[NeedtoLose]

Interesting info:

"Here you will find what we think is the most comprehensive site on obesity and overweight on the Internet. Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognized that obesity is a serious, chronic disease. No human condition — not race, religion, gender, ethnicity or disease state — compares to obesity in prevalence and prejudice, mortality and morbidity, sickness and stigma."


http://www.obesity.org/

[Cyn]

Great link--and great info. I hate that people think just because you are big that you are a fat lazy slob and all you do is eat all day. That is so wrong!!

[zoey]

I know what you mean about people's perceptions. My first husband was very thin. He ate 3 times as much as me. He constantly made comments about how I needed to practice my pushaways(push your fat ass away from the table). He was really extreme though. I wasn't allowed to change clothes in the same room. He said that seeing me naked made him sick. I was a size 13 at that time. Justice prevails however. My daughter(20) saw him this year for the first time since she was 3. She said he now weighs over 250. Guess that hollow leg finally filled up. She said he asked her to tell me he is sorry for all those things he said to me then. I guess peoples perceptions can change when they become involved themselves.