FAT FAT FAT!!!!!!!

[forgetunome]

Re: Skitten

Originally posted by Skitten
I weighed 208 14 months ago and have lost 118 lbs and yes it is hard, but worth it in the long run I know weigh 113 lbs and wear a size four I used to fit in a plus size 22 so it is a big change and I feel good now. It is nice going to a store again and being able to buy clothes without dreading every minute of it.

WTG

I know how hard it can be and is! What an accomplishment! I am back to needing to lose quite a bit myself and I certainly can relate to Savage Kitten's post

FAT FAT FAT!!!!!!!




[Edited by forgetunome on 09-30-2000 at 11:23 AM]

 

[Cheyenne]

I weighed 208 14 months ago and have lost 118 lbs and yes it is hard, but worth it in the long run I know weigh 113 ...

You almost gave me heart failure. 208 less 118 would be 90 pounds! Very few grown woman can be healthy at 90 pounds- that would have meant you were way past being healthy and into dangerous territory. Then I read the 113 later in the sentence and decided that the problem was either your math, or fat fingers in typing one of the numbers. Thank God. And congratulations on the weight loss. I'm impressed, and jealous at the same time.

 

[Weird Harold]

I lost about 55# (and was still a few pounds from my goal). People were telling me how good I was looking and then when I got closer to my goal, some began telling me I was getting too thin. I happend to see my shoulders in a mirror one day and for some reason they looked BONEY!! I got scared and depressed and started gaining weight again. I've since put on about 25# and hate myself for it. I realized too late that they were just jealous, that I WASN'T too thin. Now I'm working my ass off to lose those extra pounds.

I have to say that this sounds like your target weight is too low. (You don't say what your target weight is.)

I get really upset with the fashion industry and all of the other societal pressures that tell women that skin and bones is what women should look like when I read threads like this.

SK, Based on the pictures at your website, a few extra pounds wouldn't hurt you. I don't know how much you've put on that you feel fat, but I think ten to twenty pounds over where you were when the pictures were taken would suit you just fine.

Sonora, I think you should be concerned if your shoulders look "bony" and friends tell you you're getting too thin. Add ten pounds to your target weight and decide what YOU want to look like. When friends tell you you're looking good, take their word for it and start maintaining instead of losing. I don't think jealousy had anything to do with their concerns about being too skinny, I think concern for your health was more likely.

All the rest of you ladies:

Please, think for yourself, and consult with a doctor and find out what your body type and metabolism wants you to be. Some people are just not meant to be thin. Ignore the hype and what "others" think you should look like.

If you are healthy, happy and your weight is stable, then quit worrying about weight. Work on fitness and body shaping exercise instead. (Note: muscle weighs more than fat. Find a stable weight, and turn the fat into muscle. You'll be thinner without having to lose the weight.)

Please ladies, unless you're grossly obese, stop turning all of the beautiful women into stick figures.

 

[Sammyjo]

See? this is why I love you Weird Harold...

I don't think I look bad, but when I see the numbers, it gets me down.

I have yet to hear a complaint about the way I look from anyone who has dared to see me naked. In fact, I hear compliments...which sometimes irritates me...I think to myself "do you see me? yeeeesh"

Well, after yesterday, I've had it. I'm going to start walking again if it kills me.

You see, it isn't what I eat that has me feeling yucky, it's my lack of exercise. I don't eat much, and I hate sweets...I just need to get my ass in gear and lose the "baby fat"...and yes, it's still sticking around 6 years later...ugh!!!

 

[Sonora]

I lost about 55# (and was still a few pounds from my goal). People were telling me how good I was looking and then when I got closer to my goal, some began telling me I was getting too thin. I happend to see my shoulders in a mirror one day and for some reason they looked BONEY!! I got scared and depressed and started gaining weight again. I've since put on about 25# and hate myself for it. I realized too late that they were just jealous, that I WASN'T too thin. Now I'm working my ass off to lose those extra pounds.

I have to say that this sounds like your target weight is too low. (You don't say what your target weight is.)

Sonora, I think you should be concerned if your shoulders look "bony" and friends tell you you're getting too thin. Add ten pounds to your target weight and decide what YOU want to look like. When friends tell you you're looking good, take their word for it and start maintaining instead of losing. I don't think jealousy had anything to do with their concerns about being too skinny, I think concern for your health was more likely.

Please, think for yourself, and consult with a doctor and find out what your body type and metabolism wants you to be. Some people are just not meant to be thin. Ignore the hype and what "others" think you should look like.

Thank you for your concern WH. I started at 207 and eventually droped to 148. It was about 160 that people were telling me I was too thin. My target was/is 145-150.

I will have to disagree with you that people weren't jealous and were only concerned for my health. I don't think that at 5'6" 150 is an unreasonable weight for me. I do monitor my BMI along with my weight. I work in an office full of women and I know how these particular women are. I try to keep to myself as much as possible, but they will still gossip to me about the others. I truly feel that it was jealousy on their part. (They are overweight and make no effort to change it.)

I started my weight loss program in Jan. 1999. In July '99 I had lost over 50 pounds and had to go to the dr. for a kidney infection. He never asked me anything about my weight loss. How I was doing it or anything. This is why I'm thinking about changing drs., but I just keep putting it off. He had never even suggested that I lose weight. I do reallyneed a new dr., but hate the thought of finding a new one. This guy has been my dr. for 25 years.

I have recently started an exercise program that is conducted through the hospital. They do a number of tests (12-lead EKG stress test thingy, flexibility, strength, BMI, etc) and then taylor a program for each individual. My results came back with my optimal weight at 150.

[Edited by Sonora on 09-30-2000 at 03:24 PM]

 

[Weird Harold]

Thank you for your concern WH. I started at 207 and eventually droped to 148. It was about 160 that people were telling me I was too thin. My target was/is 145-150.

I have recently started an exercise program that is conducted through the hospital. They do a number of tests ... My results came back with my optimal weight at 150.

5'6" 150# doesn't sound unreasonable, although I tend to think that "optimal" weights are about 10# to low for most people.

I watched numerous people over the years struggle with diet and excercise programs that turned healthy and well adjusted people into sickly neurotics fighing their own metabolism to meet unrealistic and inflexible weight standards for the USAF.

You know your co-workers better than I do, So I guess jealously was probably a factor in their comments. (It might have been more fear than jealousy though. If you start looking too fit, the management might get the idea they all should get fit. <G>)

The main thing though, is for you to find a weight that makes YOU feel good. Once you find a stable balance between diet, exercise and metabolism, stop. Don't let others' opinions or doctor's charts dictate what feels right to you.

 

[Lajo]

Re: LOL@Lajo

always my knight in shining armour **hugz** I think I'm in luv

wait till I get to be a lean mean sex machine and then you may think twice about what ya said Lajo hehe
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Update

I just weighed myself tonite at my friends house after walking 3 miles. After 5 days I have lost 4.5#.. i'm pretty impressed with myself... that much more encouragement to keep it up....


hey Lajo... when I make it to my goal I'm gonna take you up on your offer so you might as well start shoppin for a plane ticket now hehe


Promise?? I think you are beautiful and sexu just the way you are . But if losing a few pounds makes you feel better about yourself, then by all means, go for it!

 

[Wizard]

I was just going back rereading this thread and onther thing that has really helped skitten is when you start losing that weight put a picture of yourself when you where big on the wall or Ref. to see what you didi look like................This has helped Skitten to stay on track .......Never wanting to look like that again .........Over a year now it took time to come off but it also took time to put it on too.........hard work and you will do it..............Then enjoy it, you will have worked hard for it.....ALL of our frineds have told her and still tell her how good she looks.......I know for her that has to feel good to hear...........