women, your weight

*crickets*

srsly

Poll-closing dates for these weight threads should be 30 days away. Big motivator.

is this kilos? i did pounds.

POUNDS

There should be a height correlation somehow. 150 lbs and 5'1" is way different that 150 lbs. and 5'10"

i know but that just gets tricky

not 1 women will admit her weight huh

woman

Maybe the guys should guess the women's weight from WDYLL pictures :)

hahaha i dunno...

oh snap, Mark!

And the girls can guess.... Never mind.

dirty

155 lbs.

48 lbs. of which is my hair

you're a brave lady =)

fudge of

this thread could get ugly. but i just meant brave to speak up, not like you're a fat cow brave. you certainly look very petite!

I am 5'9" you see.

, not like you're a fat cow brave.

Hahaha this is my statement of the day. :D

185 pounds of sass.

And don't call me a girl.

::SNAP::

63 kilos. 138 pounds.
used to be 125 pounds. :-(

oh i'm about 166 cm which is about 5,5 foot or something?

woo! no fatteys so far!

we're too busy posting, we forget to eat?

Nath, how many times do you have to be told that you are beautiful?

ten pounds doesn't make a difference. look at your body - a body that has given birth twice, and is still feeding a child, and say to yourself that you ARE perfect.

149!

Pounds can be deceiving when you factor in height, muscle mass, etc. Measurements may have given a more accurate sense of size.

xp

i haven't weighed myself in years, but take out a tape measure when i'm feeling hueg, just to discover that i'm the same size as ever.

Nath, how many times do you have to be told that you are beautiful?

64676878676453435 times. ;-)

Nath, you are beautiful. x1000.

NOT ENOUGH. REPEAT AD NAUSEAM. ;-)

I might be 187 pounds of sass because I just woofed down a meatball grinder. With cheese, peppers and onions.

112
i am short

i don't really care how much i weigh, just whether or not my clothes fit.

what's a meatball grinder??

Steady

boston term for hoagie

i'm 130 and 5'6"ish and i would be fine with that except that the 10 lbs i've put on since college have literally all been in my ass. i wish i could gain weight a little more proportionately.

What's a hoagie?

171 last night with my jeans and boots and stuff on, so maybe I dunno, 165ish? About what I expected.

I'm only 5'5" but very dense. Apparently.

Oh shit I lied. I'm only 5'3". I don't know where that extra 5 came from.

mmmm i love hoagies

Nath, you are beautiful!

My weight is about 125 lbs. Height 5'3" (maybe a hair shorter than that...) I wish my waist were smaller. That is all.

hoagie is philadelphian term for hero

mmmm i love heroes

hero, of course, being the New Yorker term for po-boy

Is that like a sub?

as initially sold to sailors, yes

when someone first said po-boy to me i got very confused

Poll-closing dates for these weight threads should be 30 days away. Big motivator.

ok that made me lol. "Poll closes: in July, when you'll be a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding, and you already bought a dress that doesn't fit."

it's so shocking that an ilx thread would veer off into sandwich-talk

lol we love our sandwiches!

167 - 5'10"

Dammit, aimurchie still wins but she didn't say how tall she is. I might still have a chance at the density sweepstakes.

"density sweepstakes"-- i love it. good band name candidate. or maybe the title of dreamboat gorilla's next record.

Laurel, I've got 40 lbs on aimurchie (I'm a little over 5'6"). For HI DERE's sake, I will advise that a good 50 lbs of that is "cup size".

Oh my god - 50 lbs of boobs? That sounds so . . . painful. I have pretty average B/C cups so I can't even imagine what it would be like like carrying those around.

reading all this makes think i have to redouble my efforts to gain some weight.

ENBB - slight exaggeration (this is the internets after all). But my grandma was 4' 5" and a triple Z cup - she suffered mightily for those, and when she hit 90 bemoaned that they didn't offer reduction surgery until she was too old to have it.

a TRIPLE Z? that even exists?
my a cup mind is blown

whoa--i'd never heard of anything bigger than a j cup. i think that would be dan's wheelbarrow category.

shutup, thats gotta be a lie

She was like a 15" differential between her band size measurement (a modest 32") and "fullest point". Made all her own clothes, wore old fashioned corsets (which actually saved her life in an explosion that killed my grandfather) and scared the dickens out of me. My sister and I would joke about how she could eat a plate of spaghetti by just resting it on her, uh, facade.

what??? omgosh, write a book!

When the rest of them are dead, maybe.

http://www.jonco48.com/blog/zcup2su.jpg

i want that in my living room

http://movieimage6.tripod.com/vertigo/vertigo07.jpg

Kevin, you gotta weigh more than five tits by the end of summer.

i'll get arrested if i go around weighing women's tits eazy.

You could set up a "Guess Your (Tit) Weight $5" booth at the state fair.

170

woah, heavy tits

I immediately regret that joke.

wow.

Yeah, that didn't work at all. Very very sorry.

haw

i'll get arrested if i go around weighing women's tits eazy.

um, not if you're wearing an "Official Bikini Inspector" t-shirt, duh...

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/812/jadontvchappelledy8.jpg

I'm fat. It's okay, I like food.

40DD - I'm with ya, Jaq. I had a scare - a lumpectomy - and had to really consider what cutting them off would mean.
I think big breasted women often think about life without (or with smaller) boobs - bras are expensive, jogging is painful, it's really hard to find clothing that fits...
but, whatever, if I put on a certain shirt and skirt and heels, noone will be able to ignore the twin peaks.

I generally dress like a homeless person, just to keep that element of surprise on tap.

I have my suspicions there may be some fraudulent votes in this poll's results. I demand poll watchers!

Teenager Rachel Aldana is to star in the Guinness Book of Records for having Britain's biggest boobs - a titanic 32JJ. They make Jordan's 34FF pair look like poached eggs - and unlike the model, Rachel's ones are NATURAL.

But hairdresser Rachel, 18, pays a heavy price for her monster mammaries.
Each one weighs a staggering 2.4KG - more than a large bag of potatoes - which means she suffers permanent back pain.

:(

Mine are F, but an F is just a triple D. A double D is an E.

etc, etc

the lettering has always confused me

How did I know that this would degenerate into discussion of tits in mere moments? Sirmounter really has some secrets to fess up to.

In US fluid ounces and cubic centimeters - A = 8 fl. oz. = 236 cm³, B = 13 fl. oz. = 384 cm³, C = 21 fl. oz. = 621 cm³, D = 27 fl. oz. = 798 cm³.

Difference between bust size and underbust size (inches) - bust size and underbust size centimeters - cup size

Less than one inch AA AA
1 inch A A
2 inches B B
3 inches C C
4 inches D D
5 inches DD E or DD
6 inches E F or DDD
7 inches F G
8 inches FF H
9 inches G I
10 inches GG J
11 inches H K
12 inches HH L
13 inches J
14 inches JJ

look, i just asked about weight, alright?

I really didn't think anything beyond D existed. i'm new to all the technicalities. wow

Oh. Sorry, lib.

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thanks rox, that is very helpful!

you're welcome!!!

Look, it's all good, but Sirmounter should stop with the frontin'.

Currently estimating F to be about 2 liters of coca-cola + bag of chips = excellent snacking.

The name of this entertainement is 'Women lose weight'
Our first years of mariage everything was just great
But after two kids And a weight gain factor
The fact is Now she's completely unattractive
Look fat chicks I don't mean to sound rude
I tell her nice hit the gym And don't eat so much food
But no Your shallow
You need to run the course of unconditionnal love and so forth
But how if desire's is not there That's just delayment
Divorce is, child support, alimony payments
My happiness i doubt discouraged
So hurry for an easier way out of this marriage
Meanwhile my secretary June well groomed
When you gonna leave your wife I tell
her soon mommy soon, i assume
Or my destiny is blue Interestingly The only
thing left for me to do is to kill her

[ Chorus ]
What a surpriser, Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
I'm gonna have to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss
What a surpriser, Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
I'm gonna have to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss

[ Verse 2 ]
My plans against or shenanigans Kinda ran thin
Knowin' nothing about poisoning And i can't swim
Bad intentions pumping Might as well become numb
Cut her lungs or the obvious robbery gone wrong
But the catch is do i have the nerve to dispatch this
Who can i get to help me murder this fat chick
I guess i'll have to play a dude robbin
on wednesday The day she usually goes food shopping
Anyway long story short hit the side of her Chrysler
And sent her clean over the divider
"You bastard" she said
as the wreck went tumblin down the hill I
thought "she has to be dead"
Later on get a call (from a) Lieutenant O'Rourke
(had me) leapin like a frog We need you at the morgue
So i selfishly persue
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/Jye4 ]
"boohoo" there was nothing else
for me to do i had to kill her

[ Chorus ]
What a surpriser, Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
C'mon ya'll know i had to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss Kill her
What a surpriser Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
i had to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss

[ Verse 3 ]
So you mean to tell me officer you don't have
no clue who did this hit and run
No sir we don't have no clues right now
This is terrible what am i gonna tell the kids?
Pull yourself together sir
I'm so broken up inside i just can't believe this
I understand, I understand
Catch the person who did this
We're gonna try sir Please
Screamin "who done took my
heart" acting shakin up a lot
At the funeral though everyone was
lookin at me odd like i did it
Like i was the reason my mates slain murmuring
"I heard he was displeased with her weight gain"
While my secretary sort of a sexy blonde can't cook
All she does is order from restaurants
All of the sex you want I doubt could adress,
clothes not washed proper and house look a mess and
Talkin to detectives that was waitin outside
How i took a long lunch break day the wife died
I darn near turned pale
And because of betrayal they indicted me,
and gave me an impossible bail
Good fortune to anyone admiring the rawtent
Moral of the story is
Desire is important
So watch your weight It'll keep you mate smitten it's a given
Though looking back i realised i didn't have to kill her

[ Chorus ]
What a surpriser Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
I didn't have to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss
I killed her
What a surpriser Open your eyes, A Woman advisor
I didn't have to kill her
Of course there's laws which enforces divorces
Send that ass right to the morgue miss

that is one of the most retarded lyrics ever

degenerate into discussion of tits

Sorry, my fault. Thanks for the listing roxy, my gram was off the charts in a couple ways.

I weigh about 7 pounds more than I want to, and none of that is boobage.

that is one of the most retarded lyrics ever

-- roxymuzak, Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:58 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

respect the god

wtf is that song...?

"Our first years of mariage everything was just great
But after two kids And a weight gain factor "

yeah slicko, you gained a beer belly

I weigh about 7 pounds more than I want to, and none of that is boobage.

I always feel like this too.. or at least out of shape, I'm like why did I have to buy those expensive jeans that would fit perfectly on someone 5 pounds smaller

5'11'', 138 lbs, don't look it. I has cellulite.

150. Age rears it's ugly head. I'd like to lose at least 15 but I'm not very good at sticking with exercise.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i just got back from a day of bike riding (and have been doing a 40-min-each-way bike commute 6 days a week for the past 3 wks) so feeling pretty good abt my health and capabilities of my body. have lost about 5 lbs i guess in those wks, tho i haven't weighed myself, it just wld appear that way b/c of way body looks + clothes fit.

but anyway, i'm abt 150 lbs right now, i don't know, i gain weight pretty evenly all over, which i guess is a good thing b/c i lose it that way too, but sometimes i wish it didn't appear so much in my face b/c it means i pretty much have to be 138 or below to have defined cheekbones. which maybe isn't what i am supposed to have anyway. but hey. years ago when i lost weight, i pretty much cut out most sugar and switched from beer to gin. something that will work again, i'm sure, but while i can certainly deal with not eating bread or cake or whatever, beer is more difficult, esp in summer... but it'll prob do the trick. i mean, gin is good in summer too rite

also, i'm 5'75" and i'm kinda like whoa at quincie being 5'11 and 138! which obv means you have a dif body structure than me anyway! i think 135 is the least i've weighed since i was 14, and i have always played sports and been thin! but my waist has never been less than a 28, and that's like ribs on verge of showing in uncomfortable way, so usually a 29/30 b/c of the way i'm built. i don't know, i've never compared my weight to other people's weight really, it's true, only to my own weight itself. i'm more interested (? yeah i guess) in how dif bodies look. b/c obv the numbers mean dif things depending not only on height but on body shape, bone structure, muscle mass, etc. haha lately i'm only concerned abt my weight b/c i want to ride up hills faster and stop worrying abt the beer thing and also look hot in band photos loll

I feel honored that I was winning through pounds of flesh!

I am kind of trying to lose weight - kinda trying meaning watching "So You Think You Can Dance?", and going to a very fun dance class that's sort of aerobics and salsa for idiots.

I am never going to look like the dancers on the show, and I am never going to dance like them. But I really feel free doing crazy latin dancing/aerobics with a WHOLE bunch of other woman and other body types. I, apparently, have uniquely flexible hips.

just to go back to boobs for a minute - I was traumatized by dance classes back when my boobs started making me self conscious. It's so lovely to dance and jump around and burn calories in a really friendly environment - and a dance studio!
Not that I don't need my bra - I think I will always, somehow, envy the idea and the reality of being braless.

I guess I feel like I am moving into my weight, and since I am choosing to lose weight, I am moving naturally and with grace and health which is vitally important.

I'm 185 pounds of sass. I don't care how much I weigh. But I want to be more sass than tummy. Anyway, I have never done a cartwheel. So.. my goal is to dance, work out, lose weight - and try to learn how to do a cartwheel.
I want to do a cartwheel.
Advice? Suggestions?

I think I've got a bit of a complex to be honest. I'm 5'9" and about 132 but the weight issue still bothers me esp since I was in college & wore a couple sizes larger which is totally fine and normal.. except two of my housemates & closest friend were about 5'4" and size 2 and I always felt like a giant scandinavian ogre next to them.

5'4, 136lbs, clothes mostly bought for 130lbs. The 6 = belly.

Age rears it's ugly head.

Apparently the older you get the slower your metabolism gets, so it's true: age matters.

My mum used to jojo. She had anorexia for a period (and probably didn't have her period, har har); then became fat blimpy (eating cakes every day),... Then she went on a diet and lost it all. She claims it's because of her bad back but honestly I think she's just superdisciplined and doesn't want to weigh a gram too much (I'm so not kidding, my mom's all about suffering and discipline). I guess it's also because she lives in Japan so no matter what you're always going to be the fat one as a Western person in Japan (as opposed to the US where I always feel rather slim THANK YOU VERY MUCH).

Anyway, I gained about three kilos cause my parents came over and I went off the rail eating *shit*. Today is back to normal. Although *naturally* (hah! wtf is that?) 125 pounds wasn't really my weight according to most people - esp my mum who claimed I looked like a skeleton, thanks 100 pound weighing person - this body doesn't suit me either. That excess weight is dragging me down. It just doesn't feel right.

I do sports about two hours a week now. Tennis. I love it. But I don't really consider this a calory burning experience: when I get home, I usually make a big fat latte. hah.

If I didn't watch what I ate, I'd be Jabba the Hut. There's a fat person hiding inside of me. :-(

There's one hiding in all of us, stevie.

i'm kinda like whoa at quincie being 5'11 and 138! which obv means you have a dif body structure than me anyway!

Me too! As I said upthread I'm 5'10" and 167. The only time I've ever weighed 138 was in high school when I was so skinny that my Mom actually took me to the Dr because she thought I had an eating disorder. I'm about 10 pounds over my ideal right now. I look best at about 158.

It just goes to show how much body type and frame play into these things.

Yeah see the thing is I have small bones and my body mass is very skewed to the fatty tissue side as opposed to the lean muscle side (fat weighing less than muscle = "why don't I look skinnier than my weight would suggest?".

Seriously I would be happy to weigh more if I had some muscle! But for me that would require lol gym and I don't really see that happening. I get decent cardiovascular exercise from lots of walking and gardening, but that's not gonna help with the lack o' muscle thing. I am living proof that weight does not correlate with looks: I mean I wear a size 8 and am a C cup, which is not what you would guess from my weight. Also I wear a size 8.5 shoe, which is not what you would guess from my height.

Tiny feets! I wear a 10. :-( But you're right about the weight/size thing. I'm at size 10 (usually) and a B/C cup (depending on bra) but some might guess more if just told my weight. It's actually pretty interesting how much this stuff varies from person to person.

i've never tried dieting and i know i would suck at it, though i do "watch what i eat" in the sense of making sure i have enough fruits and vegetables and a fairly balanced diet. food is my #1 great love though and dieting just seems so unfair to the food. viewing food as just calories or points seems like it would ruin eating for me forever.

i started doing some yoga tapes last but it's mostly to strengthen my back muscles and help my posture which will help fix my slipped disk hopefully. i just spent all weekend with my parents who are excersize fanatics. i know i should do some kind of low-impact aerobic thing but gyms are so expensive :/ maybe i should get some carmen electra striptease workout tapes or something.

I attribute my considerable clumsiness to poor feet-to-height ratio.

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i haven't weighed myself in over year, but my weight doesn't really concern me - i monitor my size thru measurements and i'm currently b34-w28-h39 and i think i'm about 5'5". i'm probably a little bit smaller than my normal size at the moment due to some unhealthy eating habits. i've come to accept my proportions for what they are, after years of wishing i looked different.

xpost bell that striptease thing is supposed to be the shit

but if i had to guess my weight i'd put it at around 130-140

if i'm gonna start doing the strip workout i will need to finally put some curtains up in my living room!

Whoah, quince. You are a slender giant with a reasonable bust and not-enormous feets! That's, like, the best of all possible worlds! Is there Exxxxxtreme Gardening, maybe that involves doing backflips and karate kicks to get the shovels down from the garage?

I have a good friend who is also a slender giant, though, and I think she used to feel v keenly like some kind of ogre compared to other girls. Of course now she's all leg and eyes and usually the most striking person in any room, but it's partly because her posture and bearing are so good since she starting feeling more charitable toward her figure.

i think it's interesting, too. my mother is ~ 5'9" and 135, but she's got a larger frame (relatively speaking) and as a result looks very thin. sadly, i did not inherit this body type - i got the large bosom and round butt from the russian peasant stock on the other side of the family.

also interesting is that 7lbs has been mentioned several times as the amount of weight people want to lose. that's the case for me, too. i'm 153/154ish now, and i think that i look best at about 147. that may sound like a ton for my height (5'5"), but at this point i know myself pretty well and have no desire to lead the kind of life that's required for me to maintain a size 6. it was fine when i was 25 and painfully self-involved, but it's not so appealing to me now.

whoa, multiple xposts!

I know I've said this before, but for me, making an issue of my weight is kind of addictive/dangerous. At one point when my life was going very badly, I was down to about 130 and had a COMPLETELY flat stomach, no bulge at all, and I was so pleased...until I turned around and saw that now my hips looked too wide and not like the "other" girls' who I saw socially. Unfortunately the width of my hips is set by MY SKELETON, not my BMI, and even in that crazy period I knew it was retarded to hate my skeleton. Most of the time.

Anyway I try not to complain too much, life is good and I can afford to eat BRIE. Which I did yesterday.

i know that if i wanted to lose 5 lbs and was SERIOUS about it i could just quit drinking. but nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yeah, it's funny about the 7 pounds. if i lost 7 pounds, i would look sort of skinny (as opposed to just small). but if i lost 5, my clothes would fit better. i have a very small frame and am short, but have gained actual pounds since i started exercising more.

i've never "dieted" but i did have some periods of unhealthy eating, during which i felt worse about myself than before or since, but it was due to life circumstances rather than body stuff. (some people eat when they get depressed/some people stop eating)

the most i have ever weighed was about 115, so there is a 5-7 lb difference between my optimal clothes-fitting weight and my peak. that is because i am 5'2" and built like a bird, so 5 pounds really makes a difference.

i know that if i wanted to lose 5 lbs and was SERIOUS about it i could just quit drinking. but nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
otm. who would want to do that.
also i guess i could start smoking again, but also big naaaaaaaaaaaah.

yeah in all seriousness the weight thing doesn't bother me, but i'd like to be stronger, more flexible and more toned. having a large butt can look fantastic as long as it isn't too jiggly.

yeah basically you gotta learn to love what you've got because you can't change your skeleton. there are tall slender girls who wanna be short and round, and vice versa. my shape and size means i can't just go wear anything and expect to look good - i gotta try to dress to flatter my shape. i guess that goes for pretty much everyone, no matter what their size (altho obv some more than others).

also bell otm

i'm going be taking about a 6 week break real soon so i imagine i'm gonna chunk up a bit - i work 40-45hrs on my feet continuously so once that stops and i've got loads of free time to eat... well, i'm bound to gain a couple of inches.

Yeah, and the other good thing is that SOMEONE is bound to love whatever you've got. The beauty myth that men want models is, thank goodness, precisely that.

You know? Like how there's a point where you just accept that anyone you're with is going to have to love your type or something you've got going for you, cos you just can't fake it.

yeah the male idea of female perfection usually includes some boobs and butts in it.

one of the weirdest catcalls i've ever received was some guy who was like "don't lose any weight. ooh. don't gain any weight either. stay just like that."

Well probably most of the time, yeah, and it's healthy for us to be reminded of positive things like that if we've been feeling very pressured by mainstream demands, but there are plenty of men who like thinness or a certain spareness or ascetic look or very thin legs or tall women, or lots of other qualities that might not come with a lot of padding, and luckily there are people of all types out there to suit each other.

NB: Don't forget that the things people are attracted to can have a lot to do with how they feel about THEMSELVES, whatever "type" they themselves are.

xp ahahah. Catcalls are nuts, for sure.

yeah i mean, just in general, i'm not saying that most men will look at a model and go "eww she's gross," but if you look at women's fashion mags vs men's mags there are a lot more butts and boobs in the latter.

Of course now she's all leg and eyes

hi, i need to meet her.

not that either one is less photoshopped and unobtainable but whatever.
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Sorry, Kevin, she's a style plate and a knock-out and very, very taken. Also: vegan. Which you do not want, believe me.

bell, I feel kind of uneasy abt using mainstream (and yeah, doctored) images for any kind of ballast, that's just me. I mistrust exactly what you say, their unobtainability and their exclusivity. One silhouette might be a little more common in nature than the other but every group excluded from an "ideal" is going to feel shitty about it, and one could just as easily argue that a fleshier "ideal" in men's mags (presumably a positive) is balanced in shittiness by the blatant sexual availability/inferiority/powerlessness of the photos, postures, and so on. It's a very unpleasant toss-up.

I'm in the La Lechera camp because up until about 3 years ago my weight was very firmly in the 100-105 category; I'm 5' 3.5"; although this comes with 22" waist, my bustline is still reading Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret and my hips are wide in the bone. I have a flat stomach (the test: can you rest a full champagne glass upon y/n) but apart from the aforementioned fizzy bouze I don't drink beer or carbonated things, which might be helpful to flatness. Otherwise I eat what I want and would rather be shot than eat 'reduced calorie' food. My waistline measurement would be the same whether the hips were 36 or 40 so you can imagine this image of my body as lightbulb silhouette would annoy me when the numbers stack up nearer the latter. Photo evidence suggests I've got my mom's torso and my grandmother's upper arms and legs (which were knockout limbs even at 70), yet am the shortest person in my family.

My sister however is a 5'10" Scandinavian giant and I don't dare ask what she weighs because...she'll sit on me.

At some point post-adolescence we all need to set a new norm. The weight we maintained at 22 cannot be held up as some sort of ideal when we're 50 (or even 33!); that's just weird.

I would like to set the bar at my current weight and see what happens as I get older. If I'm eating healthy and exercising, this is the weight my body wants to be. I know that in order to weigh my 22-year-old weight, I would have to stop eating something that I enjoy eating, stop drinking wine or start smoking, so fuck it. If metabolism changes, I think it's important that our expectations change too.

ok i am totally not getting the last episode of season 3 of lost. can someone explain??

oooops! wrong thread :/

I'm 8st and 9lbs, which I think works out at 121lbs (I can't face getting the calculator out.) I'm also super-short. My stomach sticks out much more than I'm happy with and my waist is always the first thing to go when I put on more weight. I like how I look face on and, as far as I can tell, from behind, but I hate my figure in profile. Also hate family trait of fat cheeks.

However, my boobs stand up straight and my legs and bum can take a good deal of cheese and wine before they give up the fight.

If metabolism changes, I think it's important that our expectations change too.

getting old ain't easy ;_;

what was it that catherine deneuve said, about how at certain age you have to choose between your ass and your face?

i think it was ron jeremey.

Well, oily skin ages more gently than dry skin, I'm told, and a little subcutaneous fat does wonders for the planes of the face not falling straight off a cliff.

i think it's pretty accurate, when i lose 5 lbs my face starts looking gaunt. actually everything looks gaunt. except my ass.

Way to go, surmounter, on starting yet another ya-ya sisterhood traveling pants at the whistlestop cafe thread.

no idea what that means

kind of lol but mostly sad: the fact that many women look to gay assholes wanting to use them as clothes hangers for their retarded creations as a guideline for how they should look in real life

uh, i think that account of why women obsess over their bodies is a little impoverished.

also, Laurel is way otm upthread about deciding not to be crazy about this stuff. i literally would not have believed myself capable of that 5 years ago. it's been one of the nicest things about getting older. (i think it also helps that i don't live in ny or la.)

right horseshoe because i was trying to give a precise & exact definition for the reason women obsess over their bodies & i think i just succeeded in plainly summing it up

That's totally true: our habits and activity patterns change so I'm a lot more sedentary than the person who out at three different things five nights a week, plus dancing in clubs, which is who I was when I was 22 and weighed five pounds less than weight mentioned upthread. I don't expect to weigh the same as then at all but I've been a total sloth recently due to new-flat nesting and kitchen under construction-related food choices, so 105.

I think if I were able to somehow magically lose 15 pounds from my middle section only I would have a totally bangin all T&A bod. When I do lose weight, though, it seems to all come off my ass and boobs. Which are the two parts of my body that I like.

Okay, back to our regular scheduled womanly talk!

xpost to Amanda BTW, just had mom on phone bitching about Michelle Obama's insufficient pride in America.

ugh complaining about weighing 105 sounds kinda like pro-ana territory

I love love love to eat and drink and cook and grow food and all that stuff and have zero interest in going to the gym/playing sports/jogging etc. And I ain't getting younger. So I have decided to give myself ten pounds a decade: so in my 30s I'll aim to stay in the 130s, in my 40s stay in the 140s, etc. I figure I can pull this off (being tall, healthy, at low risk for cardiovascular disease etc) until I'm in my 60s, and then maybe I'll need to be a bit more strict in order to keep my risk factors low and stay active and stuff.

I mean I'm just not gonna work hard to maintain my current weight, denying myself the things I most love, if my body wants to put on another 10 pounds in the next 10 years. So maybe I'll have to go up to a size 10 pant. Who cares?

Bell, sorry to bust your theory but I'm very, very anti-ana (WTF? that's a bit personal) and was not complaining about weighing 105. That's ideal for me and my build and appx 7lbs less than I weigh at this particular time of the month. I'm happy with how I look in general.

To be fair Bell, when you see Suzy in real life 105 seems reasonable - she has the tiniest shoulders, overall frame etc of anyone ever - makes me feel like a strapping farm girl in comparison and, as stated above, I'm 5'2".

guys, me n paragraphs are having a thing these days just so yknow

i'm like the opposite of quincy re: food & exercise! except the exercise i like is mostly outdoors, temperate climate stuff, tho i've come to enjoy winter sports since living in quebec. which is also weird b/c i've always liked the winter olympics way more than the summer olympics. maybe that is neither here nor there. winter sports have a higher chance of injury, i find, making them better spectator sports but not nec what i'm into. i get bruised up just cross-country skiing and am a mess after a day of snowboarding, but it's freakin fun and all food tastes better after intense exercise, to me. oh but i went to watch roller derby the other night and was telling a friend about it and he was all "YOU should totally do that." maybe i am more fierce than i think.

sometimes i feel like i'd be a perfect candidate for something like survivor (except for the fighty parts) b/c of all the exercise + i will totally eat the same meals for months and not get bored (yeah they are balanced and healthy but not particularly interesting or anything.) to me, breakfast and lunch are kind of utilitarian and dinner has the possibility of being more interesting. i almost never have significant cravings for anything anymore. except maybe sushi/maki, tho not often anymore b/c there is so much abysmal sushi around here blargh. i was just grocery shopping and my main reaction to the whole thing is "yeah i don't know hm." at least i eat a lot of vegetables. but yeah when i go out to eat i always want to eat super flavorful things i wld never make at home.

so anyway, basically i wish i had my own swimming pool and a nearby bike path without newbs on it and that the weather was always awesome and someone else made me dinner every night. also i just ate a bunch of panda brand black licorice for lunch b/c that is what sometimes happens when i am otherwise occupied and suddenly overcome by hunger that will not take salad or whatever for an answer.

i have also done a lot of research abt food as information. which suits my mind but has def not been great for the soul, i'm thinking. thankfully i've come to know a bunch of farmers and people involved with sustainable food production issues etc, so i guess it's all starting to even out.

all these things are more interesting to me than weight apparently lol

Oh slightly built people, how I envy your frames. I'm the broad-shouldered, wide-hipped strapping farm girl type. My favorite vacation was when I went to Samoa - I felt petite there. But, this is what I am, and I'm happier now with my self than when I was obsessively controlling every calorie/gram of fat that went in my mouth.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/2506301096_6cfa76aa2b.jpg?v=0

is there one for the traveeling pantz

I am on the heavy side according to the charts for my frame and height. I don't look at my weight much anymore because so much of it is water.

I am heavier but smaller than I was a few years ago because of lifting free weights. It's the best quick fix for muscle definition. I am still a gym rat but I do not want to get any more muscular. I run or do yoga instead.

What I am working on most is my posture. Trying to keep my back straight and putting my feet in a more closed, ladylike stance. Ugh, my slouch looks so bad in photos.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

so anyway, basically i wish i had my own swimming pool and a nearby bike path without newbs on it

<3

not REALLY germane to the discussion, maybe, but my mom is elfin and wee. Late '50s, 5'ZERO, sub-100, and works barefoot in the garden all day. which goes a ways to explaining how (a) at 5'7" I tower TOWER over my immediate family and (b) how suzy at 5'2" 105 is not really ana like at all. i've met her, she's just small.

also i've known a few peasanty, T&A, brick shithouse looking chicks in my time and while some jerks might say they look "chubby," I have also seen these women very casually knock out 15 mile trail runs and what have you. see also skier chicks with skier asses. yaoooow

so i'm the avg weight of an ILX woman...

lol @ that actually being the thread's primary purpose after all!
should've been a poll option
o Surmounter

hahaha

This poll has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the ILX polling system works as designed.

I have seen the Quincie in a Bikini and she looks great--she just likes to complain about her "weight" to make the rest of us feel bad. *hi Quincie*

NB: She also looked really good in a Target Jackie-O style dress of mine, but I refused to let her have it.

Yikes! Virginia Plain - that's a loaded statement! (Given that, as women, we shouldn't support or invent falsehoods for the purpose of making ourselves, or anyone else, feel bad?!)
I assume you are complimenting her, but it's the kind of statement that can seem to be double edged, and...more importantly, give validity to negative remarks about bodies.

maybe you didn't mean it that way?

Ok, I just read Quincies post and take it all back - I was on a stupid high horse. i am now carefully stepping out of the stirrup...

Don't call that poor horse stupid. It's probably insecure about its height.

He he, I was just teasing her since she's a friend of mine.

"50-75 3" ???????????????????

My Little Pony?!

Aja?

I think this thread needs some small horses. Some kittens as well.

argh. nooooooooooooo dont you dare!!!!

I assume, Nath, that I am now NOT invited to the secret horsey kitten board. !;;! *^ *@ %% !

I'm 140, which is about 10 pounds overweight for my height. But I have a pretty healthy diet, run frequently, and am capable of doing field work all day (in fact, every one of the strongest, fastest working female archaeologists I know is a little on the heavy side), so I think losing that 10 pounds would involve really uncomfortable diet & exercise changes. So, uh...whatever. I may just be a chubby person.

Wow, are you an archaeologist too?

I say that, though I have no permanent employment at the moment...are you? That'd be neat!