Listen, I know I'm fat. But I almost
died after weighing myself when I joined 3FC! I hadn't weighed myself in years because my weight always seems higher than it should be and it pisses me off.
Most people guess I'm around 180. Including the DMV apparently since when I said I didn't know my weight earlier this year they put 170 down. I guess the lady thought she was being nice. She was being REALLY nice. hahaha But seriously, I don't know how many thin people guess I'm not much heavier than them and how many fat people tell me they would "just be happy if they were my size". And want to know my weight so they can use it as a goal for themselves...when they weigh less than me!
I know this woman who is about my height and build and she seems to carry her weight everywhere like I do and she is 5 sizes larger (I'm a 14, she's a 22) and she's older by 10 years and she is large busted (I'm SOOOO not! lol). Anyway, she is at 205 lbs. she told me this the other day because she's also losing weight and was excited to be 5 lbs. from 200.
HOWEVER, I'm naturally hyper and I move around all the time And since deciding to lose weight I've been exercising a lot including strength training. And besides just eating "healthier" and "less" I'm not really on a "diet". A lot of people I know IRL diet all the time and don't exercise besides MAYBE walking - when the weather is good. Every once in a while one will tell me that they lost "X pounds" and I can't see a difference. I tell them I can. But I really can't. :| Then they quit their diet and gain it all and more back! So no diet for me. Just eating better. I can do it for the rest of my life. So anyway the scale is moving S-L-O-W-L-Y for me, I weigh a little less than my starting weight now, but not much. I haven't weighed myself since late-November, but I had only lost like, 5 pounds or something by then so I didn't bother changing my ticker. The inches are coming off fast though. I don't have to tell anyone I'm losing weight. It's obvious.
Also, I should share this, I was obese as a child. I was raised on junk food and I wasn't allowed to play outside - or inside for that matter. Anyway, when I was a teenager and started feeding myself I dropped a lot of weight just automatically. But I didn't get thin. I just went from obese to flabby. Since then I've had this layer of flab all over my body. I know I have a lot of muscle underneath since I'm so strong, but my efforts to get rid of the flab always failed...until now! It's finally budging thanks to Jillian Michaels. But my point is that
FLAB IS FAT not skin. A lot of people like to call flab skin because it sounds better, but it just isn't. It's very stubborn FAT. And my other point is that since I've always (at least since teen/adulthood) had a lot of muscle mass even if it isn't obvious to others, that could be why I've always been heavier than I look. It could also be why people always ask me to help them move.
I kind of rambled. I hope it makes sense. The point is, I don't feel as fat as my weight says I am, and maybe there are good reasons I'm more "solid" or "dense" than other women, but alas, I'm still really fat and regardless of what the scale says, I'm going to keep working hard until
AND after I like what I see in the mirror! If when I'm a hottie the BMI still says I'm a fat cow I'll post here again.
lol
So I agree, perceptions can be skewed if you are used to that. It's not just the US - there are many countries where obesity is rising (I can't think of any where it isn't!), but it's an interesting observation.
That's because you live in California, you gotta come to Pennsylvania, everyone is overweight here...LOL!
