To feel annoyed that I can never really indulge in food? I'm short!

[MidwifeyForLifey]

Somewhat lighthearted

I'm quite short, so my personal calorie allowance is very low if I don't want to put on weight!

What an absolute pile of tosh. I'm 11 pounds overweight, I was 13 pounds overweight recently. I've lost weighted easily by going by the calculated amount of calories I should be having, and sticking to those.

I log everything in Fitness Pal. It's fairly easy in theory. But bores me to tears.

Being short means I can't ever be slim unless I eat like a bird.

Anyone else?

Me too, I have just put on 5 pound recently. I am 5 ft 2, it really shows ! I love food and am a very good cook.

I have PCOS so I can’t have any fun either 😂

Food is my biggest reminder that quite literally, everything in life comes with some sort of catch

Not me. I'm 6ft, 10stone. I probably do pack away a bit more than my shorter friends tbh.
Sorry!

Yes me. I’m 5’ 3” and if I gain 5 lbs it’s a massive amount for me. I’m currently doing iTrackBites and it does allow lots of lean protein though so I’m not physically hungry All The Time. When I did weight watchers years ago I was absolutely miserable, hungry all the time and I felt I had to constantly watch and obsess.

I so know what you are going through!

Yes, I'm 5'1" and it's annoying

Just exercise. You'll get into it and you'll be amazed how much you can scoff once you're burning the fat regularly.

I'm 155cm. Bugger that. Life is too short, to let me being short stop me from enjoying one of the most fun things in life.

I don't know what I weigh anymore. My kids were starting to get weight focussed, so I binned the scales. If I fit in my clothes, I'm all good. Funnily enough, I've gone down a couple of sizes since then.

Not to be insensitive but wouldn’t appetite be less the smaller you are? I thought so anyway! Bigger people have bigger appetite bc of their need for more calories. Of course everyone would like to eat freely as much as they want 😀 but life doesn’t work that way. Even people who can eat what they want and stay slim suffer - for example high cholesterol! I’m slim and can eat what I want, but have high cholesterol. My friend who is also slim suffers the same! And my other friend who is not able to eat what she wants has normal cholesterol in a good range (even when we had similar diets when we were younger, but I was slim and she was a little over weight).

I'm confused im 5'3 and the national average but you lot are saying we're small??

Another one here.

Plus I have a 'sedentary' job so I'm totally screwed.

Exercise is the answer. Do lots of exercise and you can eat all those calories that you burned off. Yes the exercise is hard work but it's worth it - and it's good for you. What's not to like?!

I'm 5'1 and pretty much eat what I like, but I walk/hike a lot, and my diet is based on nutrition rather than calories - I definitely practice the old 80/20 ratio too.

Naturally, I never snack and eat 3 regular meals a day, and I get a good night's sleep. I think all this helps keep me fit & healthy.

Exercise is the answer. Do lots of exercise and you can eat all those calories that you burned off

Lmao there’s no exercise in the world that can burn off all that I can throw down when I really get going. Luckily I’m really tall (although I usually don’t feel lucky about that )

Just exercise. You'll get into it and you'll be amazed how much you can scoff once you're burning the fat regularly.

Exercise (that I can fit in whilst looking after small DC), isn't really worth all that much calories burning wise in the end, is it?

I walk pretty much everywhere. I'm on my feet all day too, a lot of the time.

I'm a very small portion eater, I like all sorts of foods but I'm full after a very small amount and stop immediately once I start to feel I'm less than enjoying what I'm eating.

Snacking is the issue, really. And I like snacking on goodies

I need to make changes but shite food had an appeal to me.

I always lose loads over the summer due to an obsession with fruit and living off water and ice lollies (not literally, obviously). But I always find I weight much much less in the Summertime.

No amount of exercise could outweigh the amount of food I could potentially chuff away.

Instead I don't exercise and eat 1400 cals per day.

I'm a very small portion eater, I like all sorts of foods but I'm full after a very small amount and stop immediately once I start to feel I'm less than enjoying what I'm eating.

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This is me now. I used to be a finish your plate girl.

Can I join? 5"3 and overweight. Use my fitness Pal, rarely go over my calories.

Also I'm type 2 diabetic. Food is both my obsession and my curse.
Since starting on insulin I've struggled to.lose weight.

(work in a safety critical job so need to keep diabetes in really good control or I lose it)

I'm 5ft 3 I run 3 times per week 4-5 miles per run have done for 12 years and can still put weight in quickly. So unfair!

I'm 5ft 2. Running up to half marathon distance definitely helps with eating a varied diet. I've been sneaking up a pound or two over the last few years with the cumulative effects of Easter, Christmas, school holidays where the calories go up and exercise opportunities go down and I lose my balance of input/ output.

I couldn't face daily calorie counting to bring myself back to my happy zone, so I'm trying 5:2 to redress the balance. It's definitely harder this side of 35 than it was on the youthful side of it!

I can feel and see I'm carrying more than I need by BMI 24 and my joints are definitely happier if I keep to 22-23. It's irritating because I want to be healthy and slim, but life is too long to not enjoy less wholesome foods along the way

I cant indulge either, not coz of weight but because i cant tolerate rich food or v much alcohol. Makes it hard going out to eat. Even a sinle course with a single glass large wine will give me a hang over. A packet of crisps makes me feel like shite. The upside is that I am slim tho!!

Me. Very small. Put on weight very easily. Hate that, with a passion!!

Another shorty here I can eat as much as my 6foot DH but I pack on weight so easily I need to basically eat nothing to lose weight 😭

Ok, this is not to gloat, so don’t take me wrong- as a tall women I accept it’s easier and sympathise. I’m 5ft 11 and I can hide the best part of a stone weight change. I can see it must be tough and I see it in my sister.

I feel your pain. 4ft11 here and losing weight is near impossible without eating ridiculously tiny amounts. Snacking is my downfall too.