Is anyone on maintenance that isn't even that skinny?

Aiming at healthy not skinny....

Life is to be relished !

Cake and bike riding are both great.

Curves are fine.

Obsessing about having a skinny body (which some sadly do) does not strike me as an attractive goal and at times it is probably not an attractive personality trait either...

So for me I aim to get back (gently) to the healthy 150 or so I was before I got ill...and maintain at that.

(5' 7" female.)

After losing get 90ish pounds, I've decided that I'm in maintenance. I'm 5'6 and bounce between 156-159 and I'm ok with that. I'm 58 years old and it's just too damn hard to go much lower and be able to stay there. If I hit 160, I crack down until I lose a few pounds, I don't want to go any higher than 160.

One of my co-workers asked me if it was okay to tell me that I looked skinny...she had heard that it was offensive to some people! I told her that I appreciated that she noticed I had lost weight, and it was okay. I also said that since I wasn't actually skinny ( 5'5" and 156#) I considered myself to be "less large" lol. Most of my co-workers have said either nothing or that I "looked great" and I'm okay with that, too. I am still losing, but I'm not sure how much more I can lose and still be comfortable doing a maintenance diet. We'll see. I'm pretty okay with where I am now, but there is part of me that says I have to be officially out of the "overweight" category...

I'm going to be quite a bit heavier when I go into near maintenance mode. I'm currently 156 lbs and when I get to 149 (about 9lbs away from a "normal" weight range) I plan to go close to maintenance and work on lifting primarily whereas my primary exercise now is cadio-based.
As of right now, my "goal" is just to land in a healthy weight range. At 5'3, that's anywhere between 105-140. Other than that, all of my goals are fitness-related instead of weight-related. I find that helps my mental health at the very least

lithezebra wrote: »

I don't think it's physically possible for me to have skinny legs. They're thick, even when my body fat is below 18%. I'm seeing where my weight settles out if I eat 1500 calories a day.

Ditto @lithezebra my upper is now so lean you can see my veins over biceps, but my legs are still quite the chunky monkeys! Skinny will never refer to me!