Not your normal complaining about your weight rant

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:01pm

Okay, I think I have a tapeworm or something. I eat like crazy (at least 5 or 6 times a day, and not always healthy), I drink protein shakes and protein bars, I work out, and I see some changes in my body but I just can not gain weight! I will go to bed and weigh around 148 lbs and I'll be back down to 143 or 144 when I wake up, and that's up from 140-145 back in January. January. I've been eating like I'm going to die every day since January and I can not gain weight. It's not like I ate healthy before I started working out, I ate chocolate, pizza, and macaroni. Now I eat a little better but I eat more. Curse you, fast metabolism!

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:05pm

I kinda wish I had that problem.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:07pm

what's the big deal. twinks are so "in" right now.

[shira467]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:08pm

I'll switch metabolisms with you in a heartbeat.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:14pm

You isn't gon git no pity party from me. Uh uh.

:P

[pndmnd]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:17pm

If you didn't used to be like this, you might want to get your blood sugar levels checked. And if you're still young and growing (or not growing, but young), it could just be your body changing.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:18pm

I can relate!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:19pm

I can't relate at all. Whatever food I eat stays with me.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:24pm

DD-Duh!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:26pm

I can relate. I would just never really curse my metabolism...

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:27pm

Did you just call me fat, Jane?

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:29pm

No, I don't think you got my joke in my post (or avatar)! xoxoxox

[Marlene]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:39pm

And you want to gain weight, why? (Unless you're like super tall.) I'm going to assume you're a guy, and this is a bulking up issue, so then in that case, I have nothing to say, nor can I relate.

Darn it, eating everything in front of me, and fitting in a size 2 (before damned vanity sizing) was nice. I miss being twiggy.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:53pm

I've always had a fast metabolism and I'm young, but I should watch it because my father is pretty heavy now and he was skinny as youngin too. I'm not tall, I just want to be less skinny.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:55pm

I think we need pictures to understand better.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:57pm

Poor Marlene - instead of size 2, she's an obese size 4. Can't even see around her.

Yeah, I'm finding it hard to muster up sympathy for skinny people. And I'm really trying. Sorry.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:59pm

Tiff, I thought you'd like the picture I now have enclosed in my av.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:59pm

Well, Tiff, I do recall your being quite a freaking hottie when I met you, so I dunno why would you be so cruel and unsympathetic.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:59pm

So Joey, you're a NON-fattyfatfatty? Perhaps you should start hanging out with some real official fattyfatfatties and let them teach you about packing on the pounds.

But seriously, high protein weight-gainer shakes can work, especially in conjunction with a weightlifting program (avoid cardio -- you're already burning calories at an abnormally high rate as it is). It just can take time at your age. I have friends in their 20s with the same problem and it takes them a solid year of lifting and shakes to gain even 4-5 pounds. If that's your body type, it's hard to change it. Just know your metabolism inevitably slows down when you get older -- but that might not happen to you for a decade or more.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:01pm

Did Margo just make a fattyfatfatty reference???

jrb, you've got good timing - I got into a screaming row with my mother today over my fatness and how it would be better to starve myself then be my embarrassingly large girth. (Her words.)

Updated On: 3/8/06 at 08:01 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:02pm

What does she want a twig for a daughter?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:06pm

Yup. Her words: "It's okay to be short but it's not okay to be short and fat because then you look REALLY fat. You can look good when you're short. Look at Lucy Liu and Jennifer Love Hewitt. How many short and fat people do you know who are good looking?"

[Marlene]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:07pm

Unnatural twiggyness = not kewl in my book.

I'll bet money that Tiff is hot, just neurotic. :P

I just don't like the fact that I haven't grown vertically and I'm just chunkier. Make love to the elliptical machine. Updated On: 3/8/06 at 08:07 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:07pm

Charla!



(so going to hell)

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:10pm

*falls off chair* 10 points to Gryffindor for that appropriately inappropriate Amazing Race reference!!!

Sorry for the threadjack, folks. Back on topic. Sorry you...uh...lose weigh in your sleep. If I had that problem, I'll sleep the entire g-d day!