Your ideal weight might make you look ill ?

When I started at 255 pounds my goal weight was 200 pounds, I am 5'9. Now I have hit 170-ish, a weight I haven't seen since before the 10th grade. It's pretty amazing how what you think is your goal weight may not be where you settle. Some say I am too skinny but I think their mental image of healthy has gotten fatter over the years. I always thought that the generic BMI calculator on here was retarded and completely in left field on it's healthy range for me. Actually, finally there so maybe my mind didn't have it right either. I don't know what my current weight makes me look like to others but I know I like it and I feel great. Everyone is different, I am sure you have heard that plenty of times. Just slowly lose and find a weight that is easy to maintain, no matter where that falls on your ideal scale.

I have in the past got down to an ideal weight and people have said I look ill but I think I look lean and feel alot better, I would like to get there again as I don't really care what they say as it is my body and IF and only IF my doctor says I need to increase my weight then I will, till then ill keep doing what I am.

At 5'7, I can go to 120lb without being underweight, but anything less than 130lb and I start looking, as my friends put it, like a Bratz doll!

I think it depends on your make up, but I would rather weigh a little more and look healthy, not skinny.

My healthy weight range is from 107-144.

At 107, I look sick, hell even at 115 people have asked if I am "eating enough". For myself personally a good healthy and attractive weight is anywhere from 125-130lbs. I know other people my height that look chubby at that weight.

It's a very individual thing, but to answer your original question, yes the lower end of the "ideal weight" range makes me look ill, and the higher end makes me feel uncomfortable in my own skin.

For myself personally a good healthy and attractive weight is anywhere from 125-130lbs. I know other people my height that look chubby at that weight.

It's a very individual thing, but to answer your original question, yes the lower end of the "ideal weight" range makes me look ill, and the higher end makes me feel uncomfortable in my own skin.

^ This!

This becomes more true as we get older. My ideal weight is probably around 120. I am 27 pounds over that. If I were to get down to 120 I am sure that I would look horrible.

My ideal weight according to the doctors' chart is around 175. Now, even when I was in high school and a competitive swimmer in great shape, I weighed between 185 and 190. I can't imagine how sickly I'd look if I weighed any less than that. I've set a goal of 215 for now because I'd much rather have an attainable goal to reach first, then try to get below 200, thought I've had people tell me at this point, they're not sure how good I'd look below 200.

I'm actually the other way around, I'm righttt at the bottom of my ideal weight range (5'7 and 120ish lbs), but I don't look at all sickly skinny. I've never had anyone tell me I look too skinny. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that I'm a caucasian, with a caucasian build, living in Asia and surrounded by very petite Asian women, so compared to them I am still relatively large. To be honest, I would even prefer to go to a lower weight purely for vanity, but am not because I'm close to the bottom of the healthy weight range

I have been steadily gaining for many many years in fact i dont tell how much i want to lose by weight but by age. and i want to be the weight i was when i was 20 which was 175-185 i could go lower but i think that is my goal wieight.

that is quite a bit above my "ideal" weight, but it is ideal for me. personally i cant imagine being that skinny. (oh isnt perception a wonderful thing)

In order to look 'healthy' I need to be somewhere around 135 - 140 however I can get to about 180 before I start looking "fat". Most calculations I have seen say I should weigh less but having seen it on me I can give a very hearty "NO". I think it's different for everyone because there aren't many people around who have the same build / bone structure as I do.

I have a very non-typical bone structure for a woman, I'm a rectangle, my under bust, hips and waist are very close in size and always have been, I have wide shoulders and a large bust. Fat collects on me in a very even manner and disperses kind of like a blanket instead of collecting anywhere in large amounts - of course now that I'm into the 200 range it is accumulating more around the front (almost like a beer belly). I'm shaped more like a man than a woman but at least I'm evenly proportioned!

In my adult years I have weighed everywhere from about 130 (at my smallest ) to 235 (at my heaviest) so I have a unique perspective in that I have seen a big range of weights on my frame. At 130, I looked like a skeleton, my face was hollowed out and my legs looked like sticks - I didn't realize how sick I looked.

My ideal weight is 155 (Female @ 5'11). I'm 145 right now and I think I over did it. At 145 and 5'11 I'm in a 4/6 which I think is too small for my frame and height. My friends tell me I'm bony and I'm losing my curves. I'm trying to get a few pounds back on and then maintain, but it's not as easy as it sounds!

I've never been near my so-called 'ideal' weight, according to the BMI, but I do know that my mother, with whom I share an unusually large build, was extremely skinny in her late teens and twenties, and still weighed 20-30lbs more than her so called 'ideal'. Looking at the photos from that period, she looks frail and too thin for her frame. BMI is meant to measure populations, not individuals. It deals in averages. Anyone who is outside those averages is unlikely to fit neatly into the box.

My "ideal weight" is between 7.5lb and 9.13lb I however will not even be trying to get anywhere near this weight!!

I am aiming to get to around 13.7 - 14 stone. I am a very curvy girl - I have an hourglass figure and for me personally when I weighed around 12 stone I looked awful. Even on the very few pictures i have from that time i feel i look ill.

Its each to their own though and good luck with everyone trying to reach their target weights

My BMI range for my height is 102-128 (I'm only 5'0''). When I started at 161 lbs, my goal was 128 lbs so that I would be considered "healthy". I also thought anything under 120 would look terrible on me. But it's funny how you're perception changes. I hit the 128 and then the 120 and now I'm going for 115 and maybe even keep going after that.

My lean body mass is 117 lbs....I'm 5'2'' if I got to the VERY top of my "ideal weight" at 136, I'll be about 13% BF (assuming no muscle loss).