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		| Originally posted by ltl/fb Why is weight loss more important?  I can maybe see why if someone is, like, over 70 lbs or so overweight because just hauling around that amount of weight is hard on your body.  But for someone who has not that much to lose, I would think that getting rid of excess fat would be a reasonable goal.
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 We were both arguing (I think) on the assumption that the theoretical person was "overweight".  It was never defined.  I was thinking about someone 20-30 lbs overweight.  Of course, then you have to define "ideal weight", and I think those scales are way off.