I'm smaller than you but I have a large build and I started at about size 16-18 or XL, and now wear comfortable M and some S... and my pants vary from 8 to 6. My dress size is a 4. So I would say that it all depends on your body shape but it is definitely not impossible!! keep working hard and whatever size you get to and you feel comfortable at, that's where you'll know you're good. It may or may not be a size 2. It's just so hard to tell when you are starting, to know where you'll end up Just stay strong and keep working for it!

Seriously????? You want to be 120 and a size 2???? Are you nuts??? Im only an inch taller than you or so..5"11 3/4 ...For a person who is 5"11...the healthy normal weight is between 170-180....Getting down to 120 short of starving yourself is really unhealthy..Its not good to be that severely underweight...I dont think you would want to look that gaunt...People would be asking you like crazy if you are sick..and on top of it...guys hate girls who are that skinny...they rather see some meat on some bones...Skeletons dont make for a great date...

A lot of sarcasm i know..but my point is: Being a size 2 when you are 5"10 is very un-natural...and im honestly not sure that you can get down to that size without going about it in a very unhealthy way...

What would make you want to be that skinny??? People already tell me that if i got to 180 for my height, i would look like a twig.

I have super quads too! I love them, TBH. They're pretty much all muscle, with a little bit of annoying loose skin on top

I wear skinny jeans anyway. Screw it

It's tough really, because we can have these goals for ourselves and find that things turn out completely different when we get down to a weight we're comfortable at.

I got down to 107 unintentionally. While it's still within the healthy weight range for my height, it wasn't healthy for me at all. My thighs just stopped rubbing together barely. Now as of yesterday I'm at 110 and my thighs rub together again. I'm just meant to have thighs that do I guess.

Things is, I couldn't wear skirts either. Now I can, even with thighs that rub together because they certainly don't rub together as much as they did before! I remember getting chaffed wearing skirts and how painful it was to walk around in a skirt or dress all day unless I wore leggings underneath.

There was a certain way I pictured myself as a thin person and I don't quite look like that due to my build and how I carry fat and build muscle. I'm still very happy not just with how I look, but with what I can do too that I'm not all that broken up about these differences.

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssss! Great sentiment.

If you want to be 120lbs and a size 2, go for it! It's in your hands.

However I wouldn't recommend losing that much as you're a tall woman like myself. You really don't have to be 120lbs to be thin or average!

Whatever you decide your main goal will be, just don't forget to celebrate on the way.

My highest weight was almost 350. I'm now 125 pounds and wearing size 2's and 4's. I had HUGE thighs.

I have the biggest thunder thigs EVER!!! I hate them, they are massive!
For me, I could never be a size 2 or 120lbs. I have a very large build and am very hippy (and thigh-y as I mentioned lol) so I'm striving for 155-160 and maybe a size 8.
I agree with the others, 120lbs for your height seems really low. But I think the skinny jeans and short skirt goals are very realistic! You don't have to be a size 2 to look good in them.

This. Today I am 184.5lbs. I wear skinny jeans. I have big thighs and a butt and 15" calves. I wanted to wear them but was scared I was one of those people who "shouldn't" wear them. I only had some pairs to tuck into boots but then I got brave one date night with my boyfriend and wore them with heels. He loved it. Then I started wearing them around my friends. Then my family. My mother said to me "Wow, I wouldn't have thought skinny jeans would look good on us, but they look great!" By us she meant the women in my family, we're all pretty much built the same.

Anyway. Despite the name, skinny jeans are not just for skinny women. Go for it!

If you weight train you can get into a size 2 FAR before you hit 120 lbs (which I think is much too low of a weight for someone your (our) height!).

I lift heavy and at 166 lbs I wear a 6. I bought a size 4, fitted, dress yesterday. It can be done!!

Just focus on making progress every day. Before you know it, you'll look back and realize how far you've come! Just take it day by day, and NEVER give up!

What size you eventually fit into totally depends on your build -as does your end weight. You'll know when you get closer what size/weight it will be. It's so hard to know when you are very overweight. Even knowing your high school weight might not be a good reflection on what your mature adult weight will be.

Just take it one day at a time and see where it leads you!

I'd definitely consider being a size 2 and 120lbs at your height before wanting to get to that size/weight. As people have mentioned, it could be a dangerous weight to be at due to being a tall woman. With that being said, don't allow what your mother says to you get you down or discouraged. You can be whatever you want to do, but please do consider the risks that could come with being 120lbs at your height.

THIS!^

At 5'9, I used to fantasize about being 120...but then when I started seeing a lot of visuals on women of my height, and even shorter, that were 120...it's definitely a huge wake up call. I would, honestly, probably look skeletal (since my shattered arm deters me from really bulking up in muscle) if I were to get down that low. So, at 5'10, I think you're going to be killing the runway long before 120. Which is great, since you don't have far to go!

Just to let you know, I may not look amazing and slim in them, but I wear skinny jeans at my current weight and feel ok in them! You may find that you can wear skinny jeans and feel good about it way before you hit goal

As for the size 2 - I completely agree with keeping the size you want to be as your own little secret. I have a longing to fit in to a UK size 6 pair of jeans (which I think is a US size 2) that I haven't told anyone about, because I know that they would react much like your mother did and tell me I would never get there - it's happened before when a group of friends were discussing our weights and I told them I wanted to weigh 135 (tiny little lie lol). So, I say keep your final goals to yourself and share them with world when you get there!

Actually, for a woman who is 5'11" (like me), the healthy weight range is 133 to 179 pounds, corresponding to a BMI of 18.5 to 25.

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All I can tell you is that I've been much happier and have had much better success with weight loss, now that I no longer think about or care whether or not I'll ever be able to be the size I want to be.

First and formost, I'm extremely grateful for being the size I am now, rather than the size I was at my highest weight, and before you can say "easy for you to say, you've lost 105 lbs," I have to tell you that I've been doing this since the first 20 lbs.

I would have been doing it from the first pound, but I didn't realize I had lost the first 20 (long story, but basically I lose 20 lbs as a result of getting better sleep from sleep apnea treatment. Didn't have a scale, so didn't know I'd lost 20 lbs).

I focus on the next pound, not whether or not I'll ever get to a specific size. I focus on "not gaining" as my primary goal (which means I get to celebrate almost every time I get on the scale), and while I'm doing the work of not gaining I might as well work on trying to get one more pound off (but only one, I don't think further ahead than the next pound).