Need an external opinion

fteale
fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So, I think I weigh about 128 lbs. I don't own scales and don't weigh myself regularly, but that's what I weighed last time I checked, about 3 months ago. I am wearing a UK size 8 (26 inch jeans), but they are getting rather baggy on me. My waist is 27, hips 34, bust 28F.

So I would say I am fairly normal sized. My weight is probably about in the normal range, but I still look fat to myself. Other people say I look "skinny" but I don't see that at all.

Am I just wrong in the head? I feel like I have lost the ability to judge how I should look these days. I see people on here with much lower goal weights than me and think, well I must still be too big.

Edit my profile pic was from 3 months ago, and although I feel bigger than I did then, I think I must really be slightly smaller as the clothes that fitted then are baggy now.

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  • shagybear33
    shagybear33 Posts: 272
    I am the same way.... :(

    Everyone tells me how skinny I am but when I look in the mirror, all i see is the still flabby looking tummy etc....

    However, when I was a LOT heavier I looked back at some pictures of me in high school and thought, WOW what I wouldn't give to look like that again. I vowed to never say I look fat again once I reached my goal weight. But, I am doing it again.

    I think with time we will learn to be happy and see what others see. I'm hoping anyway.

    Congrats on your weight loss!!
  • ajbeans
    ajbeans Posts: 2,857 Member
    If you're feeling flabby but everyone's telling you that you're small, you probably need to work on some strength training to burn fat and gain muscle tone. That was my problem before I gained weight -- I thought I was fat, because I was out of shape, even though I was ridiculously thin. Had I realized then what the problem was, I could have saved myself a whole lot of self-loathing.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    So, I think I weigh about 128 lbs. I don't own scales and don't weigh myself regularly, but that's what I weighed last time I checked, about 3 months ago. I am wearing a UK size 8 (26 inch jeans), but they are getting rather baggy on me. My waist is 27, hips 34, bust 28F.

    So I would say I am fairly normal sized. My weight is probably about in the normal range, but I still look fat to myself. Other people say I look "skinny" but I don't see that at all.

    Am I just wrong in the head? I feel like I have lost the ability to judge how I should look these days. I see people on here with much lower goal weights than me and think, well I must still be too big.

    Edit my profile pic was from 3 months ago, and although I feel bigger than I did then, I think I must really be slightly smaller as the clothes that fitted then are baggy now.

    I think you look great. You can't compare yourself to other people's weight goals. Their bodies are different, different bone structures, height etc. A UK size 8 is a US size 6 which is a very decent healthy size unless you have tiny bone structure.

    Editing to add: What made you choose your target weight? There are calculators out there which will estimate an ideal weight range goal.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    If you're feeling flabby but everyone's telling you that you're small, you probably need to work on some strength training to burn fat and gain muscle tone. That was my problem before I gained weight -- I thought I was fat, because I was out of shape, even though I was ridiculously thin. Had I realized then what the problem was, I could have saved myself a whole lot of self-loathing.

    I am very fit and quite muscly so I don't think that is the problem.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    So, I think I weigh about 128 lbs. I don't own scales and don't weigh myself regularly, but that's what I weighed last time I checked, about 3 months ago. I am wearing a UK size 8 (26 inch jeans), but they are getting rather baggy on me. My waist is 27, hips 34, bust 28F.

    So I would say I am fairly normal sized. My weight is probably about in the normal range, but I still look fat to myself. Other people say I look "skinny" but I don't see that at all.

    Am I just wrong in the head? I feel like I have lost the ability to judge how I should look these days. I see people on here with much lower goal weights than me and think, well I must still be too big.

    Edit my profile pic was from 3 months ago, and although I feel bigger than I did then, I think I must really be slightly smaller as the clothes that fitted then are baggy now.

    I think you look great. You can't compare yourself to other people's weight goals. Their bodies are different, different bone structures, height etc. A UK size 8 is a US size 6 which is a very decent healthy size unless you have tiny bone structure.

    Editing to add: What made you choose your target weight? There are calculators out there which will estimate an ideal weight range goal.

    I find a UK 8 more like a US 2 or 3. My US jeans are a 2 and a 3. I have some 4s but they are too big. A US 6 is more like a UK 10 these days.

    I chose my goal weight of 130 lbs because it was in the middle of my healthy BMI range, but then lowered it to 125 because I didn't feel ready to stop losing weight yet. I am sort of half heartedly maintaining at the moment at 128, but in a dithery can't decide what to do next way.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    You are probably right on the sizes, I just went with an online chart, no personal experience. A US 2 or 4 is quite small in my opinion.
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