Do you look thinner than you are?

I definitely understand what you mean! I am 5'1" and am right now at 172 after losing 11 pounds and 16 inches. When I first started my weight loss journey (for the 15th and last time!) people would say, "why are you trying to lose weight? you look good". I definitely appreciate their compliment, but at 183 pounds and as short as I am, it's not good. I guess it's amazing how well clothes hide the weight. As I continue on, I'm nervous people will say the same thing they are saying to you - that they think I'm losing too much weight or getting to small. I guess we'll see how it goes. Either way, keep it up!!!

I look a bit smaller than I am. Every single time I go to a doctor's office, since I was a KID even, the nurses who weigh me express surprise about how much I weigh and make a passing comment that they wouldn't have thought it was quite as high. They never say it in a rude way but sometimes they seem genuinely surprised/shocked.

Right now I'm 223 and I think I look in the 200-225 neighborhood but some of my friends assume I'm under 200 already. I think it's less to do with me looking smaller and more to do with them having a poor reference point because they're much smaller anyway. I guess when you're 135 and your tall friend is losing weight you just assume she's probably at 180-ish, not 200-something. Kind of like my ex's boss who was a size 00 just never thought about me being too big to wear non-plus sizes. To her I was big but not the biggest woman ever, so she assumed I was a 10 or 12, right? No. LOL

This whole weighing more than I look thing was more dramatic when I was in my higher weights, like 280 I really really think I looked more like 240. I think a lot of it is the way I am proportioned and that I have a relatively thin face, neck, hands, calves & ankles, etc...compared to my very large bust, bum, hips, belly.

I think I carry my weight well. I'm 5'7'' and 203lb. I haven't lost anything for over a month but can tell I'm losing inches. I've also been working out 5-6 days a week and doing some weights once a week (included in those days- I have one off day)

its a bit of a mixed bag because my brain is weird.


I dress well for my shape and people are surprised to find out how much i weigh. Also I guess having an angular face helps with that.

But my body is a trainwreck beneath the pretty dresses & I am well aware of this, mostly.


BUT then I get all 'heyyy I'm back to my old comfortable plateau, damn i look good' and I ignore the fact that I still need to drop a lot more. Until I put on exercise clothes and look like a fatass, then I just get cranky and self-conscious.

I'm the opposite, people think I'm heavier. They tend to think I'm about 10lbs more than I actually am.

I'm 5'7" I weigh 194 and everyone tells me I look 160ish. And even at my heaviest which was 229, I wore I size 14. I guess my weight is equally proportioned. So according to the BMI my lowest is 118, I don't think so. I would look sick at my height and my genetics. I'm shooting for the highest range of my BMI which is 169.

I'm 5'4'' and ~ 210lbs. My whole life people have been saying "you carry your weight well"

...what does that even mean?

Exactly, thanks for the back handed compliment.

I'm with seltzermint: my doctor is always surprised by my weight. 5' 5" and 174lb. Still need to lose about 25lb. I swear it's all on my belly!

Yeah I wear my weight pretty well. People don't believe me when I tell them I'm 170ish pound.

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Exactly, thanks for the back handed compliment.

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You get me.

It's not that I hide my excess weight well---it's painfully present and obvious BUT I must be carrying a bit of muscle, too, because I wear much smaller sizes than I did at this weight in the past. Maybe sizes have changed a lot over the past 10 to 20 years and everything is vanity sized up. I wouldn't dare asking how much people think I weigh, it's bad enough that I know!

I think people are just really really bad about guestimating weight.

I think I look decent for 130.
*shrug*
Most people are shocked when I tell them my actual weight. Some assume im as much as 20lbs less. O-O But, people suck at guessing ones weight.

I am 5'5" and 241 pounds. I look slightly smaller than many women of the same weight because my weight is proportioned over my entire body. I also have very heavy legs which doesn't really get noticed unless they're bare which I avoid at all costs.. but anyway, extra weight in the legs means less weight in other areas. I have one sister who weighs 20 pounds less than I do but wears a larger size than me.. because she is an apple shape so she needs that larger size to accommodate her larger waist though the clothing might be too big in the legs/butt/bust whereas my figure is generally spot on when it comes to the sizing charts so I fill out my clothing in all areas with no baggy parts. The good news for her is that when she starts shedding the pounds she blows through the sizes really quickly where as I need to lose quite a lot of weight before going down a size.

Recently I had my profile on a few dating sites and I got messages all the time telling me that I need to change my bodytype from "bbw/overweight" to "a little extra" I always respond telling them my weight and that 90-100 pounds overweight is not just "a little extra"