How can I get skinny?
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You look really cute in your picture!! When I looked at it, I didn't see an "overweight" person at all. Lose what you need to get into the normal BMI range and then work out to reshape your body to a more desirable image for youself--but be safe, well, and realistic!6
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Your other posts are usually about this same thing. Do you have a therapist or a team to help you? A lot of people on the internet cannot give you the help/validation you are looking for.16
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texasredreb wrote: »You look really cute in your picture!! When I looked at it, I didn't see an "overweight" person at all. Lose what you need to get into the normal BMI range and then work out to reshape your body to a more desirable image for youself--but be safe, well, and realistic!
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paperpudding wrote: »ashleygroizard wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »You are slightly overweight - 83 kg at 175 height is a bmi of just over 27.
You need to lose about 7 kg or 15 lb to get into healthy weight range, maybe a bit more to get perfect weight for you.
57kg is only just above the lower cut off point of 18.6.
I don't think you should aim for such a low weight. Aim to lose 15 - 20 lb and then gain fitness/ body tone if you want to.
As the amount you need to lose is small, progress will be slow. Expect it to take at least 3 - 4 months.
I’m now down to 77kgs so I’m 1kg off a healthy bmi. My therapist and doctor told me I’m not overweight at 82kgs. And my therapist also told me European and English and German people can have a overweight bmi but really be a normal weight. I am English. What weight do you recommend I should go for?
Good. You have done well.
I'm not sure how 82 kg would not be slightly over weight for you - same as it was in my last post.
I think you should aim to lose, in total, 15 - 20lb, or 7 - 9 kg - that is including what you have already lost so, yes I agree with Lynn - to about 76kg.
Same as in my last post to you.
am not aware of English/German/European people having a higher BMI range, that doesnt sound right to me at all - I expect the charts were made on caucasian people so the normal healthy BMI range applies to you.
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Yeah at 82kgs and even at 78kgs what I am now is overweight you are right. I got down to 76.7kgs but I’ve gone back up to 78.5kg I don’t understand why this has happened. For some reason the weight loss goes up and down and up and down on the scales and I seem to be stuck from 76.7-78.5kgs why is this? I can’t seem to get my weight moving down past 76.7kgs and I’ve been trying really hard to eat less and move more but my weight keeps from 76.7-78.5kgs. Why is this happening? Your probably right the bmi does apply to me. Almost at a healthy bmi on the heavier side4 -
firecat1987 wrote: »Your other posts are usually about this same thing. Do you have a therapist or a team to help you? A lot of people on the internet cannot give you the help/validation you are looking for.
I am seeing a therapist as I have low self esteem and I hate my body and shape and my stomach. It’s weird because I was actually not worried about my weight when I was bigger. But I have realised I need to improve my body image and health and fitness so I can get to a healthy bmi.4 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »ashleygroizard wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »You are slightly overweight - 83 kg at 175 height is a bmi of just over 27.
You need to lose about 7 kg or 15 lb to get into healthy weight range, maybe a bit more to get perfect weight for you.
57kg is only just above the lower cut off point of 18.6.
I don't think you should aim for such a low weight. Aim to lose 15 - 20 lb and then gain fitness/ body tone if you want to.
As the amount you need to lose is small, progress will be slow. Expect it to take at least 3 - 4 months.
I’m now down to 77kgs so I’m 1kg off a healthy bmi. My therapist and doctor told me I’m not overweight at 82kgs. And my therapist also told me European and English and German people can have a overweight bmi but really be a normal weight. I am English. What weight do you recommend I should go for?
Good. You have done well.
I'm not sure how 82 kg would not be slightly over weight for you - same as it was in my last post.
I think you should aim to lose, in total, 15 - 20lb, or 7 - 9 kg - that is including what you have already lost so, yes I agree with Lynn - to about 76kg.
Same as in my last post to you.
am not aware of English/German/European people having a higher BMI range, that doesnt sound right to me at all - I expect the charts were made on caucasian people so the normal healthy BMI range applies to you.
I
Yeah at 82kgs and even at 78kgs what I am now is overweight you are right. I got down to 76.7kgs but I’ve gone back up to 78.5kg I don’t understand why this has happened. For some reason the weight loss goes up and down and up and down on the scales and I seem to be stuck from 76.7-78.5kgs why is this? I can’t seem to get my weight moving down past 76.7kgs and I’ve been trying really hard to eat less and move more but my weight keeps from 76.7-78.5kgs. Why is this happening? Your probably right the bmi does apply to me. Almost at a healthy bmi on the heavier side
That is entirely normal weight fluctuations caused by non-fat changes such as fluid retention and bowel movements.
Scale fluctuations are mentioned in several of the 'sticky' threads. I know people have referred you to them before; have you not looked at them yet?
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-health-fitness-and-diet-must-reads6 -
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jennlynne2018 wrote: »How often are you weighing yourself?
Up to 7 times a day15 -
That's way too often. I know it's difficult but you need to stop obsessed with the scale that you have to weigh yourself repeatedly throughout the day. I used to do that too when my ED was bad but now I only weigh once a day. It was hard at first but it is so worth it not to be tied to the scale all the time.13
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ashleygroizard wrote: »jennlynne2018 wrote: »How often are you weighing yourself?
Up to 7 times a day
Oh dear.
Once per day is all that’s necessary.
Preferably at the same time in your daily routine. Consistency is key.
More than once per day is superfluous and such data will not help you in any way.
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ashleygroizard wrote: »jennlynne2018 wrote: »How often are you weighing yourself?
Up to 7 times a day
Why? What do you expect to get from that?5 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »jennlynne2018 wrote: »How often are you weighing yourself?
Up to 7 times a day
Why? What do you expect to get from that?
So I know how much I can eat and drink in a day so I don’t gain weight.20 -
ashleygroizard wrote: »ashleygroizard wrote: »jennlynne2018 wrote: »How often are you weighing yourself?
Up to 7 times a day
Why? What do you expect to get from that?
So I know how much I can eat and drink in a day so I don’t gain weight.
And how exactly do you think that weighing yourself seven times a day will tell you that?
You eat some food and drink some water and then weigh yourself and you're slightly heavier. What does that tell you? It tells you that food and water have weight, and you already knew that.
You go to the toilet and then weigh yourself and you're slightly lighter. What does that tell you? It tells you that your digestive system contents have weight, and you already knew that.
At your current weight, gain or loss of actual permanent fat/muscle happens at the rate of about half a pound a week. That would be around one ounce a day, IF it were linear, which it's not. Your scales don't have the precision or accuracy to see how much fat you have gained or lost in the last two hours, and even if they did that would be utterly drowned out by the constant temporary fluctuations in weight that are caused by eating, drinking, sweating etc.
Weighing yourself seven times a day is utterly pointless, and it's also worryingly obsessive. People with healthy attitudes to weight loss weigh themselves once a day at most.19 -
If you really feel the need to be obsessive about weight loss, you could always obsessively educate yourself by reading the stickied threads instead
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But are you also going to stop constantly weighing yourself, accept that if the scale goes up and down over the course of a couple of days it means absolutely nothing, and start thinking in terms of weight gained or lost on average over the course of a couple of weeks?11
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