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HOW DARE YOU CALL ME FAT
Mars from Chicken Dinner Candybar does her regular Fat Love Friday and includes Marie from Agent Lover.

Marie is put off by her inclusion on a "fat" list and tells Mars so.

Mars offers to take it down. Marie refuses. Instead, she proclaims on her blog, "oh haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale no!

Chaos ensues in the comments about fatphobia, body acceptance, fashion sense (or the lack thereof), and kissing-up commentors.

Is Marie brave or is she overreacting?

(I'm in the comments and I know Natalie [the 'overreacting' link], so I am slightly involved in the wank aftermath. It's pretty obvious which side i'm on.)

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Re: Might get some negative feedback on this, but...

risha
2009-08-04 05:24 am UTC (link)

Actually... (disclaimer: I'm quoting these numbers from memory, since I'm too tired to google right now, but I can dig up the studies if you'd like.)

The numbers say that virtually everyone can lose some weight when starting a diet and/or exercise program, and all programs work roughly equally as well for a given person. But the vast majority will fail, even if the program(s) are kept up perfectly to the same level, within three years. Failure is defined as reaching or exceeding your starting weight. 98% diets will fail within 5 years. Exercise programs are a better bet - they have only a 96% failure rate after 5 years.

But the people who succeed at permanently keeping weight off almost always fall into two categories: people who had managed to force their bodies to an unnatural size for them, such as through a severe eating disorder or force feeding themselves for a movie role; or people who continually escalate their diet or exercise throughout the entire five year span.

So unless your friend has maintained her her weight loss for more than three to five years now, she's almost certainly going to end back up at 300 pounds. The good news is that she'll probably be a healthy 300 pounds, since eating well and getting moderate exercise is good for you even when it doesn't effect your weight.

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