Fighting FIT or SkinnyFab.....which one??

Frannswaz

On balance if you're eating right and exercising hard - burning calories, toning and building muscle mass - you should be gaining weight (muscle mass) and also losing weight (fat mass ). Overall it registers as an increase in weight.

If you're not exercising much but harding eating then you're going to loose weight.(fat and muscle)

My question is:

Skinny or Fit?

or

Model or Athlete?

ScoutMom1

Fit most definitely!! I want to kick butt, not break in half

TheGoktor

Athlete! I've been a model (no, I really was!), and I was far from healthy, although very slender. I'd much rather be fit and healthy now!

meggers123

Fit! I think skinny fit = fab

Frannswaz

Fit most definitely!! I want to kick butt, not break in half

HeeeHeeee....lol

suzycreamcheese

honestly, id rather just be naturally skinny. I really like that look.

I do also like the fit look too. I think it looks lovely and healthy, but if i was naturally skinny, i probably wouldnt bother exercising

having said that, i do enjoy it too, but id probably never have started if i hadnt needed to

hjy319

Fit Athletic for sure!!

crisanderson27

On balance if you're eating right and exercising hard - burning calories, toning and building muscle mass - you should be gaining weight (muscle mass) and also losing weight (fat mass ). Overall it registers as an increase in weight.

If you're not exercising much but harding eating then you're going to loose weight.(fat and muscle)

My question is:

Skinny or Fit?

or

Model or Athlete?

There is so much more to it than this. To gain weight when exercising properly, you really would need to eat a caloric surplus, as your body prefers to burn fat...and muscle gains take a much longer, slower process than people here seem to believe. That kind of makes your initial statement invalid (not trying to be rude). Either way, exercising and eating properly...you should lose weight. I am a perfect example. I was eating healthy, and on an aggressive strength training program with NO cardio. I put lots of muscle on everywhere, and have still lost 30+lbs in just over 3 months.



Also, for the record, I'd say go with fit...your body will love you for it .

foodfight247

Fit, slender and healthy is all I wanna be.... Says the skinny woman trying to gain some weight! :happy: :laugh:

stormieweather

I do not want to be skinny. I've been skinny - at around 100 pounds for my 5'5" height - and I looked like poop warmed over. Sunken cheeks, shadows under my eyes, drab, scraggly hair, and bones sticking out all over (hipbones, ribs, elbows, wrist and anklebones). Everybody and his brother asking if I was sick....Yuck, yuck, yuck. :sick:

I have great curves normally, and I want to keep them. I just want the layer of fat gone and some muscle definition showing. I'm getting there!

minnie86

I would love to be skinnyFab...but I don't think I have that body type, so I'll be happy to be fit

kdiamond

I have been skinny - I was between 102-105 pounds 2 years ago for a few years. A couple times due to stress at work I dipped under 100. In retrospect, it was not a good look for a 5'4" girl.

Now I am fit and athletic, and I weigh a healthy 110 pounds. I like this me SO MUCH BETTER. I look younger, I feel better, I have tons of energy, etc..

SKINNY IS A THING OF THE PAST!

crisanderson27

I have been skinny - I was between 102-105 pounds 2 years ago for a few years. A couple times due to stress at work I dipped under 100. In retrospect, it was not a good look for a 5'4" girl.

Now I am fit and athletic, and I weigh a healthy 110 pounds. I like this me SO MUCH BETTER. I look younger, I feel better, I have tons of energy, etc..

SKINNY IS A THING OF THE PAST!

10!

Oh wait...wrong thread!

More seriously...I agree with you completely .

tameko2

Skinny AND fit? The problem with that super slim look is that only the young really pull it off because young people have such great natural muscle tone - after 25 or so you have to work for it or even if you are technically "skinny" you will look "fat" -- you'll have hangy flabby arms and legs and a little hangy belly pudge.

I have a friend who is very thin, works her *kitten* of on the stair stepper at the gym every day and can't figure out why she can't get rid of her belly pudge. She tells people she's fat but she's NOT, her collarbones and wrist bones are super visible. But until she tones the muscles in her belly and arms its going to LOOK like fat.

bcattoes

Neither. I'd like to be somewhere in between. Not athlete muscley, but not skinny with no muscles. I prefer the more natural look. Like you live an active life, but don't spend hours in the gym or in front of the mirror.

PurpleCoookie

I rather have the fit look than the skinny one.