>5'5" and under 130?

Do you have alot of excess skin?  I am 5'6 and weigh about 165. I get comments all the time that I am too skinny. I am very happy where I am now - I would love to get down to 150 if I could only loose it from my stomach but if I lose if from anywhere else it would make me look sickly and you can't your body where to lose it.  125 sounds really low, especially if you have any excess skin but you know best.

I don't have a lot of excess skin (yet) but will need plastic surgery to lift my breasts for sure.  People tell me to stop losing weight now, but I think they are jealous because I am still visibly overweight and in an unhealthy BMI.  I wear a size 12 now.  I have been down as low as 115 in the past, and was a size 4.  At 125-130 I was a 6 and looked and felt awesome.  After redistribution, my weight will even out and I won't look sickly.  I'm pretty confident about it

The only extra weight I have is in my belly but I have one disadvantage in that I became post menopausal the day  of my surgery at a very young age of 46.  So, now at 48 it is very difficult to lose any weight in the belly.  I am a size 12 and very happy there.  If I ever got to a size 4 or 6, I would be anorexic.  I wish you the best.

First of all, Danielle, you are doing an AMAZING job and if your goal is healthy and your doctor is supportive... then by all means, GO FOR IT!

Every person is different, a 5'6 woman can have a frail thin frame and weight near nothing and have the metabolism of a hummingbird... yet a woman the same height can eat rabbit food all day and genetically get slammed and weigh over 300 lbs.

My point, and I mean no disrespect by saying this... is that to say you would be anorexic at a 4 or 6, comes across a little judgemental. That size may be too thin for you, but anorexia is a disease. It is an illness, not a body type.

I just don't want anyone feeling as though their personal goals should be the only acceptable goal for others.

Again... Danielle, you go girl!

I just want to say.... AWESOME on getting to 139!  When is the last time you saw that on the scale?  :)

Bahahahaha-- that is a 50 million dollar question!  Maybe when I was 10 yrs old?  hahahahaha

Then I'm even more THRILLED for you!  :)

The only time in my adult life that I was in the 130's was in 1974.  While nursing my son, I just couldn't keep the weight on. The day that ended, so did the party and the weight came on like blockbusters! That was my lowest adult weight. I graduated from HS in 1968 at 176.  Funny that I can remember what I weighed all along my life but can't remember other things.

 LOL  so can I !!!   tells ya what a persistent  and saddening lifelong ISSUE the excess weight was , at least 4 me....

I'm 5'6" and hopefully I'll get below 130 soon.  My loss has slowed wayyyyyy down lately and I'm bouncing up and down a lb or two more frequently than in the past few months.

I'm starting to get comments from friends and family that I should stop losing at this point, but to be honest I still look and feel fat.  I'm still carrying too much fat on my belly for my liking and I think losing the last 15 or so lbs to reach my goal will make a huge difference in getting rid of it.

Everyone has different feelings and opinions on what is an attractive weight and mine tends to be more towards a waifish/leaner less curvy physique.  Thankfully that is the body type that I had hiding underneath all my fat.  :0)

Yasmeen

im 5'9" and 135- 130 lbs and hope to lose to 110 -115 allowing for a bounce back to 115 range.

I do not look overly skinny at ALL . Nooone and I mean not ONE person has said i should stop losing ( whats up with that ?!! )

My belly still sticks out and has flubber on it .... i have love handles and muffin top when my jeans fi snugly on the hips my torso has fat on it and my upper arms are disproportionately meaty .

Probably someone could easily liposuck twenty or twenty five lbs of fat cells off and leave me with a nice fairly skinny well defined body lol .

yeah i think its that people are used to seeing us obese - or worse COMPETING with us . We're the fat girl who makes the skinny girls look better in comparison .

I wouldnt pay a BIT of mind to those " you're too skinny " comments myself ... trust me from everything ive heard on here .. the REAL hard part is trying to keep the weight off once Uve stopped losing .

If Ure fortunate enough to get to a well defined point ten or fifteen lbs below Ur "best weight " then U wont face a lifetime of frustration where Ur best efforts will keep U maintaining twenty lbs ABOVE it .....