Tall Twins- Find people with similar stats :)

So there's already a forum started to find a CC twin... which happens to be 88 pages long with over a thousand posts and most of the people on there are between 5 feet and 5'7... so it got kind of annoying looking through so I decided to make one specifically for tall people to find their "twin" (i.e: someone with similar stats to be a buddy along your weightloss journey).  So just post a reply with your gender, age, height, current weight, goal weight, and frame size and maybe we can get some matches.  I'll start:

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Height: 6'1"

Current Weight: 162.. down from 170 when I started this a month ago, down from 237 5 years ago... eek!

Goal Weight: 150... I'm not entirely sure yet, I need to see what looks best, but probably in the range of 145-155 maybe.

Frame: Medium

Now let's find some twins :)

28 | Female | 5'11"

sw: 228

cw: 219

lw: 150

gw: 150 - 160

I think tall women have longer fingers than average so the wrist test doesn't work so well.  I don't think I have a small frame.  My wrist measures under 6" though.  i have a muscular build and once I start working out, the fat melts away pretty easily.  I am staggering my calories to avoid plateaus and it has been incredibly successful.  I range from 1200 to 2000 calories throughout the week and work out 4-5 times.  Would be great to find a twin!

Gender: Female

Age: 21
Height:5'4

Current Weight: 138

Goal Weight:110

Frame: I think small or medium, idk

Is there anyone my height bet. 110 lbs and my weight??

Gender: Female

Age: 32

Height: 5'8"

Current weight: 205

Goal weight: 150

Frame: Large (stretched and stretched and couldn't get my fingers to reach around my wrists!)

Gender: Female

Age: 33

Frame: Small (also have very long fingers)

Height: 5'11"

SW: 175

CW: 169

GW: 155

Gender: Female

Age: 24

Height: 6'1"

Frame: Med-Large

SW: 328

CW: 270

GW:182

Dizzzy:

well, i did have surgery but not for anything major. i actually got a couplf of new additions. lol. so they are whats new. ive been sucking at my diet or at anything! no working out because im not allowed to yet and eating kinda crappy or not eating enough. did anyone know that pain pills really can do a number on your tummy!? well for crying out loud, i didnt know! so ive been having, um, issues with it. and it sucks. i hope to get it all figured out now that im off of the major pain pills!

i bet the 5 pounds will come off easy! atleast im hoping! im right there with you, only mine is 6 pounds and 7 pounds and even 7.5 one day! lol. but im really glad that your going to try to stay at 1200. its like youll be doing that zigzagging thing that i hear is really good. keep your body guess...but just not pre-planned!

im glad you had fun with your family though! good luck with school now that your back :)

jess:

congrats on the surgery!! yeah, pain pills are awful for ur stomach and can make u get sick.. i know when i was in the hospital a few years ago, id throw up when they gave me morphine :(  i hope u feel better!  i lost the 5 pounds, and possibly another pound, but im not really sure cuz its that time of the month, so i woke up one morning being 158.2 (i was so happy!) and then the next being 159.2 even though i ate really healthy all day.. so im hoping in a few days i'll magically just lose like 2 pounds over night haha.  my diet is kinda zigzagged.. monday and tuesday i stick really well to getting between 1250 and 1300, but then yesterday, i just couldnt manage to do it and got 1100 and something... today so far seems like its even lower... so im eating ramen for dinner haha.  when i get tummy cramps, i usually have food cravings, but i dont feel hungry at all so i tend to just eat small portions of random stuff all day.  i guess its ok for my diet cuz im definitely under on calories, but its not necessarily healthy food... at least my chocolate cravings get fixed with hershey's special dark 60 calorie bars... they're my life saver!

oh, and i have a new favorite food!  Ruffles now makes light chips that are made with olestra... im not sure if olestra is really good for ur body, but they only have 70 calories and 0g fat per oz, vs regular ruffles with 160 calories and 10 grams of fat... plus they taste so good!  a tiny bit less greasy, but otherwise taste the same.  just thought id share :)

Dizzzy:

congrats :) doesnt that time of the month SUCK!? i know i want doritos usually and i cant even try to talk my mind into making them seem gross. maybe ill try harder next time....i watched that show on TLC with the dude named paul something about how thin people stay that way and he teaches you how to train your mind into thinking something tastes nasty. its funny. but it was a pretty interesting show. i liked his ideas.

i have NO idea about the olestra BUT im really excited to try these new fancy ruffles! i think ill go buy some when i get back (im going out of town this weekend, arizona here i come!). ill let you know how i like them! im sure ill talk myself into thinking they are delish, even if they arent. lol. esp since they are only 70 calories!

Jess:

They do taste soooo good.. if u put them in a bowl next to real ones, the only difference id note is the greasiness of the original ones.. plus the fact that id gain like 5lbs from eating them haha.  oh and ive gotten to the point where im trying to figure out what my actual goal weight should be since im getting close.. i took a pic (thats in my gallery) in my bathing suit, since my goal is to reach whatever goal i have before i actually have to wear it lol.  i was wondering if u could look and tell me approximately how much more u think i should lose to reach a goal...  i figured ud be the best person to ask since ur almost as tall as me and know that it takes twice as much weight loss on a tall person than on a short person to be noticeable lol.

I think its entirely true that u can pretty much train ur taste buds.  when i was younger, i would only eat cucumber salads and didn't like lettuce or anything else in salads... same with sandwiches, it was always just meat and cheese. i started trying to force myself to like other stuff in my salads, and now i dont know what id do without other things besides cucumbers lol.  my sandwiches on the other hand... they remain meat and cheese haha.  well usually, ill put a piece of lettuce with turkey on whole wheat, but other than that, nope lol.

Hi Laurabow -

We're very close in stats!

SW - 301

CW - 297 (you've got the jump on me here!)

GW - 175

Height - 6'0"

Dizzzy:

OMG! i think you look Perfect! you should even be a model at this point. im not even kidding you. you have a really good shape and your legs look good. i think you could even go into maintenence (horrible spelling, wow. lol) mode now if you really wanted to. but i think your doing good with what your eating now, you have such a busy life over there its kinda like what else could you do!

you need to walk by a modeling agency window....they will coming running out when you walk by, tripping all over themself. no freakin kidding! do it! at 6'1 they will be begging you to come work for them.

oh, i still havent gone to the store to get the chips. but i keep thinking about them! same great taste, no icky shiny greasy nastiness. lol. if im not busy today, ill go get some. ive been on this yogurt kick, i has was less dairy in it then any other dairy product so it doesnt make me sick...but i think its helping me get back to my weight before surgery. its so weird to me that you can gain this much from anesthesia (sp again! lol) and pain pills. stupid pain pills!

Gender: F

Age: 29

Height: 5'11''

CW: 229

GW: 180 for now :) Once I get there I'll see how I feel.

Frame: Medium

Can I just say- I've seen a couple 5'10"ers on here with 120s/130s goals...dudes, that will put you in the 18.5-19.5 BMI range! Just be careful, eh? track your body fat % and make sure that you stay healthy! And take calcium! (I so sound like my mom...)

Age: 30

Height:  5'10"

Frame: Medium

SW: 188

CW: 159

GW: 155

Good luck tall ladies!

Age: 29 - Female

Height: 6'0"

Frame: Small/Medium ( I think I just have long fingers..LOL)

SW: 170

CW: 164

GW: 145-150

Yeah for all the tall ladies!

Jess:

Thanks so much, u just completely made my day :)  Ive actually recently decided that I might want to try doing some sort of small modelling jobs... like every time I see America's Next Top Model, I'm like "I could so do that."  Actually its my boyfriend and his mom that have gotten to me.  He has a picture of me as his background and his mom just decided that it looked like a modelling picture and threatened to mail an application for me if I didn't agree to give it a shot at some point lol.  Everytime I watch tv with my bf and see any sort of modelling show, he tells me I should go for it.  There are only a few things holding me back... first, models are anorexically thin. I've looked at some modelling websites that say they want girls between 5'10 and 6'0 and 130-140 pounds (depending on height, depending on the website), which puts me at 16 pounds overweight lol.  The other thing is that most of the clothes they were are size 0-2, sometimes 4 at the most... I just got into my first size 7 over the weekend, so thats never happening... I'm cursed/blessed with too curvy of hips lol.  I still decided that I'd give it a shot at some point, maybe this summer, if I can get into better shape.  I think I want to lose about 10 more pounds, then gain a few back in muscle so that I'm 150, but at least a little toned.  Right now I'm quite jiggly.. excess skin sucks!  Also I've got some really horrible stretch marks on my stomach and hips since I used to be so much heavier... is there some way to cover them up?  I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but I have considered it if I can get into better shape.. well at least look into it anyway lol. 

Oh, and I had more chips today!  I love them because I feel like I'm indulging, but I'm really not.  Like for lunch, I had a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread, with mixed vegetables and chips... all for about 300 or so calories.. it was great :)

Heyyy! Quite unhappy with the bod these days so I'm looking to change that :) lol

Gender- Female

Age- 19

Height- 5'9.5" :) ..... jeeze i think i'm the shortest tall girl here!

Frame-Medium

SW-170ish

CW-164ish

GW-145

Dizzzy:

i really think you should try it! you have such a pretty face and the perfect height for it and a good shape even if you dont think so! you've got some curves and your waist is tiny. designers would love that, way better then straight up and down looking like a boy. i left you a comment on your other post about little not full on work outs to tone and i think that will help.

about the stretch marks, everyone has them! thats why spray tans are for, lol. they hid them like nobodys business! lol. oh and i know people think its a myth, but cocoa butter will help. my mom used it her whole pregnancy and she NEVER GOT A SINGLE ONE, she was a size 0-2 when she got prego the first time. she still doesnt have any, the lucky punk. anyway, ive been told it helps for people that have them. and theres this stuff named Jafra that sells 'royal jelly' and that helps scars heal and fades stretch marks. ive heard it works wonders. just a couple of the little things ive found here and there.

oh! im excited! you HAVE to try it. youd be perfect. i hear its hard at first but i think theyd jump on top of it....and you seem to have such a good head on your shoulders that you will do fine in that aspect. yay!

random:

you arent the shortest! i think i am :( either way, welcome! we are very very similar. pretty much the same start weight and same current and maybe one day same goal weight....but short term mine is 150. oh, and im 23 so slightly slower metabolism.....i think? either way,

good luck!

that was a ton of info... modelling, toning, stretch marks.. haha.  all very helpful tho, so thank u :)  i feel like i pretty much come on the message boards morning and night just to check for messages from u lol.  although i told my mom and she kinda yelled at me, saying i was going to be unhealthily underweight, i was thinking about losing about ten more pounds and trying to gain back a few in muscle from toning.. id still end up at 150, but have a few pounds of muscles which would hopefully tighten up my whole body.  idk, its too complicated figuring it all out.. haha.  i looked into modelling stuff online and most of them give their maximum measurements, but im not entirely sure where im supposed to measure exactly.  like im pretty sure my hip measurements are probably over their limit :(  some websites had several models that were a size 6 which gave me some hope, with a very few that were 8, and im 7/8 right now, so hopefully i can get down just a teeny tiny bit more lol.

oh and im jealous of how tiny ur mom is!  she was a 0-2?  thats ridiculous.. i hope she isnt that tiny and very tall lol.  my mom used to be tiny too because she had a thyroid problem, but when she had my youngest brother (her 4th), her thyroid went entirely out of whack.  she went from being 5'7 and 100 pounds at 18, to 124 when she was 24 and got married, then had my youngest brother at 34 and i have no idea what it is now, but i feel bad :( shes on a diet too and doing pretty well, but shes really stuck.  she also has celiac's disease which is an allergy to any food with gluten in it (which is most of them lol) so she has a hard time sticking to diets because the special gluten free food is super high in carbs and fat..

anywayyyy... i think im gonna go check ur other post and try some of those toning exercises and edit 2 of my papers before my next class haha.