go for ten years without gaining weight, because I walked 40 minutes per day during my lunch break. Back and leg problems won't allow that anymore. I have cut way back on the volume of food I eat, and how many calories and how many carbs I take in. I have started eating off of small (salad) plates rather than dinner plates so I don't look at a large plate with very little food on it, and I don't have seconds. I no longer expect to lose weight. It will not happen with this body.
The self loathing that the English women describe is illogical. I can understand being upset with the problem, but not themselves.
However if you read some of the posters comments here, it is easy to feel that others loathe heiffers like us. Obesity is a problem that many people view as self inflicted, but you can only cut back on your food intake so much before you begin to feel deprived, and uncomfortably hungry.
"Another sad consequence of life in a society that thinks every fleeting impulse should be indulged, and that discipline and self denial is some sort of twisted religious affliction."
WELL said.
I bet that nowadays Marylin Monroe would be considered "obese."
That's what people don't understand. The 98% long term failure rate of diets is not because of some minority of people who are weak-willed. Your body decides roughly what weight it wants to be, and there you will be, eventually.
Of course, most can be physically fit and healthy at their natural weight with healthy diet and physical activity. And there are few in the US who couldn't benefit some from that.
LOL!
I think this is true. Sometimes I have to catch myself in my personal self abuse realising that there are women who have real problems in life. Also, it is true. Plus sized women are treated like second class citizens but they have to get used to it. That's not going to change anytime soon.
You are absolutely right.
I understand what they're trying to say. I've seen it in my own life. It's how people treat you, especially men. Men can be really dense sometimes, especially when competing with images that promote an image that the majority of women do not fit.
You mean fat men are happy being slobs?
Care to do the honors?
;o)
ditto.
stay away from overweight women. do not look at them. if you look at them, they will run over you. series.
standing in line at a borders bookstore in a college town to check out, i glanced at the young woman's hips ahead of me who was paying for her book. i thought her slightly-over-sized butt was interesting. apparently she did not like her butt.
she musta had eyes in the back of her head.
she finished paying, and walked straight into me. series.
Why is it that fat male actors can be looked at as being distinguished but fat, female actresses are made fun of? You don't see men's weights being discussed too often in the tabloids. I suppose the metrosexuals have started to make some men a bit self conscious though.
of course, I don't get as mean and jealous as I used to since I've managed to trap...I mean meet a nice man :o)
Welcome to FR, BTW.
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