Women 5'4 - 5'6 PLEASE READ

Height: 5'3 1/2
Starting weight: 230
Current weight:194
Goal weight: 140 (I hold my weight real well at this weight)
Calories per day: Between 1500-2000 a day (But Im also on a low carb, high protein/high calorie diet)
Age: 25

5'6
starting weight (2011) :150
current :138
goal : around 130, I will not go lower than 9 stone (126) as I had done previously and I was not healthy.
age : 27
total (not net) calories average 1600-1800 per day. I exercise 35-40 mins 4x a week, I have a desk job so don't move much the rest of the time.

Height : 5'4
SW on MFP: I think 130? or 132?
CW:128
GW: I don't have one, I have body fat goal of 18%, I'm at 20% right now
Age: 26
Calories: Base of 1700, plus a percentage of exercise calories

In high school I was 113 lbs at the max and wore a size 6, now I'm 15 lbs more than that and my high school pants are so big I can hold them up. Muscle is key, the scale paints a small picture of fitness.

Height 5'5"
Highest Weight 180
Starting Weight 165 (August 2012)
Current Weight 150
Goal Weight 140
Age 63
Calories: 1200 to 1400
Exercise: 2 hrs per day, weight lifting, yoga, spinning, treadmill workouts. I aim for 1200, sometimes go over it and "eat back"
part of calories burned in exercise. I am trying to lose body fat which is currently about 38%.

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.

I completely agree. All hell would break loose if we pointed out to larger ladies how unhealthy we felt their current, or even goal weight is, yet it seems to be open season for people to criticise those who may be naturally smaller, based on their goal weights, without any knowledge of that person. BMI has a large range of normal ratios, because people vary naturally in their size and shape. 110 pounds is just two pounds lighter than 8 stone. Many people of similar height to me have goal weights of 140 pounds, which is 10 stones. At age 31 the heaviest and unhealthiest I have ever been is 9 st 4. If I gained to reach a "healthy" 140 pounds, I'd be far too large for my frame. I'm sure that you all don't think it acceptable to tell larger people they have an eating disorder, so it also shouldn't be acceptable to insinuate that everyone lighter has an ED. yes, people at both ends of the weight spectrum may indeed have an ED, but that really isn't for you to decide, based on the tiny amount of information you have before you here. I know from experience that I am strong and healthy when I am at 7 stone 7 and, hey, I even have a large *kitten* and big boobs at that weight, so I'm hardly going to be malnourished even at 105 pounds!

5'7
186
162
150-145
48
1200 or less

height: 5'4
starting weight: 168
Current weight: 130
Goal Weight: 120
Age: 21
Eat: 1300-1500

Height? 5'6
Starting weight? 166
Current weight? 132
1st Goal Weight- 130
2nd Goal Weight-125
Goal Weight? 120
Age? 20
How many calories you eat a day? 1000

Height? 5'4"
Starting weight? 148
Current weight? 142
Goal Weight? 129 (although I might rethink this depending how I feel...I'm more into looking healthy with curves than being thin)
Age? 39
How many calories you eat a day? Between 1200-1400

Height? 5'4"
Starting weight? 148
Current weight? 124
Goal Weight? 125
How many calories you eat a day? Net = 1100 to 1200 during weight loss; 1400 to 1600 during maintenance (6 weeks in)

Height? 5'4
Starting weight? 297
Current weight? 292
Goal Weight? 130
Age? 28
How many calories you eat a day? Around 1300.

Height? 5'45"
Starting weight? 155
Current weight? 113-115 (just came from vacation and I am up 10 pounds according to my scale but I don't believe it. Clothes fit the same)
Goal Weight? maintain
Age? 37
Calories?: 1800 - 2100 (On vacation I estimated around 5000)

The low goal weight, especially on very young women, doesn't concern me all that much. It's the low goal weight coupled with very low calorie consumption that concerns me.

I was very thin, naturally, but I was that thin because I had very, very low muscle mass. Probably only about 80 pounds. And because, while I ate "whatever I wanted," I really didn't eat that much, or that well. I hit my late-20s, got a desk job, met my husband, and started eating regular meals instead of nibbling and snacking, and my weight "caught up to me."

Like everyone else, as I gained weight and as I got older, I didn't just gain fat, I gained lean body mass, too. That's everything but the fat. Organs, bones, muscle. Some muscle is always gained with weight, just like muscle is lost as we lose weight. How much muscle you gain or lose depends on your exercise/activity and your eating habits.

At my high weight of 160, I had about 110 pounds of lean body mass, so if you took every ounce of fat off my body, I'd STILL weigh more than I did in high school. I lost some lean mass as I lost, even trying my damnedest to keep as much as possible. My lean mass is currently between 106-110 pounds... I eat a LOT and push myself hard. So while I was "naturally" 110 pounds as a young'un, that's just NOT going to happen now.

So I urge everyone to find out their body fat percentage and lean body mass, THEN see if that goal weight is still realistic.