Unexpected weight-loss reactions...?

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I am nodding my head at so much posted here that I think I just jacked something, ow!

iam4life wrote: »

Oh boy, why can't people just be happy for you?? On the one hand, I've got my parents telling me I just need to lose 5 more pounds (no matter how much I weigh), and on the other hand, I've got my husband's family telling me I'm too skinny (As if that's condemnation. Lol.) for comparison's sake, I've been told both of these things at a size 8. EIGHT, people. Shees.

Oh, so much this...and I think size 8 is where this happens a LOT!! That is right where I am. On the border of 6 and 8, depending upon the brand/cut.

I remember being about this size when my DH's grandma told me I shouldn't lose anymore, that I would get too thin. Nevermind the fact that on my <5'4" frame a size 8 isn't tiny. Even a 6 isn't exactly emaciated by any stretch. At my current size I could stay here and be healthy or even lose 10-20#s and still be at a healthy weight/size (I'd only lose 20 if I were a super serious competitive athlete, but at 42 that's not the case, so my goal is ~13#s from where I'm at). Size 8 is still smaller than the average American woman, but it's still deemed a size medium in some brands. On a short woman a size 8 can even be on the higher end of healthy weight/body fat. That's where I'm at. If I put on 5#s I'm nearing overweight, at least in terms of BMI. 5-10#s from where I currently am is pretty much right in the middle of the healthy weight range for my height. Still nowhere near "too thin." Right now I think my body fat is 24-25%, which is still nowhere near being dangerously thin...not by any standard.

In much of the world I'd still be looked at as overweight. In most European-made cycling apparel I'm a size large, even in club-cut, which is more forgiving than race-cut.