How tall are you and what is your goal weight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really bothers me when people tell someone who is thin that it is unhealthy. I am 5'11" and have a very small build. I always ate plenty although I was never one to eat a whole bag of chips or carton of ice cream. In my 20's, I was around 125. Unfortunately, time has caught up with me and at 58, I am around 165 which is too heavy for my build even though my BMI is fine (BMI is one indicator, not the whole story). I am working to get back to 150 which is where I feel I look my best. I weigh more now than I did when pregnant!!

People have very different builds.
I am the pp who is 5'10" and I would look fairly average to thin at 165, but I have really large build. Even when I weighed a very skinny 130, when younger, I could never wear anything below a size 10. Can see where another with a slight build would look much heavier at that weight. The doctor used to ask my mom if she fed me concrete, because I was so skinny yet weighed so much as a child. Hope to get down to 180, where I will still be overweight, but look just slightly overweight for my build; would love to get down in 165, but for my age it's going to be slow going.

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'1 or 5'2" and want to weigh 125. 5 more pounds to go! I'm always going to have a big butt and thighs (and I like that, and I'm pretty strong at squats and similar exercises and can hike really well) but that's a weight where I feel good.

For me, exercise is not the primary determinant of my weight--I've weighed very little when exercising very little, weighed a lot and run regularly, and vice versa. I still exercise, but more for muscle development and cardiovascular health and because going to the gym makes me feel happier and gives me something to do.

For me, what helps is:

* drinking lots of water and tea (some coffee and diet soda too, I'm not a saint)
* stopping snacking before 10pm and not eating breakfast until 10am
* lots of fruit and veg for snacks, and bringing healthy snacks to work so I don't go to the CVS and buy chips
* a good amount of protein, including some meat and meat substitutes like soy and seitan, plus eggs and nuts and beans
* AVOIDING RESTAURANT FOOD. I am better off buying some treats at the grocery store (and not bringing home stuff I can't trust myself to be reasonable with) and cooking a mixture of healthy and less healthy items than I am going out to eat. The portions are huge, I have limited impulse control, and even things like salads have a lot of fat and salt at restaurants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’6.5” and my goal weight is 150. I am a comfortable size 6 and my boobs still have a little meat in them. Currently I weigh 205. Down from 235. I’m sooooo close to the 100s I can taste it.

You are a size 6 at 205?

No. That pp was saying that when she reaches 150 she's a size 6.

Ahh, got it. But that is still probably an 8 or 10.

[Anonymous]

I'm 5'8" and weigh 125 today, though I'm usually around 128. I am happiest at 125-130.

I'd like to be in better shape, so if that means the number on my scale goes up, but my size goes down, I'd be fine with that. I am not in good shape at all, so I look fairly flabby at my current weight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’6.5” and my goal weight is 150. I am a comfortable size 6 and my boobs still have a little meat in them. Currently I weigh 205. Down from 235. I’m sooooo close to the 100s I can taste it.

You are a size 6 at 205?

No. That pp was saying that when she reaches 150 she's a size 6.

Ahh, got it. But that is still probably an 8 or 10.

Depending on body type and store, I agree.

At 5'8" and 130 pounds, I am a 4-6 in most of my regular stores and styles of clothing, a solid 8-10 in jeans, a solid 10 in shorts, and a 12-14 at "cheap" stores like H&M. It's weird how different sizes can be on different people and in different stores.

Even when I was 105-110 pounds, I was still a size 4-6 because even then, I had 36-inch hips and a 36-inch bust.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What makes you think we are more resilient/strong than out mothers, grandmothers? I don't think this is the case with me at all. My grandma was born in 1910, ate food they grew back in Europe, worked in the garden and with animals, took food to the fields if she wasn't working. Had to make the fire first for many decades and cooked for a large family. My mom is not healthy so much right now, but post WWII child, survived being preemie, worked out of school till retirement, put up with above mentioned grandma....her MIL, still cleaned and cooked after 8 hours work. Opened her own business, took insane care of my dad her husband when he was sick and immobile. How are we stronger than them in any aspect? My grandma survived two wars and had three kids during WWII and raised them while being a peasant. Are you rich?

My MIL did all of this but she's tiny due to ricketts (childhood spent eating potato peels in a Soviet labor camp). She's no doubt mentally stronger than me, but her bones are not.

My grandmother grew up in Japan during WW2. She had all kinds of lingering health complications from nutritional deficiencies from childhood that were brought into old age. She was certainly a mentally strong woman and even quite athletic (a really talented tennis player) but we definitely have much better access to nutrition now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really bothers me when people tell someone who is thin that it is unhealthy. I am 5'11" and have a very small build. I always ate plenty although I was never one to eat a whole bag of chips or carton of ice cream. In my 20's, I was around 125. Unfortunately, time has caught up with me and at 58, I am around 165 which is too heavy for my build even though my BMI is fine (BMI is one indicator, not the whole story). I am working to get back to 150 which is where I feel I look my best. I weigh more now than I did when pregnant!!

People have very different builds.
I am the pp who is 5'10" and I would look fairly average to thin at 165, but I have really large build. Even when I weighed a very skinny 130, when younger, I could never wear anything below a size 10. Can see where another with a slight build would look much heavier at that weight. The doctor used to ask my mom if she fed me concrete, because I was so skinny yet weighed so much as a child. Hope to get down to 180, where I will still be overweight, but look just slightly overweight for my build; would love to get down in 165, but for my age it's going to be slow going.

This is what I am saying, you have to take your build into account. I was 5'11" at 13 and weighed between 100 and 110, my jeans were 23" waist, 36" length. There are some that are naturally very thin and I don't think it should be automatically assumed that an eating disorder is involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5’8”, and at this point in my life, 160 would make me incredibly happy!

5'7 I'd be OK with 160 and happy at 150. My eternal goal weight is 140ish, but I am not willing to sacrifice to get there so I try to stay between 150-160 and just deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Am I too late to chime in about old movies?

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/weight-loss-advice-1930s-eat-less-exercise/

Note the 90s body they are referring to is the 1890s not Kate Moss.

Anyone try a perpendicular diet?

https://newrepublic.com/article/133751/depression-eras-magic-bullet-weight-loss

Magic bullet for weight loss: a diet pill that LITERALLY blows you up and is used as a pesticide! Don’t worry about those skin lesions and cancer, you lost 10 lbs!

Oh, and amphetimines... nothing like SPEED to help speed up your metabolism... a favorite of Katherine Hepburn.

And smoking... Virginia Slim for weight control.. don’t eat, smoke!
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Nutrition was different, food availability, trends and additives are different. But don’t compare today’s health trends to yesteryear...

I’m sure I’d be a size 0 if all I ate was grapefruit took speed and smoked a pack a day. Super healthy!

In 10 years we will all look back at Keto and laugh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5’8”, and at this point in my life, 160 would make me incredibly happy!

5'7 I'd be OK with 160 and happy at 150. My eternal goal weight is 140ish, but I am not willing to sacrifice to get there so I try to stay between 150-160 and just deal with it.

Same. I'm an athlete and wear a size 6-8 at that weight.

[Anonymous]

5 6. 155 lbs. Now 170.
Tough- on beta blockers. I have about 15 more llbs to go.

[Anonymous]

5’3 AND A HALF. I want to be 125, would settle for 130. Haven’t been there since before getting pregnant Kid #2 and #3 is almost one, but I’m losing 1.5 lbs/wk and just fit into my pre-#3 jeans!

[Anonymous]

I am 5'7. I weigh the same as I did pre-kids, and I have 3. I weigh around 154. I'd like to lost about 5-10 lbs, but Im' pretty happy with my body. It is strong, it does what I need it to do, and I can wear all my clothes, so no big complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I too late to chime in about old movies?

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/weight-loss-advice-1930s-eat-less-exercise/

Note the 90s body they are referring to is the 1890s not Kate Moss.

Anyone try a perpendicular diet?

https://newrepublic.com/article/133751/depression-eras-magic-bullet-weight-loss

Magic bullet for weight loss: a diet pill that LITERALLY blows you up and is used as a pesticide! Don’t worry about those skin lesions and cancer, you lost 10 lbs!

Oh, and amphetimines... nothing like SPEED to help speed up your metabolism... a favorite of Katherine Hepburn.

And smoking... Virginia Slim for weight control.. don’t eat, smoke!
-

Nutrition was different, food availability, trends and additives are different. But don’t compare today’s health trends to yesteryear...

I’m sure I’d be a size 0 if all I ate was grapefruit took speed and smoked a pack a day. Super healthy!

In 10 years we will all look back at Keto and laugh

Ha -- yeah, exactly.

I mean, if folks want to know how to lose weight, they can follow what the Beatles were doing when they were playing 8-hour sets in Hamburg nightclubs: work all night, chain smoke, take preludin to stay awake, and subsist on crappy club food and beer. They were pretty damn skinny, but also decidedly unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5’3 AND A HALF. I want to be 125, would settle for 130. Haven’t been there since before getting pregnant Kid #2 and #3 is almost one, but I’m losing 1.5 lbs/wk and just fit into my pre-#3 jeans!

I'm 5' 3.5'' too! I think it's funny that you emphasized that 1/2 inch because I totally do too.

Good luck with your weight loss!