5'8" Ladies, what is your goal weight?

My original goal was about 130/135; however, my goals have changed to body composition and not the scale. I probably won't get below 150 once I am done. It's ok - it will be all muscle :bigsmile:

I am also 5'8:" but old enough to be you grandmother ( almost, my oldest is 26) and at your age I weighted 140 and I was happy. Today I would be happy to be healthy. My original goal was 170 (as was my doctors suggestion ) but I am thinking 160 would be ideal for my age and body. More important then the pounds I weigh is how I feel. I think when you are your age other things are a priority. Set your goal at the top of where you want to be, once you reach that you can always adjust with-out getting discouraged. Good Luck

Goal is less than 20% body fat. Scale weight does not matter.

I'm aiming for maintaining 135-140.

hey there....i'm 5'8 too and i'm aiming for 145lb

when I was a tad younger I weighted in around 145 and looked relatively small. I don't recall my exact measurements but my favourite dress was a size 4/27 inch waistline according to their website fit guide.

Two babies later and my body composition is vastly different. I hope to get back around 140 but I will likely reevaluate once I get closer to my goal.

I've always been between 130-140 but I hold a lot of fat on my thighs and hips. I've gotten down to 127 but still my body wasn't looking how I wanted. I believe that weight has little to do with it. One could be 140 with extra fat or 140 of muscle.

I will know my goal when I see my body composition change.

165. I'm currently 210, was 218. I lost weight a couple of years ago only to gain it back :-( I liked myself at 165 because it's something I think I can maintain. Plus, I look good as a size 10. I did make it down to 152 and it was hard to maintain for me as I am larger boned, plus boobs/butt were disappearing. I actually used to be 138 in high school, 118 in college (I know...) and approx. 125-145 before all hell broke loose and I started gaining like crazy. Good luck to everyone!

I'm 5'8" and 137 currently. I have a small frame, so I prefer to weigh 125-130. When I go below 125, I start to look unhealthy and just . . . not quite right--like my head doesn't fit my body.

I'm 27 and currently at 165. I've been as much as 180, and as low as 145 (back in college). My goal is 145, but every time I've lost weight (I'm terrible about gaining and losing the same 10 pounds) I seem to hit a wall at 150.

150 has looked like several different things on my body. When I was a dancer, 150 looked great - I had definition in my stomach, and a lot of muscle. Other times I've had a muffin top at 150. So it all depends on your body and muscle composition!

I am 5'8, and after reading this thread, I'm kind of astounded. When I was in the best shape of my life (two sport athlete and off-season workouts), I could not get my weight below 156. At that time (in 1985) that was a size 13, but my measurements were about 38-30-38. I played volleyball in spandex shorts and half-shirts and had no muffin top. Later in my mid-20s, I was stable at 175 and still had a flat stomach, then wearing a misses size 14. Measurements then were about 40-32-40. Since I have become an adult, I have NEVER been able to get my weight down past 170. I don't know what my bodyfat percentage was, but I could wear a swimsuit in public confidently.

For all of those people who think there is no such thing as small-boned or big-boned, I would just like to say that hip bones and ribcages DO come in different widths and circumferences. Perhaps the diameter of a thigh bone doesn't vary that much from the German plow hand to the petite Asian, but I truly believe people come in different shapes and sizes from the skeleton on out.

In any event, if you're still reading, I have been as heavy as 260, now at 203, and my goal is to get back to the measurements of 40-32-40. I have no idea what I will weigh when that happens, but I'm thinking somewhere between 160 and 170. And I'll be thrilled!

I'm shooting for 150 as well, but am planning on switching to more of a recomp process once I hit around that. So hope to start lifting heavy and get that BF% down very soon. Have unfortunately been stalled out around 155 for the last month.

Aiming for 160 which is where I felt my best.

If you have an opportunity to do some kind of body comp evaluation, I'd recommend it. It was SUPER helpful for me to set my goals realistically. I just did a BodPod evaluation at my gym, and at 23% body fat I would weigh about 156 and I'm only 5'6"...(I'm 195 now, so still a ways to go.)

It tells you basically what your muscles, bones, organs, etc weigh (mine was 130...college athlete, all the muscles are still there under the fat apparently.) So while guidelines say that anywhere from 125 - 165 is healthy for my height, realistically, I'm never going to make 125... Then you can account for the 20%-25% body fat that's healthy for a female to have and get a realistic attainable goal.

145-160. I have never been that low in weight so I have no idea what my body will actually look like. I would like to reserve some of my curves though and weight train 3x weekly which I think is helping to shape my body in the way I want.