If you have been actively losing weight – at what time do you decide that it is time to stop losing – and time to start maintaining weight? What exactly are the factors that make you decide – this is enough?
- You reach a “goal weight” – How did you come by this number? What is an ideal body weight and who decides what is normal?
- You decided that you are happy with your appearance.
- You are fitting in to clothes of a certain size.
- You reach a goal body fat percentage.
- Others are beginning to say you are looking thin (or too thin?).
- You feel that your diet is (or has been) too restrictive and you want to stop feeling like you are focusing on food.
- Certain health markers are indicating that you are a lot healthier.
These are just a few reasons.
When do you say “enough is enough”?
how did u get rid of all the sagging skin from loosing all that weight with out surgery???
help i went on a clean eating diet wanting to weigh
130 pounds and now weigh 117pds. Ive been to the doctor and they cant find a reason for the declining weight. I am very scared and am trying to increase my eating with clean foods and i stopped exercising to slow this down and start gaining. I am 5’6 and am 47 years old and never had this issue before. I do not smoke or drink.
i think u have to have some help and i will try to do that but can u help me first
Okay thanks so much Jan!
It makes perfect sense… but the fact is, that has nothing to do with fat. We use fat to mean something else, like inadequate, or unhappy, when we “feel fat”. The book “Do I look fat in this?” by Jessica Weiner is actually all about this, how we use “fat” to mean other feelings we don’t want to deal with.
And I didn’t want to imply you have an ED or anything like that. But you are unhappy about your body although you are nowhere near fat, and it is not good to be unhappy, so if you have someone to talk about stuff like that, it helps. I didn’t mean counseling like a person to sit with you and force you to eat, just a person to talk to.
yes, i do have acess to counseling, but i dont think i need it. as crazy as it sounds, but some days ill feel fine, and other ones ill feel “fat”. i also think me saying i feel fat is inaccurate, its more like i just feel like i have some extra “pudge” that i would like to get rid of…if that makes any sense.
You need to seek some help then, Melissa. You are not fat, in fact you’re pretty underweight. Do you have access to counseling?
i think im fat, its not really a general dissatisfaction.
Nico, in that case you shouldn’t just stop, you should seek help to regain some much needed weight.
5’5
85 pounds
(shrugs)
yeah.. you do honey get some help!! first talk to your parents about it. get some help..