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Healthy vs ideal weight
| Fri, 02-11-2005 - 8:43am |
Is your ideal weight different from maintaining a healthy weight?
| Fri, 02-11-2005 - 8:43am |
Is your ideal weight different from maintaining a healthy weight?
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With all that I have gone through in the last year, it's become abundantly clear that the ideal weight and healthy weight are not the same thing for me. I have been doing my best to let go of having emotions attached at all to whatever my weight is. Obviously, I'm not there yet as DH is still weighing me and I haven't peeked. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.
I am working on finding a size/weight where I feel happy and okay with myself... regardless of what the scale says.
for me, they are SO not the same.
maintaining healthy weight is easy for me. though it would be very hard for a lot of people to live the lifestyle i live to maintain a healthy weight, for instance
that reminds me, i should be more precise about how i speak about healthy vs. ideal weight. i don't have specific numbers for any of these concepts. what i was referring to when i said "healthy weight" or "ideal weight" was a visual of how much fat and muscle i can see (and pinch) on my body. in fact, if it weren't for dietpower (which requires a weight to work correctly), i'd rarely weigh myself.
so i should really be more clear and say "healthy size" and "ideal size"... i know that when i eat and exercise in a manner that is effortless for me, i know by how i look that i am within a healthy range. i can double check my instincts by getting on a scale and calculating BMI, but that is really secondary to me. i also know that to look how i want to look is nearly impossible - that is what i was calling my "ideal weight" even though i don't know what my actual weight would be if i looked like that. i can guess, but the number itself doesn't mean anything to me. the visible six-pack and lack of bingo arms is what matters to me.
likewise, when i calculated where i am now, i wasn't thinking about the number, i was thinking something along the lines of "still no visible stomach muscles, but only a small pinchable roll below the bellybutton... still have bingo arms, but some definition around the shoulders and biceps..."
i've never been motivated by weight goals, i'm motivated by vanity!!! who's going to care (or even know) if i weigh 110 pounds? but if i have a six pack, well-defined shoulders and back, a smooth butt with a nicely defined curve at the bottom, and no bingo arms, then THAT will look hot!! as i said a few weeks ago, if i looked like jennifer garner, i wouldn't care if the scale said i weighed 300 lbs.
Bingo arms...I love that!
Gosh, wouldn't we all like to look like Jennifer Garner. But you hit the nail dead on the head here. That's precisely the problem w/ the focus some people have on weight - they can't see the truth in the mirror because they're blinded by the numbers on the scale. And hey, Jen, there's nothing wrong w/ a little vanity. We wouldn't be human w/o it.
So, are you getting all one shade or high & low lights? Hope it turns out great!
one shade. i'm so over two process hair color, that's why i'm dyeing back to brown. well, one reason.
That's a better way to put it--a healthy size vs. ideal size.
Mine is different. When I gained weight when we moved, I was still healthy but it was much higher than I'd like to be.
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