Agree with the rest. When I was 24, literally 9 months pregnant, checking into the hospital to have my daughter, I weighed exactly 200 pounds. I got below that slightly a couple years after she was born, doing Atkins, Slimfast, and Weight Watchers sort of one after I gave up on the other.

In high school, I was a size 8. When I got pregnant with my daughter, I was a size 16/18.

Okay, off topic question - but how is it that BMI numbers never take into account boob size? I mean this seriously. I did a weird displacement thing once and discovered that my breasts are close to the size of a human head and weight around 10 pounds each. So does this mean if I get within 20 pounds of those random @$$ BMI numbers, I can say I'm at goal, because I can subtract the value of my chest? (And at having lost 70-some odd pounds AND having breastfed for over a year, I find that I have what the industry calls shallow breasts, where the weight of them settles out in a bra, making me miserably difficult to fit!!)

So, I really don't have a goal weight. I am 38, 5'4" tall (162.56 cm per my medical chart). My heaviest weight was recorded at 319, though I actually looked heavier at 280, due to horrible swelling and inflammation (the long story there - but my profile picture comparison thing is really only a 30 pound difference or so. It's scary!). I'm currently down to 245 and change...

I have loose goals of:
239 pounds - moves me out of the Morbidly Obese category
199 pounds - because ONE-derland
175-180 pounds - because it seems reasonable
Final goal, TBD as I go along... I want to be able to shop in the women's section. Period. If that is at 195, then awesome. if that is 160, but I look healthy and maintain my beloved curves, that works too...

140 is the upper range of a "healthy BMI," which I don't even care about because my goal is to be more muscular. As long as I feel good, I have full healthy blood work results, and I maintain my womanly curves, that number on the scale is arbitrary anyway, so I'm just rolling with reevaluating as I go...because I have no perspective on a realistic adult weight for having been through childbirth and all that... Having no point of reference forces all goals to be fluid, since "official" goal crap is arbitrary anyway.

Did you realize almost all competitive body builders would get the BMI warning simply due to weight and ratios? I think a LBM goal system would be more appropriate. A true, measured body fat number...

I laughed at the boob thing. If I got to my goal weight and my boobs stayed as relatively large as they are now (32G at a size UK 12-14, BMI 27ish) I would be the shape of a cartoon - skin and bones with huge boobs. I'll see when I get there - 20lbs to go I guess - but I may settle for a slightly higher weight if it looks good on me. I'm prepared to settle with the high end of the BMI range for my height - got almost there a couple of years back and looked great - people were telling me not to lose any more.

That's really interesting. Women are so down on themselves...