let's not celebrate bad health

yes, very hypocritical..look at renee zelwegger for instance...
I think she looked better in bridget jones with a bit of weight on her, now she looks like a scarecrow. super skinny is not beautiful.
I am tired of "curvy women" being called unhealthy. Furthermore, a doctor is not the be all and end all of knowledge. I have been to several doctors to talk about my weight, and one will tell me my ideal is 150, while another says 180. during my first pregnancy I saw an OB who told me not to gain any weight during my entre pg. I of course switched docs, and the other OB told me as long as I didn't gain too fast, i was fine. doctors have bias and prejudice just like everyone else. some accept a rounder version of health, others don't. th first ob told me it was a "miracle" I got pg at all, bc I was so fat.
didn't mean to go on a rabbit trail...but health is an individual thing.


Hey artist! got a dollar? hmm I thought not.

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AHA! Then you should talk, mariana! In your language there's a saying that goes ''Estas a falar com a boca cheia''... Does that ring a bell? Why would you bitx about big sized people because you have no idea of what it's like! Myself, after being teased for many years, I finally learned to adore my body because it wont change unless I change my attitudes. Well, my attitudes define who I am, and I don't want to be a different person! Besides... Why would I give away my favourite food: feijao preto e farofa? ;)

«And that's all I have to say 'bout that»

electrictroy, my undergrad degree was in health science. It's funny that you said "you have to lose the fat"--that is too extreme and simplistic for many reasons. Women are not supposed to try to have 0% body fat--that type of goal can actually be considered "unhealthy" and lead to osteoporosis (aka "porous bone"), amenorrhea (absent menstration), etc. It is not unhealthy to have some body fat. Although being obese is unhealthy, there are many "curvy" women who lived well into their 90s with minimal health problems, especially curvy lower body, since they say stomach fat is linked more to cardiovascular disease. It IS enough to eat healthy foods and be physically active.

Women have more difficulties losing weight than men as they get older, partially due to hormones; ironically, society places a higher standard on women to be thin. That is what this movie is getting at. It is not worth living until you are 90 if you wake up in the mirror everyday and think you are a worthess, fat pig just for having curves. I'll take the heart attack instead, thank you. So how about we first encourage women to have confidence AND THEN maybe they will be able to think about getting on that tread mill...

Personally, I have a really hard time losing the lower body weight, a common problem for some women. I am annorexic-looking in my upper body and chunky-looking in my lower body. If I wear an outfit that covers the upper but reveals the lower, certain people will admit to me that I need to lose weight, but if I do the opposite (reveal the upper and cover the lower), certain people will tell me I need to eat a damn bowl of brownies.

It's not like being fat is like a cold it doesn't spread
actually, the newest explanation(or excuse or whatever term you want to use) for obesitas is a virus. such a virus would cause the metabolism to slow down and the person to gain weight (to allow the body to make more virus i guess).

not that it matters that much, as far as i'm concerned. i'm very overweight and i don't like it when people suggest it's all my own fault, but i also don't like fat people who sit on their lazy butt all day, eating tons of food and feeling very sorry for themselves.

Exactly. Our society is obsessed with weight. My mother was 5'8" and 114 pounds, wore a size 5 and died at age 47 of heart disease. I am 6'1" - don't want to say how many lbs (that darn society) and wear size 18. My mother, bless her soul, did warn me about getting too "broad across the beam" when I was younger, and then I was a willowy size 10. In my 30s now I swim laps, I walk everywhere, I can keep up with my 3 year old plus my older kids, and I run my own business.
I have a 10 year old daughter who is skinny-mini, wearing slim sizes, and a 13 year old son who has a bit of a belly and full cheeks.

It bothers me when Ana's mother harps on her about weight when she herself is tubby and of course without the brazen 18 year old curves of Ana. Ana's older sister Estela is also overweight - why is Ana the one who is harassed? Oh wow I just got to the part where they strip down to their underwear. Bwahaahahahaa~

I have also heard about this in uneducated families - how they see their children past a certain age as another paycheck and hold them back from going out into the world and seeking their own destinies. It is not just urban poor families - it is farmers here in the Midwest. My own second cousins had no choice but to stay and work on the family farm. Wait - they aren't poor. But they still have no choice. I never believed parents would purposely hold their children back from success though. If you want a better life for your kids, you cannot hold them back. I am well educated but nevertheless poor because, well, I am manic depressive and can't hold a job so I run my own business which is feast and famine. I do want better for my kids and harass them all the time to study, even though I was great at school myself and it didn't get me anywhere.

It will be different for them. I push them to be all they can be.

This is all over the place I guess. Sorry.