To think being 8 stone at

[Iftheclouds]

5’4 is very slim?

I don't think anyone can tell you yes 8 stone at that height is healthy without knowing more. Clearly from PP, that combination of height / weight is healthy for some and not for others. I'm 5"3 and I was a size 6-8 at 9 stone. At 8 stone I would look very skinny, it wouldn't be a good look for me and I'd also have to starve myself to get there.

I'm 5ft 4 and about 8 stone and have been for over ten years. I'd say I'm skinny - I'm between a size 4 and a size 8 depending on where I shop, have a 'thigh gap' and my hip bones are visible.

It's accepted in my friend groups that I'm the slim one and I'd say I'm probably smaller in frame than most of the adults I know.

I don't do anything at all to maintain this weight, I'm not a big eater though.

Slim and healthy are two different things.

I’ve been slim my whole life but couldn’t run for a bus for a lot of it, as I did no exercise. Also had very little muscle. Definitely wasn’t healthy.

Yes OP I would say that is very slim. I’m 5’3 and 8.5 stone and I’d say I’m slim but with a little tiny bit of padding. I was under 8 stone in my 20s and looked a bit ill.

Slim, skinny, scrawny and gaunt are different things too. All based on appearance, not health but all different.

So I find your question very leading OP. Slim is a positive description. 'Nice and slim'. Whereas gaunt or scrawny are not.

i'm 5"3 and 10st and still very slim

@goose1964

Yes, but you get the competitive undereaters satin they're six foot talk and a size 4.

alternatively, you have the competitive over-weight gang who must laugh at anyone who is not heavy enough

Thin, slim, flat, skinny... these have all become relative terms and very much depend on people's references and social circles.
I have a BMI of 18 which is "my" definition of the "normal thin". However judging from all the comments I get all the time, I seem to be unusually thin in the eyes of many people, especially post having children - there is indeed an expectation that once we have children we should be bigger .

Likewise I often secretly totally disagree with other posters on this website when they comment on other posters' photos using superlative words such as "you have a fab figure", "I would kill to have you figure" which tells me that this is all relative, especially in a world where we seem to have both extremes being glorified. To me OP's question is therefore almost like a "how long is a piece of string" question.

Yes, it's slim, but so what? Nothing wrong with being slim. I am 5'7, I looked really good when I was 8.6 stones and I was as healthy as anything.

The ridiculous competition to over-eat and being overweight on this forum is tiring.

I am heavier now, I am much more toned and have built on muscles, and had kids and all that.

Again, nothing wrong with someone being very slim, it has never been the sign of being unhealthy.

My mum is that weight has been all her life and often gets comments saying she’s too thin. It’s natural for her and she doesn’t really do anything to maintain it.

Comments like that at your Mum make me see red

Why do people think it's okay to comment on someone being slim, yet if you were to tell someone they looked too fat and weighed too much for their height you'd be accused of fat shaming?

I think most people who call people 'slim' and say they look thin are often overweight and jealous.

Anyone else emerge from reading this kind of thread both feeling fat and craving cake?

Yes I was 8 stone at 5ft 4 and I looked terrible. I could fit into age 11 shorts and I looked like death. For me to look healthy I need to weigh 10 stone.

I would guess at this weight / height you would wear a size 6-8 in regular high street clothing.
Which in my opinion, and probably most peoples opinion - is slim.
Although it can depend on body shape can’t it, someone can have quite chunky calves or a pot belly and still be what I would call “tiny”

In All Saints the other day the assistant told me they stocked size 2 upwards. I genuinely asked her who in real life was a size 2 (UK not US) and she said you’d be surprised, some people are genuinely petite not just slim.

SIZE 2 - really??)

If you called someone with a BMI of 24.4 podgy, would that be OK?

Because that's as far inside the top of the healthy range as this is inside the bottom.

And for a woman of 5ft 4, that's a weight of 10st 3

We're a bit screwed up about what a healthy weight should look like

Slim and healthy weight. My DD is size 6-8. Not skinny, but no fat at all. Lovely.

I'm just under 8 stone at 5"3 I would say its slim. I'm a size 6 - 8.

But people like to tell you that, over and over and over. "Int you just tiny, do you eat? You could shop in the kids section har har har" bla bla bla but comment on someone being a tubster and Ooo you're the bad guy.

Also I’m 5 5 and wouldn’t consider myself slim at 10 stone. To be slim I’d have to be probably more around 9 to 9 and half tops.

It’s all relative. I have a lot of belly fat from these sodding kids. Until that goes I don’t think I could look slim

I was that weight until I had children. Now I’m just under nine stone, and I’m 43, so undoubtedly it looks better. I’m also 5’7.5.

@SchrodingersUnicorn

Anyone else emerge from reading this kind of thread both feeling fat and craving cake?

Why? People have different body shapes, different lifestyle.

Many tall and very slim women have famously been bullied at school because they were so tall and slim and been uncomfortable and self-conscious for years.

Being bigGER than someone like Kate Middleton (to name a famously slim woman) doesn't mean you are fat either.

I have friends who shop in the kids section, because they are tiny: slim AND petite. They are not unhealthy.

I'm 5ft 4 and weigh 8st 2.

But I'm small built like my nanny. She never weighed more than 7 1/2 stone her whole life

It used to be considered normal to,have a bmi of 19. I'm 5ft6 and weighed around that much in my 20s to30s
So yes YABU, it's perfectLy healthy

Incidentally I'm the same waist size now, but at least a stone heavier, due to weight training

When I was in my teen/early 20s I am that height and I remember thinking when I put on a few pounds to 8 stone 2lbs that I was 'fat'.

I'm now 3 stone heavier and want to go back and punch old me in the face.

Sounds fine - slim but not underweight.

As a teen I was 8 stone ish and 5’6” but that was probably because I’d shot up at a young age, and then stopped growing and filled out a bit.

It is definitely slim but not necessarily worryingly/unhealthily slim - I'm 5'3 and the times I have been that weight when younger I've looked fairly gaunt in the face and started to attract the odd concerned comment, but I was still filling size 8 in clothes. I agree that two generations ago it would have just been seen as a normal weight.