AIBU to be annoyed because I can’t find a “body double “

That’s how most people ‘see’ their weight fluctuations, by weighing themselves.

You're giving yourself ACTUAL body dysmorphia. You are a size 6/8 which is tiny. Your weight is reasonable for your height. We all die. Your aim is to keep your risk factors as low as possible. Not to plague yourself. For what it's worth I think you look like your height and weight match fine

I’m 5’2 and weigh 10 st 4 - wear a 12, on a good day

I think you should try to ignore the whole BMI dress size thing, and just concentrate on feeling happy and healthy.

My kids have always been heavy for their size and it does cause my dd to be a bit paranoid about her weight (she is a small size 8 and looks very slim). They get their dense build from their dad.

I’m the opposite. I’m much more overweight than they think I am - I have tiny bones and really shouldn’t be a size 14. But I’m doing my best!

So I'm 1 inch taller and at 10 stone was a size 8. Sadly I'm not that now. For me my weight seems to equally spread across my whole body so I need to gain about 2 stone to go up a dress size because it's just a little bit everywhere.

Some people weigh more than others. I am a slim frame but weigh a reasonable weight. When I was in treatment for an eating disorder the staff were expecting my BMI to be lower than it was because of my appearance.
I have it more recently where people have assumed I'm probably underweight but I'm quite comfortable in the normal range. I'm particularly slim around the wrists, shoulders/arms and waist.

I'm 156 cm and 52kg as a size 6-8 depending on the cut of the outfit. My boobs are 30F as I'm breastfeeding at the moment which is currently my limiting factor on whether clothes fit! I have clothes that I have been wearing for 20 years at between 48 and 58 kg for size 6-8. I wore some regular clothes right up until being 9 months pregnant.

I recently fitted into an aged 6 t shirt of my daughter as it was meant to be a loose fit on her and it had stretchy fabric. It really was only a fraction smaller than my T shirts.

My partner is the same quite thin but a normal weight and my daughter was at one point borderline overweight but her paediatrician and dietician weren't concerned as she "looked normally proportioned" and was in clothes 12-18 month clothes at 3 as she's very short. She has since stretched out and grown upwards with minimal weight gain and is now towards the bottom of a normal size for height.

@Stayinganontoday Natalie Portman?

Your stats are not representative op, probably because you are muscular, or maybe because we are all different. I am about 1kg heavier than you, so 65kg, but 6cm taller at 165cm but am a size 12.... Like previous posters to get to 8/10 I would be significantly lighter I would guess 55kg.

How much weight would you need to lose to have a healthy bmi.
Waist size is supposed to be a good health indicator, should be less than half your height which yours is. I am surprised though as it doesn't look as small as 26inches.
Perhaps you have dense bones and you do have quite a bit of muscle but I disagree you'd be too skinny if you lost weight. But it depends how much weight it would take to get you to a healthy bmi if it would be sensible or crazy.

For the record I'm 3cm shorter than you, 5kg lighter than you, have lots of muscle but also a fair amount of fat. I would not fit in a 6 but as I'm very short size 8 can fit. I don't look dissimilar to you but my waist measurents ares bigger.

I’m 5’3 and weigh just over 10 stone. I still don’t really understand your point, even after reading all of your posts. There’s no need to be miffed or preoccupied by the number on the scale. Be preoccupied by being strong and healthy instead.

So even if you saw the ‘fluctuations’ of your body double, you wouldn’t change anything?

So you've made your decision you are happy with how you look over and above BMI health guidance.
Your waist size is healthy.
You seem to want confirmation that you are differently bodied that the BMI guidance is irrelevant, it may be worth paying for a dexa scan or a full private medical or something.

Seeing a person with the exact same proportions would be pretty irrelevant.

You must have a really petite overall frame then if your waist is 26in as it looks very similar in width to ribs and hips. You might just be proportionally small

How will you see their fluctuations then? Fluctuations are changes in weight. Surely you could only see these if they send you pictures when their weight changes?

But you've just said you don't want to change your weight that you find it perfect as it is.

Also your bmi is actually overweight for all ethnicities so it's probably advisable to at the very least get it to under 25.

Surely just weigh yourself then and take action as appropriate.

Would you? OP looks smaller than that to me. 159 is really short, so most people would look larger than that at that height and weight.