I can't believe it, but I agree with brick and Michele on some points. Women should be comfortable and happy with their bodies no matter their build, but some are taking this too far. Go ahead and yell about loving yourself with a 37% body fat ratio. Fine, love yourself, but love yourself enough to TAKE CARE of yourself. Being overweight is not healthy, it causes major problems later in life, Some CANCERS are higher risk in heavy people, not to mention heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. I myself will never EVER get under a size 8, I would have to break my pelvis and have it reformed smaller, and shrink a few inches height-wise, and lose some serious muscle mass. But Amazons run in my family. I work out, take martial arts, and eat healthy. NOT "diet". Just keep a lid on your hollow calorie intake, and eat you veggies. :) Don't glorify an unhealthy body please.

These women are not "plus" they are normal, and hot, and sexy and have curves like real women should. "Heroin chic' is for the gay (nothing wrong with that) fashion crowd/designers/out of touch people. Sorry...truth is brutal sometimes.

I hope you don't truly believe that diet cannot "cure" someone's obesity. The facts are simple, if you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. You need only go to countries like Sudan or even Iraq to see regions with less than 1% prevalence of obesity in the population to realize this. You can also look at the federal archive of pictures taken in the USA during the 1940's to see practically no obesity in the USA. This is a sharp contrast of what has happenned since Americans started eating increasing amounts of fast food and processed foods high in saturated fats and simple sugars. If you eat a diet which consists mainly of vegetables with some lean meats or fish thrown in (no more than 4 oz per meal and no more than 8 oz per day). Exclude all liquids other than water from the diet, including store processed juices and milk (the calcium, vitD and protein can easily be supplemented otherwise) which have little nutritional value and almost as much sugar as soda. Instead of OJ, for example, peel a fresh orange eat it and drink water. This will provide more nutritional value than drinking a carton of processed OJ which is full of empty calories and has degraded into mostly simple sugars -- you may as well be drinking high fructose corn syrup.
So get smart about your health folks, learn what modern science has shown us and practice the best of the recommended health and nutritional guidelines. You may want to check out realage dot com to get what you need over time.

B.S. There are ultra skinny women in the world who are flat who are NATURALLY skinny. Just as you just said there are "curvy" women in the world who are naturally curvy. Don't be small-minded. Some skinny women have eating disorders, but all of them don't. Skinny, shapeless women are just as much "real women" as fat or curvy women.

You gained weight because of an accident??

What did you do accidently eat the whole cow?

that was a totally rude comment. If you don't know what happened don't assume something so absurd.

Hit them where there pocketbooks are? Get real. There are other women who have your body type, but how many? I'm talking in comparison to the billions of people in the world and the half a billion (or however many) in the U.S.? Clothing is selling just fine. Some fashion labels won't look good on some people and some will look fantastic. You need to find a fashion label that looks good with your body type and stick to it or maybe you will find more than one. Designers shouldn't spend money making "special" clothing for women with your described body type. If you really want to, why don't you start your own clothing line for women with your build. It might be profitable (for you), but probably not for a huge fashion company.

Oops. Hit them where THEIR pocketbooks are, not "there." That was a rude comment about the accident. She mentioned "subsequent medication." I have been overweight three times in my life and two of them were definitely due to medication. You try taking 80 mg of Prednisone and see if you don't balloon up quickly and suddenly, then lose all the weight when you stop taking Prednisone by doing...nothing. Then, you try taking some antipsychotic medications that make you ravenous all the time. This 3rd time is due to the medication again, but moreso me eating ice cream which will lead to fat. If you don't want to be obese, you shouldn't have eaten all the food and junk food that you did. Now you'll have to work out really hard and diet with healthy, low-fat, low-calorie food to lose the weight (like I have to do now), but when you gain weight due to medication, it really sucks.

Oh, and I did NOT mean @chesca ate a lot of food + junk food. I was talking to obese people in general who are not on medication that makes you gain a lot of weight.

hey man,tell ur girlfriend she needs to gain mor weight! Not b so boney. think that punney GIRLS are girls . But little bit bigger women is a WOMAN; 115 LBS. SHOULD weigh about 125 to 135. NOW THATS A WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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