I have a friend who actually bulks up without wanting to. It's really weird. She builds muscle like no tomorrow.
Like... even if she doesn't want to. She's 5'6" and was told by the doctor that for HER, being below 150 is underweight, because she naturally has about 30 pounds more muscle than most girls (without doing anything to maintain it). Just from doing regular cardio she starts to bulk up (which boggles me, seeing as cardio often leads to muscle LOSS) and if she TRIES to build muscle mass, she starts developing a 6-pack within a month with very little effort.
It just boggles my mind. I don't know what makes her different from other girls but I've never met ANYONE like that. O_o
Now, I'm obviously not insinuating that would happen to me... NOOOOO. I don't think 99.9999% of girls could even do that even if they wanted to. I just think it's kind of funny.
Anyway, I see
some of your points. I think with me it's honestly a matter of thinking of those girls who are toned and not soft at all and I'm like D:
Don't lie, you know that overweight people are way more nice for hugging than skinny people. I love hugging my obese friend. She's so squishy.
But my other friend is underweight, and hugging him is like hugging a rock... I think in that sense my obese friend is much more appealing. I dunno... I think I just like squish. I don't think you have to be obese to have squish, though.... just a little extra padding! That way you don't have to have the health hazards that go along with it.
Now that I'm in a normal weight range I'm going to have to be careful as I continue to get closer to 145... since if I feel I'm getting to be not squishy enough I need to stop, gain just a hair back, and stop for maintenance... which is why I'm even more hesitant to do weight training while losing. That would alter my weight and make it even more difficult to determine where the ideal squish weight is. Maybe if I was no longer losing I could experiment with some weight training and determine how much muscle is enough that you could never even tell it's there but...
it certainly seems difficult, you know?
UGH.
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Originally Posted by jayjay77
I ditto SunnyPMy mother is "skinny fat" and it is definitely not attractive. She is built like a stick but still has saggy butt and flabby thighs.
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Hm.... I wouldn't want to be a stick anyway.... I'd want it to blend more with everything else... wouldn't want to be
that skinny personally, weight lifting or not!
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Originally Posted by SunnyP
Oh and congrats on your 40+ pound weight loss! I just saw that. That's spectacular. At your height you must look fantastic at 166!
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Thanks. I'm actually at 164ish now but only change my ticker every 2 weeks on my official weigh-in day. I've only lost about 3 pounds this past September, but slow and steady wins the race! My body seems to like this weight so I'm not really fighting it. The only part of me still "fat" rather than "soft" is my stomach, which I've barely lost anything from becuase my body hoards stomach fat for dear life.
I've lost 46 pounds and only dropped one pant size because of my hoarded stomach fat.
We'll see what happens in the next 20 pounds though......