It is indeed possible to be a thin "fat" person. What I mean is ... even though the scales show a low number, and the silhouette is slim ... a person can still be FLABBY, with a higher than desirable % body fat. What this means of course, is that the lean mass - the muscles - have likely wasted away, and are barely sufficient for good health. Crash diets, semi-starvation diets, ultra lowFAt and low meat diets ... and lack of strength-training exercise will lead to a person being basically a skeleton with a very thin set of muscles, and a higher than necessary ratio of body fat compared to lean.

Perhaps this is luxy's experience?? What is needed then isn't another weight reducing diet, but a body FAT-reducing diet. The prescription is stil the same as I suggested above ... if a person wants to lose fat, they need to build muscle, through increased dietary protein and exercise. And they need to stop eating sugar and refined starch, which only causes insulin to store fat, and prevent it from being burned as fuel. They'll achieve a more toned, firm figure, and yes perhaps a slightly higher number on the scale. But it needs to be a longterm, lifetime commitment ... not a "diet" to go on and off for special occasions.

Doreen