What is your secret for staying thin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a food as fuel person too. Weigh 5 lbs more than my high school weight after 4 pregnancies and wear a size 4. I have coffee for breakfast, toast with peanut butter for lunch, yogurt midday and whatever for dinner.
Virtually no exercise over the past year but I trying to do better there to improve muscle tone.

I would rather be the way I am with a fast metabolism and not much into food for its own sake, than struggle with losing 15-20 lbs. Everyone in my immediate family as a child is obese in their midlife/ senior years and dealing with diabetes and high cholesterol. Strokes run though put my maternal side. My blood work shows I have great cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, and I hope to keep it that way and stay healthy into an old age where I'm still sharp mentally.

To each their own. I'd rather have 15 or 20 pounds to lose and enjoy food.

You can easily enjoy food and not be 15 to 20 lbs. overweight. That's a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I drink coffee for breakfast too. Even as a child, I hated breakfast.

1200-1600 calories a day here - healthy ones. A glass of wine some nights. And running a few times a week. It works for me and I'm not hungry.

As for the "Naturally Chubby" poster - I ran a half marathon last summer. Everyone was so thin! Until the last five percent of runners came over the finish line. They were all "chubby." I thought it was great that they finished, but no one could honestly say that they were working as hard as the first 95 percent over the line.

When I exercise too much I gain weight...and no...not just muscle. I overeat. I get really hungry and overcompensate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a food as fuel person too. Weigh 5 lbs more than my high school weight after 4 pregnancies and wear a size 4. I have coffee for breakfast, toast with peanut butter for lunch, yogurt midday and whatever for dinner.
Virtually no exercise over the past year but I trying to do better there to improve muscle tone.

I would rather be the way I am with a fast metabolism and not much into food for its own sake, than struggle with losing 15-20 lbs. Everyone in my immediate family as a child is obese in their midlife/ senior years and dealing with diabetes and high cholesterol. Strokes run though put my maternal side. My blood work shows I have great cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, and I hope to keep it that way and stay healthy into an old age where I'm still sharp mentally.

To each their own. I'd rather have 15 or 20 pounds to lose and enjoy food.

You can easily enjoy food and not be 15 to 20 lbs. overweight. That's a lot.

Really? It's only about 10% of my body weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a food as fuel person too. Weigh 5 lbs more than my high school weight after 4 pregnancies and wear a size 4. I have coffee for breakfast, toast with peanut butter for lunch, yogurt midday and whatever for dinner.
Virtually no exercise over the past year but I trying to do better there to improve muscle tone.

I would rather be the way I am with a fast metabolism and not much into food for its own sake, than struggle with losing 15-20 lbs. Everyone in my immediate family as a child is obese in their midlife/ senior years and dealing with diabetes and high cholesterol. Strokes run though put my maternal side. My blood work shows I have great cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, and I hope to keep it that way and stay healthy into an old age where I'm still sharp mentally.

To each their own. I'd rather have 15 or 20 pounds to lose and enjoy food.

You can easily enjoy food and not be 15 to 20 lbs. overweight. That's a lot.

Really? It's only about 10% of my body weight.

Well, 20% over your ideal body weight is considered obese, so congratulations you're well on your way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a food as fuel person too. Weigh 5 lbs more than my high school weight after 4 pregnancies and wear a size 4. I have coffee for breakfast, toast with peanut butter for lunch, yogurt midday and whatever for dinner.
Virtually no exercise over the past year but I trying to do better there to improve muscle tone.

I would rather be the way I am with a fast metabolism and not much into food for its own sake, than struggle with losing 15-20 lbs. Everyone in my immediate family as a child is obese in their midlife/ senior years and dealing with diabetes and high cholesterol. Strokes run though put my maternal side. My blood work shows I have great cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, and I hope to keep it that way and stay healthy into an old age where I'm still sharp mentally.

To each their own. I'd rather have 15 or 20 pounds to lose and enjoy food.

You can easily enjoy food and not be 15 to 20 lbs. overweight. That's a lot.

Yes, this is true. I enjoy ALL my food. I gave up diet foods and got thin for the first time! I enjoy whatever high fat, yummy foods I want. The secret, I'm satisfied so I don't eat a lot. I eat white rice and bread too. I like them better...with real butter. However, I was chubby in the past because I ate a lot of quantity of food and the quality (according to my taste buds) was poor. So I ate past the point of being physically satisfied because I wasn't mentally satisfied. I can't live by the mantra, "eat to live." F$@# that. Food is pleasure. I just try to really enjoy my tasty food, and not finish everything because it is there. I stop eating my dinner when I'm no longer really enjoying (mindless eating). I'm a good 20lbs thinner now (though who knows what my cholesterol is!!). Haha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a food as fuel person too. Weigh 5 lbs more than my high school weight after 4 pregnancies and wear a size 4. I have coffee for breakfast, toast with peanut butter for lunch, yogurt midday and whatever for dinner.
Virtually no exercise over the past year but I trying to do better there to improve muscle tone.

I would rather be the way I am with a fast metabolism and not much into food for its own sake, than struggle with losing 15-20 lbs. Everyone in my immediate family as a child is obese in their midlife/ senior years and dealing with diabetes and high cholesterol. Strokes run though put my maternal side. My blood work shows I have great cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, and I hope to keep it that way and stay healthy into an old age where I'm still sharp mentally.

To each their own. I'd rather have 15 or 20 pounds to lose and enjoy food.

You can easily enjoy food and not be 15 to 20 lbs. overweight. That's a lot.

Yes, this is true. I enjoy ALL my food. I gave up diet foods and got thin for the first time! I enjoy whatever high fat, yummy foods I want. The secret, I'm satisfied so I don't eat a lot. I eat white rice and bread too. I like them better...with real butter. However, I was chubby in the past because I ate a lot of quantity of food and the quality (according to my taste buds) was poor. So I ate past the point of being physically satisfied because I wasn't mentally satisfied. I can't live by the mantra, "eat to live." F$@# that. Food is pleasure. I just try to really enjoy my tasty food, and not finish everything because it is there. I stop eating my dinner when I'm no longer really enjoying (mindless eating). I'm a good 20lbs thinner now (though who knows what my cholesterol is!!). Haha.

This. Awesome. Good for you! This really does work. Very sane approach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we are able to mentally accept that someone can be "naturally thin" but not that someone can be naturally chubby.........I'm not talking about overweight to the point it effects your abilities or life.............I'm talking about the people who are still active or workout (I know a lot of marathoners who are like this) but just do not have bodies that are skinny. they carry an extra 10-15 (maybe even 20?) pounds above what they would weigh if they were thin, and nothing shy of a constant strict battle would change that..........for some reason we don't accept this is possible- they MUST be making bad choices or eating too much of the good choices- yet we can accept people who are able to eat and DRINK poorly and stay "thin" with 3 workouts of 30 minutes on the elliptical as somehow their magic bullet?

I think most of us accept this. If this is who you are, good for you! If you are happy and healthy and comfortable in your skin, that's awesome. However, if you are 10-20 pounds above being thin, don't try to offer advice in a thread for someone who posts a question asking - and I quote, "What is your secret for staying thin?"

Its me. And I don't accept myself. I hate myself. I started my morning by secretly crying in the shower because the scale says I gained .5 pounds despite being on a strict diet (even over the holidays) and a renewed dedication to training (not just 'working out' but really mixing it up).

And sometimes I wonder if the reason I hate myself isn't because I am inherently wrong but because everyone has told me I am nothing because I am not pretty/skinny (ie- its impossible for us to accept that this ok)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we are able to mentally accept that someone can be "naturally thin" but not that someone can be naturally chubby.........I'm not talking about overweight to the point it effects your abilities or life.............I'm talking about the people who are still active or workout (I know a lot of marathoners who are like this) but just do not have bodies that are skinny. they carry an extra 10-15 (maybe even 20?) pounds above what they would weigh if they were thin, and nothing shy of a constant strict battle would change that..........for some reason we don't accept this is possible- they MUST be making bad choices or eating too much of the good choices- yet we can accept people who are able to eat and DRINK poorly and stay "thin" with 3 workouts of 30 minutes on the elliptical as somehow their magic bullet?

I think most of us accept this. If this is who you are, good for you! If you are happy and healthy and comfortable in your skin, that's awesome. However, if you are 10-20 pounds above being thin, don't try to offer advice in a thread for someone who posts a question asking - and I quote, "What is your secret for staying thin?"

Its me. And I don't accept myself. I hate myself. I started my morning by secretly crying in the shower because the scale says I gained .5 pounds despite being on a strict diet (even over the holidays) and a renewed dedication to training (not just 'working out' but really mixing it up).

And sometimes I wonder if the reason I hate myself isn't because I am inherently wrong but because everyone has told me I am nothing because I am not pretty/skinny (ie- its impossible for us to accept that this ok)

PP I don't even know what to say, but hugs for you. I'm sorry you feel this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we are able to mentally accept that someone can be "naturally thin" but not that someone can be naturally chubby.........I'm not talking about overweight to the point it effects your abilities or life.............I'm talking about the people who are still active or workout (I know a lot of marathoners who are like this) but just do not have bodies that are skinny. they carry an extra 10-15 (maybe even 20?) pounds above what they would weigh if they were thin, and nothing shy of a constant strict battle would change that..........for some reason we don't accept this is possible- they MUST be making bad choices or eating too much of the good choices- yet we can accept people who are able to eat and DRINK poorly and stay "thin" with 3 workouts of 30 minutes on the elliptical as somehow their magic bullet?

I think most of us accept this. If this is who you are, good for you! If you are happy and healthy and comfortable in your skin, that's awesome. However, if you are 10-20 pounds above being thin, don't try to offer advice in a thread for someone who posts a question asking - and I quote, "What is your secret for staying thin?"

Its me. And I don't accept myself. I hate myself. I started my morning by secretly crying in the shower because the scale says I gained .5 pounds despite being on a strict diet (even over the holidays) and a renewed dedication to training (not just 'working out' but really mixing it up).

And sometimes I wonder if the reason I hate myself isn't because I am inherently wrong but because everyone has told me I am nothing because I am not pretty/skinny (ie- its impossible for us to accept that this ok)

PP, I'm 10:37. I've been there. I was there for a very long time in my life. I wasted a lot of my youth because of these feelings. I'm sorry. I dieted so much and tried so hard and nothing worked and I felt awful about myself and was so sad. There are two parts to this...and I heard this advice and didn't believe so take it for what its worth: Give yourself the love you need now. Don't reserve it for your "thin" self. Go buy nice clothes etc...Stop waiting to get to that "acceptable" weight to live your life. Pretend eating nothing or 1,000,000 calories won't change your weight...then what. How would you feel if nothing you ever did would change your weight? Would you hate yourself, or just feel relieved? I don't know about you, but once I thought this way, I just felt relieved. And I stopped being so sad and obsessive about my weight. And I stopped waiting to be thin to love myself and be happy with myself. Second part...once I stopped being so scared about my weight (I'm still mindful...but there's no way I'm going to do anything that doens't make me happy now!) and let go a little and enjoyed myself, I lost the weight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

When I exercise too much I gain weight...and no...not just muscle. I overeat. I get really hungry and overcompensate.

Me too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it that we are able to mentally accept that someone can be "naturally thin" but not that someone can be naturally chubby.........I'm not talking about overweight to the point it effects your abilities or life.............I'm talking about the people who are still active or workout (I know a lot of marathoners who are like this) but just do not have bodies that are skinny. they carry an extra 10-15 (maybe even 20?) pounds above what they would weigh if they were thin, and nothing shy of a constant strict battle would change that..........for some reason we don't accept this is possible- they MUST be making bad choices or eating too much of the good choices- yet we can accept people who are able to eat and DRINK poorly and stay "thin" with 3 workouts of 30 minutes on the elliptical as somehow their magic bullet?

I think most of us accept this. If this is who you are, good for you! If you are happy and healthy and comfortable in your skin, that's awesome. However, if you are 10-20 pounds above being thin, don't try to offer advice in a thread for someone who posts a question asking - and I quote, "What is your secret for staying thin?"

Its me. And I don't accept myself. I hate myself. I started my morning by secretly crying in the shower because the scale says I gained .5 pounds despite being on a strict diet (even over the holidays) and a renewed dedication to training (not just 'working out' but really mixing it up).

And sometimes I wonder if the reason I hate myself isn't because I am inherently wrong but because everyone has told me I am nothing because I am not pretty/skinny (ie- its impossible for us to accept that this ok)

PP, I'm 10:37. I've been there. I was there for a very long time in my life. I wasted a lot of my youth because of these feelings. I'm sorry. I dieted so much and tried so hard and nothing worked and I felt awful about myself and was so sad. There are two parts to this...and I heard this advice and didn't believe so take it for what its worth: Give yourself the love you need now. Don't reserve it for your "thin" self. Go buy nice clothes etc...Stop waiting to get to that "acceptable" weight to live your life. Pretend eating nothing or 1,000,000 calories won't change your weight...then what. How would you feel if nothing you ever did would change your weight? Would you hate yourself, or just feel relieved? I don't know about you, but once I thought this way, I just felt relieved. And I stopped being so sad and obsessive about my weight. And I stopped waiting to be thin to love myself and be happy with myself. Second part...once I stopped being so scared about my weight (I'm still mindful...but there's no way I'm going to do anything that doens't make me happy now!) and let go a little and enjoyed myself, I lost the weight!

Not the PP, but this is great advice. I wanted to add that I lost weight and realized that even though I was tiny, I still found things to dislike about my body. And then I realized that being thinner wasn't the answer. Now I just aim to maintain my weight and look great at this weight. I think the things that make me look my best are clothes that fit really well and are flattering, regular exercise b/c it improves my mood, and getting enough sleep. But losing weight? Doesn't really help.

PP, I hope you will find a way to make friends with your body. It's probably a great body!

[Anonymous]

My secret to staying thin: the following foods make me ill: Carbs by themselves (like a plate of pasta). Sugars by themselves (alone, like a candy bar) Alcohol. Soft drinks with sugar. Have to have high protein, high fat diet. When something makes you feel sick, it is easier to resist.

[Anonymous]

I workout for 60-90 minutes 7 days a week and eat around 1400-1600 calories a day with one "cheat" day where I eat about 1800 calories. On my cheat day I make sure I workout for 90 minutes. I record everything I eat or drink in MyFitnessPal, so I hold myself accountable. I also walk as much as possible. Have a question for a coworker? I walk to their desk. Need to pick up some milk from the grocery store? I walk there and back. At the end of every day I have walked a minimum of 11000 steps. Many days I walk as closer to 15000, and on the weekends when I go for walks and play outside a lot with my kids I end up closer to 20000 steps. Exercise is good, but I've read some research that shows that people who are thin tend to move more throughout the day. It's those extra steps that really add up. In the end, however, becoming and staying thin is pretty simple. To lose, you need a calorie deficit. To maintain, calories in should equal calories out. It's hard at first to lose, but after a week or so you get used to smaller portion sizes. My weight got as high as 215 pounds when I was in my early 20s. I lost 100 pounds and have never looked back. So I know how hard it is, but it is doable.

My secret for eating less calories? I eat a ton of low calorie, high fiber foods. I can eat an entire head of cabbage and feel completely stuffed for most of the day for not so many calories. I eat about 90% of the day like that. That leaves me about 500 calories per day to satisfy my sweet tooth with some ice cream or a slight of cake or whatever.

[Anonymous]

My secret?m no oreos are allowed in the house. ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cocaine. Mountains of cocaine.

Jealous