What does your doctor say you should weigh?

No doctor ever gave me a number they want me to be, just "you need to lose some weight". Since they are usually glancing at a chart when telling me this, I guess they want me to be 101-136 which is the BMI for a woman 5'2". I picked 140 as my UGW because it's a round number to make math easier and a few pounds over "healthy". If I can ever get rid of my fat gut, I won't care what I weigh.

I think you have gotten good advice from others on here.

My doctor has never had a reason to tell me what to weigh. Although when I was pregnant the first doctor that I had wanted me to not gain too much, too quickly, or too much overall. He said that a lot of women develop weight problems after pregnancy. But, I lost the weight very rapidly and when I saw him during my next pregnancy I told him that I had lost the weight very rapidly the last time and had even felt like breastfeeding was causing me to get too slim. So, he just told me that I was healthy and that the weight I was at was healthier than if I were overweight. My midwife was not concerned about me gaining weight because I started off so small, and lose so easily. I had a midwife and also a doctor.

I asked my current doctor if I could be under weight and she said that I am at a healthy weight and not at all underweight, but that I am a small-framed slim person, always have been and it's part of my genetics. She said I was eating a healthy diet and more than enough calories.

I really love my doctor! She really listens to me and talks and helps me be my best in health. She is a very caring person.

This is strange to me as my doctor is fit as a man can be, yet he does not offer strong admonishment about weight.
I suppose at some point he just gave up on us.

Mine doesn't either. I brought it up because I lost about 50 lbs this year and I wanted to know where I should be aiming for next year. Mine said not to focus on numbers, but how I lose the weight (I am doing it the right way). I asked for a number to put into MFP and the like and he went by my wrist size to figure something out. He is really supportive, not admonishing at all.
At least you didn't give up on yourself Great work!

No, and the doctor was stunned when I no longer needed a CPap along with all his drugs....
Losing all that weight changed my whole life, and it's been off a whole year.
My goals now are to lose more fat after the holiday bloat is gone.

huh. good thing i don't take diet and fitness advice from doctors.

Yeah me too. I'm 5'4" and I have never weighed above 135 <---- because that is definitely overweight for me! It's too low for me but I believe that one might go as low as 100 and still be healthy at 5'4". If my Dr. told me I needed to gain weight to be in the 130s I'd drop her. I'm 39 years old I know my body, I need to be under 120. Even when I was all muscle (good lifting routine) I was still under 120. But I am small framed so I don't know.

Just get healthy and if you don't know where you need to be numbers-wise (from past experience) then just forget about the numbers. Whatever works I guess..

I dont know but i know the charts out there say 130-140.

I'm surprised at some of the angst on here about doctors. My doctor has always been pretty low key about weight and was surprised when I was 20 lbs lighter. She had always casually suggested that I watch my weight but never pushed it. When I told her was planning on losing another 10 lbs, she made it clear that it was ok for me to be over the "recommended" weight if it was where I felt good at. I know that I go to a good doctor (voted best family physician in my town of 400,000 this year) but I can't imagine being angry at her when it comes to discussing weight.

When I had my health check in the summer and before coming on here (I was 170 then) I was told to aim for around 154. I am now 7lb (161) away from that and I feel great. I actually feel happier and stronger here.

My doctor won't give me a number at all. She never told me to lose weight though in the first place and never pushed that. I just started it on my own.
Every time I come in weighing less and ask about what my goal she be, she says I did good losing weight and just to do it slow and healthy.
I just want a weight I can maintain. If I managed to get to size 8 and couldn't not maintain it, then what would be the point?

"Less". Those were the wise words my doctor chose.

i too am 5'4"
my doctor has not said anything about my weight, i am 104 lbs.

My doc hasn't said anything like that. His nurse however always tells me I am overweight and I need to lose weight. I like my doc but he doesn't really explain anything unles you specifically ask him.

My doctors have all been obese (I think), my dietician 6/7 years ago was obese, the "quit smoking nurse" is too I think, and my food technology and PE teacher at school were too. Not sure if that has been why weight is hardly brought up.

My current doctor has never talked to me about losing weight. On the rare occasion I see him, if I mention it, it is purely so it is "monitored" in my medical records - "why do you want to be weighed?". Smoking... He always brings that up, and my mental issues.

I think my dietician suggested 14 stone (assuming bad posture, I was 5' 5") - 196 pounds or a BMI of 32.6.

My doctor when I was 14 suggested 11 stone (assuming I was 3 inches shorter, 5' 2") - 154 pounds or an adult BMI of 28.2.

I'm not a fan of getting weight advice from doctors either. When I was in my early 20's and about 123 lbs I went to my doctor for another issue and he told me to make sure I didn't ever get over 125 lbs or I would be overweight (I'm 5'2"). So even though that wasn't true, I have had that silly number stuck in my head ever since. I think the BMI range for my height is 120-140 lbs and I have never been higher than it, except when pregnant. Luckily I have not had another doc bring up the weight issue!

I have never understood what ppl mean by - big frame- , - small frame- ...

Bones in all the ppl are the same, its the muscle/fat what makes you skinny or overweight/obese. Mom always said i had a ´big frame´, I found out how to discover if im really into the big frame side only to discover that im not, im a small one.

Ppl that say that honestly I think its because we have been fat all our life and they are just scared to see us skinny.. or way too afraid to see a big change in us.

LOL!!! tell that to my birthing hip bones, and compare it to some women that would never be able to have a natural child birth.

Exactly! I have wide hips which I always moaned about, but I have been able to give birth naturally twice, not needing stitches either time. According to my wrist size I am a medium/large frame.

My weight has never really been checked by my GP. My midwife checked it at my booking visit in both pregnancies and didn't seem bothered. It was around 27 first time, perhaps 28 2nd time. That was at 11 weeks pregnant.

I went to get the pill when my 1st was a few months old and the b*tch nurse told me my BMI was high and I should only eat 1000 calories a day! Hmmm, great advice. I was gymming 5 times a week and looking after a baby. I wrote a letter of complaint.

I find that doctors here (in the UK) tend to use BMI as their main guide. Mine is 26 now and i'd be happy to get under 25, which would mean 150lbs for me.

since i was in high school i have always been told i should weigh between 100-110 kbs for my height and bone structure (prefereably closer to 100) in later years had a doctor tell me the last weight where i felt happy is apt weight for me the last weight where i was happy and content was 120 which is where i was from 8th grade until i got pregnant with my daughter (25 years ago). so that is why i have set 120 as my goal to reach and is just over 150 lbs away