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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    I know you're right flickad... but seeing a weight heaps below my own weight and it telling me I'd be happiest at that weight still makes me feel like I'm big. I know I'm not. I know I'm thin. I know all this and yet seeing these numbers of people who say they're fat at my weight or that I can't POSSIBLY be happy being as 'large' as I am when I am full of muscle and almost no fat (14% I think?).. just seeing the numbers, y'know? Makes me self concious.

    And it seems it's not just me... a lot of the girls here see that and go.. wait... my weight should be ten pounds less?

    *sigh*

    Why do things like this only tell you how much you should weigh?

    If I weighed 107 like it wanted, I'd be sick and bony. But, apparently, happy.
    Look, I weigh in under 110, at 5'3, and still have a bigger waist measurement than you (not to mention a much higher body fat percentage than your 14%). That should tell you something. What matters is what you look like, not an arbitrary number on the scale, and you look tiny.

    This is a magazine article that hasn't taken into account the most important factor- body composition. It is, for that reason, highly suspect. Please don't trust a magazine article over what you know to be the facts.

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    The happy weight calulator says I should be 126.8 , but it' realy close to how much I always wanted to weight. I always said 125 was my ideal now I say that as some who is 117 now and a few years back couldn't get over 107. I'm 5'5" and when I was 122 I finally felt like I had the most banging body I ever had becuz it just filled me out where I wanted it to be.

    However I couldn't keep my weight up as I just am too active and I'm about 8% bodyfat soo gaining weight for me is a matter of body buiding verse gaining a pound of fat--which means I was drinking super high cal protien shakes between all my meals and adding about 2100 calories of that a day just to get to 120. I just gave up trying to go for 125 becuz I was eating like a beast and I felt my diet was out of control becuase it made me excessively hungery all the time. The shakes were expensive then I had to eat 6 full meals and snacks all day so it was costing me like 50 bucks a day just so I wouldn't feel like I was going to faint or I wanted to eat the flesh off the person next to me.

    Anyhow soo I decided 117 didn't give me the butt I had at 125, but I am more then happy with it. Sometimes I still drop to 115--112 and i'm upset with it becuz being so low in body fat I always look 10lbs less even though I'm small boned at what the book say should be my ideal 110 I just look like 95 lbs and str8 up and down like a rail or a 14yr boy at that point.

    There is alot to consider when it comes to weight and the medical books ever get into how you carry your weight when they talk about ideal weight when that's the difference between some1 being obesse at 105 which does happen ussually when some1 is anorexic (who's body is storing fat just to stay alive) verse some who at 145 is almost pure lean muscle like Layla Ali is built.
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    My happy weight was calculated at 14.4 or 15.4 if I allow myself a treat every now and then. I eat really healthy, so I doubt my version of a treat is what they have in mind. I am about 114-115 and 5'1". My body fat is less than 15% but I am very muscular.

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    My 'ideal weight' is 89-119. Yikes! 89 lbs! That's teeny tiny. My happy weight is 106. I'm about that now-maybe 104? Not skinny but still small (I'm 4'10"). Like a 4-6? I am all booty anyway.

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    I'm going to bite all you little teeny doll-women!

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    I'm going to bite all you little teeny doll-women!
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    I won't be able to help it. Little tiny things make me want to bite them, I can't help it!

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    I'm kinda confused between medium body type and large body type. are they talking like big bones? I have a tiny top and a big bottom.

    I played with the ranges (and switched between one and three times working out since I'm counting work as working out)

    I'm between 144.3-145.3 but then when I put that I had a big body type it jumped up to 152.5

    Now-- personally, my "happy weight," as in, I get to eat what I want and pretty much stay at that weight is 160. Still sexy, but definitely think from time to time that I should lose weight.

    my ideal weight is 135 (high school.)

    Currently I'm at 145 and will probably stay that way with a change of diet and the rare splurge (and working more often since that keeps me busy.)

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    It said my ideal weight was between 113-153. That's a pretty big range. Ranginging from anorexic to obese. 113? I haven't seen that since I was 12. 153? I saw that when I was on Depo and known as the thick girl. And that was then putting it nicely. I was a size 12.

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    You know... I was thinking about it, and although I am not happy if I weigh what the calculator said was my "happy weight" - I think its correct. I don't think it means the weight where we are emotionally happy and content, but rather the weight that we don't have to work hard to stay at. In that case, 126 would definitely be where my body likes to hang out. I don't have to watch every single thing I put into my mouth or work out like a madwoman - like I currently do to stay 115.

    I think the term "happy weight" is what is throwing us all off...

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    My happy weight is 131 lbs. and right now I weigh about 128 (at 5' 6"). I look the best at 118-120, but have to starve myself to get like that.


    I'm a size 11 in jeans, skinny everywhere else except my hips/butt... thank you genes!


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    I got 123.4

    I'm 125.8 or something.

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    157 ftw! I guess it's because I'm 6' tall and don't really exercise, but damn! I have a small frame, wtf! I'm at my heaviest right now at 137, ain't gonna gain 20 pounds on top of that! I'm really happiest at 130 because my tummy is flatter but my boobs are still full. Honestly if I took the time to tone my core, arms and legs, I wouldn't care if I weighed more. It just needs to be distributed right.


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    Hmmm, according to that calculator my happy weight is 148.8 and I'm only 130 right now. That means I have to GAIN 18.8 lbs. That's just as hard (for me at least) as trying to lose 18.8 lbs. But by george! I knew I was underweight.
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    I'm 5'4
    Calculator Happy Weight=129
    Ideal Weigh Range=108-145
    My Training Ideal Weight=114-115

    My current weight=119ish. And guess what? I'm so fucking happy it hurts! Fuck that quiz ya'll, its meant for fun!

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    haha - my happy weight is 130. I'm 110 right now and I know that I"m at my ideal weight. I eat a ton and work out every once in a while, but my body had a tendency to stay at this weight, I always have, I never fluctuate. But those online calculators are funny, I think because I said that I have a child and allow myself treats they figured I could weigh more...

    Has anyone taken that calculator that gives you your "real" age? It's silly too, but gets you thinking about healthy living habits.
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    138 is what it gave me. I'm happy at around 130. In my head I'd like to be very slender and ballet dancer size, which is around 117 for me...but I know I can stay at 130 without trying too hard, and still look a nice shape. 138 is around where I'm at now, and it's not happy. It's 'meh'.

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    Interesting: at 5'11, large frame, exercise 5X a week....my happy weight is 158.5.

    Guess What I weighed this morning....158.5!

    I'm pretty happy with the way I look, but for numbers sake I want to get back down to the 150 I was this summer.
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    I'm 5'4", medium frame, and my happy weight is 128. Sounds about right. Any less than that and I'd have to exercise obsessively and never allow myself any treats, and life's too damn short for that. I weigh around 143 right now and I actually think I don't look too bad right now-I'd just like to be a bit more toned. I definitely don't want to start drama or anything, but it kind of bothers me when girls on here who are much thinner than me talk about how fat they are-if they're fat, I must be a heifer.






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    Boo, my happy weight is 133.3. I was aiming for 135, anything less than that makes me look scary skinny. And I'm nowhere close to that at my hefty 156lbs.

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    It says my "happy weight" is 131lbs at 5'5 For me, anything less than that I look sick. I remember getting down to 130lbs and my mom was very concerned. She thought I was sick..







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    I was thinking that I was at my happy weight before I did the calculator. Like, I knew I was a ways from ideal (115-125) but I was living my life and I was content and I still felt pretty sexy, if a bit voluptuous.

    But now I just feel 15 pounds overweight and fat. I seriously feel like Jabba the Hutt right now.

    *sigh*

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    ^ well, it is the magazine's job to make you feel fat so that you buy their rag for 'work out' tips. So take it with a grain of salt.

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    Good point. But I read those magazines because they really do motivate me to exercise.

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