5 foot and under club :)

Me!

Like you, 4'11 on a good day! I'm around 130 right now and want to be around 115 if possible. I think the worse part about being short is the fact that it's so noticeable when you gain weight!

I'm 5 foot and went from 134 to 123 recently. I would like to be around 110-115. It is SO hard to lose weight at this height. I have been working my *kitten* off for quite some time and the weight is coming off very very slowly. When I gain 5 lbs it is super noticeable. The lowest I have been as an adult is 109 and I didn't look teeny tiny. I wish I was just a few inches taller!!

I'm 5 foot 1 and have a long way to go to get near a target ....I will get there.....

I think at your age 110-120 is reasonable. I am 4'11" but 57years old. I weighed 102lbs when I got pregnant at 25 years old. For me at my age I am shooting for 125-130 as a final goal, but I've been losing inches more than weight lately and firming the muscles. Bottom line is that you have to do what makes you comfortable. Be patient, because if you lose the weight the correct way, it takes time. Good luck!!!!!

Me too 5'1" on a good day....Seems I have been fighting my weight all my life. Never been a skinny minny. I agee with you though, the charts do give us "little girls" much wiggle room (so to speak) I am very comfortable at 140-150, and I actually hope to be there
again. Menopause did a number on me, and I am trying to turn the tables on it ! It can be done, if I can dig deep and find the patience. Wishing you all happy success! Don't forget to praise yourself for the little success's along the way. It's a journey

I'm 4'10, started at 190 and my goal is 110 depending on how I look. I may increase it to 120 because I'm very curvy and have large breasts. Those alone should count for at least 10lbs :laugh: . I'm glad I found this group!

I'm 5'0 and I started at 170 too!

You'll be surprised how quickly your goals will change. I never in a million years thought I'd be aiming for 102lbs (it honestly sounded sick to me!) but even when I was down to 109 back in November I STILL had plenty of belly chub. It's a loooooooooong journey for us shorties

Hi. I'm 5'0" and currently at 135. My goal is 118 (which is "normal" but has a lot of room to go down supposedly). Yeah, I feel like it's harder to maintain a good weight because, at our height, we just have to weigh less. My biggest strategy is muscle! At 118 (or even 125) and 22-25% body fat, I look really good, and I can eat more than if I don't build the muscle.

Feel free to send a friend request my way :happy:

On the other hand, when I tell one of my (tall) friends that I want to be 118 and back into size 4, they act like I'm anorexic or something. I hear the "that's tiny!" all the time ... maybe it is, except that, heigh-wize, I AM tiny, so it really isn't that unreasonable a goal for me.
Can't win for losing, can we :grumble: :laugh:

I'm approximately 4'10" 150 right now. I was about 180 back in 2002. Started working out got down to 150 ish. Sat on that felt good but then I saw a picture, recalled "still fat" do something else. In 2005 found this great gym, my son had a gym down stairs and we had all the great equipment but the big bonus was Les Mills programs. Fell in love with all of them. Toned a lot gained muscle tone, lost inches and felt good, still needed more. Read book and followed to a "T". Body for life for women. Started to keep a long of what I ate, every sugar, fat, cal. I also bumped up exercise to two cardios or one cardio class and elliptical or a cardio and Les Mills body pump, it started to come off first just a lb. a week, then two lbs...(got to 128-felt great, got tons of comments and stayed there for about 5 years, since then working and practically single mom, forgot i need to move to keep off weight). I'm starting that program again. Ohhh, I cut my sugar back to 30 grams a day, stayed away from pastas and white bread and rice...I'm not sure what help me the most...good luck.

On the other hand, when I tell one of my (tall) friends that I want to be 118 and back into size 4, they act like I'm anorexic or something. I hear the "that's tiny!" all the time ... maybe it is, except that, heigh-wize, I AM tiny, so it really isn't that unreasonable a goal for me.
Can't win for losing, can we :grumble: :laugh:

Amen!
100lbs is perfectly reasonable for us shorties.

I'm just over 5ft in socks, in the morning (before the vertebrae have time to compress...), and also think that BMI doesn't work too well at our end of the height scale - nor for athletes, bodybuilders, really tall people, etc.
I have been lighter and still not felt as healthy as I am now. Although currently 17 weeks pregnant, so all calcualtions tend to go out the window!
I train for strength and only measure weight as a step in calculating body fat % - which is a much more accurate indicator of "health" than just highly variable numbers on a scale

Great thread to start!

Hello there!

I'm 5' tall, I agree with the rest of you that gaining 5 pounds is noticable on people as short as we are, and we look heavier at smaller weights, which makes sense! That doesn't mean it's not frustrating!

My goal is 110, but a muscular 110. If I have to be 115 and be muscular, I'm cool with that. I started out at 150 in August, got down to 135 and joined MFP, and am now 126 according to my last weigh-in a couple of weeks ago. I know my body, though, and I know weight loss is going to stall out at 120. My body likes it there, but I don't like to weigh 120. I want my "heavy" to be 115.

5"1 here!! My heaviest was 143 EEKK! and I reached my first goal of 125 (actually 124.6) I am thinking I would like to go down to 120 and be more toned then I am now!! Everyone seems to notice a couple lb gain but not many have noticed I have lost almost 20 lbs =/