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?

OP, if you can, I recommend swimming. It's made a massive difference to my body. There's also some really good workouts on youtube, look at things like squats, push ups and planks, also working out with weights. It's very important for a woman's long term health.

You just need to tone up OP. For that you need more exercise.

If you’re under 5’4” 8.5 stone isn’t that little.

Fraggling please ignore the "thin" post reply you are getting.this poster is talking nonsense and seemingly not getting IT.

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
You know as well as I do that women don't put on muscle accidently, it takes dedicated training and knowledge and the majority of women are unlikely to bulk up enough to skew their BMI.

I was 8st 4lbs for years, 5'5" tall. I certainly did look very slender but so I did when I was 9.5 stone years later, my figure was generally better then.

TrashPanda: It's toning and fitness you need I would say.

I agree with that. However well done for getting your weight down and for eating healthily. I had some 'wobbly bits' when I was younger but they went, yours will too.

Aaannd another one!

'If you’re under 5’4” 8.5 stone isn’t that little.'

Why do people feel the need to do this? It's bizarre. And unhelpful, unpleasant etc.

So on this thread we have had some posts saying op is very low weight and may be at risk of eating disorder

To, hmmm, you're definitely not thin, no way, subtext, if you want to be thin lose me weight.

No wonder women are so fucked up about their weight!

OP weight is, assuming she has a standard idea of quite short four a uk woman, bang on the money, normal.

She is neither too fat nor dangerously thin, and definitely not simultaneously both.

OP suggest you focus on the more helpful posts if and when you return!

When it comes to how I feel about my body, I find that exercise is the key. I do yoga almost every day - even if only for 20 minutes. (I also walk and move a lot - SAHM to a madly busy 3 year old whose favourite phrases include ‘Mummy UP!’ so it comes with the territory) but that daily time for me to move and exercise with intention and purpose make a big difference.

I’ve no idea about your weight op, honestly. But for me, my feelings about my body are affected hugely by what I do with it. (And I do look more ‘toned’, which I know is a term detested by personal trainers, but I have built lean muscle over time through yoga).

I don’t own scales, and tend to think Kate Winslet was about right when she said ‘Stupid scales, chuck ‘em out the window’ or words to that effect. But movement helps me to feel happier, which is more important than a number on the scales for me.

p.s we are trying to end the bloody stigma of thin=eating disorder.this is how and why people who are struggling arent getting enough ehlp and support to recover becasue they dont fit some bullshit medical stipulation of beign underweight and therefore have an eating disorder deserving help!
you can be healthy or over and still have an ed.
you can be struggling damn fucking hard to keep yourself in check but still be a stable weight.
it is an emotioanl mental disroder.its not your weight

How tall are you?

What's your BMI?

Wow this thread has got so many replies and mixed opinions- thank you all for responding and giving me some thoughts! I think what I’m taking is I’m a good/average weight but not thin and need to tone a bit more!

For @tenterden and others who asked, I’m 5ft4 and my measurements are 33 (over boob), 26 waist, 35 hip

It’s not massive furrytoe it’s just not thin which is the point of the thread. You would only need to lose a stone so it’s not too bad

This is a horrible post.

Poster says she feels great about her body, but reading this thread makes her feel shit as everyone is saying her weight/height is “fat.

Then you come back and patronisingly say she’s not “massive”, and her weight isn’t “too bad”- if she loses a stone she might be considered thin.

Probably one of the most horrible replies I’ve seen on I’m hoping the o/p has misread the post, but further replies she seems to think she was “reassuring”.

I hate threads like these. They always make me feel utter shit too. But i am also fit and healthy, and making it all about weight to define thin or fat when you can’t see a person is just wrong.

For @tenterden and others who asked, I’m 5ft4 and my measurements are 33 (over boob), 26 waist, 35 hip

So you’re perfectly normal ant all the “lose weight tone up” advice is irrelevant.

“Thin” is subjective and no one here can tell you if you are or aren’t.

'I think what I’m taking is I’m a good/average weight but not thin and need to tone a bit more!'

Glad that's your take away op!

Please do consider weights, as they are trying to encorage women to do this more, for our bones. And of course feeling strong (er) feels brilliant!

im 5 foot 3 9.5 stone size 10 and always get told im tiny

"I hate threads like these. "

Why are you here then? If people are asking for opinions, posters are allowed to give them.

I mean the not thin part is v subjective but the rest is good. Considering the more extreme posts on the thread...

I know what you mean OP. I’m 8st 6, I was 8st last year having lost a stone and a half, now it’s creeping back on. I’m 5ft 2.

Pre children I was 7st 11, I don’t think I’ll be that weight again. I hate my belly, it just sticks out, there is no tone to it regardless of how much I go to the gym.

So your BMI is 19.9 which puts you in the normal range, towards the lower end of it.

I would say you are slim.

If you have plans to TTC then I would not allow my weight to get much lower.

True gwen,

And other posters are allowed to point out that the replies which are mean spirited and unhelpful are just that.

Lots of women will have read those replies and felt a bit crappy. Which was the point of them being posted. Quite obviously. And in response to them feeling crappy, they are now told to piss off the thread.

I don't come on weight threads v often are they always like this? Sort of a vultures circling vibe in places.

'I don't come on weight threads v often are they always like this? Sort of a vultures circling vibe in places.'

That was in general not to gwen!! I know what gwen would say, or can hazard a guess :D

My BMI is 21.4, which we'll within normal weight range, yet it's often pointed out to me (by other women) that I'm "stick thin", when in fact I am just slim.

OP, don't listen to anyone, you're slim and healthy. If you're eating well, exercise regularly and have other good habits, you're fine x

@furrytoe It's great that you are happy with your weight, but to insist that you are 'thin' is silly. Just as silly as it would be to say you're 'massive'.

You're neither.

I'm 5 inches taller than you and weigh 3kg less (and I train in the gym most days). I don't consider myself thin.

Thin suggests someone at the very lower end of the healthy BMI range, or even slightly underweight. You're not. And you're not massive either.

You're a normal, moderate, healthy weight.

People who are feeling big because of this thread, I honestly think weight and size fully depend on the person. People who have lower weights can still have bits that bother them or can find clothes suddenly snug or not fitting or they might look bloated ( I have had people ask was I pregnant and others advise me to go to the doctor when I was younger because I was skinny and small breasted but with a round belly.)

Was that really necessary?