No offense to anyone but I just came back from the gym and I just notice that there are some ladies that prefer to be ripped like no tomorrow lol which is ok but for me that just doesnt do it. Yes I want to lose weight but I would prefer to just be toned and not have all these muscles sticking out. I want to look feminine! The instructor that does body to pump at my all ladies gym has the perfect body she isnt all bulkie she has a nice figure and she lifts but she doesnt over do it. Just curious.....

The women that you have seen at the gym that are ripped probably workout a lot and watch there nutrition very strictly so they can get that ripped looked. For people like me and you who do about a 90 mins or less of exercise it would be really hard for us to get as muscular as them. Im going for the lean look

I;m not on the ripped train either. I do want my arms to eventually have a little bit of definition, but not ripped. Heck, I don't even wanna be skinny. I'm a Southern girl, and I wanna keep some thickness. I just wanna be as healthy as possible.

I don't want to look like a femal version of Arnold.....I just want to be toned, instead of having my stomach flop up and down when I do jumping jacks, id like it to stay put for once!

firm is the look im going for

Yeah, that's an aesthetic you're definitely not going to get without actively working very hard in a specific way to get there. So if it's not what you're into, no worries.

I think bodies are most beautiful when the people in them are healthy and comfortable in their own skin...so people who are comfortable being muscular are beautiful, just as those who are comfortable being rounder/curvier are beautiful.

Nope, you're not the only one!

I DEFINITELY don't want to be ripped. I honestly just want to feel like I can run and jump without jiggling all over the place...so that I'm comfortable in a swimsuit. That's pretty much it. I don't want definition of muscles...or that super extra toned look....I just want a flat tummy that's not all flabby and floppy and jiggly. lol

I'm going for Marilyn Monroe, so there is no rippage there. I just want to NOT have flab.

I don't want to be muscular ... but I also don't want to be flabby either ... I would like to be firm w/o flab but I don't nessecarily need muscles

And as you can tell you are def. not the only one

Ditto to the others! I love the look of a lot of belly dancers -- obviously very toned, but they still have some flesh over them!

I know, Im in the same boat as many of you Im not even trying to be thin. I dont even think I want to go below 170 let alone being buff. Yes I agree with that as well belly dancers do have great bods not buff at all and I like that look.

I would like to be somewhere between a dancer and Marilyn Monroe -- that kind of really in-shape look mixed with curvy and sexy

I just want to be healthy and look normal not too ripped but not frail and look sickly.
I don't want too much curves though, I prefer things more or less flat.

I'd actually just be happy to beautifully curvy... if even a little plump.... I'm not sure I'd really be comfortable being "skinny" skinny. I've never been that... and it doesn't sit well with my mental image of myself (prettily plump) or mesh too well with my ginormous bone structure. I'm like 5'2 (which I get from the Mexican side of my family) with HUGE bones (which I get from my Swedish/German ancestors, all of whom were like 6ft+ on the mens side and 5'7+ on the women's). I think I'd just look weird.

So yeah... I think I'd just like to be prettily plump and HEALTHY.