tall girl problems

I'm 6'2" as well. Not @ goal weight yet but I feel your pain!

Funnily enough I Googled this very thing recently as I felt sure that the BMI calculation was unfair on taller people (I am 6ft tall) as we can take up more space purely by virtue of being taller, not necessarily fatter. The top few results are from studies in 2013 that suggest a new equation which has been tweaked to be fairer on taller people. Apparently a taller person's BMI could go down by 1 or 2 points with this new equation; unfortunately shorter people would gain points. You can find a calculator on Google for this new equation but I don't have the link right now. When I tried it out of curiosity my BMI went down by 2 points!

BMI is a bit unreliable for many reasons, including being muscular, so I just use it as a rough guide. Most athletes are in the obese category of the BMI scale due to muscle so I wouldn't worry about it if you're in shape! I tend to go more on how I look and feel than the actual BMI number.

BMI is an awful measurement of fitness/health.

BMI is not very accurate. I'm actually kind of short, but very broad in the chest and shoulders. My BMI shows me as obese. My doctor has told me I'm overweight, but not obese. Also, Google Ronnie Coleman BMI.

I used to HATE being tall but now I love it! I would actually love to be an inch or two taller hehe. BMI is baloney. Don't pay attention to it. If you're at a healthy BF% that stupid BMI chart doesn't matter.

Don't worry about weight, I am 6'8" and a bit muscular (still overweight) and I'm at 290 pounds!!! Tall people definitely feel like we have to hide our real weight because people tend to look at us as bigger than we are when we tell them the specific number. It must be harder being a woman... just remember, tall women are beautiful and bigger numbers look good when you are lean and muscular lol!!!

what gets me is that at size 14 I'm about 180 (5'10") a little chuckier than I like but I was okay. My sister who is 5'1" is a size 14 and huge... which then makes me feel huge. I'm currently over 200 and in 16/18 and trying to loose this 3 yr old baby weight I feel best in about a size 10/12 or 160ish lbs

I'm 5'9" and always had shorter friends. So I always compared myself to them. I needed to weigh the same and fit into the same size clothes. Always hated when friends would swap clothes and I couldn't. I always had a body image issue. I even have a few friends who are also 5'8"-5'10" and weigh less than me. It is very aggravating. However, I am starting to come to the realization that I will never be 130lbs (I was actually 130 long long ago and looked sickly). I know I have a thicker more muscular frame. But this can be difficult.

As for BMI...throw that out the window. BMI does not account for muscle, genetics, and more!! Its a guideline and nothing more!!

We are all different and we all have different body styles.

Why worry about a artifical number for weight? No (respectful) man will ask you your weight. Worry about a Dress size. So what if you rock a size 6 but wiegh 50lbs more than an lady who wears a size 10.

Weight and goal weight is an antiquated notion. Stop giving it power.

/off my soapbox

I'm only 5'6" but I agree that the bmi scale is just a downer. Different people look better at different weights. When I was in high school, I weighed 180 pounds (bmi says overweight) and it looked good on me. I had very little fat. Different people just hold their weight differently. My personal opinion is that not everyone looks good as a size 0.. My head is wayy too big for that lol

Yeah, BMI isn't perfect by any means. I was way over mine when I was an athlete in high school and uni but because I knew I was in great shape it didn't really bother me. Still, sometimes it makes a positive mental difference just to see that you're within the healthy range instead of overweight. Or that you're closer. I know it does for me!

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html

That revised calculator provides a range of 152-205 for OP's height of 6'2. So the height adjustment adds an extra 10 lbs on the high end.

Hey - do you all play basketball????? JK. I'm 5'11" and just like reading all the tall girl stuff. I joke that I'd be Trumping if I had a dollar for everytime some stranger has looked me up and down and asked me if I play(ed) basketball.

Lol! At 6'2", I'd be rich if I even had a NICKEL for every time someone's asked me that. I was a *kitten* in middle school (been this height since age 12) and used to reply with "NO... do you play miniature golf?" when asked that.

I'm from NY and went to Tennessee once with a friend's family when I was 15 and I don't know if it was a Tennessee thing, or if I just looked taller at that time, but I swear every single old lady, soccer mom, creepy guy, and small child had to make a comment how "it must sure be nice to be real nice and tall like that"..... :noway:

5'11"? 6'2"? Hell, I'm 5'9" and got asked all the time if I played basketball (to be fair, in jr/sr high school, I actually did, but that's beside the point).

OP - don't worry about the number on the scale so much, besides as a way to calculate body fat and one of many data points for progress to being healthier. Don't worry too much about clothing sizes, either. They have pretty much no basis in reality (fun fact - they tried to size women's clothes similarly to men's, but found there were far too many variables to result in any kind of sane description of the measurements).

Instead, look at other things -

Is your body fat percentage in a healthy range? (It's okay if it's not there yet, that's what many of us are working toward.)
Do you do well at your favorite physical activity, and are you improving? (ie - are your running times getting faster, or are you running farther? Is your bench press 1-rep max higher than it was last month, and is it a respectable weight for your size? Can you do a pull-up, or more than one? Can you take the stairs two at a time?)
Can you do physical things like moving furniture without requiring help because it's too heavy? (Too bulky for one person is a different matter and doesn't count.)
Can you rock a sexy outfit and be confident in it?
Do you like how you look, even in your underwear? (Or, do you at least like how you're progressing toward your goal physique, even if you're not fond of how you look currently?)

Another thing you can do is figure out what your individual ideal weight would be. You can do this by calculating your current body fat percentage, then calculating what your weight would be if you had about 20% body fat. Then, it's a matter of reprogramming your reaction to that number, and remembering that, for you, that's a good number, even if that number on your 5'3" friend would be morbidly obese. You're not 5'3". The weight of your bones alone would probably make your 5'3" friend obese. That way, you can at least work to change your relationship with then number on the scale, so that you can look at it and see it more as a data point or a path to your healthy weight, regardless of what that number is.