Fat and NOT Fit.

I recently blogged about being "fat but fit".  Here's the other side of the argument.  An article, originally appearing in the Huffington Post, looks at the flaws in measuring overweight and obesity using the B.M.I. (body mass index).

And it lists the increased percentages of numerous health risks associated directly with obesity.

Yes, there are some people who are obese and who have perfectly clean arteries and normal blood sugar.  However, it seems they are the exceptions - the small outliers in the general population.

You may have "gotten away with it" until now - I know I did for many years.  But then my cholesterol went up (now managed by dietary change) and my knee joints started complaining.  Solution: don't make them carry so much of me around.

Mr Big (about whom I have blogged before) is one of those outliers.  Even at 370kg he did not have diabetes.  (And, by the way, a month ago he was down to a svelte 254kg with the help of a dedicated team at The Alfred Hospital.)

You can make statistics lie.  The food industry does that every day ("Nutella is low G.I. - OF COURSE it is, because its loaded with fat!).  But the facts are clear - extra weight increases the risk of a number of diseases, disorders and cancers.

Read Jeff Schweitzer's article from this link.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/why-fat-but-fit-is-a-lie/story-fni0d7e6-1226886775324

For those of you that are interested, my blogs mentioned above can be found at...

http://eatthinkbemerry.blogspot.com.au/

YO YO - NO NO! Why do we regain weight?

Apologies for my absence the last few weeks.  I took a tumble (not again you say!) on the footpath in my street and banged up both my knees. Paving stone poking up.  I know it seems like a theme (fell down the stairs, tripped over the dog last year).  I'm not clumsy, though, just unlucky.  But on the mend.

But enough about me.  As I've mentioned before, over the years I've lost about 250kg. Unfortunately, I've also gained about 270kg.  I used to be able to lose about a stone (it was a long time ago - for those of you under 100 that's about 7kg) and then, for whatever reason, I either stopped dieting or my body rebelled.  

What's going on?  Wouldn't you just love a reductionist theory - that it's about one thing only. If it was, then we could fix it. Of course, we usually blame a lack of self-discipline but its more complex than that.  Michael Jarosky, writing in The Age, has pondered about the various factors involved in the re-gain of weight.  His list:

1.  Its not fun losing weight.
2. You didn't exercise.
3. Dieting didn't work.
4. You didn't learn anything.
5. You reached a fake finish line.
6. You did it for the money and the fame (you need to read the article to understand this one)
7. You just don't want it badly enough.

Intrigued?  Agree/disagree?  The full article can be found at http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/fitness/blogs/boot-camp/why-do-we-put-weight-back-on-20140401-35w1l.html