I Feel Fat

(Reuters Health) – Many young women may misjudge their weight
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK | Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:40pm EST

Many young women may not realize whether their weight is healthy or not, which could have consequences for their diet and lifestyle habits, a new study finds.

Researchers found that among more than 2,200 women ages 18 to 25 seen at several Texas reproductive-health clinics, “weight misperception” was common among both normal-weight and overweight women.

Of the 1,062 study participants who were normal weight or underweight, 16 percent believed themselves to be overweight.

Meanwhile, one-quarter of heavier women — including 37 percent of overweight women and 10.5 percent of obese women — believed their weight was normal or too low.

The problem with such misperceptions, the researchers say, is that they may lead to less-than-healthy lifestyle habits.

Indeed, the study found that normal-weight women who felt they were overweight were more likely than those with accurate perceptions to try unhealthy weight-control tactics — like skipping meals, abusing diuretics (water pills) or using diet pills.


Overall, 36 percent of normal-weight women with mistaken impressions said they’d taken one of those extreme measures in the past month, versus 19 percent of normal-weight women with accurate perceptions.

And for their part, overweight women who perceived themselves as normal-weight were less likely to try healthy approaches to weight loss — like curbing calories and getting regular exercise. One-third of those with misperceptions said they’d tried a healthy tactic in the past month, versus 45 percent of overweight women with accurate perceptions of their weight.

I will start this discussion with an excerpt from the below article:

Now for a man that is some interesting stuff! A percentage of the women can’t tell if they are normal weight or overweight; that explains a lot. Slender women trying to get skinnier and overweight women acting like they are slender. here are the real BMI stats.

A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered normal. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 falls into the overweight category; and people with a BMI of 30 or higher are in the obesity category.

Let’s look at the 75% of women that have a realistic perspective of their weight, specifically the overweight to obese gals. What have you tried to get your weight down forever? You probably have tried weight loss fads but that tricky little word forever is in that sentence. That rules out 95% of your weight loss efforts because you only used them for a few weeks; then you resumed your old habits and all the weight, plus more, returned.

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