November 27th, 2011 
FatCow You know, like when people are talking about their bodies “well at least I’m not skin and bones” “At least I’m not a fat cow” I mean shouldn’t people be trying to be fit? Because it always comes up when people are told to lose/gain weight. (Of course they may use a variety of phrases I just stuck with those two to emphasize my point)
!Also! why is chubby considered healthy? There’s a healthy amount of fat 14%-28% and then there’s just getting fat. Is it considered healthy because society is getting fatter?
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It’s considered healthy so people feel good about their chubbiness.
And it’s either fat or skinny, because almost 70% of the population is fat (overweight/obese) and all of the people in the media are almost exclusively skinny (or lean/muscular if they are male) so we only have exposure to fat people and skinny people, which is why “healthy” is left in the dust.
and really.. any body fat percentage over 22 looks chubby on a female, and if they are slimmer, then over 20% they look skinny-fat.
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It’s considered healthy so people feel good about their chubbiness.
And it’s either fat or skinny, because almost 70% of the population is fat (overweight/obese) and all of the people in the media are almost exclusively skinny (or lean/muscular if they are male) so we only have exposure to fat people and skinny people, which is why “healthy” is left in the dust.
and really.. any body fat percentage over 22 looks chubby on a female, and if they are slimmer, then over 20% they look skinny-fat.
people who say, “well at least I’m not that bad…” are just hiding the fact that they can improve behind the comfort of knowing that they are not the worst. I get ticked off when people do that, so I hope you instead strive for the best, whether than be glad not the worst.
As for the “chubby” thing. Go figure, I was chubby, then I became athletic. I would consider chubby ok, not healthy, healthy is having a good BMI and a good percentage of fat
Because everything seems to be one extreme or the other. People are either underweight or overweight, there is very little middle ground. And what is worse many of the underweight people have just as high body fat as the typically overweight people, i.e. skinny-fat.
I want to be fit and healthy, having gone from 30% body fat to 24% body fat I think I’m doing good. My goal is 20% body fat, but have to disagree with : ) that anything over 22% body fat is chubby. Your range of 14%-28% body fat is the right one.