8.5 stone and I still don’t feel thin?

[Mymygivemeafry]

Been eating more healthily and walking a lot and now weigh 8 1/2 stone (I am also quite short) but still don’t feel thin- still have wobbly and blobby patches.

Is anyone else the same? What did you do?

9st 5 and a few weeks ago went from feeling rubbish to amazing. Hadn't lost weight but had been exercising and had swapped white bread to brown, cut out fizzy drinks and was drinking tons of water. Went to a check up thingy with my friend and had lost nothing, was all in my head but felt great! Have dipped in and out since and have to laugh because after exercise I'm thinking 'not looking bad' and after a few days of not I'm pinching an inch ( the same inches that have been there the last year) and thinking 'god I must look like I'm pregnant again!!!' Try not yo think too much about it or else look into exercise classes or gym going but keep safe, don't get carried away

"8 and a half stone - average - WTAF?"

The person said average FOR HER HEIGHT.
She might have meant medium rather than average seeing as the average now is overweight, but that's for the poster to answer.

That's a drip feed. And why be so aggressive with your 'are you serious?'

Because I was told I needed to lose a stone when I don’t need to at all.

And it’s not a drip feed, I said I thought I looked great.

My point is you can’t tell anything by these numbers and it’s so irresponsible for people to be telling the OP they need to lose weight when you know nothing at all about her.

Are you often weighing yourself, tracking calories or exercise? If so, this is a red flag that you should stop as this sounds like poor body image or possibly dysmorphia.

If you can, get some CBT, or even a CBT book, to address the negative thoughts. Learn about disordered eating and body perception so you can call yourself out on it.

Furry toe your bmi is 22.2 - normal weight
Lose a stone it would be 19.8 - thin
Both weights are fine.

you say you felt shit

This thread has made me feel shit, not my body.

You absolutely can be 8.5 stone and 5’3 and be ‘thin’.

What a depressing thread. I'm 5 foot 7 and just over 11 stone..I'm just in the healthy weight range for bmi, lost 3 stone last year..in size 10 clothing and never felt and looked better but if you go by this thread I'm disgustingly fat

I'm slim not fat but I'm wondering now maybe I am fat and people just don't want to say

But I am ‘thin’

I wear size 6/8

Bmi only tells you your weight, it depend on how much is muscle.
We don’t know anything else about the OP except her weight.

'Are you often weighing yourself, tracking calories or exercise? If so, this is a red flag that you should stop as this sounds like poor body image or possibly dysmorphia.'

Oh come off it.

DH lost 5 stone going this he was very obese.

Best send him for some cbt then. He's clearly suffering from body dysphoria and low self image :(

A lot of nasty posts
A lot of prople getting upset

There are lots of sensible posts on here try to focus on them rather than the mean spirited ones :)

However you dress it up, telling someone with a healthy body weight that they could lose another stone is nasty. Veiled digs like that are worse than the outright nasty ones.

Wouldn't we all be so much healthier if we weren't finding reasons to put other women down?

MNers are fixated on weight, every one of these or food thread is like a party for the orthorexics. You sound like you have a body dysmorphia if you're that weight and still feel big, OP.

I am 5ft.4 in but was a competitive gymnast for a large part of my youth. My weight would cause most MNers to faint, even back when I was wearing a UK size 4.

I have a stocky build and much muscle mass from gymnastics. Even now, I'm very toned, I lift weights 3-4x/week, do yoga, go on long hiking routes when possible.

Ditch the scales and go by clothing size and muscle tone.

I'm lucky in that I really don't have a lot of 'wobbly bits' despite having 3 kids but I do have stretch marks on my belly, and I weigh an amount that would mean MNers telling me I need gastric bypass surgery and I'd be told there's no way I can fit into the size of clothes I do at my weight. I mean, I'm not 19 anymore. It's normal for the body to change with time.

It's a sad way to go through life being unhappy, OP, over something like this. I'd look to working on self-contentment.

I am 5’ 5” and weigh 52kg so about 8st 2lb. I am slim but I have bingo wings, a soft belly and wobbly thighs.
A while ago I weighed more but worked out and didn’t wobble. I felt thinner then.

Yes agree of course it's nasty.

Ludicrous to tell someone you can't see that they could do with losing a stone if they want to meet some totally subjective thing called 'thin'. I mean wtf.

Oops xpost I was replying to nobaggy

Because I was told I needed to lose a stone when I don’t need to at all.
You are twisting my words I did not say you needed to lose a stone. What I said was you were a normal weight, however as you said you felt shit if you wanted to be thin then you would only need to use a stone.

Its more about your body composition. You might have a lot of fat even at 8.5 st.

Get some scales or ask at the gym for someone to assess your muscle and fat ratio.

A good fat level for fit women is around 20-25% or slightly lower.

Also measure your waist size. It should be no more than half your height in inches - so around 31 max.

Weight is a bit of a crude measurement because it's more about how much muscle v how much fat you carry.

Clothing size changes enormously depending on where you shop

Just worth pointing out

However you dress it up, telling someone with a healthy body weight that they could lose another stone is nasty.

I totally agree.

If your worried about ‘wobbly bits’ then I would work in toning exercises rather than losing more weight. I’m a happy size 8/10 with ‘wobbly’ arms - losing more weight won’t make them go away unless I took it to the very extreme which I’m sure wouldn’t be a healthy or good look, so I got some hand weights to incorporate with other exercise I like to do.

My 5.4 dd is nearly 7 stone and she is mega skinny size 4/6 so I would imagine a bit more weight in an older person would actually be an attractive thing.

I'm 5"8 and just lost a bit of weight and got to 10.5 and a size11 😁. I know I'm not fat but I definitely don't feel slim. I want to be 10 stone and I need to get my arse to the gym too for weights and Pilates. So I totally get the not feeling thin even though you kinda know you are.

But I am thin.

That’s my point.

Like tim says above there’s more factors than just weight and height.

This obsession with the weight the scales say is really damaging to women, it means that they panic when they start to put on muscle.

I'm 5 11 and around 10 - 10.5st.

I have lots of people comment on my weight - which runs from blatant thin shaming to compliments on having a "slim and fit figure".

I don't feel thin and I've never been on a diet in my life. I find it hard to keep muscle and fat. Which makes the thin shaming even more humiliating 😔