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@lesliedellow Yeah I hate to judge but it just seems off to me. This woman is 5'8 and 117 and looks to have slightly less body fat than Jessica Biel and significantly less muscle. I don't see how you could maintain muscular thighs and butt at 117. It's sort of worrying that I'm relying on...

@wantingtodotherightthing That seems more reasonable. That would be like if a woman who's 5'4 AND 109.5 lbs. Slim but achievable.

@dshap44 Yep, it's written in the book: 5'8 115 lbs. My thoughts exactly. It's not very responsible to write that most women find a certain body ideal then describe that body as a very unhealthy weight. Hopefully it was just a slip-up.

@dawn16 In the second set of paparazzi-looking photos she looks a bit more muscular: (1, 2)

@johnnyrosalee52 Page 70 of Chapter 7. He writes about her being his clients' ideal physique on page 67.

@garagekid It's like "The average male penis is 7 3/4 inches long." Just... no. That's not accurate at all.

@hansthompson My weight fluctuates as much as 10 lbs during the day. But I guess if I'm only counting morning weight before eating anything, I don't fluctuate much. At 5'4 I look best at about 114. Trying to get back to that weight. If I had a BMI of 17.5 I'd be like 102 lbs.

@marlee12345678 Bianca Balti is the most surprising to me. She weighs almost 10 lbs more than what Bret Contreras guesses Jessica Biel and is willowy in that Mia Farrow way.

@dawn16 He fails to mention that a lot of models do have striated muscles but that it's photoshopped out. Sometimes they even photoshop out muscle definition then make their waists smaller. This is the same model in different swimsuits. The left is not retouched. Or with Cameron Diaz they...

@dawn16 Sounds like you work your ass off, but still I envy you as I have to count each beer's calories, so if I want three really good pints of IPA I'll only eat ~1100 calories of food that day and keep those calories mostly protein. I end up lightheaded and tired but it beats getting chubby.

@dawn16 Wow you don't have to restrict calories at all? Not that it's easy to eat healthy and work out all the time, but it's the restricting calories that's hardest for me. I think it was Gwyneth Paltrow maybe another celeb who said "always try to stay slightly hungry, never eat past 60%...

@oldblighty What's your TDEE? If you're eating 1800 calories a day and not able to gain weight, you might want to see a doctor as sometimes the inability to gain is a sign of a medical issue. Otherwise I'd say don't sweat it. Krysten Ritter looks great in my opinion. It's just a difficult...

@dawn16 I guess he's just trying to give a particular subset of women (models in LA or the like) what they want, but I think it should come with a disclaimer that this type of physique isn't necessarily healthy or easy to maintain. My husband and I were watching Jessica Jones, and I asked whose...

@dawn16 Agreed. But what do you mean by: As in they could look bulky but won't since they have restrictive diets?

@kevvome Excellent comparison. I almost always prefer the celebrities to the models when outfits are compared, though my fashion designer friends say that the runway is for showing how the clothes flow, not how nice the models' bodies are.

@antholmar My thoughts exactly. While I'm not going to shoot for a BMI of 17.5, someone uninformed might think that this was an acceptable goal.

@vrl Well he doesn't claim that there's one ideal body type. He says that when he shows his clients photos of different women—I'm assuming with varying amounts of muscle and fat— most select photos of Jessica Biel in the GQ photo shoot circa 2007. This is the exact text from the book. Then he...

@sharlene It's like "Oh you're 5'4? Your ideal weight is 115. Same if you're 5'8!"

I've started following Strong Curves (a weight lifting program designed for women) and calorie counting. I've read through the book, and Bret Contrera says his clients cite Jessica Biel's physique in her shoot for GQ as their ideal body type (photo 1, photo 2). I thought "Okay cool, she looks...