Comments on: Relief Society arms

By: Mormon Mommy Wars » I want to be Evangeline Lilly

Mormon Mommy Wars » I want to be Evangeline Lilly — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:00:34 +0000

[...] player and a swimmer—used to mock my chicken arms. Now, I am rapidly entering the season of Relief Society arms, and I don’t have any excuses. It’s time to make Evageline Lilly my role model. Or [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:09:57 +0000

This conversation reminds me of a story my Mom always told, about watching Lawrence Welk when she was a girl, and being amazed at the arms of the honky-tonk piano lady. When she got going, apparently the arms took on a life of their own.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:32:16 +0000

I’ve pushed out five kids, cooked five hundred kajiliion meals, and conquered sixth grade math — I’ve decided I deserve these arms…

By: Maralise

Maralise — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:16:09 +0000

Heather O.–My aunts and mom have HUGE RS Arms. They keep their own time and don’t conform to body size or weight. I have always been terrified of getting them. And I’ve got them, just in the last couple of years. Although as long as I’m not leading the music, they don’t bug me too much. I’ve got a lot bigger (literally) problem areas to think about.

By: I think I'll go anon on this one

I think I'll go anon on this one — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:26:15 +0000

You know, I’m going to respectfully submit that I think flappy arms are more often a trait of thin women than of ampler women. I am ample and not at all fit, but (unless I am kidding myself) I don’t have flappy arms — all the skin is well-plumped-out and doesn’t dangle. (I do have other flappy parts . . .)

Oh, and I loved the Segullah comparison. So funny.

By: nita

nita — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:15:12 +0000

#3 Again: I hear you. Sometimes in the last year or so, I’ve thought how it would be to have a hug and feel loved from a husband, etc just for one day. I think we don’t have that hug for a day as it would be too hard to see it vanish at the end of the day, ie like in Cinderella when everything vanishes at midnight.

I like the term RS arms better! I always think of it as chicken fat arms and that is terrible!

This thread motivates me to do better at getting rid of mine! Tricep exercises,let’s do them!!

By: Claudia

Claudia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:14:30 +0000

Have you ever noticed that the old elephant Cornelius in the story of Babar the Little Elephant is drawn to be wrinkly all over. He has a shaky voice too. I know this because that is how I read him talking to Babar when he turns over the leadership to him. Maybe those wrinkles symbolize the wisdom of age.

Well, its the all over wrinkles that bother me.

I have biceps (guns) now that I have been working out for about five years and not as much flab on the other side of my forearms. I always thought the excessive flabbiness came from the loss of fat. So maybe filling those wings up with fat from another part of the body would work better than cutting them off.

As for me I just wish there was some way to keep my neck for getting shorter over time, my nose from getting longer and my gums from receding.

Camouflage works best for me no turtle necks and only long sleeves. Wearing a bag over my head is where I draw the line.

By: Emily M.

Emily M. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:48:37 +0000

Heather, that was hysterical. I especially love the part about how it would be so Segullah to turn this into a post about loving RS arms.

I’ve been taking tae kwon do. My teacher is extremely, extremely in shape. Hardly any fat on her body. Whatsoever. And, if she holds them the right way, her arms wave back and forth, Relief Society arms. She says it’s just how the muscle is constructed, how it attaches to the arm, and we should not get discouraged.

It is kind of a comfort. But then she goes on to say that it’s not about being super skinny, it’s about being fit and being the best you, and I want to say, whatever! I wanna be skinny.

By: Dalene

Dalene — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:38:04 +0000

Bingo arms.

Same difference I guess.

By: Dalene

Dalene — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:06:20 +0000

annahannah: I know this. It’s just like ice sculpting.

Only impossible.

Great post. I’ve got a call in to a friend of mine who also has this great term for Relief Society arms. But since I have Relief Society brains I can’t remember it.

I’ll be back.