I am sure you have all heard the term Skinny Fat, if not it
is used to describe people who are skinny but are not really in shape. Well I was thinking today that there should
be a term for those of us who are fat but are still in good shape, maybe Fat
Fit? Can you be fat and still fit? I think so; I probably need to lose about 30+
pounds so I would be considered fat my most standards. But at the same time I can run 8 miles, I can
swim over a ¼ mile; I can bike over 15 miles, and do many other active fit
things. So even though I am fat I consider
myself to be pretty fit.
I wonder though why our society is totally fine with people
who are Skinny Fat but not okay with those of us who are Fit & Fat. I mean really I may have some extra pounds on
me but I am in much better shape than some skinny people I know, and I set the
heart monitors off at the doctors because my resting heart rate is so low (that
is because I AM a runner). So why is it
that people choose to judge me because I have had a hard time losing all this
weight after having two kids? Why don’t
they judge the girl who sits around eating crap and watching TV all day but just
happens to have an awesome metabolism?
How is that girl better than me? How is that girl Healthier than me?
Do I want to lose the extra weight I have? Yes, but to be honest I have been trying and
am really not sure at all what I am doing wrong at this point. I even change to a totally Vegan diet and did
not lose a pound. So I have been trying
to come to terms with the fact that I am now fat and maybe fat for a while (until
I can figure out why I am not losing any weight). So as a society maybe before we decide to judge the chubby girl for letting her self-go or for being a couch potato maybe you should find out if she is just someone who is Fat & Fit and could maybe be in even better shape than you!
