smaller looking women who weigh more than me?!?!?!?!

rmchapman4

I concur I NEVER carry weight in my stomach. It all goes to my lower half. I weigh 194 pounds and no one can believe it because my waist is so small at 33 inches.

KrisyKat

Don't sweat it, darlin'! You look fabulous to me...beautiful ink, gorgeous eyes...take pride in the fact that there are probably girls out there RIGHT NOW who wish they could look as hot as you!

The scale could never measure the true potential of someone's beauty...THAT, my dear, lies within the

msbanana

Guilty. I'm tall, I'm a lead-*kitten* and I lift LOTS of heavy stuff all the time.

I bounce between 165-170 now (yay for period bloat!) and I rock a 6/8 most of the time. I've had to get over the fact that I'll never be on the low end of the "normal range" for my height. If I dropped 40-50 more pounds to get to the low end I'd probably end up dead. Like you'd have to dehydrate my bones and EVEN then I may still be more that 125lbs. :laugh:

And on the bright side I'm strong as hell. I can almost bench press my body weight (I maxed out at 160lb the other day) and I can squat over 300lbs. :bigsmile:

katmix

we're a LOT harder on our own bodies than we are on other people - I doubt they look quite as much better as you think they do in your head.

But also some of it is just plain bonestructure - I'm heavy as snapdoozle, I look firmer than women who weigh 10 lbs less than I do. Some of its muscle (yay) but a lot of it is just plain.... HEAVY. I don't really know what it is. I'm really super heavy. I have friends close to my height that weigh 40 lbs less than I do and look great, if I weight that much I'd be in the hospital.

I would agree with bone structure... My dear friend and I were close to the same height/weight (before I started MFP) and with her large bones and seemingly no fat, she was a size 4ish, a size 2 on a good day. On the other hand, I am small-framed, and my curves were as jiggly as they come, and I was a size 8, with a size 10-12 on the bottom - on a really bad day. Fast forward a few months, have lost weight and toned, and am a solid size 6, with a few size 4's...

Could lose more, but I feel good where I'm at, and still have my curves (albeit smaller!)

CherryOnionKiss

Muscle is what makes the difference, not luck.

If you haven't read this before, learn about Staci:
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/21/meet-staci-your-new-powerlifting-super-hero/

:drinker: STACI !!! :bigsmile:

Uh Stacey from 2009 at 170 pounds?! I weight 172 pounds and I look nothing like that. I'm flabby, I have big thighs and a big gut, big flabby biceps. I would literally kill for a body like she had a 170. I don't see why her story is so awesome. She was already thin before.

Blessedmommy_2x

I had the opposite experience many years back... back when I was in shape.

We had a exchange student over and she and I were the same height but she clearly looked way heavier than me. WELL... we got on the scale (all the girls in my family did) and I was the heaviest! I was shocked and in tears because it didnt make sense to me... BUT, now I am Learning more and more everyday it's not about what the scale says. I am NOW more into muscle gain and Body fat percentage. I would rather LOOK 150 and weigh 170, than LOOK 170 and actually BE 150.

DatEpicChick

well i sure wish that i was one of those women, who looked 'to die for' at 130. >.<

i think i'm just too used to the body shape i used to have, and i sure hope i either get used to the fact that i'm going
to have a different body shape or get that one back.

...i guess we will see.

i will be satisfied when i can jump and nothing jiggles but my boobs. >.<