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KayTheCurler said:
When I got home I looked carefully at my partner and realised that he too had lost some weight. No dieting, no extra exercise, no change in meds. The only thing different is that some time back we started eating real butter and not stressing about fatty meat. Actually, we now eat much as we did twenty years ago when we were lighter in weight.

Unless someone else has a viable theory I'll thank my altered diet for the more slender size!
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I love it! My husband is reading a book lately called The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz which is all about how butter and fatty meats definitely have a place in a healthy diet.
 
You know Leleche League said it well "Eat the largest variety of foods possible in as close to their natural state as possible"


down 25lbs now by the way
 
That is interesting Pinga. I don't really know why it happened - just took a guess that it was the change in meals. No matter really - I got some new pants because of it, which is cool. Strangely though - not a single person has mentioned that I am a bit smaller, and I didn't notice that my guy had lost some tummy. I wonder if that is because it happened very slowly and steadily?
 
I just weighed myself for the first time in years. I have lost weight over the past year, inches anyway - wearing 7/8 jeans recently so I was curious. I honestly thought I was about 135 given my clothes size and remembering what I wore when I was younger and about this size - but I'm 150! I am between 5 ft 5 and 5 ft 6 (if my back is straight as I can make it) - so that still apparently puts me on the edge of overweight according to BMI. And I was feeling so much better about my size/ weight, too. I must've been around 170 or so, more even, a year ago, and just wasn't aware of what I weighed. So I have a few more lbs to go. I will never look really "skinny" though. I am just not in any way, functionally or otherwise, built like a ballerina.
 
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The BMI is just one measure. If you like your weight now than all is well. As you said your clothing size has dropped.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Best to judge by the objective BMI @Kimmio - rather than by your own subjective feelings.
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If that is the objective does that put observation of the objective self out there? No wonder we have mental displacement when dealing with reflective images in mine as icons ... some say idols as they don't wish you going where there are thoughts ... as Gods they'd rather you not know ... biblical roué 'L, or ruse? Godlike jesters!
 
Kimmio said:
I will never look really "skinny" though. I am just not in any way, functionally or otherwise, built like a ballerina.
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And there is no reason why you should. BMI is not about aesthetics, it is about health. The goal of lowering BMI to the healthy range is to avoid consequences of obesity. If you are only on the edge or slightly over, then it is probably more something to monitor and discuss with your health provider than something to worry about or obsess over.
 
How much more does muscle weigh, than fat? I am getting more toned because I've been more active, not just smaller in clothes size. Like I said, I am right at the edge of overweight - the high end of normal is 149.9 and I am 150 so it's much ado about nothing - well, .1. But I do remember being 135 and I thought I was this size - unless the sizes have changed and what is 7/8 now would'v been 9/10 then. I read that somewhere about some U.S. brands being a bit misleading that way. I could probably still tone up and lose an inch around the waist anyway - I am looking healthier than last year and feeling better - so that's all good and I am just getting picky about aesthetics now.
 
The better question is how much more volume does fat add than muscle. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat but a pound of fat will add more volume/ size.
 
They've always done that, particularly with expensive clothes. In my glorious youth, when I was a little slip of a thing, I wore a size 4 jeans. In Ralph Lauren's, a size 0...
 
"when I was a little slip of a thing"

Was that a whisper in the past ... a Freudian slip of dreams? Kind 've like a veil over the lands ...
 
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