^^ Lucky! I lose from the chest first. Hips/butt are last. Typical for a girl, I suppose.

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM. Reason : .]

5/20/2010 8:57:56 AM

^^ Don't use BMI. It's outdated and useless.

According to the BMI scale, Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak was severely overweight.

Here's another photo of me at an "overweight" 170 lbs:

5/20/2010 8:58:02 AM

Inches and body fat percentages are key

And your jeans. The skinny jeans and fat jeans are a great litmus test.

5/20/2010 8:59:49 AM

I claim to be 5'11". In shoes i'm about a half inch over 6'.

it is substantially easier for a man to be lean enough for visibility. you're doing good! I'm going to start doing ab exercises with my bft linda. NOT!

5/20/2010 9:01:07 AM

i still can't fit into my skinny jeans

my legs and butt have changed very little since last summer

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM. Reason : ^lol]

5/20/2010 9:01:42 AM

I'd like to get down to 155, but considering I float around in the 158-160 range right now and can lose 1.5 lbs just from pissing, it's really body fat I need to keep dropping.

Not entirely sure how I'm going to swing that, but the bag of Pretzel M&Ms in my room sure ain't helping.

5/20/2010 9:01:52 AM

Oh trust, I don't use the BMI thing... I'm just glad my doctor validated it was wrong

I'm 5'3". Not in the hips of belly button... Sorry, should've clarified. I mainly measure right above my belly button (my waist, belly button on me is lower I guess), then I measure below my belly button but above my hips. That's where I gain most of my weight because of all those problems I had. My body was producing way too much insulin so it would just store it in my stomach I would actually like to get lower than 34" in that area but right now I'm taking it slow and shooting for a few inches at a time. I think when I first started last fall I was 38-39 in that area.

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"I'm going to start doing ab exercises with my bft linda. NOT!"

I never really had any sort of ab definition (obviously you can't see it on me but I can definitely feel it) until I worked out with Linda.. now I can feel abs right around my ribs, yay

have fun with the Biggest Loser exercise where you do abs for 7 minutes straight

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM. Reason : .]

5/20/2010 9:01:59 AM

All you short folk complainin about BMI!!!!!!!!!1

I believe anything that says ideal!!111


fml

5/20/2010 9:02:59 AM

ahhhhhh. you got this. you seem to be working really hard
that sucks about the insulin. were you getting hypoglycemic a lot???
how exactly does one fix a problem like that?

my hips have stayed at a steady 37-38ish since last dec ember. i dont expect them to go down anytime soon :/


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5/20/2010 9:04:54 AM

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"right now I'm taking it slow and shooting for a few inches at a time"

That's what she said?

5/20/2010 9:05:12 AM

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"i still can't fit into my skinny jeans my legs and butt have changed very little since last summer "

You may have to change brands, since the cut will vary drastically from brand to brand.

At one point, I wore Express jeans religiously. Now it's either True Religion or American Eagle, bc nothing else fits quite right.

Women have to do this anyway ... I have gfs in their 30s who would lament that they have to wear a size 9 ... and I would tell them that those jeans are designed for JUNIOR girls. If they would simply shop for even sizes, they would actually find jeans that were designed for their body.

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"my hips have stayed at a steady 37-38ish since last dec ember. i dont expect them to go down anytime soon :/"

Same here. :/

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 9:08 AM. Reason : .]

5/20/2010 9:07:58 AM

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"I'd like to get down to 155"

But your body is a 10

5/20/2010 9:08:31 AM

^4 Yeah I was passing out all the time. Finally when I almost fainted driving home from work my mom freaked and I went to the urgent care next time I went home. I ate on the way home from Raleigh, got to Havelock, then we went straight to the doctor. Told him about the fainting spells, and so he checked my blood sugar. Then he asked when the last time I ate was and I told him roughly 2 hours (ps it was something normal, like a turkey sandwich).. Apparently my blood sugar had dropped so much in those two hours it made him all then I got an immediate referral to the endocrinologist...

Seeing as insulin resistance is usually something that happens to middle age people who are way overweight or eat like shit, they were a little confused why a 19 year old was in their office who wasn't morbidly obese.. Yeah I was overweight, but not to the point where I should be having these problems. ANYWAY, since my blood sugar was dropping so badly and so fast, we decided to go with both medicine and diet. PS, that diet f'ing SUCKED at first. The one I sent you in a PM... I didn't eat terribly before but it was a big change regardless. I was on 500 mg Metformin 4 x a day, now down to 2 x a day

And when I went back in January Dr. Lucas was all for me because I lost I think 2-3 inches ni the waist


/words

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 9:12 AM. Reason : .]

5/20/2010 9:11:46 AM

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"Same here. :/"

quiet, both of you.

you two have great hips. at least you're not those kind of girls with "negative butts" that go inward. Be glad you're able to do what most women cant: Be fit as hell and have a rockin booty.

5/20/2010 9:14:18 AM

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"yaaayyy congrats to LK, Joie, and LunaK "

thanks - btw sam... bikram has helped me a lot

5/20/2010 9:20:54 AM

Samwise16-trhat's good to hear (about the decrease in meds and inches lost!)

iheartkisses-i was actually telling God about this the other day but theres a site-mytruefit.com that is AWESOME for jeans fitting. i bought two pairs off of there and they are now my favorites! and youre so teeny!


thanks God

5/20/2010 9:21:12 AM

and oh yeah. sorry for the double post but i did hot yoga yesterday sam.
i love it!

5/20/2010 9:21:56 AM

i love all these people getting into hot yoga... i had a terrible class yesterday (ate too big of a lunch too late in the day) but it's been amazing for me

5/20/2010 9:23:33 AM

went to the gym this morning to play racquetball

first time i've done anything other than incidental exercise in over a year

5/20/2010 9:23:37 AM

yeah hot yoga is different... I definitely can say during certain portions I am absolutely miserable (because I hate being hot for long periods of time ) but I feel good after so I suffer through it. I think I might skip next week just because I can't afford ~$10 every week when I already pay for a gym :\

5/20/2010 9:27:00 AM

so. im also looking for more fitness type classes in the raleigh/cary area that i can pay as i go?
anyone know good places?

im about to go get my hair did.


ill check later

5/20/2010 9:33:23 AM

I can't do any cardio right now because of my torn hammy

I've just been lifting upper body these past few days

5/20/2010 9:42:22 AM

if you're injured and worried about weight gain because you can't do cardio, weight training is a great way to stay in shape

you can always start back your cardio when you're healthy

5/20/2010 9:43:50 AM

Joie - congrats on your work, really impressive looking.

I'm excited because after reading the advice of theDuke866 i've been doing more pull-ups in general and adding weight to them. I can do a ton more than I used to be able to do and can even get some done with an extra 25lbs. weighing me down.

5/20/2010 10:16:19 AM

I have too much muscle for a girl. when I was younger I wanted to be able to donate muscle. and that shit weighs alot. but for right now I gotta get the fat down. even, if I did loose all my fat, my build is so big I could never be a little skinny minny. On the plus side, is I look ALOT smaller than I actually am b/c the proportions are good.

5/20/2010 10:24:20 AM

i need to get my body fat checked, last time it was done i was hovering around 20% but i've lost 7-8lbs since then

5/20/2010 10:27:34 AM

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"I have too much muscle for a girl"

Unless you look like a female bodybuilder, that's a lie.

5/20/2010 10:28:30 AM

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" But your body is a 10"

You just say that to all your boyfriends

5/20/2010 10:59:54 AM

^^ Sometimes women don't want to look muscular. I recently read an article about extreme dieting in Asia. Basically, a lot of women there won't work out because they don't want to look bulky. But they diet to an extreme to be skinny:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-03-30-skinnyasianwomen30_CV_N.htm

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"In Asia, women want to stay skinny without exercising because muscles aren't considered a feminine feature, says Sing Lee, director of the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Center at Chinese University. That's why, "when they want to control their body weight, they eat less or take pills" instead of exerting themselves, Lee says."

Crazy!

5/20/2010 11:06:18 AM

^ my friend lived in south korea for a year. she's about 5'5" or so and is maybe 140 or so. not a big girl at all. she's a runner and does weights.

frequently on the train there - old men would come up to her, grab her thigh and say "big girl... oooo very big girl"

5/20/2010 11:08:06 AM

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"^^ Sometimes women don't want to look muscular."

Yes but women for the most part have the misconception that if they even look at a squat rack they're going to look like this



before they even have a chance to stop it.

This is not true at all never. There's absolutely no way you can even get remotely close to looking at anything like this at all without doing large amounts of supplements and lifting heavy weights for years.

The truth is that women, like you said, are just afraid of the stigma of "looking too muscular" and therefore avoid weights like the plague.

What they don't realize is that all of the tight, fit celebrity women they idolize do more weightlifts than cardio.

And I'm still calling bullshit on G.O.D unless she can produce a photo where she looks "too muscular."

5/20/2010 11:10:29 AM

God vs. G.O.D - the showdown.

5/20/2010 11:25:07 AM

It's physically impossible for a woman to get too muscular. She doesn't naturally produce enough testosterone.

If G.O.D is having this problem, that would indicate that she has large amounts of testosterone floating around, which would indicate there's a secret she may need to tell us.

5/20/2010 11:27:44 AM

A lot of women see themselves as quite a bit bigger than they are. So they start lifting and see a little bit of firming or their muscles swelling a bit and they think "OMG I am getting huge! I must have more muscle than other women"

And I have given up trying to convince them otherwise. When I started lifting all I got was "not too much. You don't want to get big!" and when I told them that couldn't physically happen women would tell me "but when I lifted I really did bulk up and it was bad!" and men would tell me "OK, but be sure you use low weights and higher reps to tone"

5/20/2010 11:35:32 AM

samwise, im not trying to discount your doctors advice bc obviously i have no idea about your health condition and i have never met you.

BUT to give you kind of comparison... i am 5'3" also and i have big boobs and i'm 130. i do not look emaciated

i was down to 126 a few months ago and i noticed a difference (better imo) but i had come down from 140. i think my body is on a really small frame and yes my boobs help me look thinner than i might actually be but looking at my body, i could use more muscle like joie and be at 140 but i'm 10 lbs less and can guarantee i don't look half as tight as she does in the pic she posted!

numbers most definitely dont mean much, but i wanted to point out what 130 on a 5'3" frame with very little muscle mass looks like-- and its not emaciated

5/20/2010 11:46:30 AM

Well there you have it, you said small frame... I don't have a small frame at all. I have big thigh muscles and pretty big arms. So... all I can say is everyone is different.

5/20/2010 11:49:14 AM

"Everyone is different" is just an excuse people have for being fat.

Here's an example of a woman with a large frame:



6'3", 170lb, I'd say that's a large frame.

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM. Reason : ]

5/20/2010 11:51:41 AM

Did I ever say I had a large frame? Nope. I just said I don't have a small frame.

Troll elsewhere k

5/20/2010 11:55:44 AM

Shooting straight with you isn't trolling.

An example are your "large muscular thighs" you complain about. While I doubt they're muscular (if so, how much can you squat? 150? 200?), if they really are you can reduce this by doing muscle endurance activities like cycling or long distance running instead of strength training.

5/20/2010 11:58:23 AM

maybe sam should post photos in XL shirts from 30 yards away to show how fit she is

dont h8 on sam!!!

hi sam!!!

5/20/2010 12:00:29 PM

That shirt was a large actually.

And the previous green one was a medium.

5/20/2010 12:02:20 PM

but what about the distance?

5/20/2010 12:03:43 PM

*yawn*

5/20/2010 12:03:49 PM

No idea, I think the guy was using a zoom lens in the second one.

In the first one my mom was probably about 20 feet away.

5/20/2010 12:04:25 PM

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"*yawn*"

Keep it up and stay unsatisfied with how you look and keep posting about it, it doesn't make a difference to me. I'm just trying to help you.

5/20/2010 12:05:17 PM

LOLOLOL

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 12:07 PM. Reason : oh hey Quinn ]

5/20/2010 12:07:12 PM

just because a woman is tall and weighs >150 doesn't mean she has a large frame. I wouldn't call that volleyball girl up there "large framed" - she doesn't have broad shoulders, wide hips, or large wrists.

and having worked with sam, I can say that she would probably look weird at 130. I know for fact that she has very strong legs and -although we never did 1RM- she could easily squat 200.

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"Don't use BMI. It's outdated and useless"

not true. while BMI may not be a good indicator for people in this thread (i.e. those who are fit/workout), for the MAJORITY of America, BMI is a good estimator of body fat percent and obesity-related disease.

5/20/2010 12:08:12 PM

5/20/2010 12:08:36 PM

sam, for what its worth, you dont seem like you have a big frame in the pics in your gallery

i wasnt trying to start anything with my post, i was just trying to point out what 130 can look like on someone who is 5'3"

but anyway, i want to try this insanity work out joie has been doing! i found it online for $65. seems like something i could do in my hotel room.. esp since i'm going to be on the road for the next 3 weeks

5/20/2010 12:08:39 PM

well I hope the chopstick thin femurs of a six foot tall woman hold her weight

5/20/2010 12:10:03 PM