Women 5'4 - 5'6 PLEASE READ

Height? 5'4
Starting weight? 152
Current weight? 152
Goal Weight? 135
Age? 44
How many calories you eat a day? 1200 + exercise calories

Height? 5'5
Starting weight? 221.
Current weight? 190.
Goal Weight? 140
Age? 21
How many calories you eat a day? Anywhere from 1200 to 1800

Height- 5'4"
Starting weight- 139
Current weight- 139
Goal Weight- 125
Age- 19
How many calories you eat a day- 1800, but doing p90x

5'4

115 lbs

Goal weight - maintenance/muscle gain

Calories - 1800-2100 a day, because I do a lot of exercise. I have lost muscle strength and felt worse eating less.

Height: 5'3-5'4
Starting weight: 300 lbs (11 months prior to joining MFP) 199 lbs after joining
Current weight: 147 lbs
Goal Weight: 145 lbs (going to reassess after making my goal)
Age: 37
Calories: I eat between my BMR and my TDEE usuall 20% off my TDEE
Calories Burned: I work out 6 days a week - anywhere between 350-1000 depending on the day.

Height -5'4
Starting weight -190
Current weight -186
Goal Weight -145
Age - 21
How many calories you eat a day - 1290 (about that many, i don't eat back exercise calories unless I'm hungry)

Height? 5'6"
Starting weight? 375
Current weight? 268
Goal Weight? 145
Age? 36
How many calories you eat a day? Planned is 1450, but I always seem to end up at less than 1200.

YOU GO GIRL!! EVERYONE ELSE AS WELL

Height? 5'4
Starting weight? 122
Current weight? 107.5
Goal Weight? I'm trying to gain muscle and lose fat, 15-20% BF. Undetermined.
Age? 18
How many calories you eat a day? It varies widely, I average about 8000 a week.

Before I get hassled, I'm 'banana shaped', small boned, and have a lean body mass of something like 83 lbs (23% body fat).

Height? 5'6
Starting weight? 180
Current weight? 176
Goal Weight? 135
Age? 40
How many calories you eat a day? 1200

Height? 5'5" and 1/2
Starting weight? 130
Current weight? 118
Goal Weight? 110
Age? 37
How many calories you eat a day? I try to stay between 1300-1600. I'm in the "active" category.

For those criticizing the foiks who replied to this post, please don't cast stones. What you may perceive as being underweight on your frame might be seen as normal on another's. We are all on MFP to lose or maintain our goal weight in a healthy manner. If not we'd be popping pills, bingeing and purging instead of posting here. Yes, there might be some who have unrealistic goals but let's try to support each other instead of turning our noses up.

I got my GW from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's, Eat to Live book. It's not so unrealistic. The "healthy" weight is a range in itself.

I find it disturbing to see so many young people think that 110 lbs is an ideal weight. That scares me.

Yes, very disturbing indeed. This thread is just plain scary.

It sounds scary to me too, until I remember that my 5'4" daughter graduated HS at 106. She was very healthy and ate normally, she was just naturally thin at that age. When the young girls get to college they will put on their Freshman 15 and be a more 'normal' size. Some girls are just naturally that thin. What is bad is when girls that aren't naturally that thin, starve themselves or purge to get there. Health is more important than a number on the scale. Find a healthy weight for your frame and be happy with yourself.

ETA There are also girls/women older than teenage, that 110 is a healthy weight for them. There are apple and pear body shapes, and also a banana shape, which is a small slender frame that is naturally thin.

Yes this^ people come in all different shapes and sizes. Isn't this an 18+ site, so aren't we all adults here? I'm not trying to encourage anyone to eat below 1200 (net) but some people have mentioned they are doing this under their doctor's supervision---that seems responsible to me. We can't possibly know where everyone is coming from. There may be some people who are on the younger side, or inexperienced regarding diet, or just plain new here, and/or yes there are even folks who actually do have (or are recovering from) EDs but I don't think that is the majority. We are all here because we are dealing with our weight. I sort of trust that most adults can figure things out without me meddling (unless of course they ask). I see people here my height with GW I personally would find very high, but I trust they know their body best. We don't get this same kind of outrage on the threads where people might be considered dangerously overweight so why here? GW is just that, it is not set in stone it is something to work towards. And weight is deceiving, 112 and pure muscle is different than 112 no/little muscle. The way I see it is if someone asks it is fine to give advice otherwise what is the point of trying to control others/lecturing? If you are genuinely concerned with someone be a friend and send them a PM.

Height: 5'4"
Starting weight: 160
Current weight: 130
Goal Weight: 120 - Although frankly I'd be happy to stay anywhere between 120 - 130 so long as I lose more fat (28%) and gain more muscle!
Age: 27
How many calories you eat a day: Base 1450 + usually about half of my exercise cals

And weight is deceiving, 112 and pure muscle is different than 112 no/little muscle.

That is true...which is why it can be better to think of things in terms of fitness rather than weight. In the US most adults are overweight - 2/3s of adults - and most are also not fit. And we've grown to adulthood forming the habits that made us gain weight. If we lose it rapidly, and also lose muscle, and then gain it back, we'll be less fit than we were before the process started. Same weight, less muscle. And the more times this is repeated, the less muscle we have. So it is better to be 5'4 and 140 lbs - which is a healthy BMI for a medium framed person - and maintain that weight eating whatever you'll eat long term, than to go down to 110 lbs, lose muscle mass, and then go up to your original weight a few years down the line.
Even the old, traditional ideal weight calculations, dating from the first half of the last century, go like this: for the first 5 feet, 100 lbs. For every additional inch, add 5 lbs. So 110 lbs is an ideal weight for a woman who is 5'2 who has a medium frame, from the era before most Americans were overweight. This calculation would put her on the lower end of the heathly BMI scale - she would have to weigh more than 135 before a doctor would say she was overweight. If you've been yo-yo dieting for a while - and I have been there - you may need to gain muscle at your ideal weight in order to have your ideal body composition. But it's not the same as needing to lose more weight - the more you lose, the less muscle you have, the more likely you'll regain, etc.

Height? 5'6"
Starting weight? 156
Current weight? 125 (I think, haven't weighed in for a while)
Goal Weight? 120-125 ... i am in maintenance
Age? 21
How many calories you eat a day? when i was losing, 1200. now, 1400-2000.

Height? 5'4 3/4
Starting weight? 185
Current weight? 121.4
Goal Weight? Not sure, I really just wanna lower my BF% & lose some more inches, then do a bulkin phase to build some muscle
Age? 24
How many calories you eat a day? Roughly 1700, depends on what my TDEE is, sometimes I eat more.