5'9 goal weight?

150ish

Mine is 195. I'm a little over 5'9" but also am just built pretty big. I'm very heavy now and don't look nearly as big as what the scale shows. So for right now it's set at 195 but we'll see what happens as I get closer.

It depends so much on muscle mass. When I am doing a lot of strength training, I look great at 150-155. I haven't been able to exercise much over the last year due to illness, and now 150 is quite doughy on me. I'm shooting for 135 until I can get back into the gym, then I'd like to try for 145-150. I'm 5'9.

I have an MFP friend who is 5'8" and 165 and looks amazing. Another woman at my gym is 5'8" and 120 and also looks fantastic. They are both very strong and active, and appear to be quite healthy.

I'm 5'9" and felt great at 160 about 10 years ago (I was pretty active and muscular). But after two kids, I am wondering if 160 will look/feel the same. That's my goal weight now, but I may need to revise. I'm 180 in my profile pic.

I'm 5'10 and my original goal was 160. Once I got there I changed it to 150. I'm at 155 now so almost there!

I'm 5'8 and my goal was 170, then 150 and now I'm at 135-140 maintaining.

Hi, 5'9", aimed for 161 (2 lbs to go!). Happy with dress size and how I look in clothes right now. I also thought I looked great at 190 though and so did a lot of my friends!

To set my goal originally, I calculated the upper limit of my healthy BMI and subtracted 7 lbs so that I didn't leap back into being overweight after a few slices of pizza at the weekend. Arbitrary, but I knew I needed to lose weight and that seemed as good a goal weight as any. I hadn't paid attention to my weight in the past, so I had no idea at what previous weight I had felt most attractive and healthy.

My heart says I ultimately want to get under 160, but I just started increasing my calories towards maintenance which I am really enjoying. I am also running more now and started strength training, so I am too hungry to keep going with a bigger deficit! Lastly, everyone I know is freaking out about how thin I am (at BMI 24, which is something I won't get started on here), so I think I might maintain this weight for a while and see where strength training takes me, before I think about whether I want to lose anymore.

It's really interesting to me how people set their goals- I would have had no idea how much to lose or when to stop if I hadn't hooked it around BMI.

I'm 5'10, and have lost 25lbs so far. My goal weight is between 135-140. It's in the healthy weight range for height, and I would only do healthy things to get there, but I do worry people will be concerned if I lose 70lbs (even over the course of a year). Friends are already starting to tell me I look great and should just stop (180lbs). I take it as a compliment, but it does bother me that I can't really tell anyone that I want to lose 45 more pounds because I know they'd be worried. (I do think it is sort of funny because the friends that say this are thin.) Had anyone else experienced this with their goal weight?

I'm 5'8" and happy at 145.

vypressme wrote: »

I'm 5'10" and my realistic goal weight used to be 165 lbs, but in dreamland I wanted to be at my highschool weight of 138.

The only problem was that my real highschool weight was 152, I just remembered it wrongly because I FELT skinny.

I finally got down to 140, stopped there when my friends and relatives were getting a little concerned. Now I'm at a cool 154 and my jeans from highschool are too big around the waist. Reason? Body comp...it's not just the weight that matters.

I hear ya re: high school weight! I think I bottomed out at 110 pounds at age 16 (5'8). Good lord.

5'8 and am aiming for between 130 and 135, though honestly, as long as i reach a point where i feel freat and look great, i'll care less about the scale. i just know from past experiences i'm happiest in the 130s.

5'8 and my comfy weight is 130
If i get to 128 people act as if Im starving.....Im not a size 0 (size 6)
I guess everyone holds it/wears it differently..you need to do what is comfy for you

kim

I'm 5'11 and 145. When I was in senior high school I was 125 and looked sickly thin but I ate all the time and lots of junk food back then!! My highest was 165 after having my babies and while I wasn't considered overweight at that weight I certainly had a lot of squishy bits and I was not happy

You might want to look a little less at the scale and a bit more at body fat percentage:
and it depends on your age...
http://www.builtlean.com/2010/08/03/ideal-body-fat-percentage-chart/
http://www.builtlean.com/2012/09/24/body-fat-percentage-men-women/
Here's a good overview.
I'm 5'8' small framed (by elbow epicondyle measurements) and 134 lbs.