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99 44/100% pure · 08-18-2004, 03:46 PM

I wonder if it's a matter of cognitive dissonance (overlooking or subtly 'reinterpreting' info that doesn't match one's own world view) -- but at 5' 6" I begin to look positively gaunt at less than 135 lbs. I am pretty muscular, but I mean total strangers will ask if I have always been 'so thin' or even if I am ill at 130.

In my years as a personal trainer, I had contact with well over 200 women of all ages, ethnicity, shapes, sizes and condition, and can only remember two who were in the 5'6"-5'8" range at under 110 lbs, and I suspected both of them had eating disorders. Maybe I just don't encounter the healthy skinny ones, or maybe I just don't notice them?

08-18-2004, 03:46 PM	#80
99 44/100% pure Infrequently Astonished Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Baltimore metro area Posts: 324	I wonder if it's a matter of cognitive dissonance (overlooking or subtly 'reinterpreting' info that doesn't match one's own world view) -- but at 5' 6" I begin to look positively gaunt at less than 135 lbs. I am pretty muscular, but I mean total strangers will ask if I have always been 'so thin' or even if I am ill at 130. In my years as a personal trainer, I had contact with well over 200 women of all ages, ethnicity, shapes, sizes and condition, and can only remember two who were in the 5'6"-5'8" range at under 110 lbs, and I suspected both of them had eating disorders. Maybe I just don't encounter the healthy skinny ones, or maybe I just don't notice them? __________________ Overcompensating for the 0.56% that is irredeemably corrupted.