WHY AM I STILL FAT :(

Without being able to you your food we can't help you with that. Without seeing a full body pics it's hard to comment on that.

Here is what I THINK is going on based on past MFPers.

1. you're probably not eating enough
2. you are probably skinny fat. Let me explain before you get sad.

All this mean is you are at a good weight but you don't have a lot or any muscle tone. This is easily fixed
with weight lifting. Feed your muscle with the food and eat your calories and you'll see big changes fast.

I'll give you an example.
My trainer Dean married his wife when she was 99 lbs (5'1) and a size 6.
She is now 115 lbs (still 5'1) and a size ZERO.
How is this possible. She lifts heavy and eats her food.

Now go get that body you want.

Got it in one.

You are not fat, you have self esteem issues. The best thing you can do is stop criticizing yourself and start to see yourself in a more positive light. As a real "fat person" at 270lbs, people that are les than 130lbs complaining they are fat irritate the **** out of me!!

Why would it irritate the **** out of you? Everyone has their own issues and I'm certainly not qualified to say whether or not the OP needs counseling, but lets just assume that a 5'5" 110 pound person were on this post feeling they are hugely overweight? I'd feel compassion and want to help. I don't understand being angry over something like that. We all have our demons. If people come here for help, encouragement, anything at all, they deserve that much for putting themselves out there. People should treat others the way they would like to be treated. Anyone's comment on "I'm fat" - regardless of their height/weight is no reflection on anyone else. Have we become that ego centric as a society? I hope not!

Also someone who weighs less than the 130 pounds you mention could still be overweight if they are quite short!

Another vote for strenght training. Just to give you an idea of what it did for me: I am just over 5'5, 132 pounds, wear a size 4-6. That's the same size i used to wear a couple of years ago..at 118 pounds. Plus i look better naked now in my opinion, not as much jiggle.

^This. Weights stop the shakes.

Lift weights and eat more food.

I'm heavier than I was last Valentine's day in my profile pic but I look ten times better!

Weight isn't everything.

I am also 5'5 and my lowest weight was 124lbs and I felt great! But right now I'm in and around 130 most of the time (I think...trying not to go by weight any more so I gave my scales away) but because I built muscle and toned up with the 30 day shred workout at the end of last year, my body composition is just much, MUCH better!

I used to be skinny fat. now I look better because I lift weights. nuff said

Just adding this to all the good advice --- a factor to take into consideration is your body frame type. It certainly sounds like you are in a healthy weight range - as others have said perhaps more weight bearing exercises for toning and muscle. A pound of fat and a pound of muscle weigh the same but muscle takes up less room....

here's a link to determining your bodyframe. http://www.livestrong.com/article/134661-the-ideal-body-weight-body-frame-size/

You want results too quickly.

Put some more time in at the gym and relax a bit (you can miss a day or two).

Sounds like you want to be trim and not "flabby" but you have to remember that everyone has at least SOME flab. If you carry it around your middle it will make you look bigger than you actually are, to yourself at least.

Just take a breath, keep up the dedication at the gym, and don't focus on the scale but what you see in the mirror.

Jean sizes really don't matter, if you are proportionate and in a healthy weight range you look great to everyone, even if not to yourself (yet).

Seriously, to people who keep throwing around the word "therapy", I get it that she used the taboo "I feel fat" when shes not actually overweight but the BDD diagnoses getting thrown around so much is a bit annoying. I WAS fat at 130lbs (5ft1) and have felt fat at 115....I'm feeling pretty good about myself now that I've started lifting and eating better. First thought shouldn't be: Go see a shrink.

Sounds like you need to lift some heavy stuff and change your body composition and stop focusing on scale weight.

This thread is from January. OP hasn't been back since then.