Were you happy with your shape/size when you hit goal?

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  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    Yes. I felt and looked great.
  • BritishSpy007
    BritishSpy007 Posts: 431 Member
    Sure! What's not to like?
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Lynzdee18 wrote: »
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    RachsLosses wrote: »
    I dont feel my body shape has changed much between 148lbs to 142lbs but maybe its because I look at it every day

    Depending on your height that seems normal to me. 6 lbs isn't easy to see when it comes off all over your body.

    Good point. But wondering why when I inadvertently add 6 pounds to my weight, my tummy bubbles over the waistband of my running capris and feels horrid...

    It's probably more water weight than fat if you gain that much inadvertently. You'd have to eat 21000 extra calories to gain 6 lbs so it's not something that would be done quickly by accident.
  • dailyzey
    dailyzey Posts: 82 Member
    How did you guys deal with cellulite? Or did you deal with it? I have about 30 to lose to be at around 23 BMI.. I have lost 15 and working on losing the remaining 15. But my body is pear shaped and I have always had cellulite even in my 20s when I was thinner. I wonder if weight training or muscling up will help or will I always have it (thanks genetics!)
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    dailyzey wrote: »
    How did you guys deal with cellulite? Or did you deal with it? I have about 30 to lose to be at around 23 BMI.. I have lost 15 and working on losing the remaining 15. But my body is pear shaped and I have always had cellulite even in my 20s when I was thinner. I wonder if weight training or muscling up will help or will I always have it (thanks genetics!)

    Unfortunately, cellulite is genetic. It may get better as you lose, but it may not.

    I'm 5'11, BMI of 20 currently and I still have it (144lbs) I'm also 39 (it has gotten worse as I age). It's better than when I was 165lbs, but it's still there. I have stretch marks from growing too fast as a kid too. My body is a war zone...LOL

  • dailyzey
    dailyzey Posts: 82 Member
    Thx thought as much... Sigh.. I think I just have to be happy with my BMI goal and not worry about swimsu swimsuit season.
  • hammycakes
    hammycakes Posts: 388 Member
    dailyzey wrote: »
    Thx thought as much... Sigh.. I think I just have to be happy with my BMI goal and not worry about swimsu swimsuit season.

    Some people have had a good experience with dry brushing before the shower, and then oil or moisturizer after. I don't know if collagen production can be stimulated topically but it can make it look less noticeable in my experience.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    dailyzey wrote: »
    How did you guys deal with cellulite? Or did you deal with it? I have about 30 to lose to be at around 23 BMI.. I have lost 15 and working on losing the remaining 15. But my body is pear shaped and I have always had cellulite even in my 20s when I was thinner. I wonder if weight training or muscling up will help or will I always have it (thanks genetics!)

    Yea it's all about genetics. I have it too no matter how lean I get. And while weight training and bulk/cut cycles has helped, it's still there. I carry most of my fat under my glutes, so yea it is what it is.
  • Adammmmm119
    Adammmmm119 Posts: 171 Member
    M currently at my goal... not happy need to get a bit smaller and tighter
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    I was happy with my shape/size when i was blissfully fat and unaware. Im alrightish with myself now but i bloat so easily and look pregnant and fat now. Takes very little food to do it. Didnt happen a bit heavier lol

    Hell yeah, it really does show on a leaner body when you have had a big meal, doesn't it? I literally have a totally flat stomach most of the time, but throw down my dinner, even though it is healthy, and I bloat right out afterwards, lol. It is a real irritant to me. Only thing I found ever helped in the past was getting my abs and core muscles so rock solid that this didn't happen anymore.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    Graelwyn75 wrote: »
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    I was happy with my shape/size when i was blissfully fat and unaware. Im alrightish with myself now but i bloat so easily and look pregnant and fat now. Takes very little food to do it. Didnt happen a bit heavier lol

    Hell yeah, it really does show on a leaner body when you have had a big meal, doesn't it? I literally have a totally flat stomach most of the time, but throw down my dinner, even though it is healthy, and I bloat right out afterwards, lol. It is a real irritant to me. Only thing I found ever helped in the past was getting my abs and core muscles so rock solid that this didn't happen anymore.

    Wish i had abs hah
  • a_candler
    a_candler Posts: 209 Member
    yes and no, I loved how I looked in clothes but out of them I was too skinny up top. I'm a pear shape, and lost more from my top than my bottom. I've since gained about 10 lbs and am wanting to tone with weightlifting vs dieting. I think if I can do that I'll like the final results better
  • 12anita
    12anita Posts: 11 Member
    After many years of going up and down in weight, this time I have reached my goal by a combination of portion control, cardio, and some weight training. I still have flab I am working on, but happy with my weight. It is a challenge to maintain, but using this app and daily weighing myself helps!
  • Ashtoretet
    Ashtoretet Posts: 378 Member
    I got to my goal and put back on 3 pounds because it didn't look great.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    i had been aiming for sub-125 and started doing stronglifts 5x5 when i had about 10 pounds to go, so my expectations for the final result were probably unreasonable. i feel like i chased the weight loss far too aggressively considering what i was trying to do wrt strength at the same time.

    it's hard for me to describe exactly waht the problem was once i got down to 120ish, though i myself know exactly what i'm trying to explain. i grew all this muscle - not 'bulk', but very dense, very obvious muscle you couldn't possibly mistake for anything else. and then there'd be these random-looking blobs of fat distributed at odd points on top of it. very visibly 'on top' of the muscle; i think that was what i disliked about it - just this huge difference in visual 'textures' with no real middle ground anywhere. tell you the truth, i liked the long-ago memory of my skinny-fat self a lot better. this was more like being scrawny-fat, and i was disappointed.

    it wasn't hard to let go of that specific weight and go back to eating whatever my lifting made me feel like i wanted to eat, which took me back up to 145 over the next year or so - in fact, back to where i had started from. for the past year i've been concentrating on just chipping away at my weight again, and i've just gotten back down to 125ish last month. haven't yet decided what i think this time around, but i guess what i learned was: i want to concentrate more on the 'quality' of the muscle i'm trying to build, if that's possible.
  • jkm49
    jkm49 Posts: 27 Member
    I was very happy with myself but a lot of friends and family criticised some. Although I did probably look thin I felt as if I was always walking on air and that for me was far more important that how I looked. At 68yo health is more important than how I looked. And besides I am in recommended weight range. :)
  • kiracookie
    kiracookie Posts: 50 Member
    I was very happy, Im 5’9”ish and went from 198lb to 172lb with loads of resistance work so I was nice.
    I got glandular fever 6months later and put it all back (+14lb) on tho
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    edited November 2017
    Yes and no.
    I still have a small flabby tummy but the rest of me is very lean now and I don't want to become gaunt (people already tell me that I am!).
    I exercise, cardio and strength training and although that has helped my tummy area I think genetics mean that I am highly unlikely to have a flat stomach but I can live with that. With clothes on I look darned slim which is the main thing imo.
  • nickbullett
    nickbullett Posts: 44 Member
    No, therefore new much lower goal.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Hard to be happy with all that loose skin on my belly. 3 years later and it's still there :(
  • HDBKLM
    HDBKLM Posts: 466 Member
    halfmill1 wrote: »
    I don’t know if I will ever meet my dream goal again. I’m 5 ft 3 and would love to weigh about 135. That is what I weighed in college as a division one athlete. I started this journey at 216. I am now down to 151. The weird thing is I am now a size 6 in pants. When I was 135 I was usually an 8. So although I weigh more I fit in smaller Jeans. It’s really weird and they are the same brand I have always liked.
    This may be a vanity sizing issue?
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    HDBKLM wrote: »
    halfmill1 wrote: »
    I don’t know if I will ever meet my dream goal again. I’m 5 ft 3 and would love to weigh about 135. That is what I weighed in college as a division one athlete. I started this journey at 216. I am now down to 151. The weird thing is I am now a size 6 in pants. When I was 135 I was usually an 8. So although I weigh more I fit in smaller Jeans. It’s really weird and they are the same brand I have always liked.
    This may be a vanity sizing issue?

    I don't think trying to go from 151lbs, BMI 26.75, to 135lbs BMI 23.9 is a vanity issue. Just wanting to get within the normal BMI range.

    Vanity sizing has made clothing sizes larger so unfortunately an 8 then could easily be a 6 now.

    Cheers, h.

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