Posted by Veracity on April 2, 2006, at 14:14:08
In reply to Re: Is your T in shape?, posted by HappyWildflower on April 2, 2006, at 13:20:47
Hey Happy Wildflower,
You may want to consider that many large people may be "overweight" by society's standards, but are actually the exact, precise, perfect weight for their bodies and genes. So even people who seem clinically obese are absolutely healthy - for them to lose weight would be wrong for their body type or metabolism.
We live in a world where to be "thin" (and that's a very arbitrary and subjective term) is to be healthy but a good deal of research has shown that many "overweight" (another subjective term) people are much healthier than those who are "thin."
It sucks when you're healthy and happy with your size but because you don't fit in with what the popular media says is "healthy," people automatically assume you've got a weight problem. Your therapist may be a perfectly capable CBT therapist - she doesn't need to apply it to her own life because there is nothing about her eating habits or weight she needs or wants to change!
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