To ask do you think people always look their best when a healthy weight

Good question. This was in the 70’s so there were no references to BMI then. It would have been 1/2 stone over their ideal weight. My aunts were matrons and they used to say the same thing - those carrying a few extra pounds had a buffer, unlike people with no ‘spare’ weight who’d deteriorate more quickly.

I look best with a BMI around 24 (ish) high end of healthy. But I'm overweight at the moment. After a year, I'm no longer obese though and shedding the baby weight ('baby' is now 2 mind!)

Not always

I'm in the middle of my BMI at the moment but I've recently lost 6kg due to stress and possibly the cancer I've got. Whilst I am fitting in size 10 trousers for the first time in six or so months I'm having to wear a belt and I just look scrawny. It's not a good look for me, I look much better closer to the top line.

Do you mean an extra 1/2 stone over top of healthy BMI or 1/2 stone over what has been their weight their adult life?

My old GP used to say that as we got older, an extra 1/2 stone made people look younger but more importantly, it gave a bit of resilience in case of illness. Looking at friends who are an ideal weight, I think he was right - they do look older than their age.

Generally yes, definitely. Obviously there are exceptions - a woman who is dressed up for the evening but a stone overweight is going to look better than she does if she is a stone lighter but just crawled out of bed after day 3 of flu.

Ok - I’ll come back in 5 years! For now I think I don’t look older than my years (always been a healthy weight - low end of the range).

Always? No.
it depends on so many things, not least WHY you’re at a ‘healthy’ weight.
as a late teenager my bmi was ‘healthy’ but there was nothing healthy about my lifestyle. I was anorexic and bulimic and would swing between starvation and purging and binging, I drank too much, I smoked, I took drugs and never slept. When I look at pictures of me then I look dreadful.
between 20-26 I had 4 kids and gained some weight and I think that’s the period I probably looked the best, I was slightly over a healthy nmi range but I ate well and didn’t drink or smoke or do drugs anymore. My ED was under control and it showed.

60’s

"Matronly bust" 😂I had one of those by 15, at a very healthy weight. I swear I could lop them off tomorrow and go from a bit overweight to healthy BMI in an instant. Hence why I think BMI is a bit of a have really. Doesn't count muscles or boobs or bone density or constipation or fluid retention or menstrual cycle or time of day or anything else relevant to determining healthy weight ...

I think as you get older a large weight loss makes you look do much older as your face melts like a candle. However, it's much better for your health

The whole thing about old and thin people looking haggard and older than their peers gets a bit tiresome.
I think it might hold some truth for people who have lost a significant amount of weight but for people who have always been slim, I don’t they they look older than their age.

I think women of reproductive age are most fertile at a healthy weight, thus they look at their ‘best’ so they can attract a partner.

What age is “old”?

I doubt you were far too thin with a BMI just below overweight.

Yawn.

Having seen her on the Jungle, I know the camera adds 10lbs, but I think Kelly Brook is overweight. She looks great though.

It’s difficult to know which pictures are the most recent but Kelly Brook certainly looks overweight.

I’m in my 50s and BMI has gone from 32 to 22. Everyone says I look younger. My chins have gone, body fairly firm. My boobs look older though, like a couple of deflated balloons 😩

My friend is a lot larger and beautiful. I can’t imagine her being improved by being thin.

Depends on their age. Anyone my age (old) who is their ‘healthy’ weight always looks older imo. But only because their faces aren’t plumped out with fat so they have more wrinkles.

No my husband had to put a stone back on, after losing it. everyone thought he was ill. Some people look better slightly overweight, it's healthier too as you age

bambamhoho

she is 4’11” (i know) and looks a size 8 next to me in pics if it’s just our faces and boob level I swear. She told me she was morbidly obese. I’m 5’9. It’s a family trait - all their weight goes on lower tummy hips and bum. I mean it is extreme tbf but from waist up she looks way slimmer than me!

No way they look as good in a bikini if overweight.

But this isn't an example of somebody 'looking their best'. It's an example of somebody looking better than another person despite carrying a little extra weight.

Also, voluptuous doesn't mean overweight. Scarlett Johansson and Kelly Brook aren't overweight.

are you sure you mean morbidly obese ie a BMI of over 40?

because if she was say a fairly averaged height white woman (5ft6) she’d have to weigh at least 18 stone to be morbidly obese. How can that loooks like a size 8 even with a large hips and bum?