Poll: Morbid Obesity

[kisekinotenshi]

Poll What does "morbidly obese" mean to you?

Warning, Chelsea is preparing to get on her soap box. ;D Please take the poll before you read the rest of the entry. Feel free to comment with longer answers.

I was looking at this cute slideshow on Shapely Prose a little bit ago, and it suddenly struck me, what does the phrase "morbidly obese" mean? Of course, I am aware of what the BMI thinks

Comments

[kisekinotenshi]

And how many skinny people with health problems do you know? I can count way more thin people I know who have health problems overall, and way more "fluffy" people who seem relatively healthy (adjusting for age and other risk factors). But the prevailing mindset seems to be to analyze the health of the fat rather than the skinny. Not necessarily saying you did so in this case, but it is worth stating that most of my friends express more concern over my health in general than over the health of other people they know who are skinny, even when those skinny people tend to have more health problems than me. x.x

[kisekinotenshi]

Hmm. I guess my experience is atypical, then. Then again, I simply don't have enough people I feel close enough to to call friends for me to get any kind of accurate cross section of people in general. *Shrug* So perhaps that's also part of it.

I tried not to judge the waiter in a knee jerk reaction, but the truth is there's no way of knowing if she made a mistake or truly assumed I would have the cheeseburger (especially since she wasn't the same waiter who has taken our order). My assumption has equal chances of being valid and not being valid. I'm really only using it as an illustration anyone, it didn't occur to me to take offense until a few days later (I was a bit drugged up when it happened, since it was only a few days post surgery).

[lunarkissed]

I think that "morbidly obese" is when a person is too fat to get along well enough on their own without other means of assistance than themselves. This is of course excluding any other health issues that could be the case, and just focuses on their supreme bulk. This will naturally affect their health and it makes it impossible "to be active" when it requires a small forklift to move one's bulk around.

According to the BMI, I am about 45 pounds overweight. Sure, I'd like to be smaller but not to boost my self-esteem anymore. Not to be healthier. I just want to wear all the cute clothes that seem to be made for only smaller people. It's a vain reason of another variety.

[kisekinotenshi]

Oh crap, I JUST closed that link to all the cute Etsy stores that make all sizes... Let me find it...

Here we are!

http://kateharding.net/2009/07/08/hidden-plus-sizes-on-etsy/

Too lazy to go dig up some html for that. XD There's also Torrid. I've found many cute shirts there over the years (not the entirety of their stuff, as they seem to design exclusively for fat girls with HUGE racks, which I do not have). And igigi.com, if you're a millionaire. XD Most of the Etsy clothes are a bit more affordable, but not prices that you're going to find in big box stores. On the plus side, since they weren't made in sweatshops, they'll probably last a LOT longer!