Ina Garten has been overweight for 50 years. She's chubby (and absolutely adorable) in her wedding photos. So I guess she started "letting herself go" when she was 18?

Yep, pretty much!

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Anonymous wrote:I say this as a fairly shallow person who works out, wears makeup, etc: After thinking about it, I really think the important things are sleep and being happy/vibrant. We all know thin ladies with good hair clothes and makeup who still look like tired old bags. Ina Garten is overweight, wears technically frumpy clothes, and has a boring haircut, but I don’t think anyone would say she’s let herself go. She looks happy and well rested. I think it’s something about the eyes that really makes a difference?

I do think she let herself go because she’s overweight.

Ina Garten has been overweight for 50 years. She's chubby (and absolutely adorable) in her wedding photos. So I guess she started "letting herself go" when she was 18?

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Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

That is a horribly unfit person with zero muscles. Gross!

Maybe for you, but not me.

+1. I fit that description and run and lift weights all the time. Just finished a 5k race this morning. Got muscles like pow. But I'm very slight.

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a fairly shallow person who works out, wears makeup, etc: After thinking about it, I really think the important things are sleep and being happy/vibrant. We all know thin ladies with good hair clothes and makeup who still look like tired old bags. Ina Garten is overweight, wears technically frumpy clothes, and has a boring haircut, but I don’t think anyone would say she’s let herself go. She looks happy and well rested. I think it’s something about the eyes that really makes a difference?

This is a refreshing perspective. I think you are on to something.

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a fairly shallow person who works out, wears makeup, etc: After thinking about it, I really think the important things are sleep and being happy/vibrant. We all know thin ladies with good hair clothes and makeup who still look like tired old bags. Ina Garten is overweight, wears technically frumpy clothes, and has a boring haircut, but I don’t think anyone would say she’s let herself go. She looks happy and well rested. I think it’s something about the eyes that really makes a difference?

I do think she let herself go because she’s overweight.

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, there are a lot of insecure women on DCUM.

...and it's always "beauty and fashion" where it shows the most.

Sadly, there are a lot of insecure women on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

That is a horribly unfit person with zero muscles. Gross!

Why is it ok to say that a skinny woman 'with zero muscles' is gross?
This is me, most of my life. I don't like to exercise, but being lean, if working out muscles show right away. I don't care for them, but, again, it's a taboo to say out loud that being fat is gross, yet for skinny it's fine and people comment on it all the time.

It is not ok. PP is bitter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

That is a horribly unfit person with zero muscles. Gross!

Why is it ok to say that a skinny woman 'with zero muscles' is gross?
This is me, most of my life. I don't like to exercise, but being lean, if working out muscles show right away. I don't care for them, but, again, it's a taboo to say out loud that being fat is gross, yet for skinny it's fine and people comment on it all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

That is a horribly unfit person with zero muscles. Gross!

Maybe for you, but not me.

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Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

That is a horribly unfit person with zero muscles. Gross!

I say this as a fairly shallow person who works out, wears makeup, etc: After thinking about it, I really think the important things are sleep and being happy/vibrant. We all know thin ladies with good hair clothes and makeup who still look like tired old bags. Ina Garten is overweight, wears technically frumpy clothes, and has a boring haircut, but I don’t think anyone would say she’s let herself go. She looks happy and well rested. I think it’s something about the eyes that really makes a difference?

Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

I am 5'3 and have always weighed about 140, it is just my build, bone structure, since puberty. I am super skinny at 135 and start to get sickly looking below that, but I only have gone below 135 when seriously ill for a few weeks.

I am currently over that healthy spot for me, well into the 150s, and it's a nightmare. I am working so damn hard to get it off.

People have different bodies.

I don't begrudge the 5'8 118 lb. poster anything, but please don't call a 5'2 120 fat. Bodies are different.

Anonymous wrote:So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?

Actually I thought the rough gage for normal/lower end of normal BMI was 100 lbs at 5 feet and 5 lbs for every inch above that

So if 5’2 110 is fat, how much is a 5’2 woman supposed to weigh?