My goal is 180. Honestly, the shock and awe of being 6' and 230 is kinda funny to me. Most people don't think I weigh over 200lbs simply due to my height. *shrug*

I'm a tall gal surrounded by not so tall people and it gets on my every last nerve when 5'0 people say I'm fatter than them just because I weight like 20 pounds more than they do... Hello, I'm a foot taller than you are!!!! I feel like some people honestly think ALL women should weigh 90 pounds and if you're 90 pounds and 6 feet tall than oh my gosh, you would be like queen barbie! I don't think so. 180 would make me just as hot as a 100 pound 5'0 tall girl.

My mother in-law who is a lovely woman has been asking me a lot about my weight-loss. A while ago, when I told her I had lost 20 lbs she was incredibly impressed, but when I said I currently weigh 215 lbs she couldn't hide the shock on her face and she followed with a "really?" comment. I had to remind her that I am 6 ft tall and she is only 5ft 2 and that makes a very significant difference. I explain that being at my goal weight of 180 would put my bmi back into the healthy range and I would no longer be overweight.

I try not to be offended. I have difficulty understanding weight from the perspective of a short person, so why should I worry that a short person has difficult understanding weight from my height? I just use it as an opportunity to educate. I'm proud of my weight loss and my personal goals, even if they seem ridiculous to some.

I usually use this to see what I would look like at a certain weight -- http://www.mybodygallery.com/

Fascinating website, thanks for the tip!

I'm 5'10" and learned long ago not to tell people how much I weighed because they simply refused to believe me. Now I'm taking control of it, I just tell 'em how much I've lost and how much is still to go, which gets the positive responses I'm after ;-) Was delighted to find out yesterday that I am now 10lb lighter than my skinny 6'5" hubby!

Was delighted to find out yesterday that I am now 10lb lighter than my skinny 6'5" hubby!

Can't wait for this!!!! (my hub is 6'4" and still 10# under me. grrr)

I work with a very short (5'4"?), rotund man who's been trying to lose weight, so he always comments on my weight loss. Last week, he asked me how much I weigh- and I just looked at him incredulously. He told me that he probably weighs more than I do, so I asked him how much he weighs. His answer "180". I laughed and told him that I still weigh more.

short people don't get it. the end.


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I just got this today. I went to the Dr. and the nurse weighed me and started at 150. She nudged it a little. Then a little more. Did this a couple times til she moved it to the end. Then she had this look of amazement when she moved it to 200. I weighed 202(dressed and had just ate lunch :P). She didn't say anything but she looked dumbfounded. lol.

I had the same thing happen. The nurse ran the scale to 200 and i said, uh, no you need to go to 250 and she didn't believe me. Made me feel skinny

I'm 5'10" and currently weigh around 230lbs but I honestly don't feel like I carry it that badly, my current photo is recent.

However I find it hard to adjust my brain to thinking what a normal weight is for my height. Growing up I was constantly surrounded y my mums magazines that always seemed to suggest anything over 140lbs for a woman was a bad thing.

I would love to get back down to 168lbs, when I was younger and stupid, I starved myself down to about 142lbs and I did not look well at all, mainly because I wasn't.

I've lost a fair amount already but it feels like such a long stretch to make a really big difference.

It's always kind of awkward when a short person says something negative about high weight numbers because it's like yeah...that person you're talking badly about -- I weigh more than her. Thanks D*ck.

I used to be a camp counselor, and I was really muscular and 5'8" (I'm 5'10" now, but questions about that later) and would proudly tell the girls that I weighed 190. They looked up to me, and I think it helped their own self-image to know that not everyone was shooting for 135. They'd marvel for a bit, and then move on. I wish adults were as easy.

I weigh 222 now with a goal weight of 170-175 and one of the much shorter women at my work who is much rounder said "girl, I'll take your old clothes that are too big for you" and I kind of looked at her sideways and said "Well, sure, but they'd be WAY too big for you" and she leaned forward and whispered "I'm a size 14-16" and I kind of laughed and told her my cast offs were size 20. You should have seen her eyes! And then I got the ubiquitous "no way!".

But the point here? You're special. Sizes and single pounds don't mean the same thing to us as they do to shorter women. Yes, you have to work harder to see results, but the flip side of that is that a tiny backslide doesn't really show up, either. They're not being mean, they just don't KNOW. So smile when they gawk, because truthfully, they DO WISH they had your height. Even if they don't have a clue just what a pain that is.

I usually use this to see what I would look like at a certain weight -- http://www.mybodygallery.com/

Love this, thanks for sharing

When I last weighed 180, TWICE on those old-school manual scales a nurse weighed me in at 180, then wrote it down as 130. TWICE. She just ignored that 50 pounds altogether. So now my chart has these weird weights on it and another nurse thought I had gained 50 pounds between appointments. Good times

And for what it's worth, people are totally shocked if I tell them I weigh 201.5 right now - I get a lot of, "Wow, if I had to guess I would have thought 170-180." 185 is my goal weight.

SHANNON, you don't look that weight at all!! You look amazing, but when I show people pictures of when I was about 210 lbs. at 6 feet, they say, "ooooh, you were so skinny!" Yeah, it is hard for me to equate skinny to 210. But we are real tall too so I'll take the compliment.