How can I get skinny?
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My weight fluctuates all the time, even when I excersized religiously all week and ate well sometimes I can gain weight. I was diagnosed with PCOS a few years ago and now I understand my hormones are all over the place I can lose weight by adapting what my body needs, mainly less carbs but more fat. I would like to lose about 18lb but the last bit is so hard!5
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I just love how this is going to sound!
But, I do have some trouble with the goal set of wanting to be "skinny".
I love seeing goals such as "not being overweight", "being healthy", "being strong", "having a hard bod", "abs".
But being :"skinny"? I don't like seeing that as an aspiration and often feel that I should argue the validity of this goal.25 -
I just love how this is going to sound!
But, I do have some trouble with the goal set of wanting to be "skinny".
I love seeing goals such as "not being overweight", "being healthy", "being strong", "having a hard bod", "abs".
But being :"skinny"? I don't like seeing that as an aspiration and often feel that I should argue the validity of this goal.
Funny what body shape different terminology can conjure up.
Slim and/or slender sound better than skinny but mean the same.
I just read it as averagely muscled, with no particular fitness goal other than being healthy and within a normal BMI range.
I’m called skinny at times, I’ve never thought to take offence or read it as being under muscled, un fit, or unhealthy, which I’m not.
Not arguing with you just giving a different perspective from someone who gets called skinny.
I suppose it can be down to who is wanting to be skinny, and the perceived use of the descriptor on either side.
cheers, h.
(You knew you’d get a reply like this didn’t you
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please make sure to tell your treatment team everything you have mentionned here including that you weigh yourself 7x a day (and the reasons) and all the questions you asked here. Hopefully you are still seeing them regularly.
I wish everyone would see this and stop commenting on all her post with other advice.20 -
But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks12 -
Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »please make sure to tell your treatment team everything you have mentionned here including that you weigh yourself 7x a day (and the reasons) and all the questions you asked here. Hopefully you are still seeing them regularly.
I wish everyone would see this and stop commenting on all her post with other advice.
I wish people would stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m here because I’m 1.5kgs overweight and I’m here to get advice how to lose weight. Everyones advice is helping I just can’t do strength training because I haven’t got any weights. Please stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m not hurting anyone15 -
amyebadham93 wrote: »My weight fluctuates all the time, even when I excersized religiously all week and ate well sometimes I can gain weight. I was diagnosed with PCOS a few years ago and now I understand my hormones are all over the place I can lose weight by adapting what my body needs, mainly less carbs but more fat. I would like to lose about 18lb but the last bit is so hard!
My weight fluctuates all the time as well. I would like to lose 7kgs and yes the last bit is very hard to lose. Good luck2 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks
Your continued posting history would suggest otherwise. Weighing several times a day isn't going to tell you a single thing about how much you can or can't eat to lose weight, and you'd need more than two weeks of data to decide whether what you're doing is working or not anyway. You've been told numerous times how to deal with the extra weight. Please take the advice.20 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »please make sure to tell your treatment team everything you have mentionned here including that you weigh yourself 7x a day (and the reasons) and all the questions you asked here. Hopefully you are still seeing them regularly.
I wish everyone would see this and stop commenting on all her post with other advice.
I wish people would stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m here because I’m 1.5kgs overweight and I’m here to get advice how to lose weight. Everyones advice is helping I just can’t do strength training because I haven’t got any weights. Please stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m not hurting anyone
Strength training can be done without any weights. Look into You Are Your Own Gym or Convict Conditioning or other body weight programs.12 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks
Based on your post history it is affecting you though, and it isn't helping you because weighing multiple times per day cannot help (anyone) to determine how much you can or cannot eat on a day to day basis.
Have you read all of the "most helpful" "stickied" threads at the top of these forums and the thread on weight fluctuations?10 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »please make sure to tell your treatment team everything you have mentionned here including that you weigh yourself 7x a day (and the reasons) and all the questions you asked here. Hopefully you are still seeing them regularly.
I wish everyone would see this and stop commenting on all her post with other advice.
I wish people would stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m here because I’m 1.5kgs overweight and I’m here to get advice how to lose weight. Everyones advice is helping I just can’t do strength training because I haven’t got any weights. Please stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m not hurting anyone
You're hurting yourself. Please believe that I'm speaking from a place of concern and compassion.16 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »please make sure to tell your treatment team everything you have mentionned here including that you weigh yourself 7x a day (and the reasons) and all the questions you asked here. Hopefully you are still seeing them regularly.
I wish everyone would see this and stop commenting on all her post with other advice.
I wish people would stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m here because I’m 1.5kgs overweight and I’m here to get advice how to lose weight. Everyones advice is helping I just can’t do strength training because I haven’t got any weights. Please stop telling everyone to stop commenting on my posts. I’m not hurting anyone
You're hurting YOURSELF.17 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks
Have you talked to your therapist(s) about any of this recently? Say within the past two weeks? Also note the "yourself" part of "danger to yourself or others". Also given your diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, has anyone recommended DBT to you?4 -
I see my therapist Tuesday I missed my appointment the Tuesday gone because of an appointment with the lawyer. I have done dbt in 2009.ashleygroizard wrote: »But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks
Have you talked to your therapist(s) about any of this recently? Say within the past two weeks? Also note the "yourself" part of "danger to yourself or others". Also given your diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, has anyone recommended DBT to you?
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jennlynne2018 wrote: »Sometimes I think we can mistakenly become a part of someone's illness. I know I am not trained enough to help instead of hurt, so I agree and am no longer participating.
I didn’t mean to hurt you. It’s not like I’m dropping a stack of weight and starving myself because I’m not. I just don’t understand why everyone is so worried. I really can’t see how I’ve got an eating disorder. I’m just obsessing over weight loss because I want to be healthy and if I stop obsessing I might fail at losing weight and I might go back to old ways. I’m not trying to hurt anyone honestly. Everyone has there ways of losing weight and I have mine and people say keep doing what your doing because it’s working. I really am starting to worry about everyone that is concerned about me on here. I’ve noticed I have 18 posts on help to lose weight and I’ve gone overboard with the same questions over and over again and I really didn’t mean to get obsessed with weight loss all I want is to be passionate about weight loss and get healthy mentally and physically. I know bpd can be annoying to people and I apologize to you and everyone. Because everyone probably thinks I’m annoying and everyone probably don’t want me on here. I am going to talk to my therapist about this because it sounds like everyone wants me to so I will. I am working on being healthy14 -
I can't help but feel her every reply is trolling.11
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How much your food weighs doesn't translate to how much it will effect your body weight. We're talking about an energy exchange here not a mass exchange. All that weighing tells you exactly nothing useful. Well, perhaps how much waste is currently in your digestive system but I don't think that's really useful information.
The process is an energy exchange not a mass exchange so the actual weight (mass) of the food you're eating doesn't correlate with how much your body fat goes up or down.
To use a silly, overly simplified and extreme example:
Eating 2lb of lettuce over maintenance you'll be 2lb heavier on the scale (obviously). That lettuce would be stored as about 0.5oz of fat.
Eat 8oz of Avocado, jump on the scales and you'll only weigh 8oz more (again duh) but that avocado would increase your body fat by 1.6oz.
So eating a serving of avocado that is 1/4 the weight of a serving of lettuce will equate to 3x as much body fat storage. Or looked at another way, you'd need to eat enough lettuce to make your scales jump up 6lb in order to have the same impact on your body fat as eating a serving of avocado that caused your scales to move by 1/2lb6 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?
I enjoy weighing myself it isn’t affecting me in a bad way and it helps me so I’ll probably keep doing it. I will start thinking of weight gained or lost over a couple of weeks
How, exactly, do you think that weighing yourself seven times a day helps you?12
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