Big to small, or small to big?

I would say someone attempting to get to a weight they've never been before. Be it putting on weight or taking it off. If you've been where you're going already then you would have at least a vague idea of what to expect along the way. But if you haven't been there before it would be a whole new road to discover. My opinion anywho.

I thought it was the motion of the ocean.
*bam*

I think being thin then being bigger trying to get thin...my logic is based on the fact I can relate to the skinny people who get *****ed at, and the over weight ones too...it can be depressing on both sides :P

Then again some of those who have never been thin that I have run into are dealing with 'you can do it that way but I can't' complex where they think they work differently then the rest of the world...some don't understand how easily one can live and be thin, which I would imagine is overwhelmingly hard to deal with if they have a unrealistic vision of what it should be like. Then the hardly eating anything skinny girl thoughts must be daunting.

I've been fat, thin, thin to bulky (though bulky is my natural tendency), back to fat, and back bulky again.

Being thin period takes the most work for me. I was running 4-7 miles a day at about 9 mph pace and lifting (light for me vs. my past) weights 3x per week. I was constantly tired, cranky, and I'd battle vertigo from time to time (at 24 years old too). Also I'll freely admit that it was a damn good thing I was single, as I would have been worthless in the sack for intercourse. I say I was "too thin" when I was 5'10" and 178 lbs. I was around 8% body fat. I eventually admitted that I can't keep this up (and not being able to get it up at that age is kind of mortifying).

Rectified everything by cutting cardio to 2-3 days a week and no more than 20 minutes and starting lifting harder. Gained 30 lean pounds in about a year and a half, and increased my body fat by an acceptably small amount. This is when I felt my best and had no issues downstairs and had the body I wanted.

Typical life excuses happened for me to get back up to pre-journey weight at the start of this year. I was now on blood pressure pills and just a tub of lard at 5'10" 285.

I currently sit at about 220 with a different proportioned mass than previously at 210. I was really leg dominant then (I could rep 495 raw on squats then) with comparably less mass in my upper back. I can barbell row about 60 more pounds now than then, and one arm row about 35 more pounds for working sets. Still can't match younger me on squats, but I'm benching the most I've ever benched. I look far better proportioned now than at 210 years ago, just a few pounds of far left to lose.


So staying thin period was hardest for me with losing 2nd, and going from thin to larger the easiest. I'd eat well on weekdays and literally go crazy on weekends (like 6000-7000 cals sat and sun) during my weight gaining phase. That's just fun and easy.

But my experience with being "thin" is why you won't see me advocating long bouts of cardio for weight loss vs. more sensible deficits and strength training as the main method.

Gaining weight causes our fat cells to not only get bigger, but to multiply. Therefore, it is more difficult to lose weight if you were thin and then became heavy, or if you yo-yo.

I asked myself the same question for years. A few months ago I actually posted it to my FB & a friend answered it best, "Never being comfortable in your own body.". I found that none of my friends, who I was always jealous of (being I have always been a big girl) ever thought they had great bodies. We each envied different things the others had but never voiced them. It was a real eye opener. I don't think it's small to big OR big to small. I agree w/ my friend that never being comfortable in your own body is the worst. I know we are all here to lose weight &/or get fit but the ultimate goal should be to be healthy & happy w/ ourselves physically, no matter what size that may end up being.