Hmm I pondered this question in light of the recent study saying that if you have friends that are obese chances are you will weigh more.. so in a sense obesity is now contagious.. WOW.. in a way I can see that.. most of my friends fall in the overweight catagory.. though I do have thin friends as well.. ironically since I started losing weight.. many of my larger friends are not hanging around me as much.. Steve says its because I am changing and it either makes them feel uncomfortable or they know that I won't be eating like they do anymore...hmm I find truth in that .. however.... I certainly hope I have not encouraged my friends to over eat in the past because of my issues... what do you guys think about this??? My first thought upon reading about this study was that.. just what Fat people need.. more reason to discriminate. I wonder how many thin chicks will abandon their larger friends for fear of "catching fat" from the them? I wonder how many diet mavens will jump right on that band wagon... I wonder what other fat jokes will be created at our expense now. I wonder will anyone shun me???
Otherwise its fairly quiet in my world.. I have been busy building a wedding website for our wedding guests...
Eating has been going well.. exercise is slow.. seeing podiatrist on Monday.. my toe is taking forever to heal...
Hope everyone has a rockin' weekend! I have my Pottery shower tommorow night.. will post pictures...
Wish me well
Wish you well too...
Friday, July 27, 2007
DO YOU THINK I MAKE YOU FAT??
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The Today show did a feature on that study and a story about three women who were friends and all overweight at one time. They went on a diet together and all were successful. (They were in their 60's).
So, us diet bloggers are good influences on each other. Reading about each others triumphs and slip-ups and cheering each other on is a good thing.
I guess this could be true in some small way, though I don't think having larger friends has made me fat, LOL.
For the most part, I tend to seek out friends who are the same size as me, or ideally even larger. I guess it's a case of feeling safer and certainly accepted by those who are in a similar position to myself...
Interesting post as usual and something to seriously ponder over!!
Hugs,
Lins xx
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