I have my goal at 140, but I want to see how I look at 150 to see if I want to go smaller. I am a classic pear shape and my lower half is riduculous. I can wear medium or small shirts but am a firm size 14 on my bottom half. I also have a large frame, which doesn't help me in the slightest because, even at my smallest (going to say low 160s) I was still much larger than my friends who were 10 or 20 pounds heavier than me. Darn my genetics. All of my ancestors were farmers! >.<

Dhani

I am 5'8 and my goal weight is 145lbs. I am currently 190lbs and I plan to lose 45 more pounds. I was 145 when I graduated high school and I was in great shape.

I've tenitively set my goal weight at 155 as it seems a safe distance under the top end of the healthy range, so that my fluctuations don't send me in and out of the overweight catagory. But I really don't have a freakin clue. I haven't been under 200 since I was 15 (and more like 5'6 1/2). So I figure I'll feel it out when I get there. Maybe I can lose more, maybe 155 is too low?

My goal weight is 141, because (this is maybe a little weird?) I had a trainer once whose BMI was 21.7 and I thought she was the fittest, most fantastic-looking person, and I want to know what I would look like at that BMI--which works out, with my height and frame, to 141-ish.

But I've also had the number "148" in my head for a long time--it's what my mother, who's similarly proportioned to me, weighed when she was married and she looked unbelievable--still very curvy (we're a chesty family!), just... wonderfully *healthy*.

Now, at ten pounds over that upper goal--158--I definitely still have some fat I want to lose in my thighs, calves, and belly, especially. Being tall is good, though, right? We look *longer* with our fat; I think I look fairly lanky in my size 10 jeans (which slim my thighs somewhat). I've changed sizes only every twenty pounds or so, thus far; so I'm hoping for a classic size 8 to cap off the journey in the 140s.

It's crazy how different our sizes are at similar weights and heights. I'm 5' 8.5" to 5'9" as well....and at around 140 I wear a size 2 or 4 in jeans and a small shirt.

You most likely have a small frame if you are wearing sizes that small! : )

Dhani

I'm 5'7" and My goal is 135, but I've got a very odd build. I'm early twenties and three years ago I was at my lowest weight at 125. That still didn't look too thin on my because I have broad shoulders and a large chest (even at that weight I was a 34DD and wearing size medium shirts). I think it just depends on how you carry your weight. Right now I'm 165 and I've polled random people about how much they think I weigh and they've all said higher than that.

My goal is 20% body fat or a smidgen under. Here's a link to calculate one's body fat:

http://www.linear-software.com/online.html

But have up tried to read those calipers they are really hard to read those little lines ans figure them out?

I'm at 148 now, and it's hard to lose because I think my shape is pretty nice, overall (at a little over 5'7"). Except that I'm a true hourglass and carry weight in my arms and legs, which makes me want to get down to 140/135 so I can look "skinny" in normal, not fitting tight around the waist clothes! But I think 140-150 is a great weight for those around our height!

I've realized that now, but forEVER my "excuse" for being bigger was that I could NEVER be thin because I was "big boned." I didn't try to lose weight because there "was no reason because I'm big boned."

Who woulda thunk it?

And now NOBODY believes I weigh 140 at all. I'm about to buy a big purse and stick a scale in it for every single time someone comments that I've lost too much, just so I can whip it out, put it down, step on it and show them I'm in a healthy range still. Not really, but it's an idea...

I'm a smidge over 5'10" The best shape of my life I was around 155 - 160. Doubt I will see that number ever again, but my current goal is 170. I don't think your goal is unreasonable.

I am going to answer again because my goal has changed once again. When I first answered this post in July I weighed about 148 and my goal weight was 140-145. I am now 144.5 but I think 140 is my final goal. I am working hard at toning now and I am still working on getting my belly down a bit. That is what is making me look bigger than I am and if I could get it down even just a bit it would make a really big difference in how I look and feel.

I am 5'8" and my normal weight is 130 at a size 4/6. I just had my 3rd baby so I am working at getting back down to 130 yet again I look and feel my best when I am 130, I think the right weight has a lot to do with body frames, I would say I have a medium sized frame.

The frame sizes vary too though! Per the elbow method I am a small frame, but with the wrist I am a medium frame. But my ankle bones are huge, like 13 inches. So how are you supposed to go based on that if you get a different result depending on your body part?