What is a good, healthy weight for a woman who is 5'2"?

I'm 5'2" and have been anywhere from about 140 to my current weight of slightly under 110. I'm small framed, almost no curves, and I like being on the slimmer side. That said, people thought I looked good when I was ten pounds heavier, too. As others mentioned, it's going to boil down to how you want to look, and how easy or hard that look is going to be to maintain. For me, I have to keep logging/measuring my food and exercising regularly to keep this shape. Good luck and congrats on your loss so far!

Thanks for all the replies (and friend requests!). I don't have expectations of looking like a super model. I do feel very flabby in the stomach area. That's pretty much the only area I'm unhappy about. I was doing well with cardio but I'm also a full time student and really just don't have much time these days. I've started looking online about lifting weights but there is a lot of info out there and I feel a little overwhelmed and intimidated by it. When I'm dressed, I look okay but with my shirt off, you can tell I could definitely stand to lose some fat in that area. Not that I go around not wearing a shirt, really. It just makes me unhappy when I see it. Are there any good exercises to do specifically for the stomach?

Are you sure it's not mostly skin from the babies? You're not really going to "diet" that away, so best just learn to love it.

What pants size are you?

I'm 5'2" as well, and when I've been below 110..... I cannot find pants. I'm currently a size 4 at 123. Did you know that many department store lines don't make clothing below a vanity sized 6? Going below 6 will cut your wardrobe choices a lot.. Going down to zero means that there is very, very little available ANYWHERE that is appropriate for a mature woman to wear.

I'm 5'2" and 113 lbs. I look pretty good with clothes on and all of my clothes fit me again. But I am still a bit flabby so I need to add lean muscle and cut down body fat %. Probably 110 would be my ideal, but I'm not doing anything drastic to get there bc I'm just not sure I can maintain that.

I agree, it may be that your belly has a lot of loose skin from the kids. Give your body time to adjust to your new size and try to change up your workout routine to add more resistance training. There's tons of stuff on YouTube.

I am 5'2 and my goal is 170. If I could get to 150, that would be just gravy. But I love gravy so probably 170!!!

I always averaged around 125 and felt great at that weight. I'm shooting to get back down there.

Kudos too you. That is awesome. As everyone else said... Incorporate weights if you are unhappy. But to go from 170 to 119 is amazing. You should be proud of yourself and just enjoy it .

Ab exercises will improve your core strength, which is a very healthy thing, but won't get rid of your pooch. Doesn't mean you shouldn't do them, but do them with the right expectations, which is that you'll still have to do something else to get rid of that last bit of fat if you want to show off your hard work. As a personal example, I'm above my ideal weight and have a bit of tummy fat. However, I could probably stop bullets with my abs. (I have an old spinal injury and I need to maintain excellent core strength to stabilize it; since "not being in excruciating pain" is a great motivator, I kept up with those even during a period of time when I let my other exercise slide and my diet went to hell.) There's a six-pack under there somewhere...but it's buried!

And if you're the birth-mama of those seven kids, wear your pooch proudly even while you try to reduce it. You earned it!

What size dress do you want to wear? If you fit in it you won.

There is such a wide range of healthy for short girls, it depends on how much muscle you carry and the size of your frame. I'm 5 feet even, and at 142 lbs I wear a size 8, sometimes a 6 depending on cut. I look my best at about 130 and a size 6/4, below that my body starts to rebel and I get a little pinched in and weird looking. All of the charts say I'm "supposed" to weight something like 95-125 pounds. Whatever.

There's so much troof in this post; I luff it.

Congrats on your weight loss and healthier lifestyle. I, honestly, think your current weight is ideal for the stature/frame that you have described.

Not to sound harsh, but you have expressed that you were very unhappy with the way you perceived yourself in the past and now that you have met and even exceeded your goals, you are still unsatisfied. Rather than this being a weight issue, I think you are suffering from an image issue.

Unfortunately, no toning or weight loss can fix this. You may need to speak with someone professional on the issues you harbor inside.

I think you have to feel comfortable you can maintain a lower weight.

I do have a small frame. This may be a stupid question, but how do I focus on fat loss instead of just weight loss? I do have some weights here but I don't really know what to do with them. Honestly, I'm mostly happy with my body at this point. It's just that my stomach is still bothering me. And yes, I have 7 kids. Life is crazy here.

look into stronglifts 5x5 or similar.... and eat at a *small* deficit...

if you have a small frame then you may end up losing weight before you look the way you want... if you have a medium frame then you may find you need to gain some muscle as well as losing fat (not concurrently, you'd do a cut then a bulk to achieve that). I think at your weight you don't have a large frame. And even if you have a small frame doing a bulk cycle may help as well, you just won't put on so much weight in the process.

BMI charts don't really help people to find their ideal weight. It gives you a range that covers most of the population (but still there will be a few people who are outside that range at a healthy body fat percentage) but they don't tell you where in that range you as an individual should be, because they don't take frame size into account, and so they won't really help you with this question - best thing is to start lifting, eat at a small deficit and see how it goes... for bulking it's exactly the same but you eat at a small surplus for muscle gains. If you alternate between cutting and bulking, you'll see how your body responds. You need to focus on body fat percentage and how you look in the mirror now, rather than the scale and the BMI charts.