09-23-2012, 06:14 AM
(09-22-2012, 09:34 PM)Shannon Wrote: Acceptance can make life better, but it must be applied properly. Accepting "what is" frees one to stop resisting it, which makes life much easier. But trying to re-program oneself with the belief that sickness is health, or that unbalance is balance, or that being overweight is normal, etc. is not helpful.
Loss of any amount of weight does not mean skin flaps unless the person loses the weight too quickly for their body to re-absorb the skin, or they believe deep in their subconscious that they must have skin flaps when they lose weight.
The scope of my comment was intended to include only fat acceptance, and could be reasonably expanded to acceptance of anything unhealthy. I should have stated that since I was responding to your more-general statement about loving the self as-is.
As far as skin flaps, my experience with hugely overweight women has only been with them losing weight via surgical intervention (gastric bypass, etc). Glad to hear that not all of them have to develop flaps.
Fear is a liar.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
