To ask do you think people always look their best when a healthy weight

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Not fat shaming I’m very overweight myself and not been a healthy weight for a long time so can’t even imagine what I would look like at a healthy weight

Some do, not all

I've lost several stone after being obese from being a teenager. Not only do I feel a lot better, I know I look better and my self confidence has sky-rocketed. I no longer hide away in a corner and try to avoid people - I now have the confidence to stand proud, happy to meet new people, etc. People I know have said I have a kind of "glow" about me and that my entire persona has changed with the weight loss.

I can weigh more, still within a healthy BMI but look fat.

I do. My face is currently a bit chubby and it's much more conventionally attractive with more definition. Good health signalled by a healthy weight is attractive generally.
Oh well.

I look best a little overweight as my face looks better, less wrinkled

How can I be defensive? I’ve been a BMI of 20.6 my entire adult life. What’s to be defensive about?

it’s up to you whether you think better now, no one is taking that away from you. The question was whether “people” look better and I am suggesting most people just look pretty average to others.

I think I would easily look ten years older as my face would get thin and possibly droopy

I get for most of us ‘healthy weight’ is good but what about those of us who are atypical? Eg my beauirful SIL has a skinny face and torso but very large hips and bum. She is technically morbidly obese. If we have a selfie side by side just our faces I’m all cheeks (I’m a size 10) and she looks like she’s a size 8.

I on the others d have a very thin middle. Extreme hourglass. Chunky legs and arms and face. Huge norks. But middle - not an ounce of fat on me after 4 kids. I was rushed to a&e and saw my notes o ce and it said I was ‘moderately overweight’. I was in a gown of course but that is what they thought. I was a BMI of 21 at the time.

my point is ‘healthy weight’ can be deceiving and depending on weight distribution. Surely at a BMI of 21 I shouldn’t have thighs covered in cellulite but I do cos it’s where all my weight goes.

are you sure you mean morbidly obese ie a BMI of over 40?

because if she was say a fairly averaged height white woman (5ft6) she’d have to weigh at least 18 stone to be morbidly obese. How can that loooks like a size 8 even with a large hips and bum?

Some people put a lot of effort in their appearance and have a great presence, even if they are overweight (shocker) So not always the case. Of course it is healthier to be within the correct bmi. But not essential to look their best.

But this isn't an example of somebody 'looking their best'. It's an example of somebody looking better than another person despite carrying a little extra weight.

Also, voluptuous doesn't mean overweight. Scarlett Johansson and Kelly Brook aren't overweight.

No way they look as good in a bikini if overweight.

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she is 4’11” (i know) and looks a size 8 next to me in pics if it’s just our faces and boob level I swear. She told me she was morbidly obese. I’m 5’9. It’s a family trait - all their weight goes on lower tummy hips and bum. I mean it is extreme tbf but from waist up she looks way slimmer than me!

No my husband had to put a stone back on, after losing it. everyone thought he was ill. Some people look better slightly overweight, it's healthier too as you age

Depends on their age. Anyone my age (old) who is their ‘healthy’ weight always looks older imo. But only because their faces aren’t plumped out with fat so they have more wrinkles.

I’m in my 50s and BMI has gone from 32 to 22. Everyone says I look younger. My chins have gone, body fairly firm. My boobs look older though, like a couple of deflated balloons 😩

My friend is a lot larger and beautiful. I can’t imagine her being improved by being thin.

It’s difficult to know which pictures are the most recent but Kelly Brook certainly looks overweight.

Having seen her on the Jungle, I know the camera adds 10lbs, but I think Kelly Brook is overweight. She looks great though.

Yawn.

I doubt you were far too thin with a BMI just below overweight.

What age is “old”?

I think women of reproductive age are most fertile at a healthy weight, thus they look at their ‘best’ so they can attract a partner.

The whole thing about old and thin people looking haggard and older than their peers gets a bit tiresome.
I think it might hold some truth for people who have lost a significant amount of weight but for people who have always been slim, I don’t they they look older than their age.

I think as you get older a large weight loss makes you look do much older as your face melts like a candle. However, it's much better for your health

"Matronly bust" 😂I had one of those by 15, at a very healthy weight. I swear I could lop them off tomorrow and go from a bit overweight to healthy BMI in an instant. Hence why I think BMI is a bit of a have really. Doesn't count muscles or boobs or bone density or constipation or fluid retention or menstrual cycle or time of day or anything else relevant to determining healthy weight ...