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[quote=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.  [/quote]

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