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How to pick goal weight

How do you decide on a goal weight? My doctors office has my goal as a normal BMI but i think that with my body type, that would make me too small. What do you do?

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  • Funny I had planned to post this same question tonight. My weight based only on height should be 135lbs. At 53 I'm not pushing for that one. My doc really didn't set one for me. I went with 170,

  • christina353
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    The BMI charts do not account for muscle mass. That is why it is inaccurate for atheletes. I think having a low Fat percentage is more accurate and healthier.

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I agree Jachut. Normal BMI is 18.5-24.9. I weigh 133 with a BMI of 22.8. That is mid-range normal. I am in no way a stick, I have curves and breasts and do not look at all sickly. My husband who has never been overweight is 5’5” and 152 pounds. He has little love handles and a little bit of a belly but is muscular too and I don’t mind saying looks damn fine

I have not reached the lower end of normal BMI and don’t intend to. To do so would require me to weigh 108 pounds. When I was around a 20 BMI (120 pounds) my face was a bit sunken and I did not think I looked well. At higher-end normal (145 pounds) I was within the healthy BMI range and still looked a little “chunky”. Only a 12 pound difference from where I am now but at normal weight 12 pounds lost or gained is much more noticeable.

The BMI chart is not ideal and does not work for every body type. Just saying that at least for me, I can be within the healthy BMI and still have the ability to choose to have a little bit of meat on my bones or no meat at all.

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