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Need some toning up tips for already *relatively* thin people

Hello! :smile:

Just looking for some tips to tone up quickly. Thanks to winter :rolleyes: I'm currently at that annoying size 9, where you're not a size 8, but not size 10 and I would like to get back to size 6-8 which is how I was this time last year.

In particular, I was told over the w/e by a certain photographer (works for Roxy!) that my hips were too big! :frown: :bawling: That and my bust.

However with losing weight, I know both can be reduced as I can get down to a D cup (I'm currently DD :mad: ) when I'm a size 8, or 6-8 I'm not sure :confused:

I bought FatBlaster this morning :biggrin: Any other things I could do, apart from increasing exercise to 6 days per week, instead of 5??

Thanks in advance (some photographers can be soo mean and cruel! :eek: :frown: ).

DB_xox

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Reply 1

My advice is next time someone tells you something like that you should get a pen and stab them in the eye yelling "Do I look fat now huh!" If you want to get more tone pilates is meant to be good, but only do it for you, not some stupid photographer.

Reply 2

Special Patrol
My advice is next time someone tells you something like that you should get a pen and stab them in the eye yelling "Do I look fat now huh!" If you want to get more tone pilates is meant to be good, but only do it for you, not some stupid photographer.
Hehe. I don't think I'd get any work with him after that though!!! But I'm sure it would feel good :wink: :rolleyes: :p:

Pilates sounds cool, a friend has a video regarding this, hmm, I could borrow it...

Well I'd only need to lose half a stone, to a full stone to really achieve this goal, or 5-6 kgs. I'm currently 8 and a half stone :eek:

I think the photographer/agency manager was looking for girls around size 7-8 :confused: Which I am not right now :redface: :frown:

Reply 3

You are the perfect weight... stuff those photographiers they know nothing!! I am 8stone but just want to tone up.. not loose weight. My friend does yoga which is meant to be good for that.

Reply 4

8 and a half stone is not big at all!

Reply 5

how tall are you?

as for toning up just do some light exercise, yoga would be a good idea.

Reply 6

8 and a half stone is not big at all!

Yeah.. surely that would be a size 8 already? Well, depending on how tall you are.. but I weigh more than that (hovering around 9 stone) and am usually an 8 in clothes.
Nothing wrong with wanting to lose a bit of weight.. as long as you're doing it for yourself, not for some random photographer.

Reply 7

twistedrose
You are the perfect weight... stuff those photographiers they know nothing!! I am 8stone but just want to tone up.. not loose weight. My friend does yoga which is meant to be good for that.
Thanks! I wish other people thought like you :frown:

Anyway yoga sounds interesting, I don't know anybody who does it though :confused: Does your friend do this in a group?

Reply 8

Chemgeek
how tall are you?

as for toning up just do some light exercise, yoga would be a good idea.
I'm 5'7, or 171cm tall, thereabouts.

My hips are the real problem! I dispise them! :bawling:

I heard cycling is good to reduce the size of them, what are your thoughts?

Reply 9

hips are sexy...

Reply 10

punkskamonkey
hips are sexy...
I wish more people thought like you! :smile: But *apparently* according to certain people, 'they don't sell' :frown:

Anyway for the other girls, after I went to the gym this morning I managed to JUST squeeze into my size 8 long skinny jeans, but seeing as there's that annoying bit of 'flab' at the top, I'm really gonna have to hit the treadmill tomorrow!!!

*wonders how she is going to get down to a size 6 (7.5-8 stone) by the end of next month* :frown:

Oh well I don't care, I am determined. Yesterday for example, when Neighbours was on, there was no couch for me - it was all pushups and situps whilst watching :cool:

Reply 11

I dont think it is possible to just concentrate on one area of your body to tone up. Also, being healthy should be more of a concern than what the tag on your clothing says . . . just my opinion though!

Reply 12

DewyButtercup
I dont think it is possible to just concentrate on one area of your body to tone up. Also, being healthy should be more of a concern than what the tag on your clothing says . . . just my opinion though!
Too troo :smile:

God it's so hard NOT to think about food! :eek: But I'm making some better choices, for example no more fried foods anymore, boiled only. Skim milk. Choices like that.

And patience! B/c the weight just doesn't drop off, I mean I still weigh the same as I two days ago when I started this thread :/

Reply 13

Relatively thin? Hah. I was classed as underweight for my height and build until I was 13 even though I was about 9 stone and size 12 jeans and now I'm 10 stone, size 14 jeans and you're making me feel fat! To be honest, if you're so neurotic about losing weight then a career in modelling isn't for you. You already sound like you're on the fast track to an eating disorder and general esteem issues.

Reply 14

twistedrose
I am 8stone but just want to tone up
No you're at the perfect weight, hun :wink: :smile: You're lucky! :p: I'm 8 and a half, trying to get DOWN to 8 st :rolleyes: I'll get there :cool:

I've started side-situps now, to add to the usual front ones I do and I've noticed some positive changes so I recommend them.

yelwalkietalkie
Relatively thin? Hah. I was classed as underweight for my height and build until I was 13 even though I was about 9 stone and size 12 jeans and now I'm 10 stone, size 14 jeans and you're making me feel fat! To be honest, if you're so neurotic about losing weight then a career in modelling isn't for you. You already sound like you're on the fast track to an eating disorder and general esteem issues.
I only want to lose half a stone, then tone up.

Trust me, I like food so much I'm not capable of having an eating disorder :biggrin:

Anyway so what about low impact cycling? I hear it's toning for the legs, but how long are you meant to ride for? I sometimes ride to uni in the morning but it only takes 20 mins :/ Apparently you're meant to cycle for two hours :confused:

Reply 15

What's your diet like? Of course a good exercise programme alone will do little in comparison to a good exercise programme and a good diet.

Reply 16

danni_bella83
Thanks! I wish other people thought like you :frown:

Anyway yoga sounds interesting, I don't know anybody who does it though :confused: Does your friend do this in a group?


I'm about your weight, find that Pilates is great. Buy a DVD and a mat and do it at home. If you can get the MTV Pilates dvd over there i'd recommend it, its well worth it. You sound like the perfect figure to me, size 9 and big boobs?! Some girls have all the luck!

Reply 17

fruits are the way to go,you can pig out on them - well,not stuff like avacado and bannanas but oranges,apples etc - and that'll satisfy your hunger but won't make you put on weight.works fantastically:smile:

Reply 18

Danni - Curves are in and skinny is out the window sweetie :wink: :p: :biggrin: so don't worry about that silly photographer and if you really just wanna tone up do aerobics in front of the TV or something or maybe yoga ^_^ xoxo

Reply 19

bred
What's your diet like? Of course a good exercise programme alone will do little in comparison to a good exercise programme and a good diet.
I am following Gillian McKeith's (from You Are What You Eat) advice about consuming fresh fruit and vegetables, plus SOME lean, well-cooked meat (for iron :rolleyes: Apparently I'm a bit low on that :redface: ).

This morning for breakfast, after burning 500 calories on the bikes at the gym, I had a fatblaster tablet and a sustagen.

I have no idea what I'm gonna have for lunch, prolly a tuna salad (hey, this is a lot better than the meat pie plus Sprite I used to have :biggrin: ).

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