A lot of people carry extra weight and still have a positive personal body image. A 5’ 5" lady might be very comfortable with her appearance at 175lbs. But she’ll go on a diet at 200lbs.
What makes you decide it’s time to start a diet or exercise more? A certain weight gain or your biggest clothes not fitting anymore?
I’m 6’ 2" and my weight fluctuates between 220lbs and 190lbs. I’m at my heaviest in the winter. Spring comes and I start gardening and riding my bike. I always drop to 205lbs just with the increased outdoor activity.
Right now I’m dieting and hitting the gym. I’m getting ready for a three week backpacking trip. I want to be around 200lbs when I leave. I’ll drop weight backpacking and eating dehydrated food (plus any fish that I catch). Probably will be around 188-190lbs when I get back. That’s not a goal. But hiking takes its toll on the body. One year I came back exhausted from a tough hike in the mountains and weighed only 175lbs. I’m not thirty anymore and won’t do that again.
When you apply for a passport and have to put down ‘327 pounds’ for weight; that’s what did it for me.
I’m not even sure what I’d consider my normal weight, as I’ve been on the overweight side ever since childhood. I’ve never really stopped calorie counting and pushing myself to exercise more; I suppose if I noticed that I’d gained 10 pounds over my usual plateau that would be enough to get me to go apeshit on it for a while.
Well, when I start avoiding the scale like I am now, that’s never a good sign. All I know is I’ve ALWAYS been a size 4 or 6, but now I’m a 12 I don’t even know what my problem is really. Stupid skinny ex took me out to eat and drink way too much, and I’ve been so stressed out and irritated lately that I kept rewarding myself with food for not killing anyone at work. Oh, and plus now my kid can go to the store by herself, and she buys a lot of junk, so it’s in the house.
Anyway, it ends now! Or two days ago, rather. Trying to do my patented eat-once-a-day diet, and nobody tell me that doesn’t work, because it does for me. I have weird eating habits. I can go alllll day without eating without too much trouble. Like right now I’m at work and haven’t eaten anything since last night and not going to until after I get off at 7pm. I could easily eat here, but I like to eat in peace, so I’m waiting.
Ugh, my license says I’m 115, which I WAS when I got it, and now every time I have to show it I’m embarrassed, thinking they must think I’m just a really stupid liar.
You know what would work even better? Doing a eat-zero-times-a-day-diet. Why are you making this harder than it needs to be? Cut out all those damn calories!
Well, the answer you probably want to hear is that I start to feel fat at 160 (I am currently 185), but the truth is, the only thing that REALLY inspired me to improve my nutrition and to exercise - for good - was the constant aches and pains and knowing it was my fault. The pain and the symptoms of pre-diabetes and the general malaise and my overall quality of life, and realizing it would only get worse if I didn’t get off my ass and do something about it.
I don’t really care about weight any more, TBH. I would like to slim down and put on some muscle, but I’m pretty comfortable with my body at this point in my life, and I definitely prefer fitness over ‘‘weight’’ loss.
I tried that, I was going to do a juice fast, but then psycho ex insisted on going out drinking the very first night (being that it was a day that ended in ‘y’ and all) so I thought okay, vodka and orange juice is close enough to juice. But then it turned out the bar also sold pizza and when I came back from the bathroom, he had gotten me some pizza and it all went downhill from there.
No juice! It’s nothing but sugar! Sugar means flab! Flab means no sexy! You need to start a strict diet of water. Preferably warm. A gallon of warm water a day, that’s it. You’ll be a little hottie in no time! Good luck.
For me, I think it’s based on habits. My default lifestyle is fairly healthy- reasonable meals with whole foods, daily walks of at least a mile, and two or three days at the gym a week. But that starts slipping now and then due to holidays, weather, laziness, illness, etc. Eventually my clothes start getting tighter and I realize I need to start getting back to good habits.
For me it didn’t really have to do with hitting a certain weight. It was finally finding some relief from the deep well of depression I fell into after my father passed away. I knew I was putting on a lot of weight, but I just couldn’t do anything about it. Heck, for a while there it was all I could do get out of bed to drive my kid to school. About a year and a half ago, I woke up. Like coming out of a dream. I began to feel better mentally and set about trying to feel better physically. Since then I’ve lost about 75 lbs. I am where I was before my father died. I’m still about 25 lbs over weight (what I’ve been most of my adult life), but I’m working on it.
I wish you had told me this BEFORE my daughter the saboteur just bought us 2 bags of chocolate eggs. Damn her. I keep telling her to just buy stuff she likes but I don’t.
For me, I got into an exercise regimin (HIIT 2-3x a week) because I didn’t have the energy to play with my brother’s kids. Now I have more stamina, it had nothing to do with losing weight (and I haven’t).
I do also try to eat various health supplements for the same reason (stave off chronic disease, give me more energy) and I haven’t lost weight from those either.
When I do try to lose weight it is because my pants don’t fit. The benefits of eating healthy (or healthier to whatever degree you can) and exercising shouldn’t be restricted to using those tools as vehicles for weight loss. The benefits to health, stamina, mood, self esteem, etc. are independent of weight.
I’m 192cm and weight 100kg. The doc isn’t pushing me to loose weight but to pick up my fitness by doing more exercise to help control my high blood pressure.
Problem is driving 45 minutes each way to work and home and then sitting on my arse all day at work it’s hard to get motivated to hit the gym.
This method is always a good one for blokes to work out if they’re carry a bit of extra weight. Stand up straight while naked and then look down. If you can’t see your penis, you’re overweight.
I don’t even know what my problem is really. Stupid skinny ex took me out to eat and drink way too much, and I’ve been so stressed out and irritated lately that I kept rewarding myself with food for not killing anyone at work. Oh, and plus now my kid can go to the store by herself, and she buys a lot of junk, so it’s in the house.