160Ibs for a lady too fat?

[ZetaLuvBunny]

On other girls, no, I don't think 160 is too fat, but I have severe body image problems so I think that I'm VERY fat no matter how much/little I weigh. I am 5'8" and last Christmas I weighed 176. By mid-summer this year I got down to 149 & I still feel like a freaking COW. It's all in the mind-set, though. I'm just paranoid about myself, but I rarely think other people are fat unless they are just morbidly obese like a sumo-wrestler.

[sigmagrrl]

This is part of an article I found on MSN:

"The danger comes when a person allows society and/or fashion magazines to define beauty. It’s cruel and unusual to a) expect every woman to look as thin as the women on runways today and b) expect every man to be attracted to them.

I’m not interested in the health issues associated with weight except to say that it’s inappropriate for women to be encouraged to go too far in either direction. The point is that men are not all cut from the same dough; taste is utterly subjective and should not be dictated in any way by what’s “in style” right now. Style is really nothing more than an attempt on the part of a minority to influence what they believe the majority thinks is fashionable — and sometimes they’re wrong.

There is no shame in being attracted to whatever you’re attracted to. The worst mistake you could make is to allow yourself to be misled by social propaganda into believing that you’re not right in the head if you don’t find 100-pound women the ideal size. "

[librasoul22]

Hmm...

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by SincereDesire
I personally have a bigole problem with the scale numbers and even the BMI for saying if you are fat, overweight, too big, whatever.
I weigh over 225 lbs. ( no faces here people trust I have LOST weight. And I'm tall.)

But no one ever guesses I weigh over 175. That's the highest guess I ever had someone throw at me. PLUS, I'm tall as heck, so the numbers kinda 'lie'. That number says I should be fat, and at 6'2'' apparently my BMI says I am overweight, but I am neither. So from personal experience I just say screw the numbers and go by how you feel, how you look, and the doctors orders.

PLUS... I guess it's just my culture but I come from a place where I worried about my behind and thighs not being big or round ENOUGH (to be attractive of course, it cushions my seat just fine). LOL
And the guys be looking for 'body' as in curves, some (SOME) don't mind a little belly, don't want no girl with huge hard muscles in her arms (the legs are a different story), etc. I appreciate the rounder female form because of it... I'd rather look that way than be too skinny. So, I've known women who are 5'4'' who definitely would not be called fat... and would definitely be pursued more than the skinny or 'healthy' chicks... all in the attitude and where you are.


that's my $.02...

SincereDesire, you hit the nail on the head when you talked about "culture" and what is considered attractive.

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by SincereDesire
I personally have a bigole problem with the scale numbers and even the BMI for saying if you are fat, overweight, too big, whatever.
I weigh over 225 lbs. ( no faces here people trust I have LOST weight. And I'm tall.)

But no one ever guesses I weigh over 175. That's the highest guess I ever had someone throw at me. PLUS, I'm tall as heck, so the numbers kinda 'lie'. That number says I should be fat, and at 6'2'' apparently my BMI says I am overweight, but I am neither. So from personal experience I just say screw the numbers and go by how you feel, how you look, and the doctors orders.

PLUS... I guess it's just my culture but I come from a place where I worried about my behind and thighs not being big or round ENOUGH (to be attractive of course, it cushions my seat just fine). LOL
And the guys be looking for 'body' as in curves, some (SOME) don't mind a little belly, don't want no girl with huge hard muscles in her arms (the legs are a different story), etc. I appreciate the rounder female form because of it... I'd rather look that way than be too skinny. So, I've known women who are 5'4'' who definitely would not be called fat... and would definitely be pursued more than the skinny or 'healthy' chicks... all in the attitude and where you are.


that's my $.02...

SincereDesire, I'm not as tall as you, but I have a similar situation. I exercise and eat decently, but my genetics don't program me to be a size 6.