What is your natural weight?

RubyRed8067
RubyRed8067 Posts: 301
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To those of you who have lost and gained on several occations, what is the weight you find easiest to maintain? Unless I hit the gym daily, I cannot maintain my LW, and I simply don't have time anymore. 135-140 is easy to maintain, I've done so for over 2 years. And it's within my weight range..the high end.

How do you maintain the LW? I REALLY want to get to 120...and stay there.

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  • HealthyBodySickMind
    HealthyBodySickMind Posts: 1,207 Member
    I read the title first, but after reading your post, I'm not sure you were asking me. I've never done a whole lot on losing and gaining, but I think it's pretty safe to say my "natural weight" is between 107 and 112, as I've been there most of my adult life without doing anything to maintain. Right now I'm lifting and looking to gain. It's really the first time I've tried to do anything deliberate to change/control weight/body composition. I find that if I break too long from lifting or eating over TDEE my weight slides right back down, and so does the amount of weight I can lift.
  • mistybkarma
    mistybkarma Posts: 30 Member
    I usually was between 135-140. After I had an iud last year, my weight jumped to 166 in just a couple of months. I loved being 135, I'm curvy and I felt my best then.
  • Polly758
    Polly758 Posts: 623 Member
    130-145. I'm 5'7. Funny thing is, my weight changes depending on how active I am-- but it goes DOWN when I am sedentary. And my size stays the same.
  • kristen6022
    kristen6022 Posts: 1,923 Member
    I would say in the 170-175 range. Only because that is the weight I've been for most of my adult life. I've been lower and higher, but that is my "I can eat what I want and workout whenever and still keep my sanity" weight. But I'm around 150 now (my lowest weight ever) and I'm maintaining with just diet. Oh, I'm 5'11, so 170 is perfectly healthy!
  • shanmackie
    shanmackie Posts: 194 Member
    5'1.5", probably 108-113 lbs is my normal weight.
  • perfecting_emptiness
    perfecting_emptiness Posts: 49 Member
    I'm 5'6" and around 135 is very easy to maintain. I was at that weight for since I was 16 and ate whatever I wanted and never exercised but I don't want to go back to that weight because I was very pear shaped and didn't enjoy it.
  • dorkyhippy
    dorkyhippy Posts: 36
    150lbs likes me a lot. 140lbs is harder. I'm swinging for 120lbs and I hate exercising, so it will be rough.
  • jjelizalde
    jjelizalde Posts: 377 Member
    My body seems to really like 146. I'm 5'5" so that's within my range. I'd like to be less but that scale just isn't budging.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Without regular exercise and eating whatever I want, I easily maintain at the high end of normal, around 145-150.

    But with exercise and eating mostly what I want but keeping an eye on macros, I'm easily maintaining the last year and a half around 130-135... and it looks like a helluva lot more than a 15-20 pound difference.
  • TheFitHooker
    TheFitHooker Posts: 3,357 Member
    Seems when I gain weight back my scale will stick at about 135 - 140 and 140 is actually a high average for my height.
  • Bernadette60614
    Bernadette60614 Posts: 707 Member
    I tend to "settle" somewhere around 145. My lifetime high (without a pregnancy) was 185. I'd like to be 130, which is what I was when I worked out 90 minutes a day and ate only 1200 calories. There's an awesome book called "Secrets of Skinny Chicks", and it is 40 profiles of women whose bodies most of us would want to have: fitness models, professional models, body doubles. On average, they eat about 1400 calories per day, work out a minimum of 6 days a week, and a minimum of one hour a day. I think anything is achievable, but to look like a Hollywood body double for a "hot " actress seems to require incredible commitment.

    I also think it changes with your life: When I was 130 I not only did as above, but I was constantly active. Now, I'm at a desk 8 hours a day, in traffic 2, and doing family stuff when I'm not sleeping. I burn fewer incidental calories.
  • _namaste_
    _namaste_ Posts: 246
    My natural weight seems to be right around 142 and I am 5 foot 6 inches. I was 130 or so back in the day (highschool) and started actively trying to lose baby weight (after 3 beautiful kids) about 2 years ago. I lost 40 - 50 lbs quite fast and have maintained my weight around the 142lbs mark eating what I want, when I want, and excercising moderately or not at all sometimes. I really, really want to lose about 5-10 more pounds and am working hard at that right now. I am going to be starting strength training shortly and I hope that along with my usual running (few times a week) and yoga almost every day will be enough to cut extra inches and help me lose the last 5 or so pounds.
  • Erykah3584
    Erykah3584 Posts: 324 Member
    I can maintain 132-135 easily but my goal is 120-125. I still have a lot of belly fat that I want to get rid of.
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
    My natural weight....whatever the scale presently reads.

    To say you cannot maintain is why you fail.
  • crystalflame
    crystalflame Posts: 1,049 Member
    5'5" and 130-135 isn't too hard to maintain. I'm trying to trim down to 115-120, and I know staying there will take a high level of activity and careful calorie watching. If I didn't have a desk job it would be achieved a lot easier.
  • capriciousmoon
    capriciousmoon Posts: 1,263 Member
    Somewhere around 128 - 135. I can maintain it fairly easily as long as I'm somewhat active and don't binge. I'm 5'4".
  • parisshaye
    parisshaye Posts: 15 Member
    5'6 115-120 was easy to maintain with out workingout and stuff
  • marstanley
    marstanley Posts: 9 Member
    I have come to the conclusion that science doesn't know yet what weight is best for a person. I think personal opinion and fashion has influenced those poor MEN. I want to see long term studies for many different weights and many different regions of the world and that isn't done overnight. I personally have seen many thin people die young and many heavy older people who are mostly heathy. Over exercising to maintain a certain weight also wears a body down. It is easy to see the two extremes are not healthy, but were is the weight that is best?
  • ShunkyDave
    ShunkyDave Posts: 190 Member
    130-145. I'm 5'7. Funny thing is, my weight changes depending on how active I am-- but it goes DOWN when I am sedentary. And my size stays the same.

    Sounds like muscle loss.
  • gjulie
    gjulie Posts: 391
    Im 5 ft 2 and 143 and Im dead happy!I look fit and healthy now I do have a large frame! I was 168 in April this year and that was way too much!
  • a1schwei
    a1schwei Posts: 617 Member
    i am 5'3.5" and i spent most of my 20s fluctuating between 137-143 lbs without trying too hard...i was on the higher end of average, but not too terrible overall so i thought that was my 'comfy weight' even though i wasn't super happy with how i looked...about 3 years ago i decided enough was enough and started working out with more regularity and using mfp and finally lost the 10-15 lbs that had been making me uncomfortable...then i got pregnant and gained between 40-45 lbs...i was hopeful that i would be able to lose all of the weight, but i thought for sure that my body would be 'comfy' again in the 137-143 range...i was wrong!!! i am now almost 30 and maintaining 130-133 without working too hard at it, i eat a minimum of 1500 calories per day (including pizza and sweets) and i workout 3-4 times per week...my lifestyle has changed a bit, but now this is my 'comfy weight' :) i would still like to drop a few more lbs and tone up, but where i am at is not too bad either :)
  • yogsvr4
    yogsvr4 Posts: 149 Member
    I've hit 200 a few times and bounced back up to 215 (still a far cry from the 285 I started with) so it looks like I probably belong in the low mid 200s
  • Yaya1976
    Yaya1976 Posts: 357 Member
    http://www.healthdiscovery.net/links/calculators/ideal_bw_women.htm

    According to this website. I should be between 124lbs and 138lbs. I'm 5'4 and I have a medium frame.

    My goal is 125 lbs by the end of May 2013.

    In high school I was between 118 lbs and 122 lbs

    From 21 to about 27 I was in the 130's

    I gained weight after I turned 28. The heaviest I've ever been is 155 lbs.

    As of last week Saturday I weigh 143.8 lbs and slimming down every day :)

    I've always been pretty trim and healthy- so during those times I never really weighed myself. I would love to be 120 lbs and stay there :)
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    I think I know what you mean, I'm 5'5" and I've just got down to 9 and a half stone (133) and I've been here before and found it easy to maintain at this weight and have stayed this weight for several years before with little effort (just went through a bit of an emotional eating patch after this period and put on 30 pounds through constant junk food eating) my ultimate goal in 9 stone (126) which I have also been before and lower (although lower didn't suit me) but it usually takes me a bit more dedication to maintain, so I'll just have to keep up with a few more healthy habits like working out regularly to maintain LW. :)
  • Mia627
    Mia627 Posts: 34
    I am 5'8 and find it easy to maintain around 155. Right now I'm about 169 pounds. :( Working actively to get this off.
  • theblackbirdtree
    theblackbirdtree Posts: 168
    If I don't pay attention to diet or exercise, I hover around 135. If I'm overindulgent, it's 140-145.
  • Katiemarie4488
    Katiemarie4488 Posts: 242 Member
    Damn this is depressing..... my normal weight seems to be around 180. I was up to 230, and my lowest point was 157. Im at 182.4 now and its horrible. Im trying to get down to 135. Ive really been struggling latley but, It's called willpower, either you want to or you don't, there's no trick. Im back on track right now.
  • schondell
    schondell Posts: 556 Member
    I am 5'8 and usually between 125-130 but I had no muscle tone and just looked skinny-fat.
  • CollegiateGrief
    CollegiateGrief Posts: 552 Member
    What is a "natural weight"? I think whatever weight you're at for a long time is what the body eventually grows accustomed to. If we're going by what is easiest to maintain, mine would be 300 lbs. It's what I've been my whole upper teenage/adult life, and what I stay at without gaining or losing if I eat what is normal for me.

    Obviously this is not healthy. So "natural weight" doesn't really seem like a thing.
  • roxbox2013
    roxbox2013 Posts: 95 Member
    Luckily, my natural weight sits low at about 108-116. It's been this way since my sophomore year in high school. I have a medium sized frame and am 5'3". Short! This is of course with approx. 3 days of exercise a week. Now I work out 7 days a week, burning approximately 1000 calories every day, and am steadily losing weight.

    I suppose you could say that isn't my "natural" weight since I was still working out, but I won't ever see my natural weight then. Haha.

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