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Read more: Can just anyone weigh ~400lbs?
Can just anyone weigh ~400lbs?
No, I really don’t think most people can weigh 400lbs. My reasoning? The New York Times references a deliberate exercise in weight gain, where prisoners increased their weight by 20 to 25 percent. But it took them four to six months, eating as much as they could every day. Some consumed 10,000 calories a day, an amount so incredible that it would be hard to believe, were…
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Read more: Hey, it’s the 30th!
Hey, it’s the 30th!
And I have met my goal of posting on every weekday so far. W00t! :) Oh, and if you’re curious about what I’m doing with the colors: I’m trying to mirror the seasons. Where I live, most leaves are still green…but some are turning gold. So green fading to yellow is the current idea. :)
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Read more: Clothes Shopping at ~400lbs!
Clothes Shopping at ~400lbs!
This is a list of stores / catalogs that I’ve bought clothing from in the last few years. Certainly there are other sources of supersize clothing out there, but this is where I’ve acquired mine :)
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Read more: Being Fat and Fit
Being Fat and Fit
I found this on an “expert q&a” on exercise on the New York Times site with Steven Blair, an exercise researcher and former president of the American College of Sports Medicine. Can someone be fat and fit? Yes. We began in 1995 to look at fitness and fatness as predictors of mortality, separately and together. What we found then, and continue to find in ongoing studies, is…
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Read more: HAES book: BMI & Politics
HAES book: BMI & Politics
In her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight (reviewed here) Linda Bacon recalls her days as a PhD candidate. This was also when the BMI standards were lowered, and, coincidently enough, her mentor, Judy Stern, was a member of the NIH Obesity Task Force.* When I expressed my surprise of the standards being lowered, she encouraged me, as an academic exercise, to conduct a…
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Living ~400lbs 