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[azurelunatic]

Marx thinks that the weight that I've been gaining back has been muscle, because I've been losing overall size.

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[tiel.livejournal.com]

You'll find that you'll loose inches more consistantly and faster then you will loose pounds, because of that very fact. Muscle weighs more then fat, so as you convert fat to muscle, you'll find yourself "shrinking" wihout actually loosing much weight. Don't let it discourage you!

[azurelunatic]

Hell, if I can get down to 200 pounds, and/or a size 16/18, I'll be happy. I looked at a website recently advertising for egg donors, and was appalled to see that the maximum weight for a woman half an inch taller than I am is 165 pounds. With my body build and bone structure, when I was acting anorexic (limiting my carbohydrate intake to under 100 grams a day, {but not limiting the protein, fortunately for me}, compulsively working out {fencing class at night, swimming laps with my father at way too early in the morning}, eventually got dizzy and had to sit out a fencing class), I was 195.

[tiel.livejournal.com]

The entire concept of what a healthy weight is has been entirely lost, I think, in the ideals of what a person is supposed to look like. I've been working out three times a week and eating properly (combined with an on again off again Slim Fast regime) for a year and a half now, and I'm -still- just sitting in the middle of what someone my height and age is supposed to weigh. Its silly, really.

bunny_angel has started a community style site, Proud to Be Me (http://www.proudtobeme.org), to illustrate a lot of these same points. Might be worth checking out.

[azurelunatic]

I have the advantage that I know what my body is supposed to feel like, healthy, and this right now is getting closer to it than I have been in the past four or so years.