sontaikle: you just look amazing!! You look strong and tiny at the same time. Love it. Hope you feel better soon though.

Turbo: conrgats on the 16k. I can't really comment on the sports stuff you write cuz I am just CLUELESS. The only thing I know is that my mom drew beckham the other day in Drawsomething (you guys know it?) as a tennisplayer and I laughed my bum off.

Krampus: you'll drop back down to the 120s again soooon. Have anything fun planned to do with your uncle there? You and your mom look so glamorous! Was it fun? I was wondering the other day - how is the new job? Do you like it?

Jayohwhy: Oh, I wanna do yoga too! What kind of yoga are you doing?

fivestone: welcome to the chat! Hope you find the answers/help on 3FC. Super nice that you are willing to support your husband with the lowcarb. It's not an easy thing.

Dottie: Aw, just drink water and tea and eat another eggwhite. Or just eat whatever - in the end it matters none if you stick to your plan generally the rest of the time. No fun in being hungry and doesn't do you any good either. Chances are you'll eat extra at dinner because you have been waiting for so long.

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I have SO much I wanna tell/talk about with you guys. Haha. I'll just do the stuff I wanna tell quickly:

->>After telling myself and people I know that someday I wanna have a roadbike I finally got one! A year ago or so when I started exercise I promised myself if I got fit by this sumemr I'd get one. And even though I don't have a lot of money, the way I've been exercising and dropping weight without buying new clothes or anything I felt like I deserved it. So I bought this one: http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3484/168q.jpg

I don't have a helmet yet, and also no shoes and padded shorts. I'll buy that when my paycheck comes in so have to be patient before I can ride. But I am in 7th heaven.

->> I really could no longer walk around in my gym clothes from like 35lbs ago, so I bought a new set - and this pic just shocked me again, because I really don't see myself like that, but it is me!


->> I ran 7.8miles yesterday! I've never gone that far, it took me exactly 1h30. I am psyched! I really run because I like it and not because it burns calories, and that's the best feeling ever. All those calories are a fun extra.


What I wanna talk about; I notice the closer I get to goal the more I try to look at my body and compare it to other thin people I see. And I try to determine how I am going to decide I am pleased with my body. And then I see really skinny girls, and I still see them as sort of "fat". I don't think their body looks the way I would want my body to look. I know they aren't fat, but their body just doesn't look like it's well taken care of. Like she put work into looking good. Even when it's a hot model or a fashionista. I think I want my body to be skinny, but mostly I want it to look muscular. Strong. Like sontaikle actually! Now - a lot of you girls on here talk about lean instead of skinny and you all work hard to get fit. Do you ever feel like some skinny people are still fat? Or am I starting to really have a weird sense of what "fat" means?

I can be pretty rational so if my train of thought is something completely weird that I should look into I am sure I can steer it in the right direction, just checking to see if I need to.

Down on myself this week- not good weight wise :-(

crazygurl61 - your ticker says you've lost 15lbs so far. That's an amazing accomplishment due to all of YOUR hard work. I know it's hard not to get down on yourself but think back to that when you do.

philana - you look amazing! I wish I had the joy of running but I just don't like it. Maybe some day I think there's a difference between just being skinny and being fit. I have a good friend who has always been thin - she's barely 120 and 5'7" but she can't do anything athletic and doesn't exercise. That's not the thin I want to be.

I had some cheese yesterday to curb my appetite yesterday and that helped. I've been working with an ~1650 calorie/day diet in order to just slowly lose 1/2 pound a week, but have been trying to eat more like 1400-1500 instead. So perhaps yesterday I just needed a little bit more. I was still around 1500.

Went to Bikram last night and it was SO HUMID because it's been raining for several days. I made it through though! Scale has me down to 139.2 this morning! woo-hoo! I'm curious to see what tomorrow brings and if any of that was just water weight from class last night. Still that made me SMILE this morning.

this thread is buziinnnng!

krampus : your mom and you look so cute, even if they were a bit too excited with the make up on you lol. I love your nude shoes!

jayo : I do get you on the point of getting new sport stuff instead of new clothing. I know I need new bras an stuff but I can only thin about some new short and top to run!

sontaikle : not being sick for a year is good! LOL consider yourself lucky!

fivestone : Hi to you too! Are you going to try the low carb thing with your husband?

DottieMae : When this happens, I drink tea. Don't know why, but hot beverage sooths my hunger.I drink one after every lunch

philana : first, nice gym outfit! I specially love the pants! Nice ride too! An congrats on the 7.8 mile! (wow, so much cool stuff in one single post LOL) On the more serious matter, I understand your point. When I was 50 lbs heavier, every girl lighter than me was ''omg she's so skinny I want to be like her'' But now that I lost weight, but mostly since I started to train more, my vision on girls that looked skinny to me a year ago changed. Now I can see they are skinny, but not fit. It makes you realize that after 1 year of dieting, it's still not what I want to be... (oh and the thing about your mom drawing beckham with a tennis thing litteraly cracked me up LOL!)

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Hey ladies! not much new, i did not weigh in this morning, I wasn't willing to face the water weight 2 days in a row lol. I'll weight until later in the week to sneak peak on the scale.

I ran a 6k this morning with 2 faster interval of 1k. God it was hard, don't know if it's because I'm not a morning person or because the intervals were hard on me... It's probably both, I guess!

I also started this new thing this morning , inspired by some kind of bikini bootcamp shape up I red on the Lauren Conrad website (yeah, I know... don't judge LOL) that suggest to do 50 crunch + 1 min of plank every morning and every night. I guess that can't be bad for the abs!

philiana - you look awesome! really fit.

Turbo - that bikini bootcamp sounds awesome!

crazygurl - hang in there

Dottie- congrats on being down!

I'm feeling really frustrated because I stayed between 1200-1400 calories and worked out 4x this week and im not down at all

128.5 today. Going in the right direction. Big annual board meeting at work today so I'm busy and also irrationally excited about putting $97 worth of lunches on my Subway points card.

My size 4 Worthington brand suit from JCPenney is baggy now and the dress shirt is unwearable. Just the other day I couldn't zip juniors' size 7 shorts at Target though. Sizes are all over the place!

LisaTcan That is frustrating but I'd be willing to bet it will show up next week!

TurboMammoth That's not a bad idea about the morning and evening crunches and planks, I should do that! Intervals suuuuuuuck

philana You're wasting away (in an exciting way)! I definitely notice bodily flaws in thin people too, which is stupid. Some of the models at the fashion show had no bodily flaws and that made me really sad and hopeless for myself for about two seconds. My job is OK, I'm the assistant to the director here and if you've seen my post counts on 3FC, well, sometimes I think I need more to do. Big board meeting today though which is exciting as I'll meet lots of other members of our organization!

crazygurl61 Don't be down on yourself! TOM is a stinker and can really mess with your head.

DottieMae Nice work being down, sometimes the only solution to hunger is eating...when hot tea and chugging water doesn't work.

fivestone LONG TIME NO SEE! Nice to see you on here. How are you?!

jayohwhy Thin compliments are definitely more meaningful coming from thin people. Do you get poop shy away from home? Haha

sontaikle Get well ASAP!

sontaikle - Wow I can def see definition - you look very slim and fit!!

krampus - You look great too! And the red dress looks really nice on you. The mermaid sillouette dress is very hard to pull off for most people! Funny thing is that thin people pics never make me envious, "fitspo" does though. Like if I look up fitspo I still the same hot blonde model, except this time she has muscle tone with some motto like
"weights won't bulk you up, you'll look like this!" I just don't look at those pics anymore haha.

philana - You look really fit even in a tee, I find tshirts hard to pull off ha. Do you mean "skinny fat"? The women in my fam are all tiny Asian women - small builds and while I am a smaller build than other people, I have a much bigger frame than them. The only non skinny fat one is my aunt who does yoga. I get paranoid about being skinny fat, and I will continue strength training, but maybe its better than my former self? (fat-fat?)

LisaTcan and crazygurl61-My scale didn't move for a month and now it is starting to even though I didn't do anything differently! There's probably many possible reasons why but I wouldn't be too concerned unless its been many weeks!

Turbomammoth-My strength training exercises are the ones that the VS models do (I just google VS workouts on youtube), yes with the mini weights haha. Theyre challenging for me, so I'll stick with it for now!

fivestone-Hello! Glad you are back

OK so there was some mother's day deal on bebe, sooo I ordered the green dress. I can zip that thing up, so I am assuming that that means that I am a "half size" away from fitting properly in it, and I think that with a month of hard work, I can do it! Plus I saw it on the manniquin, it doesn't fit like how it does on the website, I think its the material, it just hugs the skin even when I went up a size, not that I will! hahah
I snapped a pic real quick of the actual dress to show you how it actually looks in real life - no forgiveness and all the more incentive for me!
EDIT-This is the manniquin not me

pixellate Is that a mannequin or you? Cause if it's you, 14 lbs and you'll be a skeleton. I don't need fitspo when I have 3FC featherweights around. Do you ever feel cheated because of your small frame? I'm 5'5 so I'm tall (I guess not really by Korean standards though), but I think I am "supposed" to weigh < 115 pounds. Still have lots of wobbly bits everywhere and no bones.

LMAO thats a manniquin! If only I had that chest, butt and waist ratio lol, my chest is smaller than her and my legs are twice as big at least. But I do feel silly for feeling bad next to a manniquin! I posted it so that when I reach goal and post me in this dress no one will think it fits me off - that material is so clingy!
I do feel cheated ugh. I read "petite" blogs and most of them are asians and they weigh 90 something lbs and are around my height - the thing is because of their frame they look simply small and slim. Its like...its just so esay to look stocky with a tiny frame and a heavier weight. And I feel like no matter what I do, I still sorta take after how all the women look in my fam, who just watch what they eat-sorta soft and small, which is why I think that many Asian women can "pull off" a small size and weight without looking skeletal. When I say that I am small, people are like "I wish I was like that" because I think that they assume that even if you gain extra weight, you'll be like max a size 6 or something. At 5'5'' I def consider you Asian tall!

Wow! That's amazing! What are you studying?

okay, i've decided to go from calorie cycling to the same calorie count every day because i was "binging" on my high calorie days, i.e. i was using it as an excuse to overeat.

has that happened to any of you?

I never try calorie cycling but I know that when I tell myself ''Okay, today, let's take a break of counting and just indulge a bit'' it always ends up in something more like EAT ALL THE THINGS IN THE WOOOOOORLD.

So yeah, it's happening to me all the time LOL

I eat a lot more on weekends and tend to be heaviest on Sunday morning and lightest on Friday morning...so yes, I guess? I don't count calories currently because I can lose weight without doing so (and all the numbers crunching makes me feel trapped).

127.0 this morning after a 2 mile treadmill run, coffee and poo. Yoshhhhh! This puts me at exactly 1.5 kilos away from my lowest adult weight.

134.2 lbs this morning after drinking my life away for the past 2 days and pooping.

Feels good to be back to a lower weight, the 136's freacked me out!