jealous of skinny minis!

Yeah I know. By looking at these boards you'd think there is no such thing as a different metabolism, but it's so wrong...

Skinny doesn't always equal healthy, just keep that in mind. I was "skinny" the majority of my life but looking back I wasn't probably the healthiest. If you are eating right and exercising then you will reach whatever your goals are. Just focus more on you and be confident about the changes you are making. :-)

There are millions of people who are "skinny fat".....skinny on the outside, fat on the inside.

Personally I think that people like us (e.g. folks who have to watch what they eat and exercise in order to achieve or maintain a healthy lifestyle) are better off in the long run. We are certainly probably healthier than someone who doesn't "have to" eat well or exercise.

u look great..your height and weight is????

I know a family that is skinny and mean really skinny. Mom is 49 something and weighs in at a wopping 93 pounds at 5ft tall the daughters are 31 and 100lbs and the other is 26 and 81lbs the son is 28 and is about 125lbs. The whole family and the grand kids eat like crap. Even at this tiny weight the mom was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesteral.
It just goes to show you just becase someone is skinny doesn't mean they are healthy! You are doing it right and you will be healthier and age better because of how good you take care of yourself. Keep up the good work!!!!

It WILL catch up with them. Nobody is immune from a bad diet. I was one of those very thin people in the 90's. I was a skinny kid, and a skinny teenager - I didn't realize the reason I was skinny was because I ate what my mom cooked, which was were generally balanced, nutritious meals. Therefore, I thought I could always eat whatever I wanted and it would not affect me. Boy, was I wrong.

I moved out the house in my early 20s and because I hated cooking, I lived on fast food and sugar soda. I didn't own a scale, but over the years I knew my clothes were getting tighter. I was always buying bigger sizes because my current clothes no longer fit. I went to the doctor for a routine check up, and weighed in at 215. I was SHOCKED!!!!

I kicked my own *kitten* into gear. I joined Weight Watchers and tracked my food diligently. I am now finally skinny again, and feel so much better physically and mentally.

This sounds like me, although I caught it a bit earlier and so only ended up gaining about 20 lbs during my junk food diet phase. Growing up everyone always wondered how I was so thin and yet seemed to eat junk all the time. The truth was, I only ate junk about 20% of the time, which was the time I spent with them. The other 80% of the time I was eating my parent's healthy, well-balanced low calorie meals.
You should check out the UK TV show Supersize vs. Superskinny, it really puts people's eating habits into perspective. At one point, I was eating nothing but junk food and not gaining any weight at all, but when I started tracking what I ate, I found that, while I was only eating junk food, I really wasn't eating that much. I may have had an extra large Big Mac meal for lunch, but that was all I would eat for the day. One day I had chocolate for every meal, but once I totaled it all up I found that I had only had 6 candy bars, which at 220 calories each, only added up to 1320 calories for the entire day. Chances are your friends are either not eating junk food all of the time and just happen to be eating it when they are around you, or they are not really eating as many calories as you think they are. Either way, it is more likely due to perception than the fact that your friends have vastly superior metabolisms.

I am thin but I have to watch what I eat and I don't drink alcohol!
Yet all my friends are tiny, eat mcdonalds and drink alcohol like there is no tomorrow!
So jel!

I workout, eat healthy and still don't look as mini as them!


BOOOOOOOOOOO

think you said you are jealous of what they can eat - not that they are skinny. Build your lean body mass and you can eat more because increasing lean body mass increases metabolism. Ta-da! :drinker:

So much hate and jealous people in this thread.

I am thin but I have to watch what I eat and I don't drink alcohol!
Yet all my friends are tiny, eat mcdonalds and drink alcohol like there is no tomorrow!
So jel!

I workout, eat healthy and still don't look as mini as them!


BOOOOOOOOOOO

maybe they skip meals to be able to do that.... a lot of young women do, i.e. eat nothing all day so they can eat fast food and drink alcohol in the evening.... which is extremely unhealthy. Just because someone is thin it does not mean they are healthy or that they have good body composition. Thin, sedentary and living off junk food and skipping meals to stay thin is extremely unhealthy. I don't see how it's any better than being obese, sedentary and living off junk. Unfortunately there's too much emphasis on the health risks of obesity, and not enough on the health risks of being sedentary and eating an unbalanced diet.

I seriously would not be jealous of them at all. Carry on eating healthy, carry on working out, and enjoy your healthy body composition. You probably look better than them naked....

So much hate and jealous people in this thread.

huh? who?