Posts by unicornfeathers

My sister is naturally very thin! I'm kind of jealous she got those genes and I didn't, but she's had to "deal with it" in her own ways throughout her whole life. A few times, old ladies, strangers, would try to buy her food/give her food!!! She can eat a mountain of food day after day and gain nothing except some extra trips to the bathroom.

Only 2 times she's successfully gained weight. One was strangely, when she spent a semester abroad in Namibia, Africa. She thinks it was because they add a lot of lard to this porridge stuff they eat over there. Also, she was eating a lot of sand. The other time was when she was pregnant. She LOVED finally having some booty, but 2 months after the delivery, there was NOTHING she could do to keep the weight on, no matter how much she ate.

My aunt's the same way. Unfortunately, I have to watch each bite, or I could easily end up a fatty fatty fat fat.

Edit: My aunt is about 50 years old now, with 2 teenage kids. Still tiny. It never caught up to her!

I just got Jari Love's GET RIPPED, and it kicks my butt!

It seems like a ton of us have really similar stats! This will be awesome because we'll be able to relate pretty well.

Alice- isn't it funny how most coworkers are totally unsupportive if you only need to lose just a little bit of weight? It's like health concerns aren't valid until you get obese. Yesterday I had a coworker say to me, "You're starting to look too skinny. Start eating more, you need to gain some weight so I look skinnier."

And then I found out she just joined weight watchers! Well, good for her! Anyone else have any stories?

For me, it was 1) Being completely sedentary from a back injury for 4 years. 2) Eating out a lot and polishing off the pasta alfredo dish EVERY TIME. 3) Fast food, secret eating in my car.

I'm 5'4", 140 lbs, small frame with 15" calves. I have teeny ankles, but hey I think my calves look superb. I mean, I still have about 10ish lbs to lose, but everything is decently proportioned. I'm down about 12 lbs, and on my lower legs, it looks like I've only lost fat in the area between the bottom of the calf muscle and the ankle. 15"-16" on 5'4" is probably pretty average, especially w/ a medium frame! Put on some heels in front of the mirror, see if you feel any better!

Hey, I'm 5'4", 141 lbs, 22 years old. Pretty comparable! I wear 8/10 in pants, but closer to a 10, 8 is still kind of tight on me. I carry a lot of weight in the booty-area, though. As for tops and dresses, I go size 8 or medium pretty consistently, sometimes a 6, sometimes a 10, depending what's on the clearance rack and how much I like the shirt. Ha! I can't do a small size shirt yet, unless it's running big, quiiite yet. Still too tight.

I bet you are pretty lean if you can fit into a 7/8 and small shirt at 145 lbs! Just remember, "correct weight" is all relative. If you're super fit and you like what you see in the mirror, who cares what the scale says.

Thanks for all the replies! I absolutely agree he needs to prioritize food better...I try not to nag so much as just say I'm worried about him and ask what I can do to help him eat on the go. Haha, unfortunately, the money ISN'T great, but I suppose it will be eventually. He's going to school to become an airplane mechanic during the day, which will eventually pay off. But at night he works his butt off at a restaurant because unfortunately, I can't pay all the bills working full time.

GRANOLA! Perfect idea! He likes granola, so I bet I could convince him to do that. I already switched him to whole milk, too.

I made up a couple frozen dinners & added oil and shredded cheese to them. Hopefully that will up the cals at least a little bit. I have a tough time upping the amount because he has a hard time eating a lot of volume in the short period of time he has to eat. Maybe I can convince him to "train" and stretch his gut a little more.

I've thought about those athletic food bars, but they seem to be pretty expensive. Does anyone know of any places where I can buy them for cheaper? Coupons, etc?

Ah, my victory? I have two for today.

One, I jumped back into working out after 6 full days of no exercise due to life-junk (flu, anxiety, TTOM, sorest muscles ever, etc) I wasn't sure if I was supposed to work out, as I'm not quite over the illness, but I easily could have taken that 6 day break and turned it into a 6 month break. I even did HIIT for 20 minutes. Woot! Go me.

Two, I said no to butter.

I have this AWFUL picture of me at my highest weight that my husband took...It's thanksgiving day or something, I'm hunched over chopping onions, I'm in a too-tight t-shirt with a wet spot on the belly from washing dishes, shorts with a too-tight waistband, tummy over the top, oily hair, and to to give the picture its terrible crowning glory, I'm wearing children's neon green & blue swim goggles to keep myself from crying while chopping onions... Worst picture ever.

EDIT: I just looked at the picture, and the wet spot is on one of my breasts, even worse.

I'm no expert, but my advice is to be consistent. If you do midnight snacking often, I'd say pick either tonight or tomorrow and stick to it. I find it easier to base "days" on when I wake up to when I go to bed. As long as you keep it the same, everything should round out, right?

I'm 22 years old, 142ish lbs (was 152, woo hoo go me!) , 5'3.5" with a small frame. I've been stuck hovering between 142.8 and 143.4 for almost a week, when I had been dropping about 1.5-2 lbs per week. I think my BMR is something around 1500, but the whole BMR thing is kind of confusing.

I am really thinking about adding weights, but I'm shy because I'm clueless about it and the machines in the fitness room of my apt complex are intimidating and possibly broken/missing parts (but I wouldn't know ha!)

On my machine cardio, I usually do the "hill interval" or "weight loss" preset workouts that automatically change up the resistance. Does that count as steady pace? During the easy low resistance parts, I feel like "ah, okay" and on the high resistance segments, I think "Ho'boy, here comes." I kinda huff & puff and wonder when it will get easy again. I'll have to check out the fitness forums tonight and see if I can learn something new.

I've heard of zig-zagging, but I haven't buckled down and done it because my schedule sets me eating veerrry similar things every day. The variable of course is always dinner, but I feel like junk eating a buttload at night. It reminds me of my poor eating habits before. Any tips?

(BTW, thanks for the great tips so far!!!!! I'm feeling excited to kick this "plateau" in the butt and get moving again!!!)

Original Post by raynsong:

you can go up or down 2 pounds a day just by eating a little more or less salt. Point eight is nothing to get all worked up about. Try going pee.

 I about busted a gut when I read that! "Try going pee." Know what's funny? When I weigh in, I make sure it's after a bathroom break...to give myself that extra edge. LOL