What???

Crazy... just read Darcy's last post, as well as this whole thread...

How do people define overweight socially anyways? By crap opinions of naval-gazing media "personalities".

As a society/global community, we really do have to get away from the weight goals and set fit goals. If we have fit goals (and a balanced diet) and try to achieve them the weight stuff will usually take care of itself.

Niciole, I did the BMI thing earlier this year. My son has just finished a Health and fitness tertiary qual, and they were looking at the BMI and discussing its flaws, and which group of people it was best suited to as a tool for measuring. Women wasn't one of those groups...

I am 5'10" and now weigh 99kg... that means I am just a few kgs away from being overweight, instead of obese! Even at 110-5kg when I started biking, I didn't see myself as what I had in my head of "obese". I didn't lose any weight the first year, but I did drop two dress sizes and still I was obese!

Its a standing joke at work now, I tell the diet crazy girls I can't have something cause I am aiming to be overweight, and no longer obese... one of the girls has no weight that needs losing but is a very fit toned sportswoman - shes overweight according to BMI and thinks, like me, that its amusing.