I get the same thing... My doctor makes me step on the scale several times before he'll believe the weight usually... I think we're just blessed with carrying our weight evenly and I won't complain. I know I have a lot of muscle mass under all this padding that probably weighs a bit too... Although, when I lose I look WORSE for a while because my top half thins out way faster than my bottom half and I look disproportionate for a while .

I have been told my whole life I don't look my weight, I know now everyone was trying to be nice. I see pictures of people on the boards that weigh the same as I do or did and they look the same as me - either that or A LOT of people carry their weight well. I weigh 190 now and when I look in the mirror I see 190 for the first time in my life and I like it. When I looked in the mirror at 190 before I saw 150.

It's funny because at the weight I am now people always say "You don't weight that much" Umm, yes I do. But, when I weighed 135 I was told you're fat, overweight, etc. Ummm what?! But yeah...when I wasn't fat, I was called fat and now that I am they say I am not fat...are you fricking blind! LOL But I do think it is in the way you carry it and I don't care what anyone says, I know I am overweight and need to lose so...no I don't get a false sense about my weight. I think a person can look good no matter what weight they are but it is a health issue for sure and being too overweight is not healthy.

Carmen Manheim's biography, "Wake up, I'm Fat," (Great book, by the way) talks about how most people underestimate others weights. Like a casting director turning her down for at part because she was too thin, he wanted a "really fat actress, like over 200 lbs" (she weight like 30 to 50 lbs more than that at the time).

I remember when I first hit 300 lbs, so many friends and family wouldn't believe it, because they thought of a person over 300 lbs as someone who couldn't get out of bed or walk or anything. I was even accused of making it up by one person (like who would make that up?).

Yep! I'm about 5'8 tall and when I weighed 185 lbs no one would ever have guessed because of my height and shape. I'm small chested and have a slim waist but my weight sits in my butt and thighs. If my upper body was in proportion to my lower body I probably would have looked heavier.

Even my doctor was surprised when she weighed me. I've been maintaining my weight at 165 for the last year but want to lose that last darned 10 lbs to hit my WW goal.

When I told everyone I started at a tight size 26, they were like "NO WAY were you that big!!" So I guess I carried my weight well then, and my uncle said I looked like I was 160 when I weighed 190 when I saw him. I'm like the rest of you girls, I carry my weight VERY evenly. Everything gets big all at the same time, and everything is shrinking all at the same time.

But I think I look what I weigh now, because everyone asks what I weigh when I see them (does anyone else get that? like it's okay to ask someone on a diet how much they weigh? but I tell them because I don't mind) and no one has said, "You don't look like you weigh that much!" And everyone I know knows what I weigh, so I must look it now.

When I go to the doctor they always set the scale at 150 and try to slide the weight up from there. Unfortunatly, they end up going to the 200 shortly!~

Hi Thin!! Well, I've been "stuck at a plateau" for about a year and a half...I really have just come to a place in losing that I need to incorporate some more intense exercise. But when I see people I haven't seen in about a year, they say, "Wow...you've lost a TON of weight!" And I'm like, "No...not even one pound...but thanks..." I can only figure it's because they know I've been frustrated trying to lose and are just trying to make me feel better or...who knows...maybe things are shifting around or something, but I can definitely tell you that I haven't lost one friggen pound in well over a year.

Most people tell me I don't look like I weigh just over 160lbs. They also don't believe that I am still a size 14 bottom (size 10/12 US). Mind you, it was the same thing when I was bigger, because when I would talk about not being able to buy clothes, people would say "Sure you can. They go up to a 24!" (20/22 US?) I couldn't even fit into the 32s in the larger size clothes stores! People really didn't have a clear picture of the size I was.

Zelma

When I weighed over 200 and I went to the doctor's office, the nurse would always start the scale at 150, move it to 160, and then inch it along really slowly. My weight is extremely evenly distributed and I have fairly broad shoulders, along with a larger frame. Even now, at 175, I wear a size 12, and a medium in stretchy clothes. My sister has a totally different body shape, with a lot of belly/body fat, but I would venture to guess she doesn't realkly weigh much more than I do, and she takes a size 16 at best.

people look at my weird like Im lying when I tell them my weight, I say 119lbs and they look at my like sure, more like 130

Shoot - I can't even eyeball 4 ozs of chicken, much less try to guess someone's weight!

LOL

Me too! lol