Guest guest Posted October 3, 2011 Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 Like Josie, I feel that I am happy with whatever my weight is since I started IE. I haven't 'achieved' a waif like body, and frankly at age 60 don't find that realistic or desirable! But one point I would like to share is that instead of focusing on weight, how I feel about as well as how my body FEELS (to me), has become a more important factor for me. I've always had what I consider a 'peasant profile' - solid and plow mule in proportions. I weighed a mere 108# when I married over 40 years ago but I also still had 37 " + hips, a 27 " + waist line and more upper torso over short legs. I (then) felt I was finally NOT 'heavy' but friends and family later told me they were concerned that I was TOO 'thin'. I couldn't imagine that - then. Over the years I remained pretty much steady around 120-125# which was good for my 5' 4 " height. Then I hit the brick wall of menopause and danged if the bricks didn't stick - lol! The hard part for me was that my lovely sturdy body packed on weight via muscle mass (built an adobe house moving 400 tons of bricks, mortar, huge beams and hand dug fence posts in HARD clay soil for 40 acres etc.etc.) AND tucked 'padding' onto every place on my body too. This very even distribution of excess was so slow and hardly noticeable since I tended to wear out clothes before they could display tightness to flag me. The excess really kicked in when I began fighting my body per doctor's strong suggestion since I weighed out of 'normal' chart ranges (thanks to hormone and early retirement lifestyle changes). Now the reverse seems to be happening. I haven't weighed myself in over a few years (don't look at dr.s office) and my pants haven't fallen off to trigger my promise to myself to weigh THEN (lol). I'm still wearing the same clothes I had a few years ago and I'm comfortable in them. But I've also noticed that my overall body 'size' seems to be very gradually lessening in circumference - torso, legs and arms. For sure I still have 'padding' but I now consider that reserves instead of 'fat'. And amazingly at 60 years of age I still have some muscle mass under that layer of padding. I like it that I now smile when I see my scale gathering dust behind the toilet (its rightful place as far as I am concerned - ha ha). And while my height has 'settled' down to 5' 3 " my bone mass measured like a 25 year old woman when my dr. strongly suggested I have a bone scan. And any time I find myself wondering what my 'weight' is . . . I go " Ah ha! " and start asking myself what is reallllllyyyy bothering me (or what diet demon is whispering in my ear ;-). My body and its 'statistics' are for sure not Hollyweird type nor do they fit into those charts that 'professionals' refer to as the word of god. But I am also healthy, able to pretty much do whatever I want AND after gifting myself the time (years now) to allow my body to do its own thing, I find that it is slowly reversing all the excesses I heaped on it in the name of health and fashion (phooey!). Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > I have not really lost, but the really important part is that in just over a year of doing this, I have not gained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2011 Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 great post. Thank you. Sandy Like Josie, I feel that I am happy with whatever my weight is since I started IE. I haven't 'achieved' a waif like body, and frankly at age 60 don't find that realistic or desirable! But one point I would like to share is that instead of focusing on weight, how I feel about as well as how my body FEELS (to me), has become a more important factor for me. I've always had what I consider a 'peasant profile' - solid and plow mule in proportions. I weighed a mere 108# when I married over 40 years ago but I also still had 37 " + hips, a 27 " + waist line and more upper torso over short legs. I (then) felt I was finally NOT 'heavy' but friends and family later told me they were concerned that I was TOO 'thin'. I couldn't imagine that - then. Over the years I remained pretty much steady around 120-125# which was good for my 5' 4 " height. Then I hit the brick wall of menopause and danged if the bricks didn't stick - lol! The hard part for me was that my lovely sturdy body packed on weight via muscle mass (built an adobe house moving 400 tons of bricks, mortar, huge beams and hand dug fence posts in HARD clay soil for 40 acres etc.etc.) AND tucked 'padding' onto every place on my body too. This very even distribution of excess was so slow and hardly noticeable since I tended to wear out clothes before they could display tightness to flag me. The excess really kicked in when I began fighting my body per doctor's strong suggestion since I weighed out of 'normal' chart ranges (thanks to hormone and early retirement lifestyle changes). Now the reverse seems to be happening. I haven't weighed myself in over a few years (don't look at dr.s office) and my pants haven't fallen off to trigger my promise to myself to weigh THEN (lol). I'm still wearing the same clothes I had a few years ago and I'm comfortable in them. But I've also noticed that my overall body 'size' seems to be very gradually lessening in circumference - torso, legs and arms. For sure I still have 'padding' but I now consider that reserves instead of 'fat'. And amazingly at 60 years of age I still have some muscle mass under that layer of padding. I like it that I now smile when I see my scale gathering dust behind the toilet (its rightful place as far as I am concerned - ha ha). And while my height has 'settled' down to 5' 3 " my bone mass measured like a 25 year old woman when my dr. strongly suggested I have a bone scan. And any time I find myself wondering what my 'weight' is . . . I go " Ah ha! " and start asking myself what is reallllllyyyy bothering me (or what diet demon is whispering in my ear ;-). My body and its 'statistics' are for sure not Hollyweird type nor do they fit into those charts that 'professionals' refer to as the word of god. But I am also healthy, able to pretty much do whatever I want AND after gifting myself the time (years now) to allow my body to do its own thing, I find that it is slowly reversing all the excesses I heaped on it in the name of health and fashion (phooey!). Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > I have not really lost, but the really important part is that in just over a year of doing this, I have not gained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2011 Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 great post. Thank you. Sandy Like Josie, I feel that I am happy with whatever my weight is since I started IE. I haven't 'achieved' a waif like body, and frankly at age 60 don't find that realistic or desirable! But one point I would like to share is that instead of focusing on weight, how I feel about as well as how my body FEELS (to me), has become a more important factor for me. I've always had what I consider a 'peasant profile' - solid and plow mule in proportions. I weighed a mere 108# when I married over 40 years ago but I also still had 37 " + hips, a 27 " + waist line and more upper torso over short legs. I (then) felt I was finally NOT 'heavy' but friends and family later told me they were concerned that I was TOO 'thin'. I couldn't imagine that - then. Over the years I remained pretty much steady around 120-125# which was good for my 5' 4 " height. Then I hit the brick wall of menopause and danged if the bricks didn't stick - lol! The hard part for me was that my lovely sturdy body packed on weight via muscle mass (built an adobe house moving 400 tons of bricks, mortar, huge beams and hand dug fence posts in HARD clay soil for 40 acres etc.etc.) AND tucked 'padding' onto every place on my body too. This very even distribution of excess was so slow and hardly noticeable since I tended to wear out clothes before they could display tightness to flag me. The excess really kicked in when I began fighting my body per doctor's strong suggestion since I weighed out of 'normal' chart ranges (thanks to hormone and early retirement lifestyle changes). Now the reverse seems to be happening. I haven't weighed myself in over a few years (don't look at dr.s office) and my pants haven't fallen off to trigger my promise to myself to weigh THEN (lol). I'm still wearing the same clothes I had a few years ago and I'm comfortable in them. But I've also noticed that my overall body 'size' seems to be very gradually lessening in circumference - torso, legs and arms. For sure I still have 'padding' but I now consider that reserves instead of 'fat'. And amazingly at 60 years of age I still have some muscle mass under that layer of padding. I like it that I now smile when I see my scale gathering dust behind the toilet (its rightful place as far as I am concerned - ha ha). And while my height has 'settled' down to 5' 3 " my bone mass measured like a 25 year old woman when my dr. strongly suggested I have a bone scan. And any time I find myself wondering what my 'weight' is . . . I go " Ah ha! " and start asking myself what is reallllllyyyy bothering me (or what diet demon is whispering in my ear ;-). My body and its 'statistics' are for sure not Hollyweird type nor do they fit into those charts that 'professionals' refer to as the word of god. But I am also healthy, able to pretty much do whatever I want AND after gifting myself the time (years now) to allow my body to do its own thing, I find that it is slowly reversing all the excesses I heaped on it in the name of health and fashion (phooey!). Katcha IEing since March 2007 > > I have not really lost, but the really important part is that in just over a year of doing this, I have not gained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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