No, but I can’t gain weight.
6’, 155.
Haven’t gained a pound in 22 years.
It sucks.
I used to be fat. March will be my 5 year maintenance anniversary. From 200 lbs to 130 lbs, I’ve been +/- 5 lbs for 5 years. I hated being fat, avoided cameras, hated photos of myself, didn’t like to look at myself. Love love love love being a healthy, slender person!
It took a complete 100% overhaul of how I ate - my maintenance looks exactly like my weight loss except I eat more calories a day. I don’t miss my old “favorite” foods a bit. I had a chance to eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, food didn’t make me happy. Now, I eat mindfully and I have a closet full of adorable size 6 clothes and I love pictures of myself. I have more energy and I’m a happier, more positive person.
I’m planning a wedding and wedding dress shopping was a real joy!
Good luck to anybody who wants to lose weight, it can be done and the rewards are incredible.
People tell me I’m thin. Most of them have never seen me naked. I’ve trained myself to hold in my gut most of the time.
I’m not fat fat, but I’m fat.
Yup.
I’m 6’4", and I weigh 261. I’m 60 years old.
The insurance company chart says I’m overweight. It also says the low end of healthy weight for my height is 204, an impossibly skinny number. My doctor says I’m borderline obese. My shrink says I’m not fat.
Everybody says they’re big-boned. I have it on good authority. When I was having knee trouble, an orthopedic surgeon looked at my knees and said I had great big bones.
I’m about 20 pounds over what I should be with my small frame, but I wouldn’t say I’m fat. Maybe before I already lost 20 pounds I would’ve said fat, but now I’d say average. 5’4 (and a half!) and 148 lbs.
5’10" and 200. I need to drop 15 in the new year. The way I REALLY think about it is that I want to dump the 36" pants and get down to 34". Getting back to the 32" waistline is the long term WOW goal for me.
Just as soon as I finish off the wine and standing rib roast on Christmas, I will start back on healthier eating.
I dunno. I’m 5’3 and 130, but most of that is in my hips and thighs. I look skinny from the waist up.
Not really. 5’8", 174 lbs, 34" waist. I’m not in the shape I was in two-three years ago, but I’m too vain to let myself go above 20% body fat.
Well, I prefer the term ‘big mama’. But, yes. I’m fat.
I have worked out my entire life, but I will always love to eat too much, and I will never balance that out with enough excercise. Not even close.
No.
But I could lose some. I’m 5’6" and currently 160 lbs. I have 32" waist pants that are starting to feel a bit tight, and I should be wearing 30". I reckon I need to lose about 15 lbs, or at least turn a bit of flab into muscle.
I have sixty days to get to a point where I look good on the beach. And I will, but not before I’ve spent a few days drinking vast amounts of beer and stuffing my face over Christmas.
Also, I kissed my first fat girl the other day. It was nice.
This describes me - I’m not technically overweight (I’m average weight for my height), but I have extra fat in places where I wouldn’t if I exercised.
Yes, and have gotten quite a bit fatter over the past two years.
Stories like this are half inspirational and half depressing. Eating mindfully all of the time, every time I eat from now until I die seems so overwhelming. I could go without my favorite foods, but I can’t seem to plan out all of my food for a week, much less (hopefully) 50 years.
That’s not what eating mindfully really means. It means being consciously aware of every item that goes into your mouth (at least the ones that you swallow); it can also mean making sure you thoroughly experience it while you’re eating it - that is, you savor it and don’t just shovel food in while watching TV or doing some other activity. You don’t have to plan more than the next meal in advance, you just need to know what nutrients foods really have.
Writing down everything you eat really helps with this.
For myself, I would say no, I could lose another 15-20 pounds but I’m pretty happy where I am. 6’1" and around 195 pounds. I have a similar story to Glory’s, except that I went on a doctor-supervised liquid diet to lose the weight, and now in maintenance I exercise regularly and keep track of all the food I eat. I originally weighed 335 when I started in 2005. I’ve yo-yoed more than Glory has, and I’m now about 10 pounds over my lowest weight, which I would like to get back to. But I’m pretty happy where I am.
Roddy
I am as fat as I have ever been, but I don’t think many people would consider me fat. I developed an inflamed nerve in my hip in summer, and it kept getting worse to the point that I couldn’t make a short grocery shopping trip without being in severe pain and having to lean up against a wall to take the weight off my leg.
Combine that with my work’s travel budget being severely cut and I have been essentially idle for five months. I have fat around my belly that I’ve never had before. Luckilly, I have finally gotten a shot of steroids into the area and that has really relieved the pain. I am finding it very hard to get active again - just walking my dog a few miles a day has caused my shins to ache.
I can really sympathise with very overweight people who are trying to take up an exercise routine. It hurts to get started.
yep
I only weigh 145 lbs (well 140 now) and by most accounts I would be skinny. But in my opinion, I’m fat and it’s gross.
I’m slightly on the low end of average, I think (around 5 ft and 115 pounds) but I’ve definitely been in better shape than I am now. I feel at my best when I’m around 110. My weight never fluctuates too much but not working out for the past half year has definitely had an effect on my waistline. :eek:
Nope. Male, about 5’8", 125 lbs.
Yes, a bit. 190cm and 108kg.
Well, I’m 5’4 and 163lbs.
But, you know, I’m seven months pregnant, so probably not.