BMI question - Lower end of healthy

[chattoaspanishgirl]

Apparently 7 stone is 10lb is a healthy weight for my height, 5 foot 3.5?

Surely that can't be right? I had an eating disorder at that weight.

I'm currently a Size 10, at 10 stone. I'm athletic in build and quite fit given my lifestyle.

How can 7 stone 10 be okay? It's really difficult for me to read actually, gives me intrusive thought that I was okay starving myself and living off of less than 500 calories a day

I think it depends on your frame. I'm that height and weight and don't have an eating disorder. (and yes I'm healthy eg. had no trouble concieving and breastfeeding)

But I have small feet, wrists and hands (buy girls boots because women's flap about, my wedding ring is a teen size rather than a womans size)

Also ethnicity, I'm white but I have SE friends that have similar or smaller builds to me.

*SE Asian

It's an interesting topic.

My 10 month old is in 0-3 clothes and absolutely tiny. DH is a broad 6'4 so not sure where it comes from! I'm not dainty.

However, both grandfathers on both sides were jockeys, one being only 5'1

My girls were wearing aged 5 knickers when they were 9/10, right skinny arses!

Once upon a time, I was 5’3 and weighed six and a half stone. I was slim, but certainly didn’t look underweight.

That's about what I weigh/measure. Interestingly I spent some time living in South East Asia - and there I was very much average sized (rather than the small I am here). I would imagine that there they had to have a whole different calculation for BMI! I also have very small wrists, hands, fingers so think that being big boned is true for some - it's just I fall at the other end of the scale!