Is it possible

Don't know if this is of any help for an answer, but I was told by a couple doctors who specialize in the weight loss surgeries that a 250 pound athletic muscled football player is totally different than a 250 pound non-active person. That you can not go on size and weight of person to determine if they are 'in shape' or even healthy?

You have to also take into account a person's activity level and several other things.

Yes, you can be fit and "fat" at the same time. I have weighed 200 lbs and was a size 16. I would rollerblade and bike in addition to the farm work I did.
I would look in to your diet, are you eating a lot of white bread, etc.? I had to cut out white bread and eat more healthy and yes, up my exercise to get down to 150 lbs.

I am also mostly from English/Welsh descent.

Cowboys dream said exactly what my Dr. Has told me. I'm not obese (now anyway, I have been though) but am a far cry from thin. I'm 5'6" & currently weigh 162 and wear a sz 11, working to get back to 130ish. She told me that as active as I am I will really have to ramp it up to lose. I eat sensibly and am doing P90x daily and running an hour on the eliptical every other day in addition to the regular physical demands of running a farm & a dozen nags to take care of. I've noticed clothes starting to fit better and I'm super excited that the backs of my arms are tightening up, adios lunch lady arms! I ordered a resistance parachute and plan to start running suicides/wind sprints in the indoor, pretty sure that's going to suck.
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I am overweight(doctor said i'm close to obese which you wouldn't know to look at me) and I am in decent shape. I can muck out 16 box stalls in 2 hours and not break a sweat and I am insanely obsessive about stalls looking perfect. I can lug water by hand to 10 paddocks through the snow. I can be on my feet running around teaching for hours a day, walk the cross country course 6 times over without being winded, ride 3 horses a day and the list goes on. Yet I have this god awful belly jiggle that makes me never want to sit trot and I look like a beached whale when I sit down.

Now all that said. I am 3 weeks into doing the Visalus diet. Which is two very yummy home made shakes with a protein powder added every day. They keep me full and help give me energy. I have lost 10lbs on it so far.

I have no desire to be a size zero but am determined to get down to at least a size 6. My goal is 30 more pounds. Ideally id love 40 more but i'll take 30 lol. I am starting the gym next Friday(when membership kicks in) and will be going every day at lunch as the gym is next door to work.

I refuse to give up this time. The Visalus is very yummy and very healthy. My doctor was the one who suggested it and its awesome. I am using the GNC version called Promisil. Visalus is $100 a month, Promisil(which has better proteins) is $35 a month. I do half a cup vanilla yogurt, half a cup almond milk and one cup of berries with a scoop of the powder. Blend and drink and its delicious and keeps you feeling satisfied and full. I do one for breakfast and one for lunch then have my supper. If I have the urge to snack I munch on almonds, clemintines or grapes.

You ladies are definitely more in shape than I am at 5'4" and 130lbs. I am at a desk job all day.

I am 5'2 and weigh more then you(refuse to disclose the number lol) and I work a desk job all day. So I feel your pain.

I'm 5' and...well...let's just say between 185 and 200 lbs ;) According to all charts and doctors I am "obese". I used quotations because I LOOK like I'm 150 lbs at the most and you can see/feel my bones in 90% of my body.

Muscle and bone weighs more than fat according to a scale and that is the number that people go by. I have maybe 30 lbs of fat on me that I want to come off, but if I lose much more than that I don't think I would look right for my body shape and condition.

I am just starting to learn that for active (horse people/athletes) people...scales really do lie! I can out work and out exercise someone who is an "ideal weight" for their height and go on to do much more afterwards before I break a good sweat or get winded...everyone at work asks me how I have the life I do because they would be asleep 24/7 trying to keep up ;)

I've been looking into Visalus and Sensa because the Dr. Recommended replacing lunch with a shake with doing the p90x to see faster results. Think I'll go to GNC today for the cheaper version, thanks for sharing that NB!

Pshh...guys don't like skinny girls who cares?! My significant other prefers me at 140 rather than when I was 115-skin and bone-