whoa, whoa, HANG ON

[fox]

okay, so, this story, blah blah blah, kids are overweight and unhealthy, not really news.

two things, though:

During a Wednesday after-school session at Matsunaga, [physical education teacher Cindy] Lins [who is preparing 200 kids for some event in Rockville] cheered every student who rounded the edge of the schoolyard to complete a lap.

"I know you're going to be running in college, I just know it," she told one student.

"How in the world can you be pooped? I don't understand that," she teased when another girl jogged by slowly.

*sound of buzzer*  maybe the reporter is just not so good at communicating the tone, but speaking as someone who used to be that kid?  no, the gym teacher shouldn't tease a student who's worn out from running.  "i don't understand how you can be tired" means "something must be wrong with you."  way to go, cindy.

At Forestville Elementary School in Great Falls, third-grade teacher Anne Collins developed her own wellness policy last year after she got engaged and decided to lose weight.

She began walking each day at recess and invited students to join her.  After stepping up her workout routine outside school as well, she has gone from a size 18 to a size 4.

*boggle*  from 18 to 4 in one year?!  i hope that's a typo and she's gone from 18 to 14, because am i crazy, or is that just like among the least healthy things i've ever heard?

Comments

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's similar to what I was going to say--it's hard to keep UP a 2 lb/week weight loss (1 lb/week more likely/better, probably) but 50-100 pounds over a year is not crazy. Dunno that she'll be able to KEEP it off, but...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i could be mis-remembering (or telling tales out of school), but i'm pretty sure when darthrami was doing the best with her weight-loss efforts (or, at any rate, losing the most weight), she lost about 50 pounds (maybe a little less) and went from about a size 18 to about a size 12. possibly only 16 to 12. (i've gone shopping with her at both sizes, which is how i'm pretty sure that's right.) and the most size is lost at the beginning of the time losing weight, right, so the next 50 pounds would not have taken her down from 12 to 6 (or 8, even). i'm just sayin'. 18 to 4 is a lot. it's the difference between me and my sister-in-law. i'm not sure it can happen at all, still less a) safely b) in a year.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree, it's a LOT, and it's pretty crazy. And she'll probably gain at least a chunk of it back.

OTOH...if I lost ~35 pounds, I'd be from a 14 to a 6 (I don't think I could EVER be a 4, but at the end of freshman year I weighed ~30 less than now, and was an 8, but I still wasn't in great shape, and muscle weighs more blahb lah blah).

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you are not a size 14 now. shut up.

(are you really? you know, K is up to 16 now, but of course it looks totally different on her than it does on me because she's nine feet tall. or, okay, 5'10", but still, she's a different kind of 16 than i am. but even so, one time when we got together after a long time, L leaned over and said to me, "is it just me, or is there more of K than there used to be?") (and, you know, in college, or at least sophomore year, L was wearing size 14, but she totally should have gone up, because unless i'm very much mistaken, she's never been smaller than me.)

(this concludes the trip down college lane. [g])

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

hee. Am v. amused by trip down college lane.

Most of my clothes are still 12, but I'm only wearing the ones that are cut big. And more and more are 14. But damnit, as soon as the work craziness is over soon, I'm going on a diet/exercise plan....

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

(also, part of it is shape--L was always more shaped like darthrami, whereas I'm very pear-shaped, and don't so much wear a 14 on the top! It gives a different impression)