Better Body Goals-Accountability Thread

[Dee Tal]

Soda is such poison! Switch to flavored seltzer if you need something fizzy! I quit soda years ago and dropped twenty pounds! I also quit salt at the same time, so I think it was a combination of quitting both. 92 pounds? How tall are you? 102 is tiny!

I've been drinking mostly naturally flavored unsweetened sparkling water for about a year. It's so refreshing!

One word of warning about those cutting salt. My mother has a super restrictive diet and was convinced she was "allergic" to salt. She cut out ALL salt.. 100%. She started experiencing neurological symptoms and other symptoms of dehydration even though she drinks tons of water.... she had no electrolytes to allow the water she was ingesting to get into cells. She went to a doctor and realized that this overkill. I doubt this is common but is possible for people on very natural/restrictive diets. Moderation is key.

[drucilla]

I've been drinking mostly naturally flavored unsweetened sparkling water for about a year. It's so refreshing!

One word of warning about those cutting salt. My mother has a super restrictive diet and was convinced she was "allergic" to salt. She cut out ALL salt.. 100%. She started experiencing neurological symptoms and other symptoms of dehydration even though she drinks tons of water.... she had no electrolytes to allow the water she was ingesting to get into cells. She went to a doctor and realized that this overkill. I doubt this is common but is possible for people on very natural/restrictive diets. Moderation is key.

To me sparkling water tastes like beer. : P Good advice for salt though I'll keep that in mind.

[MermaidRanoria]

Syrena, soup cans or canned foods make great makeshift weights! You will be surprised at how little weighty you need to get toned if your are not already a body builder. Stores such as walmart cell individual weights for as low as 3 dollars I've seen.

On a side not: I totally read this thread as "Buttery God Goals" as I clicked on it. Needless to say I should probably get in on this accountability thread. lol

[Anahita]

I'm 5'2.5" and very short waisted, to the point that my husband cant fit one finger between the bottom of my ribs and the top of my hips

My body's like that, too. I'm incredibly short waisted/torso-ed, and barely 5ft tall. I like it though, I fit better into historical clothing because of it, and I'm sure it has something to do with how people always think I'm taller than I am (until I get up to them that is, then reality sets in, lol)

[drucilla]

My body's like that, too. I'm incredibly short waisted/torso-ed, and barely 5ft tall. I like it though, I fit better into historical clothing because of it, and I'm sure it has something to do with how people always think I'm taller than I am (until I get up to them that is, then reality sets in, lol)

Wow you like it? I'm actually thinking about getting 2 ribs removed because I hate it so much.

[Mermaid Dottie]

When you're pregnant, your body releases a hormone to let your ligaments stretch so you can push out the baby. That's why so many women claim their feet grow when they are pregnant!

Check with a doctor as soon as you can. It might just be some simple inflammation and tendonitis, which means you'll have to modify workouts, but you don't want to injure your joints before finding out and then have to stop working out altogether. Swimming is always good and forgiving on the joints!

I've had knee surgery and more joint crap than I care to think about, but I can swim and bike now and my house is at the bottom of 65 stairs! Get it checked soon... it's like a toothache, it won't get better by ignoring it!

Yeah, I have an appointment monday with an orthopedics specialist. I figured that, if I went to a family practitioner, he would just send me to a specialist, anyway, so I thought I would just save the time and the gas and go to one right off the bat. Plus I know I won't get "an educated guess" from someone who made joint care his profession. He'll actually know what he's talking about. I just hope it's nothing that will prevent me from mermaiding, and I really hope I won't need surgery.

[Anahita]

Wow you like it? I'm actually thinking about getting 2 ribs removed because I hate it so much.

Yeah. I like the antiquated body shape... I have too long everything else on me, so I guess I was bound to get shorted out on something. Besides, I fit the description of what a mermaid is in my culture better this way, which is always a win in my book.

[sashiyoop]

See, I'm doing a paper on how people see their own bodies. I'm perfectly fine with how I look and haven't stepped in a scale for months (and the last time was out of curiosity). I know I'm not a super thin model or anything, but I'm happy with my body where it is. I do martial arts and kickboxing, but that's more so I can defend myself and feel healthier than actually trying to lose weight (and to be honest that won't work anyways because my muscle mass has been increasing and to me it's so much better to be at 130 and be able to punch someone's lights out than be at 115 and have a flat tummy),

[TheChimera]

So is your avatar you? Because if it is.....I don't see why you would want to lose any weight. Looks perfectly fine to me haha besides, who doesn't like their guy to be a little squishy? I don't see a washboard making a very good pillow :P But I know what other people say doesn't really matter..YOU have to be happy with the way you look, so I hope things work out for you!! (:

I was wondering the same thing, you look pretty slim in your avatar, me myself would like to tame my inner thighs a tad as well as my tummy, I have started working out with my boyfriend who thinks he is overweight but I love his soft squishyness, he has a nice chest but doesn't like his tummy which has a bit of extraness which I love. it's always so soft and warm to cuddle

[deepblue]

So it's been a couple months since I worked out. Some of you might remember I was having trouble financially and couldn't eat enough at all. My boyfriend helped with food while I got myself out of the financial hole I was in, and now I am solvent. Which means I can start working out again. I've been eating well enough for a month now, and feel like I'm ready to get back into it. I gained back 5 pounds, which is a lot when I was two pounds past my goal of 115 and weighed 113 in mid-September (I too am tiny in build, this for me is a realistic, healthy, reasonable goal and in every way suits me, personally). I still don't own a scale, but my bf does for his fitness goals, and I step on it once every couple weeks. (I only say it's my goal because I know how much I weighed when I had the body I liked. Were I not using a scale, I'd still be unhappy with my weight gain- my clothes fit wrong.)

The nice thing was, that even with the gaining some flab back, I was able to fit into a dress that I haven't worn in ten years to my BF's company holiday party. It was nice, I couldn't fit into that for at least seven years, so even though I'm bummed about the weight gain and muscle loss, I'm stoked that I am still closer to my healthiest than I was.

I'm having a tough time getting started again. heh. Came back here to read in some motivation.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Well I'll need some more motivation. My dress I bought last year doesn't fit ... Yikes...

I need some extreme weight loss

[XMermaidMarinaX]

While I am generally small, and more petite, I really want to get in shape. I have slight ab definition, not much, but was told its more than what I see by my friends parents.. I don't know I just see it slightly. Anyway I am hoping to swim more often even if its just with a monofin. I also want to do the squat challenge and do more pushups. I hope to go from where I am now to more fit and healthier. I hope to get a punching bag soon, maybe take up martial arts or something. I'm not entirely sure though as my history with that stuff isn't too great. I'll be thinking about it. At the moment I can do a leg press of around.. 60? I think that's what it was..

[deepblue]

I did my first complete workout since October (it might have been late September, I'm not certain) this morning.

It wasn't as rough as I thought it would be. I did hit some rough spots, but it's not like starting over. Except for my triceps, I didn't seem to lose as much strength as I thought, but oh man my triceps are pointless. They're the challenge. And I am SO FREAKING happy about how open my lungs stayed.

All in all, it felt great, and I look forward to that awesome feeling of accomplishment that I had before. I need to take a couple inches off my belly and hips, and then I ought to know by the fit of my current jeans where to go from there.

Woot!

[SeaGlass Siren]

Durastic diet change. Instead of white jasmine rice im on a brown rice diet. That dress I bought a year ago fits.


Judging from my previous posts I think I shoul be worrying about the weight bouncing...

[deepblue]

Are you sure it's actual weight gain and not water weight? Some women find an all over increase during certain parts of their cycles.

[Mermaid Oshun]

dead French model Isabelle Caro. i can not believe they were paying her to pose looking like that toward the end of her life. In fact the men were telling her she NEEDED TO LOSE EVEN MORE WEIGHT IF SHE WANTED TO WORK!!!

I have decided to embrace my body and enjoy it. I think it is a crime that the fashion designer told her to lose weight when she was only 86 pounds and already dying. (2:18 on video)
Paula Abdul recently passed out at a set at 93 pounds. Women are dying to look more unattractive and be more unhealthy. I for one am rebelling against this. I was going to wait until I lost weight to do a photo shoot but I've decided to make my tail and do the photo shoot at the plus sized HEALTHY weight that I am now. I decided to appreciate myself for who i am. I hope this will help other women to try to feel better about their bodies as well.

[Aziara]

Dear God.... That poor woman. She looked like a holocaust survivor.

[Mermaid Oshun]

I know exactly what she means about feeling dead but alive and having to do everything in a wheelchair. I was recently on a 500 calorie diet and did not have enough strength to stand up and walk to the bathroom some days. I felt as if I was dying and I know it was totally unhealthy. When I lost a few pounds and stopped the diet I still felt deadly weak and could barely walk. There was nothing beneficial about losing that weight at all. I totally felt less healthy, more ill and as if I was dying even after I was off the diet. My body was telling me it NEEDS to be a little fuller for me to have enough energy to be mobile. I did not have any strength to even walk outside or stand up for more than a few minutes until I gained the weight back. So now I am back over size 14 but at least I can stand up, walk around and feel alive.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Are you sure it's actual weight gain and not water weight? Some women find an all over increase during certain parts of their cycles.

Unsure yet. But I dun like it

[Echidna]

I was going to wait until I lost weight to do a photo shoot but I've decided to make my tail and do the photo shoot at the plus sized HEALTHY weight that I am now. I decided to appreciate myself for who i am.

I'm glad you arrived at this conclusion!
People should realize there are all kinds of body shapes out there, and every single one that is healthy is beautiful.

Most fashion and runway models are not healthy, many are malnourished and underweight, and still get told by designers and agencies to lose even more.
I wonder what for, it's not like they'd use the real photos for magazines, they photoshop everyone in such a way they are unrecognizable anyway ><