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One of the first things that I noticed was the amount of muscle on the 250-pound woman. If you think about it though, it makes sense. Weighing that much means that you need more strength to be able to lift your legs (move your body), lift your arms, etc.
But along with that, you can see that parts of the larger woman are clearly asymmetrical. Look at her shoulders. Granted, it could be the way that she was being scanned but, take that along with her upper legs, lower legs, and arms, and all of those parts are shaped differently on the left side compared to the right side.
Compare that to the 120-pound woman who is pretty symmetrical all around.
I know it sounds strange that I noticed the symmetrical differences first when comparing these two women since the most obvious difference is the incredible amount of body fat on the 250-pound woman compared to the 120-pound woman.
What I think this really shows is how fat doesn’t have a set way that it is added to the body. It doesn’t even out on the left side and right side. It just basically adds itself to wherever it wants to go. That then has an effect on the muscle growing around the bones asymmetrically since you could have more body fat to carry around on one side or area than the other.
Look at the bones in the 250-pound woman. Much larger than the 120-pound woman which again makes sense because the more mass you have the stronger the bones have to be in order to support the weight. But because of the asymmetrical shape of the body, some of the bones are contoured differently on one side and the other (and notice how the ankles bow inward on the 250-pound woman, which is a product of that extra weight and is more than likely going to cause some major walking problems for this person at some point).
When taking all of that into account and then looking at the 120-pound woman, everything looks very symmetrical and even on pretty much all parts of the body. What little body fat there is, is not too disproportionate on the left and right sides, the muscles are symmetrical, and the bones look very stable and symmetrical as well (I know I’m using the word symmetrical a lot today but I think that’s the best word to use to describe these pictures).
Overall, when you look at the 120-pound woman and the 250-pound woman, you just see a much healthier person. The heart, liver, internal organs, and even the brain just look much healthy and hate to say “pleasing to the eye” then the overall body scan of the 250-pound woman.
Does this mean that every woman should strive to be 120 pounds? No and I don’t think that’s realistic. But, I think it’s safe to say that if you got your weight into a “normal” range for your sex and height, you’d be pretty well off with the insides of your body looking healthy rather than unhealthy.
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