I want to be strong, healthy and fit, and comfortable in my own skin. To me, that means losing the extra weight that hinders (ed) me. And yes, I want to be thin. I don't mean sickly looking ED thin though.

I was weak and frail with the extra weight before I started working out. I always always fatigued and tired before I stopped eating junk food and fatty foods all day. I couldn't even walk a mile for crying out loud!

Do I want to be skinny? Heck yes.

I want to be slender, lithe, even slightly waif-looking.

But do I want to sacfice my health and fitness to be so? Not a chance.

I want to be as small as I can healthily become. My health is more important, but I would LOVE to be skinny.

I'm so, so sick of not being able to fit into the clothes I love, being the biggest girl I know, and not being viewed as feminine because I'm big! For once I want to be seen as skinny and girly (even while I'm fit enough to kick some you-know-what!).

For the first time I feel strong enough to work with my body and try for the look I want. If I can get it, great. If not, I'll find something I love and stay there.

I'm not married to my goal weight, but it's something I think I'd really like. And before I give up and say, "My bones are too big; I have too much muscle; I'll never be that small," I want to TRY. It's something I've wanted for a long time, and I want to at least give it a chance. So even if I don't like it or it doesn't work out, I'll KNOW, and I'll have been there. That's important to me.

@ Krampus: Hmm... I still don't think they look underweight. A BMI check on it says they're at the low end of a healthy weight, which, IMO, is probably where I'll go eventually, depending on how I feel at that time.

skinny...yeah. not skinny fat. maybe like a Victoria's Secret model, slightly toned. but I think it's not in the cards for me, I'm getting older plus already being fat even if I got that skinny I'd have stretch marks and loose skin. I wouldn't mind having the muscles yet soft look (maybe like Jillian Michaels)... but I'm not sure if that's in the cards for me either, lol, my body doesn't seem to put on muscle that easily. I guess I'll see when I get down to my goal.

I'd love to be thin, yes. I'll never look like a model, but I'd love to be thin and toned and healthy. It doesn't matter what I weigh or how much I lose, I'm always hippy and the girls may lose some on the band size, but the cup size stays constant (about a 40D now, was a 46D at my heighest weight... after a breast reduction XD). My goal right now is at the higher end of the spectrum for my height. If I get there and I'm happy, then I'll stay there. If I feel like I could lose some more, then I'll make that decision when I get there. It's all about being healthy and happy in my own skin, not about being "skinny".

Yes...I do want to be skinny. I want to be healthy, but I also want to be skinny. I am partial to the super thin look. We are all different and our likes and dislikes are different when it comes to body type. I think the most important thing is to be healthy but I don't necessarily think that you cant be both skinny and healthy.

I'm curious, and don't mean to imply that you WON'T look healthy at 98lbs, but I've never seen a 5' 5" girl under 110 who didn't look unhealthily skinny. :\ Are you certain you look healthy in the high 90s? I'm just concerned, to be honest there isn't that big a difference between unhealthy-looking skinny and really skinny.

A lot of the problems caused by online stuff like this is that skinny people photograph well. There're no folds, no rolls, limbs look long and lean. For the person who said she wanted to look like a Victoria's Secret model--slim but toned? Models, in person, are frighteningly thin. I'm a photographer myself, and it's part of my work to be able to evaluate someone based not on how they look, but on how they will look in front of the camera. For my current project, I wanted healthy girls who look significantly heavier than magazine/catalog models. I learned quickly not to explain that to my potential models, because they were offended. The truth was that they all LOOK, in person, just as skinny as those magazine/catalog models. I've had online friends who looked beautiful, healthy and slender in their photos and I was shocked when I met them to discover that they were incredibly thin.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't compare your numbers with the numbers of models, actresses, or even other girls on this website. Compare numbers with yourself, and think about what feels healthy and fit for you. I, personally, want to be slender-to-thin. My goal weight used to be 115, and after learning the height/weight for dozens of girls for modeling purposes, I realized that I'll be slender/thin/skinny at 125. It's certainly true that people carry their weight differently, but it's ALSO true that the camera is very, very kind to underweight girls. Just be careful.

I want to be slim and fit, i believe i'll still retain my curves no matter my size. I want to be in the healthy range of my BMI. I also believe you're able to fit into any style with the slim frame.

I guess I can speak up as someone who is taller and has what may seem like a low weight for my height. I don't want to be skinny, but I do want to be thin. However, my body frame and size has some constrictions- I will never be less than a D cup without surgical intervention, regardless of weight. I will also probably never be any smaller than an 8, MAYBE a 6, regardless of weight.

My goal weight now is in between 130 and 140, 135 seems ideal, which probably seems low to a lot of people. I'm not married to it, but I liked how my body felt at that size. I'm not aimign for a particular number, but a particular feel to my body, which I think will be at that weight. At 130-135, I usually wore an 11 an juniors, frequently a 13. I was also a competitive soccer player and an avid weightlifter. At that weight, I could leg press more than twice my own weight. (I actually got used as a motivational weight lifting example for my college football team, followed with a "how come this girl who weighs 100 pounds less than you can press almost 100 pounds more than some of you?" Very proud moment for me ) So, yes, the number sounds low. But, on my body, it most likely looks very different than what you would expect it to look like.

With that said, I would love to be tiny. I would love to be a size 2. Never goign to happen. Plus, I never want to look weak or sickly. I would however, like to be thin, athletic, strong, and toned again.

I'd like to be slim. I'll never be skinny or tiny.

I had a personal trainer once tell me that to be smaller than a size 6, I'd have to shave my hip bones down.

I would LOVE to be skinny. I've never been lower than overweight, so even though my goal weight is .02 pounds into the overweight category by BMI, I think to MYSELF I'll look skinny.

My height, the BMI charts have a range of healthy weight from 125 all the way to 169.8. Could I get down to 125? I don't know, I've never tried. I think if I did I would look like a scarecrow! But, I will allow my body to go lower than 170 if I don't have to fight tooth and nail for every ounce lost. . .just to see what I *could* look like.

It can be so difficult to really know what shape our bodies will ultimately fill. I think that's why it's so difficult to know what weight to friend aim for. One of my best friends is 5'9" and weighs like just under 130. (she has gained up from 120 by lifting weights and putting on muscle). She is very slim. People often talk about her and make comments like she has an eating disorder. Fact is she looks so thin, and has aost no curves. But I've seen pics of her at 140. And her body shape doesn't hold those pounds well. Those 10 lbs from her weight now were all on her stomach and face. My beat friend is also 5'9" and weighs 150 and is a bomb shell. Also when my thin friend weighed 140 she was eating non stop junk food. How she eats now is great. She probably consumes 2000 calories a day and she rarely eats junk food.
I set my goal at 155. But when I did so I promised myself to be flexible. And made my husband promise to let me know if I ever seem to dip into unhealthy weight loss. It's hard to know when the right maintenance place is. I just hope I know it when I get there.

Skinny: –adjective
1.
very lean or thin; emaciated
2.
of or like skin.

I'm too much of a nerd to not pull a dictionary definition before i answer a question like this.
Nope, not skinny. Even at my heaviest, I've never wanted to be "skinny". I want to be healthy weight, I want to be fit, I want to be thin. Actually, in an ideal world, my weight wouldn't factor into my description at all, because it would be so average and normal, it wouldn't warrant mentioning. I also think, for me, that "skinny" would require a lot more work to maintain. I want to be healthy and at an easily maintainable weight.

Would I want to be skinny? I guess that depends on your definition of skinny. My definition of skinny is anyone who can wear a single digit size. And since I hope to be at a size 8 at my goal, then by my definition then yes I want to be skinny. Do I want to be a fragile-looking twig? No. I still want to be womanly, but just one in a healthy size.

Back when I did Weight Watchers, I was told that for someone of my height of 5'4" that a normal BMI for that height would put me between 150 and 120 pounds. Anything over 150 would be overweight and anything under 120 would be underweight. I picked the goal weight of 135 because it was right in the middle of what would be a normal weight for my height. am I married to the number (as so many other folks have said)? No. If I get to 150 and am happy, I can stay there. If not, then I can drop another 5-10 and see how I look and feel.

yes I'm fat but i don't like to be skinny. Skinny is very different from being sexy... If you are skinny you don't have anything you don't have boobs and butt, its okay only to have a little bit fat than to be skinny. _recipes4me-