I want honest opinions?

I think you look very good in all 3, the middle one is good too. I dunno why the others are saying it's not. But in my humble opinion, anymore than how you were in the middle might look a bit too light.

I think you could benefit from some muscle gain so eat up and go lift things up and put them down!

Remember, whats important is how YOU feel most comfortable in. If you spend your life trying to live the way others tell you, then it will be a very miserable life

I really want to get back to the middle pic, but I want to know what other people honestly think? Because when I started it was because I felt big and my boyfriend told me I needed to lose weight.

Honestly I think you looked really pretty in the first picture and way too skinny in the middle one.

I also think your boyfriend is a massive *kitten* and you should dump him. You're gorgeous and you can do much better.

5'8" and 140-145 lbs is fine. The first photo looks great! The middle photo is not great.

I'll say two more things: tell your boyfriend he's nuts. Talk to your parents before you develop an eating disorder.

Sorry to be so blunt. But this thread worries me.

You asked for honesty. I agree with this post.

I think you look good in the first photo. If you wanted to change your body from that point, I would have personally started working on body composition, as in lifting weights.

I think you look far too thin in the second photo. The third photo isn't bad, but again, if you want to I would suggest working on body composition. That means eating enough - either at maintenance or a *small* deficit and start doing something like lifting.

Oh, and tell your boyfriend he's an a**. You were at a healthy weight. Yeah, you could have lost some and still have been at a healthy weight, but telling you that you "needed" to lose weight was just not the right thing to say.

I am also 5'8". I am at the high range of a healthy BMI, for whatever that's worth. While I know I need to lose a bit more in my stomach/hip/thigh area I have decided that I am done with *weight loss* as my goal for now. My goal at this point is to work on my body composition (and I wish I had started that at the beginning, but live and learn). I should still be losing fat as I work on my body composition, but I am not going to be focused on the scale right now. I think it would be good for you to try and work on a healthier mindset and I'm really sorry that your boyfriend's comment triggered this for you.

Which one do you feel like you look like the best? That is important!

I honestly do not think you looks nearly as bad as most are saying the the middle pic.
Need a little more muscle and you would look great! Looks like you have a strong core

I personally like the last picture. Time for some lifting!

This exactly. Don't worry about losing the weight you've gained. Eat at maintenance. Start lifting weights.

You look healthier in the first pic.

5'8 and 145 puts you at around a BMI of 22, which is in the normal range.

I am going to jump on the dump the boyfriend bandwagon.

Here is why. This is his way of trying to control you. As soon as you get to the weight, then it will be something else. You are no where near being over weight and for him to say that to you is just plain abusive.

You are young, you may not think you can live with out him now, but trust me dear, better to move on with your life with someone that is going to love you for you and treat you with respect than trying to figure out where you are going to go and how you are going to do it with a kid and a toddler. Trust me.

I say this from experience. Been there done that and OF COURSE I did not listen and had to learn my lessons the hard way. You are a beautiful young lady, you are worthy of someone that will love you entirely and never would want to do you any kind of harm by suggesting anything less than what you are is not good enough.

You don't need to lose any weight! You do need to lose your boyfriend however. If he's the one saying you need to lose weight after or before that first picture was taken he's a nutcase. You looked absolutely gorgeous in that picture. But on the last picture you look healthy as well! Definately NOT the middle picture as you are WAY to thin there!!

I honesty like the first pic. Not only do you look healthier, you look happier! Get in touch w/you and don't let anybody define who you are! When you start allowing folks to tell you what you need to do w/your body, you lose control of your life! Drop the boyfriend..not the weight! Good luck sweetie! What he should've told you was that you look AMAZING!

U look HEALITHIER in the last pic then u do in the middle pic, if u want u can add strength training in order to be a bit more toned BUUUUUT u hve to do wht makes u happy. Food and weight shudnt be complicated (i learned that the hard way in middle school) Find YOUR happy despite of wht ur bf , friends, your parents, or anyone else has to say.

The best weight you could lose is the boyfriend. He is emotionally harming you. I'll bet he tries to control who you are friends with, wants to know where you are at all times, monitors your phone, and tells you he loves you 300 times a day, right? Run far away from this guy, seriously.

100%. I dated a guy who thought I was getting chunky when I was at a low end of normal weight. The best weight I ever lost was his sorry *kitten*.

You're young and gorgeous. In the middle picture, the bones showing in your chest and should concern me. You look fragile and frail.

I think the top picture of you is the best. You're a taller girl (tall to me at least. I'm only 5'1) so I think you look perfect. You look much too skinny in the other pictures. Just my opinion.

thanks for all the feedback. it's just been so long that i've felt comfortable in my own skin that it's hard for me to see myself clearly so it helps to know what others think.

You look the best in the first and third pictures. When do you think you were last comfortable in your own skin? Perhaps before you were told you were too heavy? You are young and beautiful please do not try to make everyone else in the world happy. It is never possible. Either people will love you for who you are or they wont. But I can guarantee there are many who will love you for how YOU choose to be:)

thanks for all the feedback. it's just been so long that i've felt comfortable in my own skin that it's hard for me to see myself clearly so it helps to know what others think.

You look the best in the first and third pictures. When do you think you were last comfortable in your own skin? Perhaps before you were told you were too heavy? You are young and beautiful please do not try to make everyone else in the world happy. It is never possible. Either people will love you for who you are or they wont. But I can guarantee there are many who will love you for how YOU choose to be:)

Well despite what everyone on here says, and even though I know I was unhealthy and too thin, I felt the most comfortable in the third pic. It was the first time in my life where I was smaller than everyone else rather than bigger than everyone else. Plus all my clothes fit perfectly and I didn't worry about having 'fat' days.

It's just hard for me to decide whether I want to work really hard and look like that or let go a little and look like how I do now

And this is why I don't believe it's always good to go by the mantra "do whatever makes YOU feel best." You KNOW you were unhealthy and too thin. That is not a sustainable way of living. Please take what most people here have said to heart. If you can, see a doctor, or even better - a dietician and/or therapist, to help guide you to a healthier mindset. You're very young and I would hate to see you become set in this way of thinking.

**Wait - do you mean in the second pic? Because you said the third pic, but your other statements make it seem like you mean the second. I think the third pic is fine, the second is the one that worries me, and most other people in this thread. Trying to maintain the third doesn't seem unhealthy (but that assumption is based on appearance alone and not knowing your eating and exercise habits).

you are too tall to weigh 120...that makes you look sickly.

Which one do you feel like you look like the best? That is important!

I honestly do not think you looks nearly as bad as most are saying the the middle pic.
Need a little more muscle and you would look great! Looks like you have a strong core

I personally like the last picture. Time for some lifting!

This exactly. Don't worry about losing the weight you've gained. Eat at maintenance. Start lifting weights.

Agree with both of these! Start strength training!!