From Carmen, Age 16 - 07/01/04 - IP#: 207.69.137.xxx  Click here to reply  
Hey everyone, I've noticed alot of us have been calling ourselves fat on this board. Thing is, theres no such thing as being fat (or even for that matter being skinny!) hows that you say? well just listen. Being fat is an image that society and mankind has made, just like being skinny is. Its the same type of manmade image such as the color blue, when someone sees the color blue they think "blue" and when they see the color red they think "red". Society and time has shaped the human mind to think "skinny" when they think a more bone like strucutre and "fat" when they see more skin or mass on a person. But in reality, these are just images and words put into our head that were came up with years ago. What really exists as being healthy and unhealthy. In order to be healthy we need to get into a healthy body mass/muscle mass/height raito and in order to be considered unhealthy we must have an unbalances body mass/muscle mass/height ratio. My basic point here is that theres no such thing is being fat, skinny, obese ect...they are all images and words used to describe the to most basic forms of the body, healthy and unhealthy. So when someone says they are fat, they are saying they are something that doesn't exist. The idea of fat can only exist in human minds becasue thats where it came from. We can only be healthy or unhealthy, NONE OF US ARE FAT OR SKINNY....WE ARE NOT A MAN MADE IDEA! WE ARE HOW ARE BODY FUNCTIONS...AND THATS EITHER HEALTHFULLY OR UNHEALTHFULYL....i hope this made sense and that this helped. Most of us are in the unhealthy zone right now and we need to improve on that, but theres no such thing as fat or skinny, so don't even bother telling yourself you are etiher one! Luv ya all