I think I'm heavier than I look. I weigh 195 and I'm a size 12/14, when people take a guess at my weight usually they guess the 160's, maybe they're just being nice?
I personally have never asked friends/family to guess my weight. Mostly because the odds of someone actually knowing my weight when I was at my prime of 270 was very slim to none. So take it with a grain of salt. I knew I was 270, the scale knew I was 270, and that's all I cared about knowing.
My highest weight ever was probably around 180-185 but my highest recorded weight was 175. And when I weighed 175, people always thought I weighed somewhere between 140-160. *I* thought I weighed in that range, too, until I stepped on a scale and faced reality
I have no idea if I look my weight now. When I first hit goal (125), people told me I looked too skinny/barely 110-115 pounds. A few people guessed accurately, though. I am a LOT more muscular now than I was then (I have a jacked up back, bulging biceps, monster legs, pecs, and am entering a bodybuilding contest in 3 months), so people tend to guess pretty accurately/sometimes even MORE now because they always say, "WELL, you're so muscular, and muscle weighs more than fat!" It doesn't, by the way. They weigh the same. Muscle tissue just takes up less space.
I have a medium to large frame with broad shoulders. I can gain 10 pounds and have no one tell the difference. I can gain 50 (like I did before losing weight) and have everyone think I only gained 25 BUT when I LOST those 50 pounds, everyone just went "you look like a whole different person!"
I dont think I look my weight either. I know with my former co worker, I always weighed more than her, but wore a small size, and just LOOKED smaller than her.
When I was going to curves, and the woman weighed me for the first time, she started at like the 150's and I was like, you need to move that up about 80 lbs - I was around 230 when I started, and she just did not believe me. And that was something she was doing all day - weighing people. And I dont think she was doing it to be nice, as I was there to lose weight.
BUT I also think knowing that I dont 'look my weight' helped me - what it did was help me get to 290 lbs, because I still thought I looked the same. Obviously I didnt when I compare pictures. I was in denial about how big I really was. I may not have looked 290, but I still looked big.
I said to a friend I've known forever the other day that I've just kept gaining weight every year since high school. She seemed surprised and then proceeded to tell me I was in good shape. I told her I think her eyesight is failing. At the end of my final year of high school I weighed 155, and now I'm 205 (nearly 220 at my absolute heaviest).
My sisters are constantly pooh-poohing my concerns about my weight and the way I look, telling me I look fine and healthy etc. They seemed shocked when I told them my actual weight. I KNOW I don't look healthy when I'm standing in front of the mirror in my underwear, and I know I don't feel healthy.
While I don't think it's productive for people to keep pointing out that you (I mean me) are overweight, I think it can be just as counter-productive when they are telling you you look fine when obviously you don't.
I guess the answer is just to listen to yourself and trust your own judgement?
Love the thread! I've never had anybody guess my weight correctly either. And even I wonder where it's hiding - I'm by no means a small person, but what used to be a lot of extremely dense muscle is now ... uh, yeah, it's fat - and there's got to be a lot of it surrounding my internal organs. Echo the thought from above - gravity and the damage it does over time only cares about what you weigh, not what size you are.
Boy I was excited to find this thread! I'm dealing with accepting myself now, for at 115 pounds, I don't look it at all. With all the extra skin i still look 140-150. (At 4'10" and close to 200 pounds for over 20 years this will happen) At first I thought it was self image, but I had a few close friends and family members "guess" my weight/ Sigh. But I know I'm healthier, so that's what counts.
absolutely, when i first started with my trainer she asked me how much weight i wanted to lose and i said 40lbs and she freaked out and said that was so unhealthy and i told her not really i wanted to get down to 140 and she told me she thought i was 140 already (which i guess is why she freaked out haha)..but yeah im a size 10 at 180 which is really strange i guess but ill take it.
im 140 and people think i weigh more. i dont know why and it sucks! i hate it when people guess my weight. i tell them not to but they still say a number anyway.
I'm short, so people do not realize how much I weigh nor how small I can "go" while not really looking that dramatically different. My weight loss goal has been criticised by people at my weight loss support group for being too "low". Silly, considering it's at the uppermost range of my BMI.
I dont likemy weight! LOl. guess thats why im working out hard. LOL
but.. i know what you mean.. once i was down to 175 and i fit into a size 10..
i looked great.. doctor said it is becasue i have large muscle inmy body..
so my body is smaller because of the muscle.. so i look thinner than i am..
My doctor actually said i would be fine at 165-175 and im only 5'6 1/2
charts say someone that height needs to be not over 150..
so it does depend!
Good Luck dont ever give up!
now because they always say, "WELL, you're so muscular, and muscle weighs more than fat!" It doesn't, by the way. They weigh the same. Muscle tissue just takes up less space. 
"you look like a whole different person!"
