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You are right in that the trends are leaning more to hip waist ration and body proportions (fat content) when assessing health. It is great to hear you have achieved positive changes in those metrics and are conscious of the importance of nutrition. Thanks for your comment.
I'm not sure "weight" is the best metric or measure of health, since hip/waist ratio is better. I wish I looked at the sister site years ago, but this one was vital, but even that was too late, causing me to leave work sooner than I'd planned, for various reasons.
I've done well on both counts, and reduced weight, and inches off my hips and waist. My mood is more stable too, as I learn more about nutrition. Wish I could have know more earlier in life, but better late than never.
This is interesting, especially the vicious circle bit.
SSRI's can cause weight gain. Some times rapid. Not something a person already depressed needs. It doesn't help that media portrays healthy people as very skinny. It isn't true. Unless you are sick a small amount of fat is fine, and is it really fat. It could be water, with all the salt in food.
Now obese is asking for trouble, but can a person help it if they don't have the information to prevent it. And then there is thyroid.
Be informed and do something about it.
Me I'm happiest under 175 lbs. but will accept under 180. But then I've lost height due to fused vertebrae and artificial knees. 5 inches in fact. I used to be 5'11" and as heavy as 230 lbs. But it was mostly muscle and I worked hard every day.
I have to admit that the weight affects my self esteem more than anything. But it is a health thing too in an Arthritic over 60 years of age.
I don't sweat it though, happy is more important. And I do fluctuate.
A U.S. study conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians, has found that women of middle age struggling with obesity often become depressed. What’s more so is that obesity & depression seem to fuel each other in a vicious circle.
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