For females 5'7-5'8

Wow, my lbm is around 120! I'm 5'7". Aiming for about 147.

I have been that low but only when I was anorexic.

I am 5'8'' and now at roughly 138 lbs (62,5 kg). I'd love to go down to 125 lbs but I'm not sure if this is maintainable for me. Even at my current weight people I talk to doubt that I'm above 130, I've got quite a thigh gap and my ribs and hip bones are sticking out. It all comes down to frame size in my opinion. I am really large framed so my bones are showing even at a higher weight.
I like the skinny look though and would like to go lower and just see how it looks.
The skinniest I've ever been was when I was 13 (5'6.5'' at that time), and at 103 lbs after losing 25 lbs in a very short time due to a very restrictive diet. Don't want to go back to that weight, that's for sure.

Do any of you happen to weigh less than what is minimum for the height bracket? For example, do any of you weight 110-120? 120-128? I'd just like to hear about your overall health and if you are comfortable/happy with your size/body?

Pictures are welcome!

I've been in all those brackets. I've felt fine in all of them. I think how you feel really depends more on your health and fitness then it does your weight. For example if you're active and 130 vs a sedentary 120, you're going to feel better at 130. Here are some examples of my weight:
120, sedentary:

starting to get active, 120:

Then I took up weight lifting, active, 130:


Before when I was running to lose weight before I started lifting (still at 130):

notice my flabby *kitten*

vs the lifting *kitten* at the same weight

130lb not lifting vs 130lb lifting:


For face comparison:
140 sedentary:

130 now:

I'm currently 135 and just under 5"8 tall.

Happy to see this topic being talked about! I am 5'7" and currently weigh about 133, which was my original goal, down from 200 after my fifth daughter was born. I weighed 133 in college and felt great about it, so I thought I would again. Instead, this time at this weight (maybe since having five babies) my body has changed and I feel "skinny fat." So as a result, I have since lowered my new goal down to 122, which is based off of the bottom of the "normal" or "healthy" weight range chart for my height and my small frame. However, since joining MFP, I have been inspired by the females who lift, and CoderGal's pics are a perfect example. SO, I'll let you know as I get closer, but I want to change my body more than I want to change the number I'm seeing on the scale...but like everything it's a process. Haven't started lifting yet, and still trying to drop down to my new goal weight in order to lose some more of the excess fat.

Thanks for your kind words guys.

I don't lift nearly as much as the people who inspire me, who have had dramatic dramatic changes. The bolded part above is exactly how I felt before. Except for instead of babies I told people I must be 'old'. I thought it was a valid excuse before. I'm softer because I'm older. I'm saggier because I"m older. 'Butt' now I probably have a better shaped butt then I did as a teen. I also have a flatter stomach. And looking at some of the females in their 40s-50s here that have better bodies then I do (who use to be obese), I know exactly why I didn't feel the same. Particularly thinking about the past. I use to move a lot more in the past (ie dancing 9 times a week), hence I had a better body then compared to when I was older and lost weight to be the same weight...because I didn't move as much, so things weren't as firm. Yes, metabolisms slow. But not as much as many of us think. We can have better bodies then in our teens if we try. The problem is, finding the time to do so! And there's places to 'squat' some of it in without much effort, even if we can't do as much as we'd optimally like. Always time to do a pull up before I leave the house since I have a bar in the entrance lol. And for a few pushups before I pee for example. Unless public washroom...then ew.

Also I'd mention there is such thing as loose skin and the like. Particularly after babies. But what a lot of people do not realize is weight does not come off the same way it is put on. And after training a lot of that 'loose' looking skin turns out to be fat and diminishes after training. My butt use to droop over itself. Now it doesn't (and you can tell by multiple angles in the other pics as well).



Another thing that often happens is your pant size goes up...not because you're getting bigger...but because fat is easily squished into jeans. Perky muscular bums, not so much. Even though inches went down. It confuses many.