Posts by queen_jannine

Original Post by sarahnovak:

Nicole Ritchie was so unappealing that my roommate in college (a guy) seeing as I and the other three girls he lived with were losing weight continuously, placed a picture of her on the fridge and told us "EAT MORE!". I felt bad for the poor girl, after all, god knows what she was going through, but in the picture she looked so sickly that we ALL ATE MORE. But every time he saw Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Connelli, he drooled.

Yep, the whole thing comes down to the statistical drop at BMI 18: it's a much thinner line (pardon the pun) between attractive and emaciated than between attractive and fat. Let's say the "perfect" sexy BMI is 20. A guy finds that BMI most attractive above all others, but if he has to choose between a BMI 16 and a BMI 24 (both of which are 4 points away from "perfect"), he will find the 24 more attractive. (Or less unattractive, depends on how you look at it...) So even though the difference between Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Richie is probably a measly 15 pounds, guys feel dramatically different about them.

So, enough statistical rambling, the moral of the story is that anytime you're "perfect", you're a mere 10-15 pounds away from being unattractively thin. It's a really fine line. In other words, guys would rather do chubby than anorexic, but their "ideal" is closer to anorexia than to overweight.

Yeah, I know, right? I get confused by the "curves" euphemism too. You know the classic 36-24-36, well that's a very curvy hourglass, but usually when you hear "curves" nowadays it's a big girl doing some self-affirmation. And her measurements will be something like 42-38-42 which is rather refrigerator-shaped, I mean, she will literally be a straight up-and-down column of excess fat, but she will swear she is "curvy".

Someone on this thread said "You never hear a guy say 'nice ribs' or 'what lovely bones' about a woman," and I laughed because my grandfather used to quip the exact same thing. He was fat and Grandma was fat and he liked it that way, LOL But I always replied that you never hear a guy say "what lovely rolls of fat" or "nice cellulite" either.

I lived in Miami too (pretty much my whole life), don't exaggerate, they prefer their women to weigh maybe 5-10 lbs. more than the college-kid preference, and mainly in the butt and hips. We're not exactly talking BBW here.

"Vanity pounds"... lol... is that what they're called... I don't think "the last 5" should be scorned as much as it is, I mean, why should we be content with just being at a "healthy weight"... I think everyone deserves the exact body of their dreams if it's possible for them!

You're starting college, congrats! Just be careful... the Freshman 15 is no myth... cold pizza for breakfast, anyone? :-P I hope you're not gonna be living in a dorm! Cutting down on alcohol is the hardest part of dieting, I know. Sometimes it feels like, "Eh, screw it, I'd rather be drunk and fat than thin and sober." LOL  P.S. Nice waist-hip ratio.

I'm 24, but if you tell me I'm too old I'll just go crawl off into a corner and die. :-(

I'm 5'7.5", 128 lbs., BMI 19.7 and at this weight I wear a size 3/4 in most brands of American jeans. If I knock off 5 pounds (123 lbs., BMI 19), I'm a size 1/2 in most jeans. My hips are somewhere around 37 inches right now, for reference.