5'10" and up ladies!

I'm a little over 5'10", currently 209 pounds and I wear size 8 (US) jeans.

In my case it is muscle/density, being large framed AND the fact that my torso is about twice as long as average. I wear tall shirts and short or petite pants.

I'm an inch away from being as cool as you girls but I can relate! I'm 5'9" and 150 pounds. And I absolutely hate the BMI chart for tall women. I think what the BMI chart considers overweight for tall women is absolutely incorrect. They should add a good 5 - 15 pounds.

I'm 6 1 female and currently 222-aiming for 200. According to a recent body composition assessment, everything that isn't fat weighs just over 150. So my goal would puy me around 25% body far. I am somewhat self-conscious of my weight- even at my skinnier at 17, I was still 170! However, it's a good thing because it generally means we can eat more

mravena wrote: »

I weigh sooooo much more than I look like I weigh. Tell me I'm not alone here? I'm 5'10" and 225 but wear size 10 clothes. Where is the weight???

Exact same thing with me, im 180 people guess me to be 150 ish

Now ladies, here is some grade A bollocks...

Now I have no interest in modelling any more, I did it when I was younger but found far better things to do with my time. Even so, I was curious as to what the industry said about your standard "tall gal" in terms of expected weight ranges. Now I was expecting that somehow today's industry guidance would be different for a 6ft model compared to days past, now that the media is clamping down on 'unhealthy' body images...

Well...

It turns out that a Modelling Advice website suggests that the upward range of an Editorial Model at 6 feet tall should be 128lbs! That's around 17.5 BMI give or take, depending which calculator you use, a whole 10 points below the recommended minimum. This isn't the only website I found saying that this is their 'guide' range for models.

Is this utterly disgusting or what?

Anyhoo... I then found a website that had a far better view of what an ideal weight is, taking into account both age and height.

*Stands on tiptoes* I'm ft 9 and a half, can I join in too?
I'm currently 179.6 lbs (down from 196) and roughly a UK 16, although I've not bought new jeans yet I'm having to belt my 18's tightly and they are looking baggy. I'm doing 5:2 and loving it.
Anything under 154 (11stone) and I start to look scrawny!

BunnyBomb wrote: »

I'm 6'2" and was recently weighed at the hospital by a nurse, prior to my regular checkup.

So this nurse... 4ft nothing, Scottish and solid may I add... she stares up at me after the scale spits out a reading. She has the oddest look on her face, like she's just caught a whiff of some faecal matter on her shoe.

She looks at me and says : "You're twelve stone." The 'stone' part has particular emphasis. She lingers on it more than the other words for some reason, then stares at me as if waiting for an answer.

I leave it a few moments to see if she qualifies her reaction in some way. She doesn't.

"Was that a question?" I ask.
"Well no dear, but that's quite a lot!" she gasps.

My under-5-foot grandmother used to always make comments about how much I was eating and how it was too much. I'm 6'1". Guess what? I'm going to eat more than her.

5'10 here. Currently 185 and size 12. I am most happy at 150 size 8. I will get the Rest!!