[Azzi_Kahlila]

Threads about how to loose weight seem to spawn often. So there is THE question: Do you feel too fat, at a perfect weight or too slim?
Weight is becomig a true psychological problem in our western societes. I want to know if JSA help people to feel good in their body.

I answer my own question: I weigh 57kg for 1m72 (57kg=125pounds=8.9 stones, 1m72=5ft 8inches, I'm helping the barbarians), without a gram of fat, and even when I try to build some muscle or eat only junk food, I just can't take a gram.

[Weislenalkata]

I used to be athletic type.

On 180cm height,I was 82kg.
I was a Fitness freak,pure muscles,no fat.

Now I'm 70kg.I was ill,and lost 18kg in hospital.
Real nightmare for someone who spent 8years on strict fitness training.

Quite frustrating...

[boiffrona]

Ever since I'm living on my own I'm living more healthy. My fiancee made sure I would eat more veggies something my mom never managed to do. She's making the food tasty and such.

Teaching me how to cook healthy must have done this because due to this I don't mind getting veggies and using them. Otherwise I would just go buy out.

At this point I'm able to live on 20 euro for 14 days and still have healthy and tasty meals.

I've lost alot of weight, yet I wouldn't want to speak about fat, neither would I want to speak about perfect. I did vote for perfect because i'm not fat so closest to perfect

With the weight I've been losing I do wonder about one thing though.

I have gotten this really nice 64 piece bamboo doh earlier this year and if i lose too much would it be possible it wouldn't fit anymore or would it only be fitting better?

[KlaraNovikoffa]

I am prett big, and gotta lose some weight, but nothing seems to change when I do anything.

(o and when this post was written, it was 2 votes per section making it 33.33%, haha, thought you'd like to know.)

[bp9QxekG]

tricky question

"you you FEEL fat?"

thats is completely different than "are you overweight?" becouse the "feeling" fat is something that you have in your head, but "being fat" is something that you can calculate with a simple formula.
personally, i feel fat, but i know that i am not.

[JOR4qxYH]

i would say too thin in the fact that i am 5'11 and weigh 120 lbs. damn overactive metabolism!

[thargeagsaf]

I voted for too thin, seeing as there was no category for "living awesomeness".

[freevideoandoicsI]

I find it hard to put on weight, and easy to lose it if Im stressed or eating rubbish when Im travelling. I prefer to have more weight on me than I do currently.

[gernica]

all the above posts make me wanna honk , too skinny!!!!!!!!
am trying to loose weight, dieting, exercising doin kendo, going down the gym Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

even my doctor reckons i am a FF(fat F**ker)

although to be honest, have lost stone and a half in about 10 weeks

am 47 so its a struggle, but my better half is insistent that i do so
To be brutally honest i do need to or i will not see my pension, am now 14 stone and three quaters (90 ish kilos ) was 16 stone 105k

you wippersnappers dont know how lucky you are

[heinz_1966]

I'm pleasantly plump

When I'm not doing Kendo or Naginata, I'm running. When I'm not running, I'm eating. I'd be alright if I didn't eat like Homer Simpson. Oh well, food is my 3rd favorite hobby.

[poRmawayncmop]

I'm sure if other people felt me i'd feel fat to them too

[Grzqbmhy]

I'm a fat bastard.

Yup.

[nuveem7070]

whats a stone? im guessing its a unit of mass, but ive never seen it before. ie: lb = imperial. kilogram = metric. stone = ????

[ManHolDenPoker]

14 Pounds = 1 Stone

[BokerokyBan]

so its imperial?

[Galvanoidum]

well iam fat iam 185cm(6ft 1 ithink) and about 115kg but i cant lose much i train 2-4 times a week pretty hard i think and have a very physical job,
but my kendo still pretty good so i dont think it affects that to much.
so iam happy.

[tofRobbroolve]

so its imperial?

Yes its imperial.

As a guide;

16 ounces = 1 pound
14 pounds = 1 stone
112 pounds = 1 hundredweight

now it gets tricky

2240 pounds = 1 British (or Long) ton which is very close to the Metric tonne

or

2000 pounds = 1 US (or short) ton

1 pound = 453.59 grams (averdupois weight)
or
1 gram = 0.035 ounces.

You can see why most countries adopted the Metric system.

but having said that Imperial is fairly easy once you get used to it. And is still used by every country in the world to some degree.

[Flerdourdyged]

so its imperial?

Yup, but the Americans have their own Imperial ideas, just like they have their own English really.

Same as the difference between an American billion (1,000,000,000) and a UK billion (1,000,000,000,000). Annoyingly, the UK has adopted much of this stuff because of international economics and so on. Same as language, lots of textbooks written by UK authors use American spelling for scientific stuff, an example would be the word acadaemic (US academic), or Oesophagus (US esophagus), or Oestrogen (US Estrogen).

I don't mind the American spelling and stuff, that's fine, that's what works for the US then cool. But it pisses me off that so much American culture seeps over here to the UK. Possibly the most unsavoury aspect being gun culture.

/rant

In any case, with regards tot he original question, I was seriously considering getting a website going called toofatforkendo.com......

Mike

[Stappipsy]

Yup, but the Americans have their own Imperial ideas, just like they have their own English really.

Same as the difference between an American billion (1,000,000,000) and a UK billion (1,000,000,000,000). Annoyingly, the UK has adopted much of this stuff because of international economics and so on. Same as language, lots of textbooks written by UK authors use American spelling for scientific stuff, an example would be the word acadaemic (US academic), or Oesophagus (US esophagus), or Oestrogen (US Estrogen).

I don't mind the American spelling and stuff, that's fine, that's what works for the US then cool. But it pisses me off that so much American culture seeps over here to the UK. Possibly the most unsavoury aspect being gun culture.

/rant

In any case, with regards tot he original question, I was seriously considering getting a website going called toofatforkendo.com......

Mike

I think what gets me is lazy publishers of books. When a book is written in US English only simply because they do not want to do two proof reads and print runs. Its not that it spoils the read itself but it plays havoc with ones spelling ability.

On the changes front it does work the other way. We changed from "fall" to "Autumn" whilst they retained the original. And we changed "aluminum" to "aluminium" because...Well I don't know but I know it was we who changed it.

there is some good stuff to come out of the US.

Bill Bryson - one funny funny man and a hellova writer
Braces - about time we started good dental work
US KIDS TV - now most is drivel but I like it for one thing; that US kids often have braces on even on tv programmes which I think makes the wearing of them more acceptible (role model stuff). If such programmes allow kids to wear braces without being bullied about it - then all power to them

[AnypecekceS]

I think that in this culture its hard NOT to feel fat or overweight or unhappy with yourself. Everyday theres a new focus on the body or body politics, example, size 0 models, scare stories about obcesity etc. There is this idealology that "fat is bad" and "thin is good", which eventually for many people turns into actual belief. And its not surprise as to why people feel like that, and how it is that people come to feel like that. Visual culture and the intensity in which it is offered to us is a serious part in the way that people percieve their own bodies and what is the "ideal weight" or "ideal body"...

And I think that this applies to men and women, but the younger end.... I'm 19 and I find it very hard to feel happy or comfortable with myself, believe me, im no size 0!!!

Good grief,

I got a downer just reading this.

For the record I think most men do not like size 0 women nor do they like hugely obese women. anything inbetween is just fine.

there may be some with predilictions for certain features ( big boobs, small boobs, big bums, small bums, blue eyes, cross eyes etc etc) but I think most men just like women as they are.( And yes I know some men like men and women like women) Its all about confidence and that certain something.

And anyway I think you're lush as you are.