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I was (and still mostly am) a stick though. It was weird...being told i was clinically obese. :grump:
i heard that the uk governement - taking it upon themselves, as they always seem to do, to control our lives in yet another way - wanted to start weighing kids in schools from the age of 4 every month or so - aaaaargh! do we need any more kids growing up with an unhealthy relationship with food and paranoia about the scales. Every year in the nurse's office ok but i agree education about healthy eating, great. but you don't need to know from the age of 5 what your weight is to know you're eating healthily.
Science.
My sisters mate is 26 & weighs 6 stone. She is about 5ft. Its almost like she weighed nothing when she was younger.
we got weighed in school up to year 9 where we lined up stood on a scale and then a height mesuring thing whiel the teacher took down our scores however people who considerd themselves chubby always seemed to go missing and their absense made them stand out more than them being their (yet you never saw anybody elses height or weight we told eachother)
In P.E we also did the pinch an inch test, which is basically tongues you use to grab your stomach to see how much fat you had.