Quote Originally Posted by Trek420 View Post
Today I had the day off to take care of evil-infernal-combustion-vehicle so while waiting I hit the gym.
Loved this!

I have a fairly stocky build, medium height, and can easily fluctuate by 2-4 kgs (multiply by 2,2 to get lbs?) according to how much I exercise. Way back when when I rode race horses I dieted and dieted HARD. And decided I'd never diet again. I don't have a scale, but weigh myself every once in a while at the gym. And what I weigh seems to mostly correlate with how much weight training or climbing, i.e. muscle building, I've been doing. I can feel thin but still be "heavy".

So weight is just an irrelevant number to me. If I bike or ski a lot, and eat a lot of protein (I eat a lot no matter what, restricting my intake just makes me antsy) I feel thin and my clothes fit. In winter I get hungrier too, and eat more. Keeping your body warm burns quite a lot, I think, and I often overcompensate. No matter - it goes away again!

And no matter what I weigh - I have no boobs, and no waist, and no hips either actually. Good thing I have some shoulders on the top I'm old enough to appreciate that my body works WAY better than a lot of other people's, even though it's nor particularly petite or feminine.