Check this out too. Inspiring.
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Fat cells are bigger and softer than muscle cells. You can weigh the same amount you do after a year of working out, but be a lot smaller since you have burned fat and laid down some good muscle mass.
That's what makes me feel so crazy! It is hard, but I DO get a high out of it and enjoy challenging my broken body, and I know all this and when I get sidelined, it's like pulling teeth to get me back in. That's weird.
Preaching to the choir, Dodai!
You haven't lost so much weight, but don't you feel more fit and toned?
I'm down with going to hell with you, but I laughed.
I told Mr. Ratched that I'm taking my workout clothes with me to my Dr.'s appt. tomorrow because I'm pretty sure I'm going to get motivated, lol. Keep spreading the message about weights and aerobics! It works!
ITA! I am middle aged, have MS and a multitude of minor and major crappy health problems. I started working out for the first time in my LIFE, at age 53. I never really had to before as, while I'm not exactly tiny at 5'10" 167-183, I wasn't heavy enough to really be motivated, and frankly, I thought exercise was kind…
That's what happens to me, that I wind up feeling voracious after fast walking/running, BUT, I am also gaining a lot of muscle, and muscle burns more calories than fat. Also, I might hover around the same weight but my *size* decreases pretty radically. I'm not so fluffy, but more solid. I'll take it.
I knew this would be from Archie McFee! Every year, my kid's Christmas stockings were the $50 "surprise bag", and then some other misc. stuff from there and ThinkGeek. Fun stuff.
I always thought I was an easygoing mom, but if I had already poured something in a sippy cup and child would ask for another, it wouldn't be a *deal*. I would just cheerily announce that we can use that one next. If you do it matter of factly and not with some hesitation of "oh, I hope child doesn't get upset with…
Agreed.
Uh, to some others here, this was not some huge deal to me and/or my son. It just surprised me that even though he is well aware of how much pressure many females feel to reach some ideal, he didn't realize that particular characteristic comes from being judged harshly for their body types. He can find it…
The reason we were even on the subject was because he and I were talking about a young friend of his who attempted suicide a month or so ago, because she thought she was so fat and unattractive (and she's quite the slender side of "normal"). We both thought it was horrible that she had such a poor and unrealistic body…
Absolutely positive.I don't care if he is, but he isn't. He likes little red-headed girls who do well in school. (I have run across stashes of his where no one usually goes. He's straight, lol.)
I'm sure it will all work out. I think it surprised me so much because he is a sensitive guy and hates it when he hears anyone put down a female or male for their physical characteristics. Then I realize my first son didn't marry what his youthful "ideal" was, and he couldn't be more happily married to the most DIL in…
My teen years were mid 70's and that when they "could" touch at the top, knee and calves. I look back at pics of us in HS and we were all perfectly lovely creatures. Male and female. PERFECTLY lovely!
ITA with you!
This is an old trite saying, but I sincerely believe if someone doesn't love us for who we are (I don't mean just slovenly slobs who do no work on themselves inside and out. We can all stand to tighten up our game.), but they are TRULY not worth putting our time and effort into them. I have been married…
Consider it a bullet dodged. What a skeeve.