About weight gain/loss, lasting effects

[sunshinelady]

Aside from potential sagging skin, does weight gain/loss permanently alter your body in any way, like reshape your bones?

I was just looking at some pics of Star Jones and noticed that her feet still look bigger than they should for her body. Tosca Reno said something to this effect in her book, that after she lost weight, she just looked like a thinner version of her bigger self. Has anyone lost weight that can chime in to the affirmative/contrary? Are there just some things that won't snap back?

[sunshinelady]

bump bump :look:

[sareca]

I don't know about reshaping bones, but I was just thinking about something similar. I was thought your body composition didn't change no matter how much weight you lost/gained. I know a lot of 105-120lb apple shaped women that have ever been overweight. I've always been apple shaped. Even when I was a teenager and athletic. But after losing 40lbs my body composition changed dramatically. I went from an apple shape to a pear shape. Even when I was a teenager and slimmer I was still apple shaped. I thought we were born with a shape and gain or lose that was that. How in the world did I end up a pear? The weirdest part is even when I gain weight now, I gain in my hips/thigh but not my waist/arms/chest.

I said it was the Callanetics remolding my body. :perplexed

[sunshinelady]

I don't know about reshaping bones, but I was just thinking about something similar. I was thought your body composition didn't change no matter how much weight you lost/gained. I know a lot of 105-120lb apple shaped women that have ever been overweight. I've always been apple shaped. Even when I was a teenager and athletic. But after losing 40lbs my body composition changed dramatically. I went from an apple shape to a pear shape. Even when I was a teenager and slimmer I was still apple shaped. I thought we were born with a shape and gain or lose that was that. How in the world did I end up a pear? The weirdest part is even when I gain weight now, I gain in my hips/thigh but not my waist/arms/chest.

I said it was the Callanetics remolding my body. :perplexed
I would guess being raw had a lot to do with it. Less need to carry weight around your waist.

[against all odds]

I don't know about reshaping bones, but I was just thinking about something similar. I was thought your body composition didn't change no matter how much weight you lost/gained. I know a lot of 105-120lb apple shaped women that have ever been overweight. I've always been apple shaped. Even when I was a teenager and athletic. But after losing 40lbs my body composition changed dramatically. I went from an apple shape to a pear shape. Even when I was a teenager and slimmer I was still apple shaped. I thought we were born with a shape and gain or lose that was that. How in the world did I end up a pear? The weirdest part is even when I gain weight now, I gain in my hips/thigh but not my waist/arms/chest.

I said it was the Callanetics remolding my body. :perplexed

Isn't this just a normal part of being a woman?

[sareca]

Isn't this just a normal part of being a woman?

Nope, :nono: If you're an apple you gain in your waist first. That's the definition of being an apple. Women that are apples do not gain in their hips.

When I'd gain weight (before losing 40lbs) it was in my waist, back, and breast. My hips stayed relatively the same size. Oddly enough my waist shrank by 7 inches but my hips only moved down 2-3 inches from my highest weight.

[Country gal]

Nope, :nono: If you're an apple you gain in your waist first. That's the definition of being an apple. Women that are apples do not gain in their hips.

When I'd gain weight (before losing 40lbs) it was in my waist, back, and breast. My hips stayed relatively the same size. Oddly enough my waist shrank by 7 inches but my hips only moved down 2-3 inches from my highest weight.

How did you get your waist to shrink 7 inches? I guess I am a apple shape. I gain weight in my stomach, breasts and back.

[sareca]

How did you get your waist to shrink 7 inches? I guess I am a apple shape. I gain weight in my stomach, breasts and back.

It happened when I started when raw,started doing mc (and ff), and callenetics.
I don't know if it's the combo or one in particular but...

http://images36.fotki.com/v1177/photos/4/435236/6231923/augjunecopyvi-vi.jpg

that's what it did.

[against all odds]

Nope, :nono: If you're an apple you gain in your waist first. That's the definition of being an apple. Women that are apples do not gain in their hips.

When I'd gain weight (before losing 40lbs) it was in my waist, back, and breast. My hips stayed relatively the same size. Oddly enough my waist shrank by 7 inches but my hips only moved down 2-3 inches from my highest weight.

I understand the definitions of different body shapes.

I've just seen the shapes of different women change.

My mom went from pear-shaped with a small top to a full on double DD breasts when she's been no more than a C cup all of her life. She's no pear anymore.

[FlowerHair]

Aside from potential sagging skin, does weight gain/loss permanently alter your body in any way, like reshape your bones?

I was just looking at some pics of Star Jones and noticed that her feet still look bigger than they should for her body. Tosca Reno said something to this effect in her book, that after she lost weight, she just looked like a thinner version of her bigger self. Has anyone lost weight that can chime in to the affirmative/contrary? Are there just some things that won't snap back?

Feet do get bigger with added weight, just like most women who are pregnant get a bigger size feet after pregnancy... :perplexed

[MeWantLongHair]

I remember that column in Oxygen and I thought Tosca was explaining the importance of weight training. If you do nothing but cardio your body will look the same just smaller:ohwell: I don't want that! So if you add weights/resistance into the mix you can trim, tone and RESHAPE what you were born with!

[sareca]

I remember that column in Oxygen and I thought Tosca was explaining the importance of weight training. If you do nothing but cardio your body will look the same just smaller:ohwell: I don't want that! So if you add weights/resistance into the mix you can trim, tone and RESHAPE what you were born with!

That must be it. All I know is I've lost and gained weight a billion times before but never had a different shape. I always had the same shape just smaller.

[Country gal]

I remember that column in Oxygen and I thought Tosca was explaining the importance of weight training. If you do nothing but cardio your body will look the same just smaller:ohwell: I don't want that! So if you add weights/resistance into the mix you can trim, tone and RESHAPE what you were born with!

Would it help skinny people who want to be bigger.