She weighs 116 pounds and wants to diet!!

You would hate me - I'm one of those 120 lb girls who's always trying to diet to get to 115 lb - and occasionally, when I make it, am I happy about it? Nope, I think okay, we're at 115 lb, now let's see if we can starve ourself down to 110 lb. I don't think it's one of my more admirable traits! But it is what it is, I guess.

I always think that the weight thing they give for height etc is stupid. It is far too low. Yes, I do know someone like this and it is a friend of mine that I care for. she is my age and such a tiny 5 foot person and she looks fragile enough already. Her Dr. said that she has put on too much weight around her middle. Her waist is 28" for heaven's sake and she is in her sixties! she has cut out all fat and is busy doing push ups. The lack of fat has seemed to make her skin look older and more lined. That Dr. would have a fit if he saw me.

Boy do I feel your pain/anger on that one lol. Right now I'm still about 50-60 lbs overweight. If you go by the top of the range for my height and what I weigh now then it is 52lbs. I've lost 21 so far. My friend weighs like 145 and complains about it. She is a little soft around the belly but I would kill for that lol. My sister does the same thing too. She barely eats and is skinny and complains about what she weighs. It makes me mad. I also get mad though at the ones who brag they are skinny or that they lost a lot of weight but the way they got to that point is by not eating. I can't do that. I want to lose this weight but I'm not giving up food. I love to eat, I just am trying to figure out a better way to do it.

I have a cousin who has anorexia. It doesn't irritate me. I feel badly for her. But people who are thin and go on about how they need to lose weight, people who are young and complain about being old, etc. are very annoying. But the weight thing has a lot do with our whole society and the entertainment industry and how they portray people, especially women. They are making an impossible standard for people to live up to and it makes people feel inadequate.

I don't even think there should be such a thing as '4 pounds overweight'. That's such a minuscule amount, I can't believe a doctor would encourage paranoia over 4 measly pounds - especially when they only weight 116 pounds to begin with.

I think I could stand to lose about 10-15 pounds but it's not something that's about to consume me. I'm tall so that much really wouldn't make a noticeable difference to anyone but me and it's just a personal preference, not a medical necessity. If I get my butt in gear this summer and lose it, great, and if I don't then I don't.

It use to irritate my friends when I would watch my size. What my friends did not know is that my mom's side of the family is all really over weight more than 50 pounds probably more like 100 and I have always been concerned that I will get that way as well. They have trouble tying their shoes and I never want to have that problem unless I'm pregnant LOL

Hey kats! I don't know how any doctor could tell anyone that
weighs 116 pounds that they are 4 pounds overweight unless they
were a midgit! That is totally insane and so is the person who
is freaking out about! But, I blame the doctor who was stupid
enough to say it to her! That is so totally absurd! All of us
who are 20,30,40, 50 or pounds overweight know what that means!
Those amounts can be uncomfortable, health risks etc! So I
really find it unimaginable that any physician would dare comment
on 4 pounds! And if he did he should lose his freaken license!

Those were two of my best friends in high school. THey were never over 100 lbs. They say the tiniest amount of "fluff" and it's crash diet ect. I remember them complaining about not having the female version of a 6pack so they had to use the ab roller like mad & no results.... DUH you have to lift weights silly girls. And being that I've always been double those two, it sucked going shopping with them. I almost never fit into anything in the stores they could shop in back then. I definiatly cannot now.

I used to be one of those people who watched their weight like a hawk because I didn't want to be fat like the rest of my family. And I wasn't, until I got pregnant and gained 100 # with each child. But I lost it all. I gained weight a couple of times since then but always took it right back off. Until a year ago. I quit smoking right about the time my thyroid started malfunctioning. Fifty pounds fell on me in less than 2 months. I still have not gotten over the feeling I woke up one day in someone else's body. None of my clothes fit and I refuse to buy a new wardrobe for this body. It's hard to move around and I actually feel like I weigh a ton, like if I have to go up steps. I have a killer workout station in my house, but it still needs repairs from Katrina and with the house not being fixed yet, there's building materials everywhere making it hard to set it up if I could use it. I'm toxic from the FEMA camper I'm in which is why my thyroid dropped off and now on a walker or a cane (also from the camper), so walking is out, too, at least til I get better.

BUT! I have a plan!:D When the house is done and I can move back in, I'll be fixing my workout bench and I'm looking for a used Gazelle on eBay. That will give me strength training and aerobic exercise. Plus I'll have a whole house to get around in which will help too. Right now I'm focusing on changing my diet a few things at a time. Just from that, I've lost 6 pounds.

Your husband's coworker going on a crash diet isn't going to help her at all. She could very well lose those 4 pounds but by the time she gets back to the Dr. be 4 pounds heavier than the last visit. Someone should smack that Dr. upside the head with a dead trout. Wonder how many pounds overweight her Dr. is?

I used to have some very overweight friends who were always trying to get me to eat whatever they baked last, like cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. When I would politely decline, they would get so mad at me....like you're skinny, you can afford to eat this, you're just being like that to make me feel bad for being fat...kind of stuff. I would not even know how to respond. What am I gonna say...I don't want to be fat? Noooooo, can't say that! lol So maybe I was one of those people. Jeeze, I hope this isn't karma for not eating their cookies! haha

Four pounds overweight? I would love to only be 4 lbs overweight. The doctor ought to be slapped. This is the cause of many people having a bad self-image and thus resulting in conditions like anorexia and bulimia. Frustrating.