Are You Satisfied With Your Current Weight?

Skinny isn’t always healthier
By Bruce Taylor Seeman

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/skinny-isnt-always-healthier/

 

I think BMI is a load of crap. There was a period in my life where I was very unhealthy and skinny, but I still weighed about 155lbs and according to my BMI I was doing great. You could see all my ribs though and people kept trying to feed me. My boobs disappeared too.

Other than that one small period of my life, I have always been considered a bit overweight. I'm an active person though, and eat a relatively well balanced diet. Thats the important part to me. I've never really been unhappy with how I look either. I think I'm hot, and enough other people seem to agree, regardless of a few extra pounds. I will admit that as a tall person I do hide my weight pretty well with clothes on. I'm not shy to take them off though.

I you are wondering I am 5'10", about 195lbs, wear a size 14 or so.

 

Study Suggests Lower Mortality Risk for People Deemed to Be Overweight
By PAM BELLUCKJAN. 1, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/health/study-suggests-lower-death-risk-for-the-overweight.html?_r=0

 

Not familiar with stone, but I entered 22 stone into a converter, and that equates to 308 lbs! That's an amazing amount of weight to lose! How do you feel about it?

 

Great! He was never worth it! Lol

 

A research study on the effect of overeating saturated vs. unsaturated fat on body fat distribution

Diabetes. 2014 Jul;63(7):2356-68. doi: 10.2337/db13-1622. Epub 2014 Feb 18.
Overfeeding polyunsaturated and saturated fat causes distinct effects on liver and visceral fat accumulation in humans.
Rosqvist F

free paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24550191

Abstract

Excess ectopic fat storage is linked to type 2 diabetes. The importance of dietary fat composition for ectopic fat storage in humans is unknown. We investigated liver fat accumulation and body composition during overfeeding saturated fatty acids (SFAs) or polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). LIPOGAIN was a double-blind, parallel-group, randomized trial. Thirty-nine young and normal-weight individuals were overfed muffins high in SFAs (palm oil) or n-6 PUFAs (sunflower oil) for 7 weeks. Liver fat, visceral adipose tissue (VAT), abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), total adipose tissue, pancreatic fat, and lean tissue were assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Transcriptomics were performed in SAT. Both groups gained similar weight. SFAs, however, markedly increased liver fat compared with PUFAs and caused a twofold larger increase in VAT than PUFAs. Conversely, PUFAs caused a nearly threefold larger increase in lean tissue than SFAs. Increase in liver fat directly correlated with changes in plasma SFAs and inversely with PUFAs. Genes involved in regulating energy dissipation, insulin resistance, body composition, and fat-cell differentiation in SAT were differentially regulated between diets, and associated with increased PUFAs in SAT. In conclusion, overeating SFAs promotes hepatic and visceral fat storage, whereas excess energy from PUFAs may instead promote lean tissue in healthy humans.

 

"Weight gain? The kind of fat in your diet helps determine how much muscle mass you build up"

http://www.ergo-log.com/weight-gain-kind-of-fat-in-diet-determines-how-much-muscle-mass-you-build-up.html

 

Interesting study. I wonder how monounsaturated fat would contribute like olive oil and avacados.

I pour olive oil on most things I eat for the extra calories now I just need to pull out my weights and workout haha

Also thank you for that other study about people not gaining weight even with extra calories. I suppose some of us are just in that rare group of perpetually skinny people.

I try to have lots of calories but not too much junk because even skinny people can end up with clogged arteries from eating ice cream and french fries all the time and quality food is key to optimal functioning.

 

Can someone give me some of their fat? Anyone got 40 pounds to spare because the cost of the food it would take me to get there is ridiculous!