5' 8" and 140lbs female age 34- considered average, overweight or thin?

[Anonymous]

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I"m 5'4" and weight 150, but I fit easily into a size 6

I'm impressed, PP, you must be really fit or muscular if you fit into a size 6 with that weight and height. I am 5'5" and 130 and sometimes a 6 is too small, but I'm not muscular at all.

I'm the 5'4" 150 poster. I am quite fit - I'm a runner and I do marathons. I'm not fanatic about my weight, but I know I must not "look" like 150, because when I go to the doctor and they put me on that big old fashioned scale, the nurses always look at me, set it at 100, and start slowly sliding up the weight like they expect me to be 120. A few times they even moved me to a different scale because they assumed the one just had to be broken. But no, I'm really 150 lbs and size 6 at my height. I do have massive calves, maybe that is where I keep all my weight. [/quote

hA-you sound just like me (the pp 140-145/5'5"). Also a marathon runner-former soccer star with very muscular thighs. I have very little body fat-also lift 4-5times per week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I admit that I have a very slender physique but I am the same the height as you and weigh about 120. I am thin but definitely not stick thin (wear a size 2 not zero). But if I gained another 20 pounds that would be way too big for my comfort level.

So someone that is 5'8 and 120lb can wear the same clothes as someone who is 5'5 and 145lb? Seems unlikely.

I am the 17:54 poster again. I think there is a huge difference in sizing depending on the brand you wear so maybe someone who is 140 and wearing a size 2 is wearing clothes that are cut larger.

[Anonymous]

Are you looking for praise, self-validation, or did your MIL say something upsetting?

[Anonymous]

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Boutique sizing runs small, to flatter the buyer. I wouldn't put much on a tag size - ever, at all - really.

Exactly. 5'5 and 145 and a size 6? At Banana Republic, sure! Maybe even a 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really depends on both your frame and bone size. If you have small bones and a small frame, then 140 is on the heavy side for 5'8--I say this because I am 5'10, have small bones and a large frame and am a 4/6 at 140--look thin, but not anorexic. If you have large bones (which is different than frame--so says my trainer), then 140 may be ok. I almost always ignore the scale, though and go for clothes fit.

I am 5'8 and when I am 140 I look fantastic. I have to work out to get there, so that is an ideal weight for me. At that weight, I am a 6 in jeans, 28 in Sevens for example, and a 4 in most brands, boutique or otherwise. Small on top, small waist, larger, but when down in weight, toned, athletic thighs. I am not there yet (post two kids). I have 10 more to go!

[Anonymous]

I find that thin, OP. Right now I am 5'7 and 165 (cries) and I have been trying like crazy to loose it (baby weight, had my baby 9 months ago) but it is not coming off, at all. I am a sie 10/12 now and before I had my baby I was 5'7 and 145 and I felt good, I was in a size 6/8 but I have super huge hips, hah.

I shouldn't read this thread...

[Anonymous]

Thin to average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit that I have a very slender physique but I am the same the height as you and weigh about 120. I am thin but definitely not stick thin (wear a size 2 not zero). But if I gained another 20 pounds that would be way too big for my comfort level.

So someone that is 5'8 and 120lb can wear the same clothes as someone who is 5'5 and 145lb? Seems unlikely.

I am the 17:54 poster again. I think there is a huge difference in sizing depending on the brand you wear so maybe someone who is 140 and wearing a size 2 is wearing clothes that are cut larger.

but also, build, frame, muscle, etc. I do not look my weight; have only 10% bodyfat and am very porportional---no pear or apple, etc.. I wear a size at least 3 times smaller than friends that are same weight and height. They do not believe I weigh as much as I do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I"m 5'4" and weight 150, but I fit easily into a size 6

I'm impressed, PP, you must be really fit or muscular if you fit into a size 6 with that weight and height. I am 5'5" and 130 and sometimes a 6 is too small, but I'm not muscular at all.

I'm the 5'4" 150 poster. I am quite fit - I'm a runner and I do marathons. I'm not fanatic about my weight, but I know I must not "look" like 150, because when I go to the doctor and they put me on that big old fashioned scale, the nurses always look at me, set it at 100, and start slowly sliding up the weight like they expect me to be 120. A few times they even moved me to a different scale because they assumed the one just had to be broken. But no, I'm really 150 lbs and size 6 at my height. I do have massive calves, maybe that is where I keep all my weight. [/quote

hA-you sound just like me (the pp 140-145/5'5"). Also a marathon runner-former soccer star with very muscular thighs. I have very little body fat-also lift 4-5times per week.

measurements are always a 'small' or sometimes 'xs' in all kinds of catalogs. Also high end designer dresses that I own are a size 4. I don't get the pp saying it is not possible to weigh "a" and fit in size"x".

[Anonymous]

I will be 5'8 and 140 in about 2-3 weeks if my weight loss keeps up (right now at 146). I think I would be average - I felt about 10-15 pounds overweight when I started eating healthier - I weighed 155, and I've lost 10 lbs in the past 6-7 weeks. I don't want to be "thin" - I want to look good in my clothes. That said, I am never going to fit in XS/S or 4-6 clothing, at least up top, because genetics and 2 pregnancies have done their part to endow me with a bust size that is squarely in the 10-12 category. Doubt that I will fit anything less than a Size 8 down below due to a tummy that won't flatten, again due to genetics and two pregnancies. I don't believe that having a 10-12 shirt size makes me overweight - it does make me chesty, and there just isn't much I can do about that short of surgery. So, I'll be happy with 140.

[Anonymous]

Good ways of assessing your fitness:

Blood lipid profile
Body composition assessment
VO2 max measurement
Bone density measurement

Bad ways of assessing fitness:
Weight
BMI
Clothing size

Carry on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good ways of assessing your fitness:

Blood lipid profile
Body composition assessment
VO2 max measurement
Bone density measurement

Bad ways of assessing fitness:
Weight
BMI
Clothing size

Carry on!

Thank you! BMI is the worst - wildly inaccurate for anyone with above average muscle mass. My rail-thin but very muscular husband is "overweight" to "obese" - yet has just about no body fat on him.

[Anonymous]

You're probably thin-to-average, since the "right weight" calculation I always heard for women was "100 pounds for the first 5 feet, then 5 lbs for each additional inch." I can't imagine someone who's 5'8" and 140 being "overweight" though if there wasn't any muscle, you could be that size and out of shape. But your BMI would still be ok.

I'm 5'8", 140ish and very muscular. I'm considered thin/athletic by my friends and family, but I'm definitely not "thin" like models or those skinny-minnie chicks I see on the street sometimes. I'm just not built that way; nobody in my family is small-boned. (If I drop much below 140 people start telling me to eat more - I get too bony.) I'm a size 6; I tend to think of that as pretty average for my (thin/young/active) peer group and probably thin for the general population.

If you're 34 and you're noticing that you're putting on weight, you probably need to start exercising more. I'm 37 and a daily exerciser but I notice that as I get older, I have to work harder to maintain my same weight. When I was in my 20's, I could pretty much eat whatever I wanted and not gain. That changed in my early 30's, and most of my friends say the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, so am I just wearing the wrong clothes? I am 5'8 and 145 and I wear a size 10/12 - not an 8, and certainly not a 4 or 6. What is wrong with me?

I was wondering the same thing. I'm 5'9", weigh 135-140 and wear an 8/10. I haven't worn a 4 or 6 in, oh, 20 years (when I weighed 20 lbs less!)

[Anonymous]

Put this crap in the fitness forum. It isn't OFF TOPIC as there is a proper forum for it.