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Message: [QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 4278148, member: 35"] Nan: my last post on this...I think. I agree that we should be way past 'body shaming'. But I don't think we are at this point. How to go forward about that is another matter. One way...endorsed by quite a few...is simply to avoid that number. Maybe that will work. Or be indifferent about whether that number is public or not...as seems to be your position. It just seems to me that overall good health...for everyone...but especially high level athletes...involves lots of numbers and metrics [I don't even know what some of them are]. Weight would be one of them. Being aware of that number shouldn't lead to shame....but hopefully would lead to motivation IF that number isn't a healthy one. A personal care doc might have some advice on that and other health factors. I have read that in some cases [hopefully darn few] doctors are hesitant to suggest recommendations regarding weight. I don't think that reluctance is a help. A UConn-related example: I saw Dee play in Hartford in the high school all-star game. Her skills were obvious...as was her flamboyance. 5 months later early in the fall I went down to see the kids practice. There were 6 or 7 at the other end of the court shooting...all their backs to me. It took me a while to figure out which one was Dee...she had lost a lot of weight. I doubt she felt shamed by how she looked in Hartford but clearly she had been motivated to make choices that would help her be a better player in Storrs. At some point in her pro career she made choices to change her nutrition habits...looks great and I bet it has lengthened her career...maybe to Paris in 2024? I have no idea of her weight or other metrics but I bet she knows them and keeps a look at them...probably out of understandable pride that she has made the choices she has. Anyway: hope all our players come back in September in great shape..with all metrics just plain 'healthy'. [/QUOTE]

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