Whats it like to be Skinny???

Sadly, I realize its been almost 16 years since I have been what I could call "skinny". I realized as I was watching a movie, I have totally forgotten what its like to be thin...I was watching how the girl was sitting and realized I couldn't even bend my legs indian style anymore..

Since I grew up thin then gained weight, I can't even remember the feeling..
What's it like for the people that have lost the weight...

What's it like to be skinny again??

 I've wondered that myself over the years. I think the last time I could have been classified as skinny was when I was about 8 and it's been 25 years since I was 8 lol 

I can not wait to have my RNY done so I can know what i feels like to be thin. I'll be able to bend over and not have the tummy in the way. To go shopping and actually have a good selection of clothes to choose from instead of 3 tops and they are all usually ugly. To have energy to play with my kids instead of saying "not right now, Mom's too tired"....Can't wait. 

But anywho, Sorry to butt in lol 

Well, in my mind I don't feel skinny.  It's strange.  Of course, I can put my own socks and shoes on now and cross my legs and wear smaller clothes, but I still have a fat person's outlook.

There have been a few times when I'm walking into a store or somewhere and I get a little glad that I won't be sticking out, because I'm of a normal size.

Such a simple question - but very profound, I thought.  I can't answer your question for my self and probably never will be able to.

I came into this world weighing 4 pounds (skinny!) but can't remember those days :)     ; by age 5 I was obese and have been so every since.

Now, I'm still overweight- but somehow passed the some threshold along the way that made me feel "normal".    "Normal" feels good physically and mentally.

I think I would never feel "skinny", even if I weighed 120 pounds - which in my book would mean skinny.

When I look in the mirror, I see the same me - just a smaller version.  Still I have the same body shape.   

Maybe some of it is my mind catching up with the new body - but some of it is just fact.  I still have the fat tummy, the fat roll at the midsection, and the fat underarm area - granted, most of what I see as fat is unfilled loose skin, but there's still fat there too - and plenty of it.

Somehow, I feel satisfied with my body though.  That may shock some.  It's not too great of a body - but it's functioning well for me now (my blood pressure is normal, my knees don't hurt, etc...) and I seem to have crossed that threshold of "acceptable" amount of fatness for me and others to feel ok about it.

I'm feeling good - but maybe will never know what "skinny" feels like - even I technically was...Thanks for asking the question.

It's awesome...

Seriously, all those little things that you gradually stopped doing are now suddenly doable. Bending down to tie shoes without having to plan it out like a military campaign, crossing legs, running after someone who dropped something, shopping, walking into a room of people you don't know, going to an amusement park, etc., etc.

Each one is such a little thing but they all add up. All that energy you wasted before can now be put towards more productive and much more fun activities.

It is strange.  Sometimes I feel like I am wearing a "thin" suit, like I look different from how I feel.  I feel my arms and I can get my fingers all the way around or I put my hand on my stomach in bed and it feels strange to not feel the fat that has been there for much of my life.  Fat feels normal to me.  Maybe that is why I have always regained my weight when I have lost it.  Now I feel like I am in someone else's body.  I look in the mirror when I am getting dressed and I am seeing someone else's reflection.  That person in the mirror is skinny.  I even think I look too thin.  I don't think I look attractive yet I feel more confident then I did when I was obese, like there is nothing that stands out about me.
When I was in the hospital having my hernia repaired the nurse anesthesiologist was talking about placing my epidural and she made a comment about how, since I am so thin, it shouldn't be hard to place it.  She lost me there.  I was thinking "Who is she talking about?"
Maybe someday I will be in a thin body long enough to get used to it.  Right now it still feels foreign to me.

Good question...last time I was skinny was 1982, I was 28 and I wore a size 7 (I'm almost 57 now) so a size 7 then is more like a 10/12 now. Before that I was 12 the last time I was skinny.

Now, I can cross my legs and sit the same way my 120 lb daughter does and always has...I'm a little slower doing it, my arthritic knees complain, LOL. But climbing stairs is easier. I look in the mirror and don't recognize the person looking back. But I still have a tummy...short of a panni, that is here to stay. Two abdominal surgeries (one was open) will always leave a mark.

Liz

Unlike  many, I was not heavy my whole life.  In fact, when I was a kid growing up, I was so skinny that kids used to make fun of me.  I was called horrible names and bullied throughout high school because I was so skinny.

Believe it or not, I actually prayed that I could be fat because I felt that heavy people were more accepted and at least if I was heavy the kids would quit being so mean to me...

Dumb, I know, but then I was just a kid.

Anyhow, I used to HATE being called skinny.  It would bring back so many horrible memories every time I heard it, and my inferiority complex would immediately come rushing back at me.

Flash forward a few decades, post-op, and call me skinny all day long.  I love, love, love hearing it, and I do hear it all the time.

For instance, two ladies who have worked for me for about 9 years are both thin, and there are days when I wear something and one of them will say "I hate you because you are so skinny.  I wish I could wear that."

So, to answer your question, hearing yourself referred to as skinny is gonna feel reeeaaallll good.  LoL

Wishing you skinny days ahead!!!

I had never been thin, well except for once in fifth grade, but I was a freak of nature at the time,having been through puberty and well into physical adolescence at age 10-11. I was about 5-5 and 120-130 pounds and got told daily how fat I was. So I don't count that time.

I've found it to be fun in lots of ways. It's nice to look normal :-). But the rest of life is just still life. It solves no problems. There's no magic. Basically the only thing that's really changed is that I'm no longer a target of discrimination and bias. So in that regard it has certainly leveled the playing field and that is a wonderful thing. But a level playing field is not an open ticket to happiness and success, and that is a hell of a jolt for a lot of people.

im almost 22 months im stuck at 194lbs since november. havent been able to lose a pound. i still havent gotten to that SKINNY FEELING...im still wondering wht it would be like