Do you watch/worry about your weight?

[jesse]

yay dana you gogirl by the way love your art
jessica

[Dana Lane]

yay dana you gogirl by the way love your art
jessica

Thank you!!!

hugs

[rejennyrated]

Unfortunately my beloved partner is an excellent cook. (Really outstanding)

My BMI when I met her was 20 - my BMI now is 32 and it's been as high as 38.

I am struggling to lose those vital pounds with no help from my partner. She likes me curvaceous and cuddly!

[Miniar]

Unfortunately my beloved partner is an excellent cook. (Really outstanding)

My BMI when I met her was 20 - my BMI now is 32 and it's been as high as 38.

I am struggling to lose those vital pounds with no help from my partner. She likes me curvaceous and cuddly!

One can be a great cook and still cook healthy foods.

[rejennyrated]

One can be a great cook and still cook healthy foods.

True! Sadly however I do eat healthy - plenty of vegetables, no cakes or cream buns, no fried food. I just eat too much healthy stuff and don't get enough exercise.

And like I said my partner doesn't help much because she genuinely likes me big - so she piles my plate high with all the things I love.

[Valkyrie]

I do have a history of watching and worrying about my weight but I've never been overweight in any sense (except i hear when i was born i was chubby).

I'm somewhere between 135 and 145lbs right now, I haven't weighed myself recently. I'm almost a little afraid haha. 145lbs is the most I've ever weighed.
Summer of 2008 I got down to 120lbs.

[Silver]

Not really. I know I'm young, but I've always been generally a little thinner than average.

5' 6" and 120 lbs. I try to stay in good shape by running sometimes, I'm pretty inconsistent/lazy though.

[LivingInGrey]

BMI is such a scam. Any Doc or professional I talk to that mentions my BMI and I stop them instantly. Until the medical community can find a way to incorporate muscle mass / body structure into the readings I refuse to patronize anyone who just blindly asks how tall I am and how much I weigh.

The last Doc I talked to said I should only weight between 140 to 185. The argument I had with the Doc got me kicked out of the office because he wouldn't accept that some people are going to weigh more because of muscle mass. He just couldn't wrap his 8 years in collage brain around the concept that some people actually NEED muscle in order to maintain their jobs.

Not only that, but there are some Insurance outfits and collages that PUNISH people with a BMI over a certain number.

Here's one that just recently came about... I know a lot of people that are "Healthy" people, but because of body structure are above the 30 BMI rate.

Obese Students Forced To Take Fitness at Penn State Univ. (The Examiner, Milwaukee WI)

[myles]

one of the things I love about warehouse work

The other being the incredible 'free ->-bleeped-<- program' that they have to give you stuff rather than have you steal it?  I worked at warehouses for years and the amount of trade that goes on between warehouses and truck drivers is it's own economy.

This warehouse no back door deals on my end. It is IKEA and they keep track of every last thing that comes off that truck. I am also after offload, move it from the docking area to the warehouse and unpack it. Not sure about the guys who work with the drivers. Now when I was in Saudi Arabia working in a basic warehouse (best way to describe it) let me tell you the things you could get! That was quite the experience.
As far as BMI I went to my doc the other day because my T levels were too high and we talked weight a bit. She looked up my BMI I told her if she really is concerned about my weight she should do a body fat test, as my weight is shifting to muscle. She agreed.
Andrew

[tekla]

Now when I was in Saudi Arabia

Yeah, our warehouse in the Kingdom (Bechtel Corporation) was pretty much an open air market.

[Miniar]

According to BMI I should loose 30 kilos... I used to weigh 10kg more than that and you could count my ribs through a thick sweater and had the concern of family that I wasn't eating enough...
They worried I "might" have an eating disorder.

[Renate]

The other being the incredible 'free ->-bleeped-<- program' ...

I work in a store and it was pretty amusing the first time I saw a Pepsi truck driver
deliver several handtrucks of their products then turn around and buy a Pepsi off me for $1.64.

[LightlyLuke]

"No, and I'm an androgyne"

I do work out and watch what I eat. But I don't worry about it.

I'm on chemo right now and get weighed nearly every week at my oncologist's office. I've never been so weight aware in my life. I've always just depended on how tight my jeans were getting: too tight then it's time to cut back on the fun foods. I'd rather exercise than have to buy new clothes.

[insanitylives]

lol @ bmi ... i never know whether to use the male or female calculators

I've played around with those, i can't find a difference between them at all...

[jesse]

bmi is only a small peice of the puzzle a better indicator is immersian or calipers. please remember females are genetically predispositioned to carry around 10-12 percent body fat. also if your on HRT your body is burning cals at a female nominal rate not a male 1600-1800 cals just to maintain alive males are closer to 2000-2200 cals depending on body weight of course.  so for instance if you are 260 lbs you will need to take in 2600 cals to maintain that body size if you eat less then this you will start to lose weight and trigger hunger pains if you eat considerably less 600 or more fewer your body will enter starvation mode and will begin to slow your metabolism down. Which will slow the weight loss you are experencing
jessica

[Hannah]

also if your on HRT your body is burning cals at a female nominal rate

I would be really interested in reading that research, nutrition is kind of a fascination of mine. As I understood it the bmr is composed of bodily maintenance functions including fueling the brain, which is almost 20% of our total energy requirement, the digestive tract and circulatory systems which take about 60% and the rest going for stuff like maintaining muscle mass and fat stores.

I've wondered a lot about this because though we are on hrt we have denser muscle mass for a time...however those muscles are in the process of atrophy. I'm curious about the balance, having felt a definite drop off in energy and stamina the last couple months. There's a lot more going on inside me right now that just hrt though so I can't really say for sure. I read some interesting research about the oxygen content of blood plasma and the density of glycogen stores in male vs. female muscle tissue, but I'm not clear on what effect that would have on the overall bmr.

[jesse]

Obesity genetics
October 16, 2007 New evidence that genetics plays a key role in obesity is published today in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. The findings relate to the genetics of modern Pima Indians who have an unusually high rate of obesity but could be extrapolated to all people. Their obesity is thought to be linked to a thrifty metabolism that allowed them to metabolize food more efficiently in times when little was available but causes problems when food is in abundance
heres some of it there is a lot in this journal on weight and weight control and the mechanisms that drive each in male and females i will try to locate the specific point i was making and provide a reference for those who are curious
jessica

[V M]

Every time I go poo I lose a couple of pounds 

Sorry, couldn't resist 

*Runs to hide*

[jesse]

other links for becca
Bursztein S D H elwyn J Askanazi Energy metabolism Indirect Calorimetry and nutrician Baltimore Williams and wilkins (1989)
Galbo H Hormonal And Metabolic Adaptation to exercise New York Theine-Stetton 1983

jessica

[Hannah]

Yay, some nice light reading for the winter break, and some extra calories burned by my sexiest organ! 

I'll look at them tomorrow, at the moment I'm washing my very nutritious peanut butter and jelly sandwich and ambiens down with some nummy fresca. Oh god when did I get so old