I'm 5'0" and weigh less than 130 lbs which makes me a size 12. I'm not thin,
but I used to be much heavier than what I weigh now.  My youngest sister,
who's 10 years younger than I - is twice as big as I am, and she's been
overweight since birth.

I dunno about CP and metabolism, but can tell you my metabolism is slow...and
it's hard for me to loos weight.

Kat

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:55:32 -0400 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I agree, for the most part, with your obesity stance as well, Kat.  I think
if we look at photos of obese folks in their youth or eary adulthood it's
pretty obvious that most weren't driven down the "fat" road kicking and
screaming.  On the other hand, Laura is always "fighting" her weight, but if
you look at photos of her as an infant she was chubby even then.  She's darn
near six-feet tall and has a large frame, so she's always going to be larger
than most women her age, but she's pretty firm and is in excellent
cardio-vascular health.  Still, we have this cultural dichotomy in that
"skinny" is the ideal, yet people eat themselves into oblivion.  It puts a
lot of pressure on someone like Laura, who is never going to be "skinny", no
matter what she does.  It's doubly frustrating for her, as I can eat
whatever I want, as much as I want and have always been at the lower end of
the height/weight ratio tables  (I think many CPers have a fairly rapid
metabolic rate, though I've no documentation to back this up).