Blatantly nosey - but also a little bit of an amateur survey

[twoisenoughmum]

1. How tall are you?
2. How much do you weigh?
3. How much would you like to weigh?
4. When was the last time you steadily maintained that weight for, say, 5 years?

As its all anonoymous on here, feel free to join in without judgement. I'll kick off if I must

1. 5 ft 3"
2. 11 stone 6lb
3. 9 stone 6lb (not exactly sylph-like for one so short)
4. 1981 - 1991 I weighed 9 stone or less.

I'm kidding myself, aren't I?

1. 5'8"
2. 13.11
3. I'd like to be 12.7 although WW would like me to be 11.9 (my goal weight!)
4. I've never been 12.7 - not as long as I can remember anyway. I've been as heavy as 15.10 but never under 13.7 - am getting there this time but have no idea how you maintain a steady weight when you get to where you want to be...

1. How tall are you?
2. How much do you weigh?
3. How much would you like to weigh?
4. When was the last time you steadily maintained that weight for, say, 5 years?

1. 5 ft 10"
2. 21 stone 2lb
3. 11 stone 6 lb
4. Never since mum died when i was 5, weight started being a problem then.

5ft 1
11/12 st i guess
9st
not since 2003

Didn't realise i was the fattest, oh shit!

spidermama only said 'bigger', lots of the 'biggers' after children on this thread hardly count as obese! just not as skinny as they once were...

there is no chance of me filling this in I'm afraid, especially not at 34 weeks.

1 5'10"
2 13 stone 6lb this morning - really cross as I've put on about 10lb in the last year since starting work. New Year's resolution is to lose it - and more!
3 11 stone ideally but I'd be very happy to reach 11.7
4 up to about 1990

Has anyone seen the transformation of the actress Kirstie Alley? (Don't know if I spelled that right)
She weighed over 200lb in 2004 but lost 75lb in a year - now she looks like a supermodel!
So there's hope for us all.

I am 5'5
I weigh 9st4
I would like to be 9st
Before ds(he is 12!)

Spider is right!We all torture ourselves yet most people do get bigger with age but we don't accept it.I think I look alright but have looked better but deep down i think we all know we won't look that way again but we keep punishing ourselves with trying

Radley - take a look at 2 books...
'The sugar addicts' diet'
and 'The GI diet'
Even if you don't follow the diet, they're both really motivating... talking about the reasons we get fat and how we need to believe that we deserve to be a 'normal' weight.
My weight got up to 15 stone 4 lb at one point and I started to think that I was a 'fat person'. But then I realised that I didn't need to be.
A lot of our problems stem from being given food as a reward or a comfort... 'you've been such a good girl you can have some sweets'
'Oh dear - you've cut your knee - have some chocolate, that'll make you feel better.'
So we carry on with this behaviour as adults - eating sugar and/or carbohydrates when we feel low, going out for meals to have a good time etc etc.

It doesn't help that people believe that obese people must be stuffing their faces with iced buns all day every day - apparently you only need to consume about 100 extra calories a day to put on 20lb over 20 years. That's roughly an extra 2 apples a day!

5' 8" 11stone 4lbs
Would like to be 10st 4lbs which would make me a size 12 in most shops (except those places that seem to make clothes for The Little People)
Through late teens and 20s I mostly hovered between 9.5 and 10 stone and I am under no illusions that I could be that weight again without unimaginable amounts of exercise and food restriction. Last time I was near to 10 stone was for my wedding in 1997, age 29. Plus, I do really believe that saying that after 40, you have to choose between your face or your arse and as I'm quite fond of my face, I don't want to rob it of its last vestige of youth just to get into some skinny jeans.

Yes, sugar addiction, more addictive than cocaine they say.

Radley - don't panic, you're also the tallest! And weight is all about looking in proportion - I reckon you still look slimmer than someone 6 inches smaller and a stone lighter.

Sometimes being tall has its advantages (she says drawing herself up to her full 5 ft 8 and a half inches...)

1. 5'7"
2. 11 stone 10lb
3. 10.5 stone
4. Can't remember!!!

Xenia - the other thing with sugar is that it's so hard to avoid - unlike Cocaine!

1. 5?11??
2. Not sure as I don?t really do scales but I would hazard a guess at 11s 3ish ? I was 10s 11 a few weeks before Christmas.
3. Apparently my ideal weight would be 9s13 ? 10s 3 depending on which diet site I ask. 9s 13 would give me a BMI of 19.4 which seems odd for an ?ideal weight?. My personal ?right? weight is about 10.9 stone.
4. Ideal weight not since I was about 17 but as I feel fine at about 10s 9/10 I have been about that for the last few years.

I hate weight as an indicator - it?s clumsy to say the least. If I work out a lot but don?t eat more I won?t get lighter although I do get thinner and more toned. Which is preferable? Lighter and less fit, or heavier and more muscular? I know if I?m too fat ? I look wrong naked and my clothes don?t fit properly. There?s nothing like trying on a pair of jeans in the cruel harsh light of a shop changing room and finding they don?t fit to give me the kick up the ar*se I need.

People do get bigger as they get older. But as there?s a huge difference for most people between being a ?big bigger? and being obese I don?t think that there is any need for national panic about it! I would reserve that for those who are obese and unfit as kids and young adults before bullying the middle-aged into trying to look like Kate Moss.

NOELallieYes - too low for 'ideal' 19 is the lowest healthy BMI - 25 is the highest. So 'ideal' is about 22. I'm 5'10" and my 'ideal' weight is 11 stone, apparently. So sounds as though you're fine as you are.

5ft 9"
13 stone
11 stone 10lbs
As a student 16-23 up to when I met DH....however I am far healthier now than I ever was then (survived on marlboro lights, 1 slice of toast, coffee and copious amounts of alcohol! ) I exercise 4/5 times a week and eat healthily, I have a stone ish to lose and am 9mths post partum

Thanks fortyplus - but that is my point I think. The diet industry has a vested interest in making us unhappy with how we are. So if they make their target weights unrealistically low most of us will always be trying to diet even when we don't need to. Assuming we beleive them that is.....

I'm 30 wks preg atm but usually am
5ft 6
9.5-10 stone
Would like to be 9.5 solid at least.
Before I had dd I was 9 stone for about 10 yrs.
I think half a stone might be purely breasts they grew with dd (now 4)and have never gone.

1. 5ft 10
2. 15 stone
3. less
4. 2001 - now, even with birth of DS

1. 5'7"

1. About 10st 4lbs (eeeeeeeeeeek, on a new regime to lose a stone)

1. About 9st 7lb

1. Ummmmm, prob from being around 14 to 19 when I weighed 8st 5lb.

NOELallie - I'm sure you're right. As I admitted earlier - I've been distinctly overweight in the past and definitely need to lose 2 stone again now. BUT I'm very health - never get colds - never had problems with joints or back pain etc... unlike many of my slim friends! On one of our girls' weekends away we went for a 20 mile bike ride - out of 5 of us 2 of us are overweight and 3 quite slim. Guess which 2 were the ones powering ahead on our bikes while the others were puffing behind? I also have normal blood pressure - unlike some of my slim friends.
But I do recognise that I need to lose 2 stone again for my future health - after the menopause women lose protection against heart disease.

Thank you fortyplus and paranoidandroid.

I am doing something about it this year though, in my first 5 days doing ww i lost 2lbs.

I am hoping for a loss this week, but mates came round last night with a chinese and video, though i didn't have food, i did have 5 small glasses of red wine.

AND i got the weight wrong, i'm actually 21st 7lb.