Weight - when is too low

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What do guys consider the point where weight loss has gone too far? Do you physically notice/ see it yourself or is it others?

@YumyumAndyum Absolutely I get extremely excited about a melon or a giant papaya and eat it in one go. And a salad with every vegetable under the sun is AMAZING. Even he smell f hamburgers and chips or anything like that is enough to make me want to hold my breath. We took our son to florida on holiday and i thought i was hpunv to die from starvation as everything was a junk fat slick which was enedible to me.

I do t particularly look scrawny in photos. I do regularly equipment based Pilates so do have slight long rather than bulky muscles. I look lean but toned. I'm just very slight but strangely tall. My husband is 5' 10 and the tallest of his family but our son has inherited the tanliness from me and us 6'2" at 17 and now seems to be rapidly growing. My sister is5'5 and with a just under 6 stone. She has had 3 babies over 8lb. The last was almost and weighed almost 9. She had less than 2 hour labours for all. She never weighed more than 7 stone each time. She is a karate black belt and a muscle machine. We're very small built. You can just be naturally very thin.

If you prefer heathy food by nature it's obviously have an effect. I have a micro sized 2 year old. No matter what we offer shed rather grab a raw courgette from the fridge and walk round eating it or some broccoli and prefers nothing to a drilled fish and salad. She's never going to put on weight on that. She won't be tempted by junk. It's on offer as my son has all of it. We can't convince her. I have been told food prefernce is genetic.

5’5 and under 6 stone.
That is shocking
I’m skinny (5’6 7.5) but that is unreal.
There is no way this woman can look anything other than skeletal.

My sister is 5'5 and with a just under 6 stone

Sure.

It’s a shame you’re not training for a sport if you’re dedicated enough to go below a certain body fat %!
I do gymnastics - only for fun really but the sport does require you to be leaner for obvious reasons! My body fat % is 23.9 and my BMI is 22.7. However I’m in my 40s so I probably couldn’t lose much more than half a stone without looking like a skull
As a female putting on muscle is so difficult as well.
For me if I go much below 9st (5’4”) I am weakened and skeletal.

5'5 at just under 7 stone is off-the-scale unhealthy.

My sister is5'5 and with a just under 6 stone.

You have jumped the shark there.

That gives her a bmi of 13.9x

@SkinThing

Why would i make it up??

She was referred to a specialist obstetrician when she was pregnany because of her low weight. He confirmed she was fine just a very "small/ light person".

My mother is 5.4 and weighed less than 8 stone her whole life. My dad was permanently sent to the Dr In the old days due to an inability to gain weight an continually put on fad diets back in the 60s and 70s. Unlikely I'd concoct such a tale @SkinThing.
It might sound odd. It doesn't mean it's not true. Try not to be condescending please.

I’m 5’7.5 and used to be very skinny (7 stone 10) until I was about 34. I was an avid runner, but ate whatever I wanted.

I have both PCOS and Hashimoto’s and am still only 8.5 stone at age 42. I eat healthy food but lots of it. I do workout a lot, but given my health conditions, which generally cause people to have weight issues, I would consider myself naturally thin with a small frame, and as such don’t look unhealthy at this weight.

@GlamGiraffe

Be honest
What the heck does she look like?

I hate these threads and the posters normalising extreme low weight.

It reads like a pro ana site.

Glam giraffe thank you, I agree.
And yumyum I’m the same. Fruit over crisps any day.

@Amibeingdaft81
I'm trying to work put how yo cut off our heads in photos😆
Can't do it!😂
Should be coming..awaiting teen assistance.

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And then scribble over it

BMI is not massively reliable - when you;re calculating weight in kg over height in metres squared (go the power of two) apparently it would be more accurate if it was somewhere between to the power of 2 and the power of 3 - i.e. height is underestimated.

Also, the healthy range may not be healthy or fully optimal for some - for example a young man with a rugby player type build can look quite unwell at a BMI of 18.5, very different from how they should.

I'd say it's gone too far if you feel weak, unwell, not as fully healthy as before (after a period of weight stabilisation), you don't sleep properly, you're not able to do your normal day-to-day activities, or you feel very cold.

I spent 7 months in an eating disorder unit, lost several friends to this. It's not something to mess around with. I'd rather be a few lbs above an optimal weight than below.

There's also the issue of needing a buffer - if you get sick in the winter and you're bang on your ideal weight, and you lose half a stone, you can't really afford to lose that.

Ah is cos memory full. Need new phone. Send to other person then do and send back. Getting pic of sis thats good. Son done me. Hang on.

I’m 5ft7 and when I get to the ten stone mark people start to remark on me being a bit too slim. I’m an hourglass so it really does show, my waist gets absolutely tiny and I lose my bum and breasts entirely. I look healthiest at 11 stone which is the upper end of a healthy BMI but it’s just the way I’m built.

Just under 6 stone is about 38kg. When my daughter was 36kg at 5’7” she was the illest person on her anorexia inpatient unit...

@Amibeingdaft
Sister in flowers. Me in black.
Not skeletons.

I'm 5'3" and generally weigh around 7 1/2 stone. A couple of years ago I was sick with bronchitis and ended up losing around 1/2 stone. At 7 stone I looked unwell. At my current weight I just look slim.
I have a very small build though. Child size wrists, I always have to get the links taken out of watches and had to have my engagement ring made smaller when I got it. Size 3/4 feet too.

There is no way that person in flowers weighs six stones and is five feet five inches tall. No way at all.

@GlamGiraffe you both look great!

If your sister really is under six stone (so..5 stone 12?) and she's 5'5 with a BMI of under 14 though, her bones must be made of feathers. She looks toned too! Muscles the weight of soap suds?

You and your sister are certainly both slim @GlamGiraffe but there is no way she's under 6 stone. I'm also 5'5 and this is me at a bit under 9 stone. Your sister is definitely slimmer than me (I am quite muscly) but I wouldn't say by 3 stone!

Your sister is about 7’10

For me personally I knew I was too thin at my lowest when it hurt my arse to sit on a hard chair, my arms looked too skinny (elbows bigger than biceps), my face looked about 20 years older, and my boobs had shriveled. Turns out I was in DKA, completely dehydrated and dying though! I've plumped back out everywhere now :)
For the record, I'm 5'7 and I was just below 10 stone, so still overweight according to online BMI?

This is me.

5’7
7 stone 5
1.5 stone heavier than your sister? I think not