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Is anyone on maintenance that isn't even that skinny?

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  • gentlygently
    gentlygently Posts: 752 Member
    Aiming at healthy not skinny....

    Life is to be relished !

    Cake and bike riding are both great.

    Curves are fine.

    Obsessing about having a skinny body (which some sadly do) does not strike me as an attractive goal and at times it is probably not an attractive personality trait either...

    So for me I aim to get back (gently) to the healthy 150 or so I was before I got ill...and maintain at that.

    (5' 7" female.)



  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    I don't think it's physically possible for me to have skinny legs. They're thick, even when my body fat is below 18%. I'm seeing where my weight settles out if I eat 1500 calories a day.
  • thereshegoesagain
    thereshegoesagain Posts: 1,056 Member
    After losing get 90ish pounds, I've decided that I'm in maintenance. I'm 5'6 and bounce between 156-159 and I'm ok with that. I'm 58 years old and it's just too damn hard to go much lower and be able to stay there. If I hit 160, I crack down until I lose a few pounds, I don't want to go any higher than 160.
  • vherrere123
    vherrere123 Posts: 27 Member
    I am 5'1 I began at 164 pounds. I am at maintenance. My ranget is from 135-140. Am I skinny? Nah, maybe? I feel happy at this weight and my clothes feel good
  • hikernut53
    hikernut53 Posts: 43 Member
    One of my co-workers asked me if it was okay to tell me that I looked skinny...she had heard that it was offensive to some people! I told her that I appreciated that she noticed I had lost weight, and it was okay. I also said that since I wasn't actually skinny ( 5'5" and 156#) I considered myself to be "less large" lol. Most of my co-workers have said either nothing or that I "looked great" and I'm okay with that, too. I am still losing, but I'm not sure how much more I can lose and still be comfortable doing a maintenance diet. We'll see. I'm pretty okay with where I am now, but there is part of me that says I have to be officially out of the "overweight" category...
  • godlikepoetyes
    godlikepoetyes Posts: 442 Member
    You would probably lose weight if you up your calories from 1,200. Have you set it to .5 a week? And if you have, you could eat just a 100 calorie deficient every day and you would lose weight, slowly. Good luck.
  • Forty6and2
    Forty6and2 Posts: 2,492 Member
    I'm going to be quite a bit heavier when I go into near maintenance mode. I'm currently 156 lbs and when I get to 149 (about 9lbs away from a "normal" weight range) I plan to go close to maintenance and work on lifting primarily whereas my primary exercise now is cadio-based.
    As of right now, my "goal" is just to land in a healthy weight range. At 5'3, that's anywhere between 105-140. Other than that, all of my goals are fitness-related instead of weight-related. I find that helps my mental health at the very least
  • Fridaywed
    Fridaywed Posts: 10 Member
    edited July 2016
    I'm between 5'1 and 5'2, I usually just say 5'2. I'm fine with anything between 124-130(126 is my sweet spot though). I don't mind at all being on the higher end of healthy weight, I have a larger frame(Actually was told that by a doctor) and think I look great! I have pretty small measurements, I wear a US size 2-4 and smalls in almost all brands and I'm happy about that. I don't see any need to go below 124 ever.

    However right now I'm hovering around 133 and I'm pretty iffy about that
  • ARGriffy
    ARGriffy Posts: 1,002 Member
    lithezebra wrote: »
    I don't think it's physically possible for me to have skinny legs. They're thick, even when my body fat is below 18%. I'm seeing where my weight settles out if I eat 1500 calories a day.

    Ditto @lithezebra my upper is now so lean you can see my veins over biceps, but my legs are still quite the chunky monkeys! Skinny will never refer to me! :wink:
  • davidmartinez66
    davidmartinez66 Posts: 92 Member
    I am just over 5'9" and I weigh 174, according to the dreadful BMI I am overweight (25.3 score) but every calls me skinny and one person recently called me scrawny. I am have broad shoulders so that helps some, but I think I am done losing weight, I feel great, lots of energy, I will continue to work out and eat right, should be okay if I stay on track.

    David
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