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?

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!