Anonymous wrote:Wow guys OP here again, hadn’t realized this thread was still kickin. I’m still doing my one meal a day thing and still feeling good, although I’m about to leave for two weeks in Europe so pretty sure it’ll get hard!

I’m in my mid 30s and really trying to get to the other side of my child bearing years and feel like myself again. This has helped bc I have lost the weight but my mind isn’t taken up by “good” and “bad” food. An average meal for me was tonight—Quinoa veggie stir fry and Greek yogurt w honey for dessert. I’m also getting Botox next week. That seems a little random but I just wanted to say that I’m one of those mid 30 moms grinding it out at work and home, and losing some weight and getting Botox has really helped me clear my head and stop having a moment in life where I feel like I lost myself in the way I look. These days I feel like myself again and one great part of it is that I don’t spend much time thinking about my body or wrinkles bc a bit of effort got me back to me.

I do want to say that it makes me feel really thoughtless that I hadn’t considered the triggering effect of this post. PP, please check in w someone, your therapist or doctor.

While I think this is effective at making you thin now, I think it's setting your body up for a real shock and long-term weight gain in the long term, when you go back to eating normal meals. Also, not good in terms of being able to build or maintain muscle and increasing the possibility for osteoporosis, etc...

Unless you are eating 1 lb of quinoa with 5 tablespoons of oil and two avocados, and three greek yogurts and 1/4 cup of honey, you are not getting enough calories to maintain your weight and your body has probably gone into starvation mode. I'd seriously re-think this. You're only on your mid-30s. Come 40/50, you're going to want to be in a sustainable pattern.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh OP again. I am 5'7, I was 163 and now I am 145. I am not scary skinny at all, about a size four.

Skinny??? I am 5'8'' 146 (as of today) and I know I am fat.

OP is 5'8" and a size 4. So WTF are you talking about?

NP. I’m hesitant to say someone is a healthy weight based on clothing size because of how out of wack sizes are today. I have a pair of shorts I bought last year at Ann Taylor that are a size 4. They are the same size as a pair of size 8 shorts from the Gap purchased in 1998 that I still have from college. I also own a pair of newer size 6 Levi’s that are the same as a pair of 1990s era size 12.

I’m 5’8” like OP. At my lowest weight in college in 1998 I was 125lbs and a size 6 was still a tight fit. I’m 163 right now and I have on a roomy pair of size 6 jeans. I’m trying to lose weight and I’m not telling myself I’m skinny because I’m in a vanity size 6 jeans when I know back in high school these pants would have been a 12 20 years ago.

My mom went to high school in the 1960s and says the girls who were stick thin and weighed around 100-110 wore size 10. There’s a reason why stores have started carrying size 00 and 000.

Wow guys OP here again, hadn’t realized this thread was still kickin. I’m still doing my one meal a day thing and still feeling good, although I’m about to leave for two weeks in Europe so pretty sure it’ll get hard!

I’m in my mid 30s and really trying to get to the other side of my child bearing years and feel like myself again. This has helped bc I have lost the weight but my mind isn’t taken up by “good” and “bad” food. An average meal for me was tonight—Quinoa veggie stir fry and Greek yogurt w honey for dessert. I’m also getting Botox next week. That seems a little random but I just wanted to say that I’m one of those mid 30 moms grinding it out at work and home, and losing some weight and getting Botox has really helped me clear my head and stop having a moment in life where I feel like I lost myself in the way I look. These days I feel like myself again and one great part of it is that I don’t spend much time thinking about my body or wrinkles bc a bit of effort got me back to me.

I do want to say that it makes me feel really thoughtless that I hadn’t considered the triggering effect of this post. PP, please check in w someone, your therapist or doctor.

OP is 5'7 and 145lbs. The poster who said she is 5'8 and 146 and fat is probably a little delusional since that is not fat.. but everyone carries weight differently.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh OP again. I am 5'7, I was 163 and now I am 145. I am not scary skinny at all, about a size four.

Skinny??? I am 5'8'' 146 (as of today) and I know I am fat.

OP is 5'8" and a size 4. So WTF are you talking about?

Anonymous wrote:Oh OP again. I am 5'7, I was 163 and now I am 145. I am not scary skinny at all, about a size four.

Skinny??? I am 5'8'' 146 (as of today) and I know I am fat.