To think being 8 stone at

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5’4 is very slim?

I am a stone heavier:9st at 5ft 4 and consider myself healthy but could do with another couple of pounds off. 8 stone would be fine for me and healthy - it shouldn’t raise any eyebrows as being underweight.

At my current weight I am a high street size 8, but can barely fit into a M&S size 12 from the early 80s...

Sounds like a healthy weight, just normal. Well, old normal, not today's normal which as a PP said is very skewed these days.

It is slim but not underweight in my opinion - I am 5'6" and was about 8 stone until I was mid-twenties. Since then it has gradually crept up to 9 stone. I certainly don't think I was underweight at my previous weight and I am 2" taller than the example you mentioned. I do have small A-B cup boobs though so that helps!

It’s slim but within normal range. I’m that weight and height and I’m in my 50s. I’ve weighed more or less the same my whole adult life.

Yes, it is slim. I weigh 7.5 stone, around 5'3" and I am very slim. Small boned too - don't under eat at all. My mother and daughter are the same.

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I’ve been 8 stone and I’m just over 5ft 5 and I was a size 6-8. Feel most comfortable as a size 10 and 9 stone ish.

Very slim compared to average, not excessively slim (either on health or aesthetic grounds) for many (most?) people though I think. I was about that for a long time, until early 40s. I didn't need to make any effort to maintain it. For me it was my natural, healthy weight and nobody every suggested I looked too think. Once I dropped down to closer to 7.5 and that was too thin for me - I know that because it was the time in my life when I was most stressed, not sleeping etc.

I'm now nearly 50 and closer to 9st. On purely aesthetic grounds I'd rather be closer to 8, but 9st is OK too.

If anyone was 5 ft 4 and 8 st and claiming to need to lose weight then I'd be concerned. But I certainly wouldn't assume a problem just because they are that weight.

To me that sounds like a normal healthy weight. I’m 5’6 and was around 8 and a half stone pre kids, which I believe would bring me to similar BMI as someone who is 8 stone and 5”4. I looked fine. I would sell my soul to be that weight again. I’m 9 stone 7 now and although it doesn’t sound like a lot I really feel like I could do with losing half a stone. If I have the tiniest bit of excess weight on me I carry it all around my midsection, therefore I personally look better at the lower end of a healthy BMI. If I had a more hourglass shape I think I could probably get away with being slightly heavier. Everyone carries weight differently, so being at a weight that might look excessively thin for one person might not look so thin on another.

Yes

I lost five and a half stone on the the cancer diet five years ago.

I am now 56, 5' 3" and I toggle between 8 stone 3 and 8 stone 8, there is a photo of me at Christmas at 8-3 and I am just that little bit too thin looking in the face.

I wouldn't mind putting a bit more weight on, but I really couldn't be arsed to go looking for clothes again, it took me a long time to find my style after the weight loss and the thoughts of clothes shopping again makes me want to weep.

As an aside, the BMI calculator gives me parameters of

Healthy weight range for your height:
7st 6lb - 10st 1lb

If I weighed 7st 6lb, I would be reported missing and I would look gaunt.

I am 5’ 5” and until I was 27 I weighed 8st 2lb and was perfectly healthy and fit and well.
I then had two daughters. I’m now 53 and have weighed around 9st for the last several years.

So no, I don’t think 8st at 5’ 4” is too slim at all so long as the person is eating healthily

I’m 5ft 5 and used to be 8 stone. Slim, but not alarmingly so.

I'm 5ft 6 and 8 stone 7lbs - I used to be 7 stone 9 lbs 2 years ago but I did have an eating disorder at that point and looks skeletal. I think I looked OK at 8 stone, but in the last year I'm slowly and surely gaining weight, so I'm guessing 8 stone is not where my body naturally sits.

I liked being 8 stone, I felt great. But it is what it is.

I’m happy being 9 stone at the same height which would be 6/8 dress size but people comment that I look ill and like I have an eating disorder with my frame. I start getting the “careful you might slide down a grid/drain etc” comments around that size and can recall a man saying “ugh, you’ve got NO figure anymore” when I dieted to get to 9 stone. I can’t imagine what I’d look like a stone lighter...not attractive for sure and probably quite gaunt/ill.

What are her bones like OP? Narrow shoulders? Small wrists?

I know a few like this. One is about 5'3 and 8 stone. She has really skinny arms and legs but a bit of a pot belly. So no to your question.

My daughter is 5.5, 7.5st and I’d say pretty thin, hers is a medical issue.
My son is 5.7 and 7st and pretty skeletal looking, with him it’s partly his genetics but also ARFID.

The healthy weight range for your daughter's heightstartsat 7st 10. So at just over 7st your daughter is underweight.
Depends on her age. 5ft 4 and 7 stone is healthy for a 14 year old.

That is slim. I used to be 8st 3lbs at 5'4" and had to buy children's clothes as even size 6 dropped off me. People used to constantly tell me I was too thin. But it's not unhealthily slim. BMI suggests you can be several pounds lighter than that (as low as 7st 10lbs) and still within a healthy range.

I am 5ft4" and have been 8 St, I was very slim, too slim. My ideal weight on the doctor's chart is 9st although I am 9st 8 at the moment.

I am 5' 3" and at 8 stone I am slim but could look a bit better. A few lumps and bumps 😊

I liked best at 7 stone but 7.5 was a more maintainable weight.

This was all when I was younger and I generally fluctuated without watching my weight between 7.5 and 8 stone.

I crept up to 9 when I was older and looked a bit big imo but not too bad.

Sadly I now have thyroid disease and now weigh 11 stone and am officially overweight 😢 and I look fat and overweight too! Rubbish.

When not pregnant I’m 5”7 and 8st9 ish and a size 8-10. Same BMI as your weight range would be for that height and I look slim but not skinny. Think it depends on the build of the person.

When I traveled I came home 7st8 and looked ill.

I'm 5'3 and at my slimmest weighed around 8 stone. I looked slender but not unhealthy and I still had some curves. I also fitted into the clothes that were tailor-made for my grandmother in the 60s when she was a 30-something mother-of-three, so possibly our cultural frame of reference re typical body weight/fat has changed quite a lot over the years.

I’m 8 stone and 5’4, I’m slim, but I wouldn’t say I was skinny. I’m a size 8.