Women around 5’6, what is your goal weight?

aa2300 wrote: »

Not even sure what’s considered healthy or ideal. Also do you have an ideal size you’d like to be?

I am 5'6 I have been told 130-140 is ideal. I feel that is to small for me. So I am going for 150-160 and go from there. I was pretty happy with 175 a while back ago. So guess its on what you prefer to look like in the end. Go with what makes you happy not what they say you are supposed to weigh we are all built differently.

What's right for an individual is going to vary based on muscularity, skeletal configuration (like width of pelvic bones, shoulders), breast size for women, cultural appearance preferences, individual appearance preferences, and more. (That's one reason the BMI range is so wide, for any given height.)

I'm built fairly narrowly, always joke that I'm built more like a 14-year-old boy than a 64-year-old woman , and am post-bilateral-mastectomy (no reconstruction), so something toward the lower end of the BMI range is better for me personally, even though I'm not completely devoid of muscle.

Right now, at 5'5", I'm about 129 pounds (BMI 21-point-something), and (in year 4+ of maintenance) currently working at ultra-slowly losing a few pounds. Somewhere 120-125 would be good, but I'm not geeked about details, and wouldn't be miserable to stay here. (I hit 116 a few years back when I first lost weight, overshooting my goal. That was a little too thin. Over the past few years, I let myself drift up into the 130s, but have been drifting back down again on purpose since about October 2019 - this is after being obese most of my adult life, until 2015).

I hope you realize that you don't need to know your ultimate goal weight up front? MFP asks for it in your profile, but that's so it can show you progress messages and such. It has no effect on the calorie goal MFP will estimate for you. The weight loss process and calorie goal are the same no matter what goal weight you choose, the only difference is when you'd stop trying to lose. It's fine to make a guess now at goal weight, and adjust it as you get closer, when it'll be easy to tell what your actual goal should be. (I think I changed my mind 3 times or so, on the way down!).

Best wishes!

I'm between 5'6" and 5'7". It seems to depend on the day. Many years ago, I told my doctor I'd like to get back to about 135 (my weight in HS when I thought I was really fat). He told me that with the changes my body's gone through over the years, I should probably be happy with around 150. I reached that once. about 30 years ago. And I was happy there. I looked good. I felt good. So this time, I'm aiming for 160 and will adjust once I reach that and see how things are going.

I am 5'6" and I weight 275 now. I would love to be 100 pounds lighter. I think with my body type I would be really happy at 175. That is just me personally. I feel like that would be healthy - Definitely healthier than I am now,...
If I can lose more then that's even better !

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