Don't Get Too Cocky, Thin People: 'Skinny Fat' Is Coming For You
LatestThis one’s for the effortless thin. We all know a person like this: one who never goes to the gym, subsists on a diet of burgers slathered in cheeses and sauces and bacons and non-diet soda yet never gains a pound, who hates the gym because “it smells” and drinks like a parched fish. A person who, despite what she puts into her body, always looks like a million bucks (or, like, at least in the six figure bucks range). Just because everything looks great on the outside, but as any Disney movie with an attractive villain has long ago taught us, looks can be deceiving.
According to Time, the ranks of the “skinny fat” represent a significant portion of people who seek medical assistance for conditions that are typically related to excess weight — high blood pressure, strokes, diabetes, high cholesterol, and other illnesses. The problem is, because they don’t “look” out of shape — aka “fat” — they think it’s not possible for them to be out of shape, even though the very definition of being “out of shape” is “not performing physical exercise on a regular basis.” I’m not out of shape because I don’t “look” out of shape because only fat people look out of shape and I am not fat so therefore I am not out of shape. And so on.