I can so relate with so much that you all have posted ! I'm 6' and 287 lbs, wearing a size 20. I've mentioned to a couple people that I have a goal to hit a 100lbs loss and neither could believe that I'd have 100lbs to lose (my high weight was 334 and from that I wanted to lose 150!) One of those gals I talked to is 5'9" and said she was a size 18 at 180 lbs. I don't get that as when I was 275 I was an 18/20, so I'm guessing 260ish would put me in a full 18? Right now my skirts are a 20 but I can wear some 18's in tops. At my high of 334 I was a size 26.
I'm 5'10" and have a goal to get back down to 155. When I was 142, I thought I looked great, but was told by a few people that I resembled a Tootsie Pop (I have a big head LOL). That number was also very difficult to maintain, but I was able to stay in the 150s for a good while before I went on my all-fat-all-the-time diet. I was about a size 6/8 then. Going any higher than that makes me look on the chubbier side due to my bone structure.
Imato5- I was comfortable in a size 18 at around 230-240 pounds. At 180 I'm a comfortable size 12, and I have extreamly wide hips(were talking like childbering hips here 0.o) So I can't really picture someone at 5'9 and 180 pounds, being an 18 xD unless she has alot of booty or something...
Imato5 - Good job on your weight loss! I agree baker23 when she mentioned "I can't really picture someone at 5'9 and 180 pounds being an 18..." When I was in college those were my stats and I was a 10/12. I was "solid" too meaning I was toned, but shapely with T & A (lol). I guess what you would call a coke bottle shape. I lifted weights back then and I'm doing so now, so I'm quite sure that had sometime to do with it as well. I was a size 18 when I was in the 240's. We're all different so maybe it could happen?
Last edited by SunnySide99; 10-24-2012 at 12:14 PM.
Yeah, either your friend is lying about her size, or her weight. I'm only an inch taller than her, and even at my heaviest (232) I wasn't an 18. When I was 180 I was in a 12.
Right now I weigh around 175 and am 5'7/5'8. I have set my goal at 154 (11 stone UK) because it leaves me nicely under being overweight in terms of BMI, so I'm safe for fluctuations. I hope!
However, now 21lbs off, people simply don't believe me when I say I'm actually medically overweight. When I got to my ticker weight a few months back people were worrying about me and saying I should stop the diet! Now, I believe this is massively down to people changing their view on what is fat/right/skinny, but it's also down to me having a large frame with wide shoulders/hips etc and carrying almost all of my excess weight in my legs with quite a trim waist and upper body (minus the upper arms).
I think I'm yet another one that shows that BMI is just a number, I'm sure if I were to ever reach 20BMI I'd look far too skinny, but someone else at the same weight and height would no doubt look great!
I'm 5'10" and my goal is 150ish. I weighed 160 in high school and was an 8-10, could've lost about 10 more pounds while still looking and feeling healthy, so that's how I got 150. But if I get to 160 and love where I'm at, I'm fine with that too. People NEVER believe me when I tell them how much I weigh or how much I want to lose. I told someone the other day I want to lose 100 lbs (which would put me around 165, which would still be healthy weight for me IMO) and they were like, you don't have 100 lbs to lose! Well, I wish! I wanted to assure them that all those pounds are there, I'm just good at hiding them under my clothes. But I think most people just don't have an accurate idea of what a pound looks like (and how it looks on a short person vs tall person, a skinny person vs overweight).
I'm 5'9. My healtyh weight a few yrs ago was 155 and a size 6. Ranges vary greatly bc some people are small-large frame, thin-muscular. It depends on your body shape, etc. If you are 180 and still have some inches to pinch, lose some more until that problem is solved =)
I have toadmit several of these posts are making me feel bad. At 5'10" and 190, i wear a size 18. I can squeeze into 16 but it is skin tight. I don't have a big booty nor do i consider myself big bone. The measurement around my butt is 46". Is that much bigger than others? Do i have the wrong image of myself. Am i actually worse.
I just went to ehow. It said bone size is determinedby wrist measurement. Mine was 6.5 inches which makes me medium bone. This thread has really brought me to tears.
Last edited by hiddenstar; 11-09-2012 at 12:05 AM.
hiddenstar, if you are maintaining a healthy lifestyle, then I can't see why you would feel bad. Everyone carries their weight differently so someone else your size might wear a different clothes size. Don't be upset.
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I am around 5'8" and weigh 275... no one really believes me when I say I weigh that much because I tend to carry my weight quite evenly. I look overweight but not as heavy as I am. My goal weight is 175 because I am tall and "big boned" (large frame) so I would look quite ill if I was 140 as someone my height "should" be. However, if I get to 175 and still don't feel like I'm ready to maintain, I'd consider going less, but not by too much.
Yeah, I should've reworded my last statement. I didn't mean to call anyone out as a liar. Hiddenstar, don't feel bad if you wear larger size clothes at 190... It's all in body frame. My younger sis is 6'1" and weighs more than me but wears clothes a size smaller. I know for my frame (I have fairly small bones compared to my sister's bigger bones) I'd need to get down to at least 155 to look slender. I don't carry my weight well at all. The only thing that saves me is my height. But at 180-190 my cheeks are completely round and I get a pillow below my chin. At 145 I was wearing a 6-8 and that's the size I'd like to be again, but I'd settle for 155 as long as I lose this double chin and pot belly.
How can it not hurt when comments are not possible, mustbe lying, must have large booty or something wrong with them. Sorry i can't read this thread it is too depressing that they are talking about my figure.
hiddenstar, I don't think anyone here has specifically call you a liar or a big booty and I definitely don't think anyone here would say something was wrong with you. No one is talking about your figure; we don't even know what you look like. We're talking about our figure. I'm talking about my figure. I know what size I was at different weights and I know what looks good and bad on me, as well as the other ladies here. If you're healthy at 190 but wearing larger sized clothes than what we say we would at that weight, that only means we're shaped differently. It's nothing to cry or feel bad about. Bone size, muscle mass, genes, they all make us look different and we carry our weight differently.
