QuoteWhy are the girls jealous Always Amanda? LOL

Sorry... i did not mean to include everyone... I should have just said I was
jealous.

I'm guess I'm very superficial and my entire being is wrapped up in how my body looks...lol... I'd
love to weigh 116lbs ... and I don't care what shape I had I know I have body
issues... it's just part of my whole GID thing. If I was not a health nut I know I'd have
an eating disorder... and sometimes I wish I did

Amanda

Quote from: AlwaysAmanda on April 26, 2008, 11:50:08 PM
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<---- sorry... I always wanted to do that

There are a lot of very jealous girls right now...

Amanda

Lol agree'd, totally jealous!!!

Quote from: AlwaysAmanda on April 27, 2008, 12:12:02 AM

QuoteWhy are the girls jealous Always Amanda? LOL

I'm guess I'm very superficial and my entire being is wrapped up in how my body looks...lol... I'd
love to weigh 116lbs ... and I don't care what shape I had I know I have body
issues... it's just part of my whole GID thing. If I was not a health nut I know I'd have
an eating disorder... and sometimes I wish I did

Amanda

I am the same way. I am way superficial in the fact that it really matters a lot to me on how my body looks. And I have a LONG way to go I know. I just hope the overall result turns out decent! I am glad you don't have an ED though Amanda =[ that would be sad!





Meh. I just weighed myself in at 157 the other day. Really torn up about it. I would like to lose at the very least 15 lbs.

LOL... I'm jealous of you too Chelsea... you look great

Amanda

Quote from: AlwaysAmanda on April 27, 2008, 12:12:02 AM

QuoteWhy are the girls jealous Always Amanda? LOL

Sorry... i did not mean to include everyone... I should have just said I was
jealous.

I'm guess I'm very superficial and my entire being is wrapped up in how my body looks...lol... I'd
love to weigh 116lbs ... and I don't care what shape I had I know I have body
issues... it's just part of my whole GID thing. If I was not a health nut I know I'd have
an eating disorder... and sometimes I wish I did

Amanda

i think its important to not get too caught up in the number, and only focus on how you actually look. for example judging by mclova & chelsea's pics i would have never guessed they weigh as much as they said they do. they could have easily posted their pics and said they weight 140 and i would have believed it.

genetic females bones are usually more porous and light, and i dont think HRT can change your bones, so even if a trans female & genetic female were standing next to each other and their bodies looked identical, the trans person would still probably weigh a little more because of her heavier bones. the upside to this is when we go to the carnival or amusement park & play that game where they guess your weight within 5 pounds, we will always win a stuffed animal because they will underestimate our weight  >

so its definitely more about how you look than the number on the scale. dont feel alone, everyone has body issues. even someone like me has those fat days where i wanna cut up everything in my closet & go buy a whole new wardrobe because everything "makes me look fat". it's not because you're actually fat, those feelings are just part of being a girl. every time you feel like a cow consider it proof of your femininity 

IF I was 115 pounds I'd be dead I think or a size 000 squeletton, with no breasts or butt
(I'm 6 foot tall).

My ideal female weight for my frame is 142 pounds (I'm much more muscular than
the average so at 158, I look almost as small as at that weight, muscles take less space).
(I'm size 4-6 tops, size 4 bottoms), At 142, I'm probably 2-3 bottoms and 4 in tops.

Quote from: lemon on April 27, 2008, 12:55:53 AM

Quote from: AlwaysAmanda on April 27, 2008, 12:12:02 AM

QuoteWhy are the girls jealous Always Amanda? LOL

Sorry... i did not mean to include everyone... I should have just said I was
jealous.

I'm guess I'm very superficial and my entire being is wrapped up in how my body looks...lol... I'd
love to weigh 116lbs ... and I don't care what shape I had I know I have body
issues... it's just part of my whole GID thing. If I was not a health nut I know I'd have
an eating disorder... and sometimes I wish I did

Amanda

i think its important to not get too caught up in the number, and only focus on how you actually look. for example judging by mclova & chelsea's pics i would have never guessed they weigh as much as they said they do. they could have easily posted their pics and said they weight 140 and i would have believed it.

genetic females bones are usually more porous and light, and i dont think HRT can change your bones, so even if a trans female & genetic female were standing next to each other and their bodies looked identical, the trans person would still probably weigh a little more because of her heavier bones. the upside to this is when we go to the carnival or amusement park & play that game where they guess your weight within 5 pounds, we will always win a stuffed animal because they will underestimate our weight  >

so its definitely more about how you look than the number on the scale. dont feel alone, everyone has body issues. even someone like me has those fat days where i wanna cut up everything in my closet & go buy a whole new wardrobe because everything "makes me look fat". it's not because you're actually fat, those feelings are just part of being a girl. every time you feel like a cow consider it proof of your femininity 

Lemon you are so right! The number on the scale means NOTHING! Most people who are quick to tell you their weight (on the scale) are probably lying! LOL
Women have been doing this forever, and we as transwomen are no different. NOW I'm not saying that anyone on here is lying! I'm not lying - that's my weight on the scale but I have also been 168 when I stepped on the scale 2 months ago, and 155 two weeks ago - the point is that the number on the scale fluctuates for *ALL* of us so one should not base their happiness on a number on a scale. 
I used to weight myself once every week - but I stopped that about 6 months ago because I found it trival & un-important in the scheme of things...it's much more of an indication by the way your clothes fit.  As long as you are healthy who care's if you gain or loose 5 -10 pounds here and there.

And regarding what you said about this picture I posted earlier in the thread...... <img src="http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7/hpim2829cropyv0.jpg"> ....you are very right! I often mistake people's weights when I look at them - it's extremely hard to estimate people's weight based of the way their body looks because there are other factors, like bone density, water retention, etc. that affect one's weight.

At the end of the day everyone just has to be content with their size & do their best to stay HEALTHY vs. to keep a number on the scale the same!

The other day, after I'd reduced down to 171 pounds, I thought I'd see if I was ready to drop a size, so I went to Target and took 3 sizes of the same dress into the fitting room.

Tried a 12-- no such luck! I could barely get it on over my shoulders, and of course trying to pull it off was twice as hard. My oversized shoulders are the limiting factor here. So it looks like no matter how much weight I lose, I'm stuck with size 14.

QuoteThe number on the scale means NOTHING!

Yes I agree completly, I should have said I'd like to have a totally feminine
body... whether is 116 or 160. I tend to link small with being female.

Amanda

Quote from: JENNIFER on April 24, 2008, 06:22:03 PM
Amanda, please allow me this opportunity to clear something up before we fall out.........when I wrote my posting I was not thinking of you at all, I do not know you as a person because I am merely a newcomer to this board, I was relating my past experience and  knowledge of Berliegh and knowing how 'direct' and 'brutal in her honest opinions' etc, I was hoping to suggest that if we take all comments for what they are and in the spirit they were made then we might understand better they come from.

Seemingly, my comments have irritated you and I never wanted that.    I agree with most of what Berleigh says because I can see her pain, we share the same battles with officialdom, inept health authorities and many other matters but we agree to differ because we are individuals with our own unique problems.  Berliegh spoke of forums where free speech was curtailed somewhat and I confess to being an ADMIN on one of those boards.  She spoke of a situation whereby we might say to someone ' Oh, you look nice' whilst lying through grinding teeth.

I truely honestly believe that I was merely relating my experiences on other TS/TG/TV domains and in good faith.

" Oh please... you are responding about a post from Berliegh about me, saying you agree with most of what she says,
and you use the words yourself and you and you expect me to believe you were not directing that at me?"

Yes Amanda, I am asking you believe exactly that.  I am agreeing with her general commentary, my use of the words you highlighted were not targetted at you nor towards any other person on this board.  I simply do not know anyone here well enough at this time because I only recently joined you all.

I do not know what more I can do to show that I am here only to share my experiences as a person in transition to female status from my male birth, to find new friends and form possibly new relationships but primarily to offer a listening ear too any one that wants it.

Hostility is not my business, I do not seek it and will not tolerate it.  Amanda, I respect you and ask that you forgive any error or misjudged comment that you felt was aimed at yourself.... 

I think Jennifer understands what I was trying to put accross. As far as your lower body pic went Amanda it was light years better than I could ever look. I look horrendous in comparison. I'll post a pic of my lower body and people will be appalled.

But my point was that we do tend to lie through our teeth in order to make folk feel good, rightly or wrongly and I'm not sure that's always helpful. We all need to progress as much as possible and refine our situation because the outside world is not as forgiving.....

I measured myself the other day, I'm around a 36 A (if even that) cup, waist 27", butt 36", around 5'9" and have been utterly locked at 135lbs. Strange that things have almost stayed the same during HRT except for an increase in cup size and a pretty good lookin butt if I do say so myself. But I have nowhere near the wonderful shapes pictured in this thread. 

I think HRT is helping with muscle mass little by little. I think my arms are getting thinner but my shoulders still stick out too much at around 40" I drastically cut carbs years back but like I said I hit a wall. The only thing I work on is my abs, and that is pretty much all the time. In fact I avoid upper body exertion, and have always been extremely weak there anyways.

well weight around 238 - 240 pounds (yes still big but i'm going walking anyway) height somewhere between 5'9-6'0 -6'1 (not sure exctly) bust size no idea but it's not huge but let's say there ok clothes size for jeans w20 yep but i want to fit into at least a 19 or at least an 18