Thanks so much. Glad you enjoy it!
We'll try to create more specific measurements if there is enough want for it in the near future.
cheers,
meg

The model works fine. Let me know where you get stuck.

thanks much.

If you're 15 your body is going to change naturally, based on age and how you're growing. Don't worry about loosing weight at this point, just focus on eating right and keeping fit. When you've completely finished growing, that is when you can start to shed the pounds.

The problem is that when your growing and trying to diet you are going to mess with important fat cells, like your brain, and your boobs. If you diet when you're young you are going to live a life of flat chestedness, which you'll regret later.

Just focus on being healthy at this point.

I'm not sure why it didn't work for you - my top weight was 238 and my goal is 150. My model works fine with those weights. Maybe you should try again. There's better instructions now on how to make it work if you scroll up the page a bit to "How to make the model work for your height and weight". Good luck

Thanks much for your comment!

Just a little bit of encouragement: You can lose the weight that you want. I didn't think that I could. But one day I finally got tired of not being able to play so well with my two kids. I weighed 269lbs. I'm only 5'2". People couldn't even tell I was PG when I went to have my son. I cried, when they said oh..your pregnant? But once I finally wanted to lose the weight I did it. I got all the way down to 115 lbs (too thin). I looked so sickly. But now I'm a healthy 126lbs. I've been that way for two years. I have kept the weight off for almost 4 years.

So there is hope, but you have to believe and really truly want to. I still slip up, and will gain six or seven pounds Christmas time :(, but then I quite with the sugars again and lose it and feel better. A little sugar is fine. But when I'm in over load mode I feel so tired and just nasty on the inside.

Good luck...

Once it's on your iGoogle page, look to the top right corner where you will see a little arrow pointing down. Click on this to 'edit settings' for your own personal data.

Please let me know if this helps.

when you get an answer--let me know

I also cannot figure out how to create--or use the gadget

thanks!

Hi Lavinia,

You are five feet and five inches tall. (165 centimeters=5'5")

You can convert your weight from kilograms to pounds using the calculator at the bottom of the left sidebar here. If you weigh 76 kg then you weigh 167 pounds.

cheers,
meg

I know, It's too thin . I'm 17 , 5' 6" and 105 and I don't look like her AT ALL

I AGREE with both A and B!!

nope, it goes much higher than that, depending on height..

Once it's on your iGoogle page, look to the top right corner where you will see a little arrow pointing down. Click on this to 'edit settings' for your own personal data.

Let me know if this helps.

Adriana is also 5'6". She's relatively fit and has got a mesomorph build, with more muscle than the average woman. (Muscle weighs about three times as much as fat for the same volume/space.) So she doesn't look fat at all at 145 pounds. But she'd like to lose 10 pounds and get to 135 where she thinks she would feel and look even better.

Thanks for your comment. We'd be interested if other people also think this image of a 5'6" woman looks unrealistic for 145 pounds?

I think this looks very unrealistic.

I am 5'5" and 117lbs and she looks way skinnier than me.

I know!!!
My start weight: 97
Now: 92.4
Goal: 85
IT WON'T WORK! She's jammed or something and I'm stuck looking at a fatty with my name.

Maybe it's because your an anorexic bitch

We needed to change the virtual model so that it wasn't possible to go below 18 BMI (body mass index). Apologies to anyone who wanted to see how they would look at a sickening skinny skeleton of below this weight, but this is not something we want to participate in.

Thanks,
meg

I wasn't trying to do that I wanted to see me as beautiful. I'm 5"2 and 92.4 but want to be 85 and your doll is stupid she won't help me.

Don't worry about what they say, they are just fat bitches that are jealous of skinny people like us. Im 5ft 6 and weigh 92 pounds and i've never felt this great =D I think if you want to be thin then you should =D Don't let them fat hoes pressure you into becoming one of them.

Don't even stoop to other peoples level. That was the absolute wrong way to address her for being skinny I agree. If they think that is a problem they should have expressed concern, not been hateful like that. I would just say, next time... express yourself without calling them names too. Then you look like the better person. It's sad that instead of addressing the issue as being too skinny they dogged her. She really could have a problem and they prob. just aggrevated it. Good for you for coming to her rescue though. I am sure she is beautiful regardless. Ya, I know this is like a billion years late for a reply, I just couldn't help it. Sorry...

You're right, I didn't respond to the question with any empathy and i didn't take the time to answer properly. It's just that we were frightened that anorexic people would use this virtual model to pursue their potentially very ill and dangerous goals. It was quite a panic for us when we started to get links from a couple of pro-anorexia sites. We changed it so that it would clearly not be a helpful tool for anyone who wanted to get below 18 BMI. This may not be the ideal solution but this is the best we can do for now.

why dont you just be happy at 90lbs, before you harm your health and make other people your age think thats the thing to do, its not

Please see the March update in the post above. We've put up a new version (version c) which works fine, but if you are using an older version (b or d) it won't work.

All links to the virtual model on this page will take you to the correct working version.

Thanks much for your comment but please just read the stuff below what you have written. Your confusion will go away.

And also everyone else who's reading this, please hold on. I think this virtual model problem will be resolved within the next ten days.