User Post: When people say, "I wouldn't lose more weight if I was you."

Yesterday I met with two people whom I hadn't seen in a while. Both of them told me that I was getting small.....too small.....and that they wouldn't lose any more weight if they were me.

Not that it really matters to me, what other people think, but I wonder what that is all about. Is it that they are so used to seeing me larger, with a fuller face, that they think I am too gaunt now? Or am I really losing too much weight? I put 120 as my goal weight, and for the longest time I have been hovering around the 125 mark.Related:Oranges' 11 kind of beauty effectiveness

Maybe my body is telling me that that is enough weight to lose, that now it is time to tone it up. So if 125 is good for me, should I now be eating a maintenance diet? Not too sure right now. Maybe I will focus on the strength training and see what happens when I start to build muscle.

At the dinner table last night, I took a poll -- my husband and step-son told me that they both thought I "wouldn't want to lose any more weight in my face" (as if I can decide where it is going to come off). My son told me that he doesn't notice any difference between now and before. LOL. Not sure how to take that one, but I will choose to interpret that as him thinking I look good no matter what? Ha ha.
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I don't want to step into the dangerous zone with this thinking, but sometimes I think that society is so used to seeing overweight and obese people, that we don't recognize a healthy body size anymore. On the other hand, people can get far too skinny when they push their bodies too hard, or starve them. So I guess, as with everything, it is common sense and balance. As I've said in many blogs, this is a learning process for me. And most of the time it is a slow one. I will just keep plodding and see where it all takes me.

Three things I am grateful for:
1. My upcoming trip with the whole family - kids and all.
2. My doctor. I saw her yesterday, and she is willing to listen to anything I tell her and she tries to answer all my questions. And I am always thinking that I have something or other!!
3. Me.

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