Would you say ten and half stone when your five foot five is too heavy ?

[Lardlizard]

I know bmi wise it’s right at the top bmi 24.9

It would too heavy on my frame..I'm 5 ft 6 and keep my weight to 9 stone 7 or under as anything above and my jeans are too tight ..I use my clothes as a guideline as am boring and live in Next 10 jeans. My face would probably look better with another half a stone on tbh as I'm over 50 but I prefer to be slimmer.
It always interests me how different we all are... at 10.5 stone I'd be at least another size bigger and would be flabby but Im not fit unless you count walking the dog!

Thats my bmi. Its def in the green, but i do feel overweight as most of its on my tummy which i find uncomfortable when bending.

I’m the same height and have recently lost a stone and now weigh 10st 1lb. I feel better around the 10st mark because I can still eat meals out with friends and have the odd drink and still look ok. But I think I’d look better at around 9st 7lb.

No it's fine. Love yourself
Some people love themselves by improving their health.
OP, you need to be honest with yourself. Firstly measure your waist, as that is an indicator of unhealthy visceral fat www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/lifestyle/why-is-my-waist-size-important/
Secondly, are you fit and toned, do you do exercise, including resistance training?

Medically it’s probably fine, depending on your age, ethnicity and waist measurement. As you age it’s probably safer (on average) to be closer to 25 BMI than 18, but if your waist measurement is greater than 31 (for white women) then you should watch it.

Cosmetically, just look in the mirror and see what you think. I’m close to those figures. I’m visibly a couple of sizes bigger than my younger size 8 colleagues, and yes I’d probably look better at a stone lighter. But as an older woman who carries most of it on her arse I’m relaxed about it. Doesn’t stop me wearing nice clothes, running up the stairs or sprinting for the bus, doesn’t have a negative impact on my health, so it’s not worth ditching the chocolate digestives for.

@LolaSmiles you've phrased what I was trying to say badly. The combination of a small frame and a high body fat percentage means that if one saw me naked, you'd think I looked like I was above a healthy weight as I'm quite flabby.

I’m 5ft 4 and overweight at that weight

I'm that height and that weight on me is too big, and I look too big but it's dependent on the individual

Depends. For me it's a bit too much...I'm 5ft 4in and have recently gone from 10st 4lbs to 9st 9lbs and whilst its not a huge weight loss I feel an awful lot better about myself now. I'm quite curvy and wobbly tho in general, some people seem to be more firm even if they are heavier.

I have a friend who is only a bit taller than me but currently weights about 12st and she looks great, you'd never guess she was that weight. I think it's really individual to your frame and how you carry the weight.

Well, I'm a bit overweight at similar to you OP....

but I have a small frame and boobs etc...

I also don't believe in diets long term.

To heavy for what?

I'm an inch taller and it would be two stone too heavy for me. But, as the multitude of similar threads on here has shown, we are all have different builds, different muscle mass and carry fat in different places. With the info we have been given, any advice given will be purely subjective.

Totally depends on your percentage of body fat, muscle tone, your frame, quite possibly influenced by genetic and ethnic background. Your diet, lifestyle & exercise levels will also impact your general health at whatever weight you are - you could barely move & live on gin & mars bars or be a triathlete who eats a plant based diet and only drinks water, we don’t know.

Basically impossible to judge without a lot more information (clearly that doesn’t stop some people judging away anyway!). If you spoke to a well qualified personal trainer in person who can take all of the above into account then you’d get a better idea. Asking a bunch of randoms on the internet is going to get the same varied and predominantly ill informed response as the thousands of similar threads before on here!

It was desided last year that the BMI rating is not terrible accurate, because muscle weighs more than fat, so you could be a top athlete and showing as overweight. I worked for the NHS for many years, we had a BMI chart on the wall and it showed the "top" BMI as 25. I weigh 9.6 am 5ft 1, (have lost some height with age, just done the online test, it says BMI 25, and perfect weight for my height and age, I am a size 10. It is a bit more generous as you get older.

I would say it is overweight yes. Not terribly so though.

thats what I weigh and Im 5.6 and I know I'm a bit overweight.

so - it's better to actually measure around your stomach - if you put in waist measurement/ health into google the NHS site will give you the figures.

www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/lifestyle/why-is-my-waist-size-important/

I’d be a size 10 at that weight. Much lighter and I’d look ill.

Totally depends. My best friend is about 2 stone lighter than me, and we can swap jeans.

@feelingverylazytoday actually that page is misleading (and yes I know it's the NHS...).
What makes a difference health wise isn’t a set number for the waist (it has to be under xxxcm) but the ratio between the waist and hips.
Which makes sense because people’s frame are all very different. If there isn’t a set weight that is healthy, there shouldn’t be a set value for the waist either.

The values are waist/hip under 1 for men and under 0.8 for women.

I’m 5’8.5
I weighed 16 stone as a teen and would frequently say ‘if I were my recommended weight I’d be so skinny it’d be unhealthy...etc’ and knocked the BMI system endlessly.

As an adult I’ve never weighed more than 12 stone (generally 10.5-11) and I was definitely wrong. I’m not unhealthily skinny I’m much healthier and happier.

I think there’s some wiggle room around BMI and especially if you have high muscle mass. Between 20-27 is probably considered ‘average’ in the U.K. with under that being ‘a bit skinny’ and over that ‘on the bigger side’.
Where you sit on that scale is up to you but I’ll never go back to being overweight as it was awful and I felt awful!

My BMI is currently 23 and I’m 6 months pregnant 👍🏻).

If your height and weight are in the healthy range then it's fine. It's fine if you are healthy enough to do the things you want to do.

It would be impossible to say without seeing you, OP.
Maybe do a body fat analysis? There are calculators online. You take measurements around various points - wrists, waist, hips etc - and it estimates your body fat percentage, which is probably more useful info.
Hip to waist ratio is also a very good indicator of general health and even easier to calculate as you only need 2 measurements.
How do you feel in your body OP? Are you fit? Do you feel your body physically stops you doing things? Or are you just worried because you don't fit the wasp-waisted thigh-gapped ideal we're constantly pushed?

I'm 5'5" and I'm about 9.2 at the moment. I feel most comfortable at around 8.10. I think it depends on body shape totally. I have a very small upper body but I'm curvier at the hips so the extra size wouldn't suit my shape.

Not the hips to wiast ratio, measure you height with a piece of string, you waist measurement shouldnt be more than half that.

You wouldn’t be asking if it wasn’t.

Tell us your bust-waist-hips measurements, OP.
Compared to me (3" taller & half stone lighter, yet I still have plenty of pubdge), yes it sounds uncomfortably on the pudgy side.