Ladies, are you heavier than your mother?

[Anonymous]

No, I have more of my father's body type and am slimmer than my mother. I am not thin (140lbs 5'8") but my mother has always struggled with her weight, and I have only started to gain weight recently as I get older. We both have thyroid problems.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I'm not obese, but overweight due to recently having 2 kids and WOH with no time to exercise. Mom is retired and works out ~2 hrs/day M-F.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We've got the same body shape / size / height, but I'm more muscular with bigger breasts.

[Anonymous]

My mom was smaller than me at the later part of her life but she had been heavy at parts of her life as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how people who are thinner feel the need to point out how it's the result of personal virtue, while their fatter relatives are greedy:

Anonymous wrote:
No, I've always been "the thin one."

+1, except in my family that means "the one who doesn't eat a half gallon of ice cream for dessert and instead eats one scoop."

Agree.

Eating a half gallon of ice cream in one shot IS greedy. This is why Americans are overweight. No sense of portion control!

[Anonymous]

I have a similar body type, but I am all around smaller. I'm a size 2/4 and she is a 14/16.

She was always on the heavy size, I never was.

[Anonymous]

My mom always says it was the 3rd kid that she couldn't recover her weight from. I am slender after 2 just as she was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how people who are thinner feel the need to point out how it's the result of personal virtue, while their fatter relatives are greedy:

Anonymous wrote:
No, I've always been "the thin one."

+1, except in my family that means "the one who doesn't eat a half gallon of ice cream for dessert and instead eats one scoop."

Agree.

Eating a half gallon of ice cream in one shot IS greedy. This is why Americans are overweight. No sense of portion control!

Honestly having willpower to eat healthfully and to work out IS a personal virtue. The opposite is greediness...

[Anonymous]

Nope. We have very similar body types. She probably has ~20-30 pounds on me (and is a little taller) but generally the extra weight came on with age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not anymore, as she was cremated.

Spit out my drink on that one.

[Anonymous]

- Domiciliazione di società;

[Anonymous]

No. She is much taller then I am: 5'8" to my 5'5". I have her body type and very conscious of the weight she has gained in her late 60's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm not obese, but overweight due to recently having 2 kids and WOH with no time to exercise. Mom is retired and works out ~2 hrs/day M-F. [/quote

Yes, this. Mother has lost weight as she has gotten older. Also she is dealing with health conditions that mean diet modification (healthier).

[Anonymous]

I don't know, she used to be heavier than me but I can't tell because she has shrunk in height as she aged so I don't have a great sense of her weight, she used to be taller than me but is now probably at least an inch shorter. She has more of an apple shape at 75 than she used to. We are different body types however, I have always had a waist. She works out regularly now that she is retired.

I could stand to lose 10-15 pounds, but no one would look at us as strangely disproportional or a statement on changes in eating patterns across generations. Oh, and I am probably the better cook.

[Anonymous]

Yes. At least 40 pounds. Easy to see why, very healthy diet and won't eat out.