Your ideal weight might make you look ill ?

People say my weight now is too light....I think I look healthy and not frail :P

The ideal weight for my height is quite a varied number, I've chosen the higher end because I'm "big boned" and I plan to be muscular by then ;-)

I'm 5'1, and according to the height/weight chart, my ideal weight is anywhere between 115-129. Anything lower than 125 though and I start to look kinda gross.

My goal weight for years has always been 102, but I finally came to the conclusion that that is entirely too low, and dangerous for my frame. So I decided on 120-125 for now. Seems a little healthier.

My healthy weight range is 112lbs - 140lbs and im 5ft3. Im currently 144lbs and don't consider myself to look over weight what so ever even though i am technically classed as 4lbs over weight.
My lowest weight was 124lbs and it's funny cause thats slap bang in the middle of my healthy weight range but all my friends and family kept lecturing me saying i looked too thin and need to put weight on ect, my family especially said i look ill, even my sister said i looked anorexic....whattt!!! I know 124lbs for someone of 5ft3 might sound like you wouldnt look too think but i have big boobs to account for, they must weight quite a bit ha,

I'm 5'1, and according to the height/weight chart, my ideal weight is anywhere between 115-129. Anything lower than 125 though and I start to look kinda gross.

My goal weight for years has always been 102, but I finally came to the conclusion that that is entirely too low, and dangerous for my frame. So I decided on 120-125 for now. Seems a little healthier.

Exact same thing happened to my mom. My ideal weight for my height ranges anywhere from 90-123 pounds. I think I would look horrid if I weighed 90 pounds.

When I started at 255 pounds my goal weight was 200 pounds, I am 5'9. Now I have hit 170-ish, a weight I haven't seen since before the 10th grade. It's pretty amazing how what you think is your goal weight may not be where you settle. Some say I am too skinny but I think their mental image of healthy has gotten fatter over the years. I always thought that the generic BMI calculator on here was retarded and completely in left field on it's healthy range for me. Actually, finally there so maybe my mind didn't have it right either. I don't know what my current weight makes me look like to others but I know I like it and I feel great. Everyone is different, I am sure you have heard that plenty of times. Just slowly lose and find a weight that is easy to maintain, no matter where that falls on your ideal scale.

So this has nothing to do with the thread, but wanted to let "runfatmanrun" know that my name on mapmyrun.com is runbrun...as in "run, *****, run!" Haha...

My idea weight was said to be 122. I started about about 190 in January 2011 and dropped to 122 by december 2012. Iooked gross. You could see my ribs and my hips were what my hubby called pokey, I had not breasts and I did not like the way I looked. So I know it might sound crazy but I loved my body at 133, it was still in the normal range of healthy and I had some of m curves. I got sidetracked by deaths in my family and gained back 25 pounds and I am currently 18 from my goal of 133.:) I may go to 130 so I can have some wiggle room!:)

Overweight to obese has become the "new normal" in this country, along with the fact that people in general are larger, even if they are not overweight. In such a social climate, someone who merely gets down to what would be a normal(not too skinny, not too fat)weight for their particular body is seen as "skinny", or worse yet, people accuse one of having an eating disorder these days.

Exactly.

Hey, I'm not saying BMI is a great measurement of ideal body weight. But I certainly agree that people are now more overweight and there is social pressure to join them in this new normal.

After losing around 45-50 pounds, I'm right in the middle regarding BMI: 6'2", 185 lbs. I like how I look at this weight, and I like even more how I feel. But all of my friends (most of whom are overweight, but not unreasonably so) are needling me about being so "skinny," even asking about my health.

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My husband has never been overweight, he has weighed, at most, 145lbs in the 9 years we've been together (he is 28, 5'7) but he has weighed as little as 122lbs and the amount of commentary that comes with him being at 122lbs was beyond offensive. He's a runner and a fast one at that and during his "race season" his weight is significantly lower. When people say he's too skinny or question his health, he's not actually sick, he's exceptionally healthy - capable of running 80 miles a week and consuming a minimum of 3,000 calories a day, sometimes well over 5,000. But if they can't discourage his fitness by questioning his physique, they question the damage he's doing to his knees or how much time his running takes away from his job, school or our relationship. It annoys me, his "curvy" wife, because I do not begrudge this runner man's fitness, but a lot of people seem to be extremely intolerant of his physical abilities.

My 2 cents. I am 5 pounds above the HIGH end of my HEALTHY weight.

I have been heavy for so long that everyone, friends and family, got use to seeing me a certain way. ALL of them think I look WAY to thin.

Funny thing is. People and total strangers that I have come to know, think nothing of the way I look and never ask if I am too thin. And alot of times, my friends will poke fun at me in front of strangers and new friends about my weight loss and the strangers and new friends will say that I look perfectly normal.

I never thought I could even get close to the high end of my HEALTHY range. Now that I am right there, I could see getting down towards the middle of that range.


EDIT: Alot of my friends ask if I am sick as well.

You're not the only one. I had a patient ask someone in the office last week if I was sick because I looked - according to them - too thin. I took it as an oddly sick compliment.