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I have my af hoping that has made me weigh more

Definitely! And that is still a fantastic weight, my weight is 7 stone more than you !

Congratulations

I haven't weighed that little since I was about 14. You have nothing to worry about!

How tall are you? I was about 4 1/2 stone more than you

Do you have an eating disorder op?

I am 5ft 1
Feel more comfortable at 8st

wow. I'm 5'2" and 8'12 and I feel slim tbh!! not thin, but you know!

8 stone 5 is surely nothing to worry about? I've not been that weight in my whole adult life!

I weigh almost double your weight. Not understanding what you're worried about? 8 st 5 is a normal weight unless you're 2ft tall?

What's your point?

My uterus weighs about that atm

Are you ok? It is 5lbs not 5 stone? Do you have an ED?

OP is probably quite short.

I usually weigh about 8 and a half stone but could probably do to be around 8 stone. I'm 5'3.

Sorry OP, I missed that you are 5'1.

Do Weight Watchers for a week. I lost 5 lb my first week. If it makes you feel better of course.

Really though. You are hardly overweight op.

It's only a few pounds, OP! I'm 11st 3lbs and I'm 5'7! I'm classed as 'healthy' weight according to BMI. I'd prefer to be 11st, but I don't worry about this. I will get a few lbs off, not too difficult after a few weeks not eating rubbish....

I an 5ft 1
Nope no ed

5lbs is easily salvaged op! if you're not comfortable at this weight, cut back the bad habits now and up the exercise before it's too late

voice of experience - once 8 stone 3lb, now 9 stone 6. Nobodies fault but mine, too much crap, not enough exercise. Sooo easy to gain, so difficult to lose

Feel more comfortable at 8st

"8 stone 5 is surely nothing to worry about? I've not been that weight in my whole adult life!"

Was just thinking that myself - I would be non existent though if I was this weight.

oh and if you're short i.e. 5 foot ish then any weight gain is more noticable

I'm 5ft 2 and normally weigh 8 st, I know what you mean about suddenly putting on half a stone, it makes you feel yuuuk. I just try to up the excersize a bit and then feel better.

Really? I would be thrilled.

Actually that would be a very low wight for me so I would now be having fun planning how to get to 9 stone

Oh right.

Don't worry, eat well for a week and it will drop off!

5 pounds isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things. I know how you feel though - when you're small you feel like every pound shows!

If you cut out the crap, eat plenty of fruit and veg for the next couple of weeks you'll lose it. It's simple. Five pound is not a lot of weight to lose.

i'm 5ft 2 and weigh just over 9 stone, at 8 stone i would feel way too skinny!

Have you phoned one of those obesity shows? Maybe you could go on that?

Alternatively try a large shite.

Giraffes

5 ft 3

One day I will be 8 st ..... a few months after I'm dead most likely! There's no way I could look healthy at 8st.

Well, we're all different.

Just worth bearing in mind that being skinny over 40 is very ageing.

Cut back for 2 weeks and it'll come off.

Have you been scoffing?

Can I ask you, politely, what you were hoping to achieve with this thread?

You do realise that your weight fluctuates naturally up and down, every day?

You must also realise that 8 stone 5 is not exactly heifer-like, surely?

You must, therefore, also forgive the less than sympathetic responses you are getting.

So I ask you again - what were you really thinking you wanted out of posting this?

What a tremendously dull thread!

Rampant stealth boasting I think. Or 'research'.

Oh come on don't be mean to OP.

Just because she's very slim it doesn't mean she can't be horrified at gaining 5 lbs does it?

If she had said she was 16 stone and sad she would be getting shit loads of sympathy.

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my very first.

seems like a stealth boast thread to me <shrugs>

fuckit

I have weighed 8st for about a year never changes

It really depends where you carry the weight though.

I don't get why people are giving faces. ATM, I weigh just under 9 stone, usually weigh around 8 and a half - not fat at all but I don't feel comfortable at the moment and my hip to waist ratio isn't great. If I could lose about a stone I'd probably feel at my best.

Woah, first world problem

Are you preggers OP?

Oh dear.

So you weigh yourself every day do you?

I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.

It's natural for your weight to increase around the time of your period. And all manner of other things can cause this too.

Unless you think there is something wrong with you?

It prob is that. I'm not sure why all they funny faces. I'm 5'4 and between 7 1/2-8stone max. I would feel unhealthy and bloated at 8.5 stone.

So what you going to do about it op, I recommend The Shred

It is not 8 and a half. It is 8 and 5 pounds. Not even 8 and a half.

What don't you believe BIWI?

You know what pisses me off if someone starts a thread stating they are fat and unhappy they usually get a lot of support and advice.

Why is this any different? It's important to the OP.

it can change though.
we're just coming out of winter.
most healthy people put on weight over winter. it's a survival thing.
according to the nhs calculator, 8st 5lb is exactly in the middle of healthy weight for your height.

please don't put so much emphasis on what the scales say and go out for a walk (that's good for your mental health as well as physical)

I always put on about 5lb the week of my period, i think its water retention.

I am.just in the healthy weight bmi at 10stone and 5 2, but am exrecising to get back down to 9 stone 5-8lb and then i will be happy. If i kill myself i can get down to 9 stone but i cant maintain it easily. I have an hourglass figure with boobs and wide hips so any less and i look odd.

You are a healthy weight for your height op and weight does flucutate anyway.

I would worry that you are so concerned about this.
As others have said weight can fluctuate over month/ time of day you weigh yourself etc, etc.
I am on the short side and around 8 stone. I used to be half a stone lighter; in reterospect too thin. I used to weigh myself too often.
Now I don't weigh myself often [maybe once a month if I remember].
I am healthier and less obsessive.
I am also over 40 and when under 8 stone look positively scrawny and older!
I vary month to month within 4 or so pounds..
Not such a big deal op, honestly.

there is no need to be horrible, lots of people would be aghast at suddenly gaining almost half a stone wouldn't they?

NotSureILikeIt
If op needs "support" because she is unhappy about this then she is making a monumental mountain out of a molehill which points towards serious issues or attention seeking imvho.

It pisses me off when people post about triggering subjects like this in Chat where anyone can happen upon it.

I have to work incredibly hard to weigh even slightly less than nine stone. I am the same height as you. I am struggling to be fair because I feel like you have just expressed your horror at how fat I am.

I know you didn't mean it like that, but I am still a bit gutted reading your post I realise this is my problem rather than yours though.

Blimey, what's with all the naysayers?!

I've weighed 10stone bang on for 3 years at 5'8. I put on 5lbs over Christmas and really felt it. Horrible. Totally get where you're coming from. For me, it's a fear I'll get fat again (lost 4.5 stone).

Lost the 5lbs now through no booze or crap foods, lots of fruit and veg, no processed meals / take away. WW zero soup is also a godsend! And I got my arse down the gym!

Are you for real OP?

Since January 7th I have lost 18lbs. You can loose 5 by next Tuesday if you so desire. It really isn't rocket science- and you are lucky, I didn't feel down or sad or hell even notice until I'd put on a shed load more than 5 fucking lbs

Plus she has her period and has weighed herself in the evening.

If she weighs herself in 5 days time, in the morning after a big ol' poo, then I bet she doesn't weigh 8, 5 any more as anyone knows.

Well done you.

I just lost about 8 and a half stone...well done me, I just lost an entire person in weight.

So the skinny shouldn't be arsed? The skinny should keep their mouths shut and not vent?

How do you know the OP hasn't got issues surrounding food? ( sorry OP to talk about you )

And like you say, this is chat, where anyone can post.

A lot of you sound really bitter and quite nasty.
Oh and jealous.

Why are people being so nasty?.
Is this bash a skinny week?

The skinny can care as much as they like obviously

But it's a bizarre thing to vent about when it's so ridiculously easy to fix. by having a poo

and you will notice that I didn't start posting until the OP confirmed she doesn't have an eating disorder

I weigh 13st 1lb and I've just eaten 2 bagels and half a pound of butter.

Op has said she doesn't have an ed.

If I want chat like this I can just tune in to the witterings of any group of 15 year old girls on my morning bus.

Some days I'm 3lb lighter than other days.

Some days I'm 3lb heavier.

It's not what the scales say, it's how you feel...and you should't feel better just because the scales say a particular weight.

You can probably lose 5lb in 3 weeks.

Ah right.

So it's only important if the person is hugely overweight.

And having a shit will not make you lose 5lb.

I naturally fluctuate up to half a stone during my cycle. My weight goes up until my period, then down again. Five pounds isn't a lot, and you'll be able to lose it easily if you so wish.

Oh come on op you know you can't moan about 5lb when you only weigh 8, it's the rules. Only people who think they look fat are allowed to moan about how it makes them feel.

It doesn't matter that your 5lb gain makes you feel heavier than 8, it doesn't matter that the way you feel about your extra 5lb is the same feeling you would have over 2 stone because you are 8 stone.

You aren't meant to have feelings about weight issues at 8 stone unless of course you have that ED that was mentioned, I mean we can only be 8 stone by eating tissues or sticking our fingers down your throat, right?

This is like the thread I once read where the OP asked for advice on her varicose veins and posters piled in to tell her she was lucky to have two legs.

Ok so, keys be generous- 1lb in poo, 3lbs in period weight, that leaves 1lb to loose by next Tuesday.

So don't eat junk, keep to a healthy diet and that shouldn't be a problem.

most pointless thread ever

Well said blue.

But if we look at it % wise, this would be like a 15 stone person suddenly discovering they weigh.....<<prize to the poster who can actually bother to work it out>>

We're talking about 5lbs people.

Everyone's weight fluctuates on a daily basis, and so for the OP to say her weight never changes simply isn't true - which is the bit I was saying I didn't believe.

And as for nasty posts - I'm sorry but it's hardly the end of the world to gain this amount of weight, is it?

Far more of an issue for those people who are struggling to lose weight, IMVHO.

Lol lynnette yeah that sounds about right.

Biwi 5lbs to a person of 5ft 1 is very different to a person of 5 ft 9.

It's not just 5lb.

... plus she has also said it's her period, which is often something that means people gain weight.

So a bit of a non-story.

Stop being so mean to the OP.

I'm only 5'2" and an extra 5lbs can make a huge difference. It's a whole dress size for someone that short.

OP just eat sensibly for a few weeks, do a bit of exercise and you"ll soon lose it.

As someone who is 5 ft 2 I'm very aware of that, NotSure

Smaller portions and you'll have it off in 3 weeks no problem.

Easier to shift 5 pounds now, than weight until you need to shift 2 stone! (see what I did there)

Good luck and step away from the cake

But pretty pointless posts really:

Usually weigh 8st have just stood on scales weigh 8st5

Oh that's a shame. Do you weigh every day? Do you know how your weight usually varies, day by day?

I have my af hoping that has made me weigh more

Well yes, I think you'll find this is the answer. Do you normally weigh every day, before, during and after your period? Is this anything out of the ordinary?

In other words, what is the actual issue you have? How can we help you? Has anything else changed for you?

And other, potentially sympathetic responses.

Assuming willowsun is still lurking and hasn't been put off by the erm, ungenerous posts...

1. Get your thyroid checked if your weight has slowly ticked up without any obvious cause e.g. More sedentary lifestyle/too many cakes or whatever. Any other symptoms like cold hands/feet or problems with your periods? I put on nearly half a stone all of a sudden - diagnosis and medication meant it all dropped off again!

2. Your height/weight measurements give you a BMI of 22 which is perfect, plum in the middle of the healthy range (not underweight and a loooong way off being overweight) BUPA BMI calculator

I weigh 8stone 7
I am 5ft 7
Don't hate me....have shocking IBS

Poor OP, I imagine if this thread were in the weight loss section there'd be sympathy in abundance.

5lbs makes a huge difference to some people. I'm usually 10st 6lbs ish at 5'7" and am happy with that, but I'm floating around the 10st 11-12lb mark now due being too enthusiastic with my new kitchenaid. I feel massive.

Absolutely shocked at the people asking if OP has an eating disorder for daring to have a whinge about her weight, just because she weighs 8st and not 14.

Do you use the scales in the exact same place each time? Unbalanced and uncalibrated scales are unreliable IME.

I feel your pain OP. I'm 7 stone 2, gaining 5lbs is a lot of weight for me. I feel sluggish and spongy. I do gain a few pounds during my period too.

People just like to vent sometimes, might seem ridiculous or trivial to you but might be playing on someone's mind. Or they just want to chat about it.

That's MN.

Oh dear.

OP - I know how you feel, it could easily be water retention though. I'm normally around 8st7 - 9st (5ft7) and am 10st at the moment, having had a baby 6 weeks ago, and am not losing the weight yet and boy it feels odd.

when I had an ED my weight went down to 6st. At that point yes I'd be asking the OP if she was Ok.

lynette it's 15 stone and 9.375 pounds, what do I win??
(coincidentally that is probably how much I weigh now, usually 15 stone but have just scoffed massive plateful of spaghetti carbonara)

Look. I'm 5ft 2. If I gain 5lbs it is an issue. I really, really get that.

But I also know that weight does fluctuate quite naturally on a day-by-day basis. All manner of things affect our weight.

So unless the OP is really weighing herself every day, she doesn't really know if she's always the same weight.

And she has said it's her period. This also causes weight gain.

I'm not trying to be unsympathetic. Goodness, as someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on MN trying to help people lose weight, why would I do that? But in the great scheme of things, it's probably not that much of an issue

I can't understand the hostility here at all.

The OP has gained almost half a stone and she's unhappy about it.

How much other people weigh or don't weigh, is neither here nor there to the OP.

OP, yes it could be your period even if it hasn't happened before. Our bodies change over time and you might find this a regular thing.

Not sure how old you are but I started to retain water every month once I got to my mid thirties.

For what it's worth OP, I can gain up to half a stone in water retention in the week leading up to my period. I'm honestly like a human sponge, just sucking up and holding on to every bit of fluid I come across.

Well looks like the op has done one anyway.

Nice one.

You're underweight, forevergreek.

OP is 3" shorter than you.

why point out that one poster is underweight, when there are loads of overweight or obese people crowing about their weight? It's so fucking rude

Why all the vitriol? 5lbs is quite a lot on a small frame.

Im 5'2" and weigh 8st 2lb.

8st 5lb is a good, healthy weight.

Before DS2 i weighed 7st 5lb and must have looked like a stick insect

7st 7lb i mean

Why all the hate? This is Chat not AIBU. The OP may genuinely not have realised how much weight can fluctuate in a day/week. Just because she's 8 stone something doesn't mean she can't moan like alot of us about her weight.

I am still here
Lots of jealous people out there!!
Thankyou for the nice comments ladies
I havent weighed myself in ages i weigh once a month ish
Sorry to bother you all

OP try not to take it to heart.

Lots of water, reduce your calories and you'll soon lose it.

willowsun, if you only weigh once a month then you aren't registering the daily fluctuations that happen quite naturally. Especially around your period.

Has anything else changed for you, that might result in a weight gain?

jealous? No

often distressed about my body? Yes.

I said nothing mean to you at all.

Jealous?!
Mmmm...

Are you new OP?

Humphrey - don't take it to heart.

I will try! I am being rather hormonal at the moment.. Thanks

Like others have said, when you're only small framed a couple of pounds can make a big differance.

The first placs on my body to get fat is ususlly my face then my stomach. I wouldnt care so much if it went straight to my boobs

*place

OP I know roughly what I weigh and I weigh a few pounds more than that I feel heavy and a bit fat (realistically I am not fat but clothes don't feel quite right). I try and eat fewer sweets and run and cycle more.

Just because someone isn't heavy doesn't mean that they don't mind about gaining a few pounds.

I am not tall and an extra and sudden 5lbs would send me nuts so you sound perfectly sane to me! Maybe it is fluid and will just go

And your point caller?

Funnily enough I was worrying the other day as I have put on 5lbs too (9.7-9.12 at 5.2) plus I was meant to be loosing weight not putting on but af is due so I'm fairly sure it's that and ill be back to my 'normal' weight in a couple of days. I think people are struggling because its very triggering-we all compare ourselves to each other and I know I only ever notice the people that weigh less that me-whether on here or in rl.
A few healthy days OP and you will be back down to 8st I'm sure.

Is there not a weight loss topic? Can we put this type of convo there? This is starting to make me remember why I work from home: no passive aggressive bollocks around the biscuit tin a game I found best won by eating an entire packet in one hit

i can put on up to half a stone when my period is due, drinking loads of water helps.

OP - You posted this in Chat.

But you also haven't said why you posted it.

What do you, specifically, want from your post?

And thank goodness you didn't post in AIBU ...

How strange that someone would be suspected of having an eating disorder because they're 5 foot 1 and normally 8 stone. I am 5 foot 2 and would be mightily peeved if I were more than 7.5 stone. I'd also look like a barrel. And no, I don't have an ED. OP: I sympathise. This is why I don't buy Nutella!

How lovely.

So we think more sympathetically of people who gain weight because of their behaviour than we do of those whose weight fluctuations are entirely natural?

I would rather look like a barrel than think like that tbh

I cant believe someone asked if you had an eating disorder ! How rude. Im about your height and i weight 6 stone 7 god knows what they would make of me.

And no i do not have an eating disorder or any other health problems. Im just built smaller. I understand what you mean as i never gain any but went somewhere and the scales told me i had gained 5 pounds so i was a bit shocked. Mainly because my clothes show no difference. Turned out the scales were rubbish .

OP putting 5lbs on would be me putting 10lbs on, I'd not be impressed if I'd stayed the same for a year either!!

OP have you changed your eating habits, do you weigh yourself regularly or is it festive gain?

At 5 2 and 7.5 stone you are slightly underweight bmi wise? I am 5 2 and would look I'll at that weight. It does depend on build tho, I have boobs and wide hips, good job I have wide hips given the size of my babies!

I do think its just because of your period tho, my weight goes up by about 5lb around my period and then back down again as soon as its finished.

At 5'2 and 7.5 is a bmi of between 19-20, that's perfect for the height. Anything over 9.7 stone at that height is clinically obese.

I last weighed that at 13, before getting boobs! Unless you are quite short, 8st is very light.

My almost 15yo DD, 5ft6, weighs 9st, and wears a size 8-10, so 8st5 is not heavy!!

I am 5ft5, weigh 12st2, and wear a size 14, so am far heavier than you...

8 and a half is still well within the normal range for your height. But half a stone is going to feel like a lot! If you're normally steady then you're going to go WOW! Where the hell did that come from.

At your height, a healthy weight looks to be between about 7 stone and 9.5 click here

So 8 is perfectly reasonable and not skinny or underweight or anything.

I think some people... i name no names you mean buggers ... have been a bit rotten. <hard stare>

I weigh more than a small herd of elephants and from a distance can be mistaken for the goodyear blimp. But that doesn't mean it's ok for me to dismiss how you feel about your weight gain.

It's likely that you just happened to catch yourself on a day when you're holding more water.

Rather than going by weight, go by your clothes. Are you fitting into them the same? If so, then it's unlikely that you've actually gained weight.

If you keep an eye on it and it does continue and you are are gaining weight for no reason - go to the doctors.

But don't worry yourself over one little blip that is probably just part of a woman's normal fluctuations.

5madthings - agree about general shape making a difference. I am completely flat chested and generally tiny - but if I had a more womanly shape, 7.5 stone would probably look too thin.

My weight (and clothes size!) varies depending on where in my cycle I am.

Today, I am actually 11st10. In two weeks time, I'll probably be 12st3. I'm currently wearing a size 14, and they're loose. In two weeks time, I'll be wearing a size 16, and they'll be tight!

I find it also depends on how you are proportioned. If, like me, you are all legs and tits, with no 'body', then every extra lb shows. Because it sits, squashed up, in a very small bit in between your legs and your boobs.

My friend is exactly the same HEIGHT as me, but is proportioned differently. She has much shorter legs than me (28" to my 31"), and a much longer 'middle' section, so when she puts on 3lb, it shows far less than it does when I put on 3lb!

I DO find though, that people say I LOOK like I weigh a lot less than I do. I think it is because I have relatively good posture, and don't slouch. People also think I'm a lot taller than I really am!

When I say I'm 5ft5 and weigh 12st2-ish, they shake their heads and even argue with me until they see me on their scales.

I WOULD be happier if I could shake off an extra 2st, my 'usual' weight is 10st2-ish.

But my meds pile the weight on, when I'm on them I weigh 12st2-ish, within weeks of stopping them I'm back to 10st2-ish, within weeks of going back on them I'm back to 12st2-ish.

But I DO fluctuate by around 5-7lbs with my cycle.

I thought that was normal?

I even have a wardrobe with size 14 clothes and one with size 16's?!

I think the reason people mentioned about the eating disorder is precisely because there is nothing wrong with being 8 stone at 5'1 or being 8 stone 5 at 5'1 but the OP is so bothered she has posted on an internet forum about it. So the OP thinks there is is something wrong about it, which is a red flag to some people.

There is nothing unusual about the feeling of dismay an unexpected weight gain brings, but going to the effort of creating a thread about it when you a) were thin before the weight gain and b) are still thin after the weight gain is, frankly, odd.

OP -I used to be very slim indeed but found that I'd put weight on in 5 or 6 pound clumps, then remain static again for years. For example as a very young woman I was 7st 13 for years, then I was 8st 4 for years, then I was 8st 10 for years. I have been up and down due to having babies but am now 8st 13 and have been for a while. If my weight goes up again, it'll be to 9st 3, I just know it as I was stuck there for about 3 years!!

Also I don't know how old you are but it is normal to put on weight as we age. A friend once told me a stone every 10 years is considered a normal weight gain.

forever over 9.7 at 5.2 is not clinically obese, it's overweight.

"At 5'2 and 7.5 is a bmi of between 19-20, that's perfect for the height. Anything over 9.7 stone at that height is clinically obese"

No. It would be 11 stone 7 at which point you become obese.

If I was your height this would bother me to.I am 2 inches taller than you but have only been 8 stone 5 when I was half way through pregnancy.I understand what you mean as on a small frame every pound is noticeable,and if your like me it goes to the belly and makes you look like a pot bellied pig.

If you like me you wont need to change more just up your exercise and I usually find it doesnt last long.

Also at 9.7 at 5.2 would look more than obese on my frame.I was 5 foot 3 and 9 stone 5 at 9 months pregnant and I was huge! I could hardly stand up I was so heavy.

Hecate, you are so bloody lovely <smooch>

Looked at that link and was surprised to find I can go up to 11 1/3 stone and still be 'healthy'! That's odd, that's what I weighed last month before I gave birth and I felt awful - I mean physically, it was so painful - but then I guess the baby was concentrated in one place and general weight would be spread out.

I remember the days I used to be 7st9!!! They were 15 years ago alas. After dc5 I am now 9st5, which I suppose isn't too disastrous. Haven't had the effort involved in weight loss, since the last dc, that I usually do, I haven't even had my hair done oh dear, I can see this being a slippery slope, I might end up with lots of cats!!!!

Back in the days I could be bothered if applied I could loose 5lbs in a week. It's not really very much to loose. I'm a size 10, so my guess is youre an 8. It's not too disastrous either.

I've put on 3 kg since youngest DC started school, bit of a shock! So much less running around to nursery & such.

The figures were from a bmi calculator which suggests a heathly weight for 5.1 is between 7.5stone and 9.7. It' says anything under is underweight and anything over is obese.

At 5.4, I would honestly be huge at 9.7 myself still as that's almost 2 stone more than what I currently weigh. I was 9.3 stone at 9 months pregnant and felt terrible

im 4ft 11 and weigh that chill out 5lbs is wind

you don't go from healthy weight to obese though. There's underweight, healthy weight, overweight, obese then morbidly obese.

That calculator you looked at is misleading you. Have a look at the nhs one I linked to above, it shows the bands in more detail.

or this one

I know where you are coming from op. I'm quite a bit taller than you at 5"5 and my ideal weight would be about 8.5 stone so a few pounds heavier than you are now. I'm closer to 9 at the moment which sounds like nothing but those few pounds make all the difference when you are small, especially if you're short as well as petite. It's probably water, the time of the month tends to make a big difference to my weight too.

I can get a bit obsessed with my weight as I worked so hard to lose 5 stone. Gaining 5 pounds would be a big issue for me as well. For someone who is short and slim 5 pounds can show.

I am about the same weight as you OP and I am 5ft 2. I always get told I am too skinny and because I am small boned with tiny arms and legs I do look smaller than what I weigh apparently. Weight is a funny thing, someone can be the same size and weight as me and look smaller or bigger, it's all how you carry it and what shape you are. I have very little curves unfortunately and small boobs so that helps me look smaller I think.

It's probably just water weight and time of the month bloat. It will soon go! Just lower your carbs for a bit and drink lots of water and it will probably go very quickly. It's unlikely that you have put 5 pounds of fat on if you weigh yourself daily, that is pretty impossible so you know it is just water weight and period bloat.

I am STAGGERED by this thread.
It has blown my mind.
Shall I tell you why?

WHERE IS BONSOIR? Why hasn't she noticed a weight thread?

Maybe the OP weighs less than her and she is crying in a cupboard.

Going to eat less choc today

This thread is ridiculous. Poor OP. All she did was start a typically mundane thread in Chat saying she'd put on 5lb. Not boasting. Not in AIBU.

She's been accused of having an eating disorder, of "triggering" and received a far from sympathetic response. Had she been 13stone and posted that she'd put on whatever the equivalent percentage of her body weight would be, the response would be very different.

Lot of jealousy here I think.

Agreed Golden

MerryCouthyMow - I could have written your post word for word, that actually freaked me out!

"All legs and tits" Yep! The woman at the gym once said I had a concertina body!

I also have the same, I'm about 3stones heavier than I was before I got pregnant with 2nd DC, yet people say they can't notice? I bloody can!

I can understand you OP. I'm 5"2 and weight 7 stone 5lbs. I was a stone heavier a year ago (the last of my pregnancy weight), and I looked and felt big. A 5lb gain is an issue when you are short.
I lost it by cutting down on eating stodgy food and taking up Zumba twice a week. Now I am the weight I am, I still do Zumba twice a week and walk a lot, but I eat a normal healthy diet without depriving myself of anything. I've been this weight for awhile now and I would find it very strange if I'd suddenly gained 5lbs.

thankyou hedgehog

thank god i didnt start this in aibu

A sudden 5lb hike in weight is a concern - the op is not dangerously thin, she just feels comfortable at a certain weight and is worried when it goes up substantially. And 5lbs is a substantial amount at any that height.

I always expected a gain of about 3lbs during the distant days of af, so it might not be as bad as you think, op.

I do know that it's really difficult to shift weight beyond about the mid-40s.I'm nearly 50 and, for the first time ever, am having to do a full-on (for me) diet and exercise thing. Best not to have to reach that point - although some would say, at 5'7'' and 10st 9lb, I still have a reasonable figure so what's the problem?

Well, I have a loft full of lovely clothes I can't wear, for one thing, and I'm sick of having to dress 'around' my muffin top. Plus I'm sure it's making my aches and pains worse.
Don't stress about it, op - it'll go.

I've discovered Tiffany Rothe free workouts on Youtube, or her website.
Not to strenuous but seem to be effective and she has a nice manner just ignore the bikinis.

Too strenuous.

thanks to all those who have defined me as huge, enormous, fat as a pig.

this thread is deeply depressing. I am a size 10 ffs. I have an incredibly healthy diet. I eat NO sugar. I still weigh enough to make me look vile and enormous.

ok I have come back as I realised that I shouldn't visit my personal neurosis on the innocent participants of this thread....I do apologise and will just hide the thread...

5lbs is just a jolly good shit! It's nothing.

Wow, amazed by the number of posters that do 5lb shits!

Humphrey - please please do not fret .

I would be ecstatic to have your proportions, honestly.

Only the seriously stupid would opine that anything over 9 stone at 5'2" is obese. Promise.

Oh Mintyy, thank you for being so kind. I really appreciate it.

MrsMeow - sorry for freaking you out!

I DO need to lose some weight, preferably about 2 stone!

Anything smaller than 10st2, though, and I look emaciated.

But a LOT of my weight is in my Norks. Even when I last weighed 9st 11 years & 3 DC's ago, I was STILL a 29G!

(I'm currently a 29L, apparently).

I have arthritis, which limits the exercise I can do because of the pain. I can't swim because I have uncontrolled epilepsy, so using water to support my joints is out.

Yet my joints are getting worse because I'm overweight.

Catch-22 situation, really.

I only eat around 1,500 - 1,800 calories a day.

I eat healthily, though a largely dairy and nut free diet due to DS3's allergies.

Any suggestions? No high-impact exercise - GP has ruled out Zumba too.

I seem to be one of the lardiest heaviest people on this thread.

What makes that more amusing to me is the fact that between the ages of 11 and 15, I was routinely an inpatient in a Children's MH ward for anorexia...

I am very careful not to pass my old neuroses about eating onto my DC's, and have spent YEARS making sure that I taught them by example that everything is OK, in moderation.

Problem is, my body when on Gabapentin just doesn't agree!!

I WOULD be happier if I was 2 stone lighter, but the only way I can see that happening is a) A breast reduction (if I went down to a D cup, I would lose almost a stone in weight instantly!), but I have to have a BMI of 27 or less to be accepted. Which to me, isn't possible WITHOUT the reduction!! AND b) I came off my pills. Instant weight loss!!

I guess I am trying to tell the OP that it doesn't matter WHAT weight you are, as long as it is within a healthy range unlike mine, currently, not overweight, not underweight, but healthy.

As long as you are a healthy weight, all that matters is how YOU feel about your weight.

So if gaining 5lbs is really bothering the OP, and losing that 5lb would not make her underweight, then what is the problem with her wanting to be happy in HERSELF?

BIWI - does the BMI chart in your link take into account huge Norks?

BMI bothers me because one person who is 5ft5 and 12st3 will be a size 32C, and have far less breast tissue, but far more fat around their waist, yet me at 5ft5 and 12st3 with a size 29L will have far more breast tissue and far less fat around my waist.

I can't see how that chart can accurately predict who is most overweight because the size of your Norks surely DO make a difference?

How does it tally that we would both be classed as overweight, yet the other person's waist would measure 4 inches more than mine?

(CompletelyLost.com)

Oh - can't do yoga either because if my Hypermobility syndrome.

If the OP had been 15 stone and had received such vitriolic responses "fat bashing" would have been thrown around a hundred times.

When you only weigh 8st, a 5lb increase is a sizeable percentage increase.

I love it, so when people are obese/morbidly obese no one's allowed to make an unpleasant comment for fear of causing offence, but when it's a slim person it's open season.

People being rude to the OP should be ashamed of themselves. Some people need to remember that the OP isn't 8st (5lb) and isn't bothered about a 5lb weight gain just to spite them!

So yes, golden is right.

I can't see how that chart can accurately predict who is most overweight because the size of your Norks surely DO make a difference?

I've always wondered about that!

OP why don't you post in big/slim/whatever? You will get sensible advice about how to reach your goal weight. You won't get much support here.

BMI is a notoriously blunt instrument - it fails to take into account how muscular someone is for a start!

So elite athletes will often have a BMI that should mean that they are obese, yet to say they are obese is patently ridiculous.

That said, it's a guide that can be helpful for most of us.

Sorry, should have said, on the basis of general averages.

So while I personally know I have a couple of stone to shift, I need to take the BMI with a pinch of salt?

Apparently, even at my 'happy' weight of 10st2, I'm STILL overweight according to your chart, BIWI.

But I KNOW I'm not overweight at that weight IYSWIM, because I'm in a size 10/12 then. And anything smaller and I look emaciated.

When I weigh less than 10st2-ish, I look like a broom handle with huge tits strapped on!!

What a lovely image

Yes, take the BMI thing with a large pinch of salt - it's a general guideline I think. The good thing about the BMI, though, is that it does show that there is a huge range of weights that is construed as acceptable - i.e. I can have a BMI that means I'm in the health weight range whilst weighing as little as 7 stone 8 or as much as 9 stone 6.

In fact, I'm hovering around 9 stone 6 at the moment, and currently wearing size 8 jeans and size 10 tops. Goodness only knows what I would look like if I was only 7 stone 8.

I like to think, of course, that it is because of my year's worth of work at the gym that leads me to the weight that I am, and if you stripped the muscle weight off I would be 7 stone something! <deluded>

I am 5' 8 and weigh just under 7 stone. no one cares or understands. are they jealous like my neighbor reckons?

Hully - I thought your neighbour was dead? <innocent face>

I have a Ouija board innit?

Thanku folkgirl

What's up, willowsun?

I weigh 8st 6 at 5ft 2 and this is my period week too. I have put on 3lb and am really upset about it too.

Just to say I sympathise with you op, it is a nasty shock to see your weight go in the wrong direction. Just be sensible and I bet it will be back off in no time.

thanku nippy great name 8st 4 now

Why the then, willow? That's great if things are going in the right direction for you!

Thanks.
Glad your on the way back to normal.

dont know silly me