To think being 8 stone at

[Iftheclouds]

5’4 is very slim?

I think it totally depends on body shape as well as height. I think someone who is 5'4 with a small/slight build might be a healthy weight at 8 stone. Whereas someone who is 5'4 with a sturdier build might be a little underweight at 8 stone.

I used to be 8 stone and I'm 5 ft 8. I am now a size bloody 12. I don't look big but I feel it. my mil and Fiance say they don't understand why I feel like it because to them I look slim but probably due to having an eating disorder I feel worse. I'm still battling it and I'm better than I used to be but I won't take much for it to just get bad again. My medications make me retain weight too.

I'm 5ft 4in and at 8st I'm a very small size 8 (looks back fondly at 2007). I'm 10st 4lbs now and I feel quite chunky, I'd say being 9 to 9 1/2 st would mean I'd be slim, 8st I'd be proper skinny.

It's slim but not too slim. I'm 5ft 3.5" and 7 stone 10. Depends on frame of the person, body shape etc

I'm 5 ft 2 and used to weigh 7 stone. I was unwell though, and didn't realise it. I'm heavier now but secretly long to be underweight again. . It's an ongoing struggle 😫

Depends...

Body type, build, muscle levels, possibly ethnic origin will all affect the actual "healthy" limits for the individual.

I’m 5,4 and was just under 8 stone all my adult life, I’ve gained a stone and look so much better. Looking back at photos I was far too thin.

Dd is 5’4 and 8 stone but she’s only 14.

why d o you ask @Iftheclouds?

Do you mean TOO thin ( and it's a criticism of someone) or someone has had a dig at you?

It depends on build.

I am under 8st and 5 3"

I am not skinny. I have fat.

It depends. I am 5’4, a muscular hour glass build.

I was 8’2 in my late teens- it took me 800 cals a day and shit loads of exercise (i was a dancer) to get there.

While I don’t remember looking that thin, it was not maintainable. Normal exercise and eating has me about 9’4.

But oddly enough I have a very disordered body image and eating so I couldn’t honestly assess my own size and health. I saw myself as fat at 8 stone as I did at 12 after pregnancy. To me there is no difference in how I look, I’m always fat.

I was 8st 4lb at 5' 10" all through my late teens and early 20s. I could eat what I liked and not gain an ounce.

I wish I could say that now - still a size 10 but it's now hard work to stay there.

I'm 5'2" and in my teens and early 20s I was about 7st 8 ish. In my mid to late 20s I was 8st. It's crept up a lot now but I didn't look ill, gaunt, skinny or anything like that. I look at myself in photos from then and I just look healthy. Now I'm 11st 10 and look ill, tired, fat and flabby.

I was 5ft 3 and 8st and it was my perfect size. Not too slim

It’s normal surely? I’m 5 3 and weigh 8 stone 7. I could do with losing some belly fat.

It depends on how muscular you are, for me I gain muscle really easily and look too thin at anything under about 20bmi where my body fat percentage is very low.

For someone with less muscle mass they would have a higher body fat percentage at the same weight so would look less gaunt.

@BoulangerieBabs

My dd is 5ft4 and weighs just over 7st. Yes she's very slim but her frame is tiny so she looks a perfect weight and not remotely underweight.

The healthy weight range for your daughter's height starts at 7st 10. So at just over 7st your daughter is underweight.

I'm 5'3" and was 8 stone until I had DS2 (now 8.5) It's slim but it's still healthy. I was 7.5 all through my teens.

I'm just small framed, I always buy girls boots (the ankle bit is too wide otherwise) and my wedding ring is more usually a 'teen' size than a 'ladies' size.

Spent most of my 20s like that but I wouldn't have classed myself as skinny. Slim, yes but I wasn't a bag of bones. Oh how I miss those days 😂😂

I’m 5’4” and just under 8 stone. Slim but not skinny. Just normal

I was 7st 12 at 5'4'' when I got pregnant with dd1.

It's a normal weight. Think my bmi was 18.5.

I don’t think it is ‘ very slim‘, no. It depends on exact weight and height and build. I’m about the same height and maybe 8.5 stone, give or take a pound or two and have been most of my life. It’s what used to be a U.K. size 10-12 but is now an 8. That’s bang in middle of healthy weight for that height according to last medical, so I suppose at 8 stone dead might be on lighter end of scale but wouldn’t say necessarily underweight.

I don't think it's excessively thin. That's 50kg and I once got down to 55-56kg and I'm 2 inches taller. It wasn't particularly sustaintable for me but if you're not a big eater I think 8 stone at 5ft4 is probably a slim size 8 or so. We're too used to a size 14-16 being "normal"!

I'm 5ft5, I'm my late twenties and early thirties I was 8st-8.5st I'm now in my mid forties and 10st. Looking at my photos of when I had my first DD I actually looked ill, very thin and gaunt. I prefer my body now,I actually have boobs and a bum 😂

For most people, yes. Dependent on frame size. At the moment I can't bring myself to maintain more than 7st 7 at 5"4 but I've had an eating disorder since I was 13. I felt very healthy at 8st and was eating better. I still saw myself as big of course but was able to rationalize it. On another person I'd see it as thin.

I'm 5ft8 and I was 8 stone when I got pregnant with my second. I was still a size 8-10.