Thank goodness for old friends...

One of my dearest friends in the world called yesterday. She lives about 9 hours from me, goes to school during the day and works all night, so we pretty much only communicate via email and the occasional phone call. We're one of those types of friends that can go months without speaking, but pick right up where we left off and talk for hours upon hours... that's why we usually communicate via email! LOL We might get to see each other once a year - or twice if we're lucky. Her parents live about half an hour from me, but she doesn't get down here much.

Anyway... K called. She's a skinny little thing, but I like her anyway. For years we've plotted a way to take my excess flesh and donate it to her, so we'd even out. Here's some pics from the last time we saw each other, last July:
















As you can see, she almost disappears when she's sideways. Me, I try to stand sideways so I look a little slimmer - especially compared to her! LOL

(All this talk about size is for a point, don't worry.)

In the course of our conversation, she mentioned that a friend she works with was depressed the other day, because he'd decided he was fat. Now, I've never met this friend, but I trust K's judgement, and she says he is most decidedly *not* fat. Nicely muscled, but certainly not fat. She asked him why he thought he was overweight, and he said he'd looked up his BMI and it put him as overweight. K thought this was ridiculous and said so. He showed her the web site he'd used, and she put in her statistics... and it told her she was overweight, too. Only by a point or so, but overweight none the less.

Ha! She's muscled up, too, so it doesn't surprise me (muscle weighs more than fat, yadda yadda yadda) but there's no way she's anywhere near fat. I told her about how depressed I'd been a while ago because of my body issues, and how when I'd done the BMI thing, it put me as morbidly obese (I know I'm obese, but I don't think I'm morbidly obese) and even my goal weight was still considered overweight by BMI standards. I told her that, according to the BMI site, I need to weigh about 120 to be within 'normal' range and she flat out told me that's way too skinny. (Ironic, considering we're the same height. That's the weight she wants to be, and I've been telling her the same thing for years - that's too skinny! LOL)

Anyway... it certainly made me feel better. If they consider *her* to be overweight, by golly, there's no way I'm going to let their opinion matter to *me*! :-)