You're in exactly the same boat as my husband -- he's 6'1", has a muscular build, is a runner, and weighs about 220. He's got some weight to lose, as we're both showing the effects of not-so-healthy eating, but if he gets much below 200 he starts to look unhealthy. But all the "experts" would tell him that he should be down to around 180 to be in the normal/healthy weight range. Bollocks.
For that matter, IIRC the *maximum* healthy weight recommended for women my height (5'3") is around 125. The last time I weighed that much, I was skin and bones. It's hard to gauge how much I should weigh, since I've put on a lot of fat as well as muscle over the last few years, but it's hard for me to imagine that I could look healthy at anything much below 140. (I clock in at around 170/175 now, which is morbidly obese according to the charts, but given that I don't even need to shop in the "women's" section in the store, that label seems misapplied. Yes, I'm too fat and could stand to lose at least 20lbs. But if I'm morbidly obese, then I don't know what to call larger people!)
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Date: 2005-08-25 02:19 pm (UTC)For that matter, IIRC the *maximum* healthy weight recommended for women my height (5'3") is around 125. The last time I weighed that much, I was skin and bones. It's hard to gauge how much I should weigh, since I've put on a lot of fat as well as muscle over the last few years, but it's hard for me to imagine that I could look healthy at anything much below 140. (I clock in at around 170/175 now, which is morbidly obese according to the charts, but given that I don't even need to shop in the "women's" section in the store, that label seems misapplied. Yes, I'm too fat and could stand to lose at least 20lbs. But if I'm morbidly obese, then I don't know what to call larger people!)