Ayu's recent weight loss/toned body
 

Anyone else notice her weight loss lately? I think she looks amazing. Work out inspiration~
http://i56.tinypic.com/2h3rgd2.jpg
What do you think of her body now? Do you like it or prefer her heavier?

She looks great!
How old is this picture??

Not sure of the exact date but I'm pretty sure this is quite recent, not more than a week old.

Ok, it's 00:07 here, but after seeing this picture I start my workout right now!

she's always been skinny, she has gotten toned and she looks sexy.

She looks like she always does...

She looks fine for her size.

She's got killer legs in that photo, I might add :P

Really? Not that she was ever fat or anything but I notice everything is slimmer on her - thinner face, arms, legs, and especially slimmer stomach with more definition.

I think she's just shaping up for concerts and performing?

She looks absolutely radiant! I remember when everyone was criticizing her in 2008 because she looked "fatter", but anyways, she just looks amazing right now :luv2

yeah, it's quite a change from this
http://i51.tinypic.com/6ehvr5.jpg

I'd guess she lost like 15-20 lbs since then?

Yeah.. i wouldn't say she has lost a lot of weight, but the girl has differently toned up... She looks amazing! :luv2

she is in a really good shape right now, even tho I liked her chubbier in 2008, that was cute on her

OMG WOW Ayu looks stunning!!!!!!
I'd been worried that she was gaining a bit of weight, but she looks incredible! wow i hope she uses that body of hers for a MV of SOMETHING! she doesnt show it off enough

I love how she looks now :heart

Well I barely even noticed when she was "fat" so I'll take your word for it ^^;

WOW! I didn't notice she was that chubby!!

But yeah, she is very thin this year. I think she looks better when she is that thin. She doesn't look so good when she is gaining weight.

She's perfect now!

She looks great!


she has the weirdest body though...lol Probably just all the pictures.

She's probably lost weight from a-nation stress...

She's looks great all toned, I'm happy she found a great workout regime...

I didn't really like her workouts in the past. If you like at Tour of Secret backstage, her exercises had terrible form and they didn't fix it!

yes she is thinner this year. and i like the way she is now.

Can someone post the photo from hong kong of her back? You can see her spine...she is ultimate thinspiration, inspires me to be a better thinner person

I could never be as thin as Ayu... I'm too bootylicious. I'd love to be as toned though.

I'm curious.. what do you find "weird" about her body?

never say never :P once upon a time I was a bootylicious girl as well but working my ass off in the gym literally worked my ass off.

Wow she looks amazing! Her stomach & legs are so perfect :luv2. I'm completely envious!

You can definitely tell she has toned up a bit from this pic.

Looks good minus that God-awful hairstyle and color. Yucky.

She looks way better in this pic than in some of her latest pics. She was too thin imo :/.
Actually I'd prefer her with some meat on bones :laugh. But she looks more healthy than before, now.

I love her new look! Her toned figure and the natural/casual look hairstyle and all was perfection!

i hope she can show more often that beautiful stomach

she looks great all the time, even she's chubby haha XD
and yes she looks so amazingly sexy now!

I wanna be toned like that... I'm skinny, but I want a toned body. XDDD

She looks gorgeous. She gained some weight after the broke up with Nagase but she's definitelyput herself back on the right track!

I think so too... :( Ayu being really thin isn't a great thing for her long-term health....I have tonnes of trouble with managing my health when I'm stressed and I wouldn't like the thought of Ayu feeling as ill as I do right now.

I don't care if she's thin or chubby, but for me, her happiness is most important...I don't think you can look at those photos from 08 and say "she's chubs" or "fat"...it sounds pretty harsh considering that she still looks damn good! :P

I don't thin its really a big change...she just toned up a lot more on places like her arms.

As someone else said earlier i don't ever remember her being chubby or even verging on it,=/ shes always looked healthy to me. I actually prefer her with a bit more to her, losing lots of weight esp from stress ages you as you grow older.

Though I do have to admit her stomach look damn good.

Pilates maybe?
Ayu looks like a model, hope she's not under too much pressure with pple calling her old and stuff...

She looks sexy even though in casual wear!
Love how she looks now =)

OH! What that what that was about? She broke up with him in 2007, so that would follow.

Soooo OT, but I use to kill myself burning around 5,000 calories/week and my booty literally went NOWHERE. I dropped 20 pounds but it all must have came from somewhere else because my ass was still huge LOL. :thud I've since learned to live with it.

I think Ayu's genetically prone to being thin, whether toned or untoned, and I'm just prone to not being thin LOL. :laugh Besides, weren't her boobs bigger when she had a little weight on? :lech Bring that Ayu back. :cool

great body shape!

I love her looks now more than her body during whole career :yes

As long as she feels good, but she does look amazing :)
I was worried a few months back when there were a few photos of her and I thought she looked so thin and tired ):

I think she looks absolutely stunning!

Not that she was ever not

Sometimes, black blood comes with a big butt xD
It's harder to buy fitting pants (they fit your legs and don't fit ur butt, or they fit ur but and are too large everwhere else), but i actually like this physical aspect of me.... More power to the curves /o/

OMG :shakehead
she probably lost her weight because she will begin her promotion of FIVE and her photobook. So she had to show his perfect body, huh?
Nice Ayu <3

^ That was taken a few years ago, I think?

She's smoking hot.

I think she looks fine. As long she's healthy.

@love: idk just sometimes, I feel like, no matter how many pictures of her I see, I can't get a great grasp on what her body really looks like. Even the naked shoot seemed kind of weird.

I've concluded that, she's just really skinny lol It's hard for me to explain, I'm sorry.


I find it interesting how whenever she gains weight, she like, gains it in her arms and chest lol

When she was chubby in her Secret era, it was the same.

I hope nobody thinks I'm calling her fat by posting that older pic, just that there's a difference from a few years back. I still think she's cute and like her at any weight, since her worth isn't her weight.

I see. maybe because her weight fluctuates so her body looks different at different times.

I have that same problem with my thighs :( Weight always falls off everywhere else first.

Yeah her boobs actually seemed massive at one point I remember lol.

her body looks amazing. you can tell she has been working her butt off (literally). her skin and hair quality have been looking better as well. idk you can just tell she has a physique now.

lol i thouyht she always looked great xD i really don't care about her weight unless her bones are seeing through the skin xD

I think she looks nice :yes

For me, it's because she started pressure training. When I read on twitter she does 300 ab when she's training I was O.O

well she tweeted about her new staff that helped her to exercise or smth or the new method of exercise. it obviously has worked greatly! she looks as perfect as in 2001 A BEST, maybe even thinner than that, I don't know :D

well she gains & losts weight as everyone else, I think that's okay. but the weight loss and new light make-up definately made her look so much younger, LOL :D


the only person I don't want to lost weight is Koda Kuu, oh GOD no :no
I miss her Secret era curves too too much :)

her body shape is like her body shape in her a-nation 2005 when she's extremely shaped...
then her body turned out to be fatter since 2006..
n a-nation 2006 was horrible...
i remember watching a-nation 2006 and when she came out singging startin' i just like wtf..
her body shape is kinda horrible..lol....

yeah I like her body weight just like this, not too fat, not too thin.

But I think she was in her best shape on Secret era.

i prefer her 15-20lbs heavier. :)

I just hope she likes what she sees in the mirror and that she feels like she's 21! That's what counts in the end, isn't it?

Seems to be. It feels as if we were back a decade ago, except that we're carrying over how much piercings she have since, plus Twitter and the iPhone and all those technological advancements...

It does sure makes a feel-good feeling there! I mean, what a bit of a difference between this and that:

I'm happy she's lost all that weight just so people will stop making cracks about it-- though I know they'll always find something to make fun of. Still, it was annoying to see how many people could call her fat in 2008, when by normal standards, she wasn't at all.

The thing is that Ayu isnt normal, she's a celeb and if a celeb is normal weight they get called fat.

@AyumiAI: true... but it doesn't justify it or make it right...

she's looking gr8, both now and with the little extra weight.

^
+1
The world is allergic to fat it seems.

Anyone who thinks ayu was 'fat' has serious problem. When she was in Hongkong and I saw the bones in her back sticking out I honestly felt sick. Bones should never stick out. Considering how ill and stressed she keeps getting she needs to ignore all the people judging her on her looks and focus on her health.

She doesn't look fat :( who says that?!

Yeah, I was very surprised when I saw this year's A-nation! She was in such a better shape! Good for her!

Somebody's calling Ayu fat? WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO? :thud

The way western ideals created the concept of beauty, it is...

western AND eastern...

You know, being thin is not just some crazy idea cooked up by the media or fashion or something :/

And honestly, being in a place like Japan, it's quite important for her to watch her weight. Everyone knows how vain the industry is there. It's not a secret, or even something that's hushed up :shrug

I wonder what kind of exercises she is doing...Pilates, yoga?..I wonder, because if it were weight training, she would be more muscular, but she is just slimmer and toned

According to bea's up she underwent Pressure training and pilates as suggested by her team...

anyone knows more about Pressure training?

People were saying she was fat during AT08 because they altered the costumes to hide her belly and arms, she quickly lost it by the time A nation came around I think.

it's right she gained some weight after the break up with Nagase but i guess the most considerable change occured in the last year

Talking about ... Ayu looks so pretty as ever and has a great body enviable ... :irked

Ayu looks great! Although my personal preference is 2008 - especially ASFXX @ A-nation when had a little bit more weight on (not that she's too skinny now!) She looked so hot then!

mi|kshake~

She looks great, in my opinion. Her "size" is good, but what's attractive even more is her overall physique. Like someone else already mentioned, she just looks healthier: brighter, more clear/clean (healthy) skin and hair.

It's fun (interesting) to watch her weight over the years. Personally, I never thought she looked awful back when she put on a little weight, but she does look more comfortable when she's her "usual" size. =)

If we talking about favorites (which isn't in the thread title, but some people are saying it anyway xDD)... I'm straight, but damn, I thought her abs looked delicious back in 2006 (xD). ;D

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3...rstood0110.jpg

Umm, I think I must be misunderstanding your meaning, because I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. At least in terms of ultra-thinness being a desirable trait.
Historically, and even as of several decades past, not so at all.

Yeah, as far as I know, while the hourglass female body type has typically always been popular, this "ultra-thin" hype didn't get ground until people in the industrialized world became wealthier. Thin women eventually came to not be associated with poverty anymore, instead being associated with youth and health, which was urged on by media.
Before this, women who had more flesh on their bones were associated with fertility, beauty, love and a good social standing. Paintings and sculptures of famous female icons such as Venus/Aphrodite and Eve, and various female royalties through the ages are examples of this.
Anyway, it's not really of matter. As long as a person's healthy and feels good about their body, it doesn't matter so much IMO. Ayu looks fine to me either way. :)

Except her lips, I do think she looks great this year!

By the way, I am curious how much she weighs... and how tall she is in real. ^o^

^she's confirmed she's only about 150 cm ;)