i'm on the other side of the scale (sorry)...i'll never be on the skinny side...i come from stocky parents...i'm stocky with probably the heaviest bones on the planet. dead people metabolize faster than i do!

i go to the gym 5 times a week and do 30 minutes on the treadmill at 80% of my target heartrate for my age plus weight training for another 30-40 minutes. i eat fairly okay (no junk foods, few fried foods, no cake, candy etc, diet drinks only etc)...and my bmi is obese.

now part of my weight is from drugs (years of taking prednisone plus now my psych meds) but even before that when i was a college jock and a law enforcement officer i was stocky and heavy..altho not as much as i am now.

i conisder myself in decent shape. obviously while i have lost 40 pounds i would like to lose more but i am not consumed by my weight. being 4'11" and weighing 120 lbs is not realistic for me. its never going to happen unless i am stuck someplace without food for like years....and then i die.

i would like to lose another maybe 20 pounds. i'll still be "fat" by societies standards but i'll be fine by mine. i'll be curious by then to see how much better physical strength i'll be in at that weight and health....which is really my goal.