Posts by faeriesight

Stuffed tomatoes... interestingly enough that's what I had for dinner. Tuna Tomato Cups to be exact. Scoop out a medium tomato, and stuff it with tuna salad (chunk light tuna, reduced fat mayo, sweet relish (sugar or sugar free), garlic salt). Serve greens on the side, I like a berry vinaigrette for dressing. Salad can be spruced up easily, try different veggies, like zucchini, peas, broccoli, oh anything veggie pretty much. almonds and dried cherries go good too but they're a bit more expensive. Tomatoes are also good stuffed with cottage cheese. Hope this helps

smfarver78 is right. It all depends on muscle mass and fat distribution. For instance, I am 5 ft. 8 in. and 162 pounds with a medium frame, and wear sizes 10 and 11. Losing 5 pounds would drop me an entire size, gaining 5 puts me at the lower end of a 12 and 13. A lot of my weight is dense muscle in my legs, but I do not have as much tone in the hip and midsection, so my size can fluctuate easier than someone who is more muscular in these areas. My top size stays pretty consistent since my 36DD breasts are determined to stay put (which some days I thank them for and others I curse them). Most medium tops just will not go over them unless they have some stretch in that area. I tend to feel a bit obliged to stay at the high end of healthy weight because I am afraid of looking off-balance by being too topheavy. Back to the point, not every woman who is a particular height, weight, and frame are going to be the same size.  I am the same as you in that my goal was a certain size, not weight. Since you are large framed, a size 12 might be easier to attain, but a 10 probably would not be unrealistic. My mother is a large boned person who is 5 ft. 10 in. and she looks like she is slightly ill at a 12, and looks like a skeleton at a 10, so everybody is different. Do what makes you happy.

mine was .73, which is low risk. However, the site seems to imply that women only come in two shapes, apple or pear. They completely forget women have a bust, which figures into shape and weight. You cannot really call a 39-29-39.5 inch figure a pear... Some women also have that slim boyish figure, while others like me are hourglasses, and yet others are boxy. I do not think their little calculator can be accurate for all body types with how limited their criteria are.

That drives me crazy! (I know, short trip...) While I tend to fragment sentences when posting online, I at least take the time to spell things properly! Seriously, the little posting box on this website even has spellcheck! I occasionally do not know how to spell a word, but in that case I use spellcheck or look it up. I guess people no longer care how they write. Even I make a type-o once in a while, but I agree that the consistent use of a grossly misused or misspelled word is annoying and appears unintelligent, whether that person is or not. This applies to those who speak foreign languages as well. Spellcheck is your friend!(It is not 100% accurate but it is an improvement over some of the word-garbage I have seen posted here.)

on most days i eat 4 meals which are around 300 calories, give or take 50. Everyone on here seems to consider those "mini-meals" but i dont really get it because they take up a whole dinner plate... maybe i eat differently than most people. I eat a lot of veggies and rice and lean meats these days. I also have a 75 calorie (give or take 50 again) snack a few hours after my first 2 or 3 meals, depending on when I had breakfast usually. so, about 7 times a day all together, evenly spaced. Just as i begin to get hungry, it's time to eat again. I get low blood sugar easily, (no, i am not diabetic) so eating this way makes it easier to manage. Before, i used to eat about two to three times a day, a lot of sugars and caffeine, and nearly every day i would have a hypoglycemic episode. I got overweight from eating too much when my glucose levels dropped, and because by the time i stopped to eat I was ravenous. Another issue is that i love food, and i am a creature of the senses... how things feel, taste, smell, and look are highly important to me. Add the holiday season on to that, and it's a recipe for disaster. I'm slowly getting the weight off, about half a pound a week, 7 pounds so far! It's good to see i'm not the only one who eats all the time. I often feel like I am eating too much, but i manage to easily stay in my calorie range, and i keep losing weight, albeit slowly so i guess its ok.

Ok, i'm not going to tell you what you should look like. That is up to you. I do think you should know that the photograph of that girl is very airbrushed, and to attain that level of "fitness" and still have full and presumably soft breasts like hers, implants are required, because exercising that much reduces overall bodyfat to nearly nothing, and guess what those are made of? :) Being fit is a good thing, but maybe you could strike a balance between what your boyfriend thinks is attractive (and on some levels i agree with him) and what that fitness model looks like. If you look at that photograph carefully, you will notice her pose and clothing give her a more feminine appearance, however her hips are narrow in proportion to her waistline despite the camera tricks. You can work out, and get toned without losing your curves, but not to the extreme the model you like has done. She's obviously healthy, but there are a good number of people who would not find her attractive. That's my two cents for the day, take it or leave it.

On the other hand, corn chips, are NOT a vegetable. Oh, and fresh or frozen vegetables tend to have less calories and sodium per volume, as they are not processed like canned veggies. Thought i'd add two more cents lol.