The thinest I've ever been was like 160 lbs I think...and that was with help of Chinese medicine that I can't even get over here.
I have always been heavy... I saw this pic from when I was in 6th grade and I look bigger than I am now. AND I was holding icecream in the picture! hah!
I don't even remember what I weighed when I was growing up...so it's really hard to tell or even imagine what I will look like. All I do is picturing people's reaction... You know, those you haven't seen in awhile and then WOW!
Onestar Make sure you are doing strength exercise.. That will def help you with toning up the skins, too, although it's not going to be perfect.
sm177, one thing you have to remember is that yes, there are people who lose faster even with less workout and more calorie than we eat...but they may weigh way more than you do. It's not that difficult to find those who weigh over 300 lbs and lose 20 lb in a month, if you search for them. You started at 140 and are at 113 right now. I'm at 176'ish. It will use up more calorie to move a body that weighs 176 than to move a body that weighs 113, even if both of us were doing exact same work out for the same amount of time.
So don't let that get you discouraged. You are sooo close!
Last edited by taragettingthin; 02-26-2009 at 10:55 PM.
I've often wondered if I would look so different when I'm thin that I'll be ugly and not even look like myself. I have never been thin either, I've always had extra weight. I can't even begin to picture what I would look like...
I feel the same way. I think my weight gain started after the incident with my heart when I was around 4 years old. Ever since I was overweight. I always think to myself I will never be a specific weight. Sometimes I think if I were to get there would I still have the thought in my head that I am still overweight. It's difficult but I don't want to give up. I wish I had a family memeber that would go through the weight loss process with me. I would give me more hope but I'm glad to have found 3FC. It actually really does keep me motivated. =D
It's REALLY hard for me to imagine being thin because when I WAS thin, I thought I was fat.
I remember being weighed when I was 14 (already as tall as I am now, pretty much done developing) and I weighed 138 and I thought that was like huge.
OOOOOH how I long to be 138 haha
Dead-on, same story.
This chick was sucking in to save her life, and thought she was CHUNKY:
Uhm. Can you say "delusional"????
I was about 138 there as well... and I too would KILL to be 138 again, my god!
To answer your question tho, I... can't really picture myself "thin." Even when I was that size there... I'm actually about a size 8, maybe a 10. Define "thin." I think of sprightly little brunettes whose size 4 jeans are getting loose because they "forgot" to eat lunch that day. I don't think I'll ever be that girl, lol.
Awwww, thanks honey! I've pretty much deadened my hair with my straightener, but when it rains there's no point in trying to straighten it, since it'll just curl when it gets wet... so I had it curly last week. :P
I'm in the same boat. In high school I was probably around 140-150. I was always the heaviest kid around... but now 40 pounds later, I wish I was that fat again. I imagine when I lose it, I'll have my nice shoulders back and a jawline again, but I never really did have a pretty middle, so my hopes aren't too high in that department.
No, I really can't picture myself thin. I try to do it everyday . . . . I look at myself in the mirror, like I've always done, and try to picture myself at a healthy weight - with no flabs of fat hanging over anything and swinging arm fat. It just doesn't work. I've NEVER been even close to thin. My first fat memory was in pre-school when a boy asked to see my swimsuit and I realised that my belly was so much bigger than the other girls.
... yeah, I have a very distinct memory of being like 8 or something and my mother walking in on me staring glumly in the mirror, squishing my chest with my hands. She asked bewildered what I was doing, and I think I answered something about how all the fatter girls in my class had bigger boobs (I qualifying myself as "fat" at the age of 8).
I've been fat my whole life, so yeah. I never thought I would get this far. I dreamed I would, but I didn't have the confidence to believe it would be reality. I still don't believe it sometimes that I can reach a normal weight, or be thin. But I take it day by day and I'll get there. You will too!!
I find it hard to imagine myself as 'thin', but even harder to imagine what my life would be like to sustain that weight. I'm another one that has been overweight my whole life (actually weighed more in highschool than I do now), so I get into this mindset that to be thin I'd have to do something radically different from what I've done my whole life. That seems really scary, and I worry that I wouldn't be able to keep it up.
I have no goal weight for this very reason. I'm focussing on changing habits that don't freak me out: eating vegetables, portion control, exercise. I still don't see myself being thin at the end of it, but I already feel better in so many ways. I'm okay with never being thin, as long as I'm active, nourished, and happy with myself (I don't ask for much, do I? :P).
