TopCat's TopFit

Hi! Since I posted about healthy nutrition and staying slim I have had quite a lot of comments so I decided to discuss this issue and my experiences a bit further today. A lot of people tell me they are envious of my thinness (I am not really thin, I just have very long arms and legs in comparison to my rather round body; I used to think of myself as a spider with a round body and limbs sticking in all directions) and that they want to lose weight. But then when I see what they actually do, they are not contributing to their own goal. I used to have a colleague who complained that she did not eat very much but was unable to lose the extra kgs. But whenever I saw her eating it was something very fatty. Then I used to have another colleague who was on a diet, so she would skip breakfast (BAD idea! All kind of research points to that a good breakfast is key to maintaining health and a good weight) and then of course by 11 o'clock she would start feeling faint and then she woul...

Hi! Today I had a colleague who asked me how I manage to stay so thin. It is not the first time I have had this question and I thought it might be interesting to take it up here. Obviously, staying at the same weight is a matter of balance. I probably actually go up and down a little in weight like everyone else, but I do not realize it. I have had times when I was a few kilos up or down from my current weight which is somewhere around 65 kg. At my 1.80 m this is just fine. I do not want to lose weight. I would like to add muscle. I am not the least concerned about my weight, factually. I am interested in my body fat content, not my weight in kilos. >(or lbs).  But isn't it ironic? When I put on weight it goes on to my "jellybelly" and my hips. When I lose weight (last year I was very stressed and got down to 62 kg which is too little for me) I lose it from my face and my arms and legs, and the stubborn fat on my belly and hips stays. Sigh. So now everyone ...