Are you healthy weight, overweight, or obese?

[nightglow]

According to the BMI thing, I am obese. My own sight, I am over weight. Fat.
I gained my weight from medications I was taking as a teen.. but my weight never left even though I am not on those medications anymore. I can't seem to lose or gain (though I don't try to gain obviously). I am also a short adult. Just under 5 feet.
I do get ovarian cysts which I am sure plays a role (not the only cause though) for the weight. I also don't eat much at all. 1-2 meals a day and a snack. Sometimes only one meal a day.
I live in USA. Most of us are overweight/fat/obese.
I don't worry about my weight so much. Sure it is undesirable, but there are bigger things for me to worry about in my life than a number on the scale and clothing. I think it is more important to pick healthy food or the healthier option if you are limited when you do eat than to worry about carb and fat calorie counts. Some of this diet food in USA is full of sugar but lowers the fat content. Not much better.. sugar packs pounds.
I also think it is good to fast regardless of weight if done appropriately and you don't have medical conditions that may get irritated or cause issues altogether (diabetes is common in usa and you probably shouldn't fast). I usually fast for religious reasons though.
And maybe I should care about my appearance a little more, but if I do, I will just end up stressing over it. I know the extra weight doesn't help my fibromyalgia or asthma. I am me regardless of measurements and for my mental health I just need to accept myself as I am.

 

[Holla]

Underweight and have been that way for a very long time. Though I’m closer to a healthy weight right now than I’ve ever been. Hopefully one day I’ll get there but as long as I don’t get any worse that’s the main thing.

 

[deana]

I am towards the upper limit of healthy weight and I basically always have been. To be perfectly honest I may have tipped in to the overweight category since lockdown/the last year of pandemic has not been kind to me All of my clothes still fit though so I am not so concerned about any weight gain. I could probably stand to lose about 10 - 15 pounds or so.

 

[Antonio]

I'm adorably chubby.

 

[~Kilza~]

I've been underweight my entire life, which I've been perfectly fine with tbh. It's kinda just the way my body is, I feel like I'm at a healthy enough weight and I don't really have any desire to try and gain more weight in order to be at an "average" weight.

 

[BluebearL]

I am underweight and always have been- I have a really fast metabolism and despite past efforts, have enormous difficulty putting on weight. In the end though, as long as your healthy/not harming yourself- weight just doesn’t matter at all, big or small

 

[Kirbyz]

im a little overweight i believe—though not a lot. i had an eating disorder in the past that went on for many years that i don’t want to dwell into, but i basically lost a ton of weight in a very short amount of time because i wasn’t eating anything at all. i literally went mad during those years, id never sit down and was walking all day, even if it meant waking in circles around my house for 17 hours straight. anyways skip past all of that, when everyone finally convinced my crazy self slowly but surely, i started to eat little by little everyday until i finally starting eating semi normally and all the weight i lost came back in more than double. lost quite a bit of it from that point but still struggling to lose the rest, i guess my metabolism is even more screwed up then before. hoping at some point i can lose the rest but ever since then everybody always keeps a close eye on me to make sure im actually eating food now—especially my grandma—the words “not hungry” arent in her vocabulary

 

[amemome]

I think I'm slightly overweight. I struggle a lot with body image so this might be inaccurate. My parents contributed a lot to my struggle with body image and self acceptance. I also think my depression plays a key factor in how "able" I am to work on making healthy choices for myself.

 

[ChocoPie22]

I'm underweight, I've always had an extremely fast metabolism and horrible eating habits (eating too little), so I haven't been able to gain weight

 

[dragonpisces69]

I'm somewhat at risk of overweight but I don't really care since I'm trying really hard to accept my body for what and how it is, no matter what others say.

 

[EmeraldJourney]

I had this subject on my mind as while I am at a healthy weight level, I did have a weight problem from 2009 until around 2012 or 2013, and weight problems are common here in the southern US. Do you have one or no?
Personally mine went away largely because I grew taller, and I haven't had it come back since I exercise almost regularly.

I am actually underweight but don't see myself that way, which is the struggle. I'm getting help but it's still difficult at times. I do eat, but sometimes I skip meals or don't take enough.

 

[Toska]

I’m constantly changing between underweight and healthy weight. I’m continually trying to lose more weight though, cause I’m never happy with my body. I think part of that is whenever I was younger I was very overweight, and I don’t want to go back to that.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Sometimes I know when people ask me questions like "Did you lose any weight?" and the response I usually say is "yes and I am still trying so hard". For the longest time I have always struggled with this. I was growing with so much weight on me because I was eating out of control. My parents would always tell me to "keep losing weight you're too fat" but then its like I try my best but my weight doesn't go down. This went on for years until around 2021 I started pressuring myself to lose weight.

I began to cut down every junk food, started working on treadmill every mornings, and of course eat the right healthy foods. I've been doing this since February 2021 where my weight was about 343.6 which looking back I am so mad at myself for not losing this weight sooner, because I was going through difficult moments in my life that I haven't really gotten around to it. Eventually when I started to lose weight, my parents at first were not too impressed and they told me I wasn't "trying hard enough", because of this I had to keep doing more and more.

By the end of March 2021, I've lost 20 pounds and my weight was down to 321.3 it was at this time my parents were still telling me to do more, because they still weren't satisficed. As time kept going on and on I keep hearing voices in my head telling me "You're not good enough to lose weight" and "Its no use you will never lose the weight." I kept telling myself "NO! I will not be defeated". So I kept going on exercising every single day, eating less junk food, and eating more healthy foods.

When it was the end of April 2021, I've lost 10 more pounds and my weight was down to 311.4 and when I finally went to Doctor for a checkup he told me that my blood results were actually improving and he was surprised to see how much weight I've lost. He was happy, but then he said that he wanted to see me go down in the 200s in my weight. Which didn't make me feel any better, because I told myself "Darn it I should've tried harder" While my parents were actually happy to see me lose weight, I felt myself just feeling more pressured to continue to lose weight.

Finally now at the moment when my mom asked me "When last you weighed?" it was probably the first time I felt pressured to even check my weight. Feeling scared I went up on the weight scale and to my shock it was at 301.4, part of me is suppose to feel happy, but I didn't because I didn't get under 300. When I told my mom about it she told me "You are doing a good job and I am proud of you for losing the weight" this is probably the first time in a long while she has ever said that when she was so hard on me the first time about it. My emotions were all over the place. I was annoyed because she asked me about my weight and I was even more angry with myself that I didn't try hard enough to get under 300.

I know they say losing weight is suppose to make you feel happy but for me I just feel pressured to lose weight, just to make sure I don't get shamed on or feeling pressured by others to lose weight. Then again its my fault for not doing this sooner and I was being neglectful about my own weight in the first place. Do I feel happy losing weight? Well kinda yes and kinda no, on one hand it made me feel better, but at the same time I just feel like I didn't do good enough despite some of the complaints I got. I don't know maybe I'm just going crazy.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I'm overweight but not obese. I'm a lil chubby. But I've lost like almost 10 lbs in a month so that's cool

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I was a healthy weight until 2015, when I had to start taking a steroid medication to get rid of the severe eczema issue I was having with my hands. That caused me to gain 10 lbs. Between 2015 and probably last Summer, I had gained another ~25 lbs, perhaps because I was depressed or because my body was just severely acting up.

I've lost 10 lbs since then. I'm 5'3" and I currently weight 160 lbs; even though I don't look overweight/fat at all, my BMI (which prob isnt accurate anyways) says I'm way overweight. I'm hoping to get back down to around 135, where I was at the beginning of my Sophomore year of HS, but I don't know how I'm gonna get there yet.

This was like over two years ago so I'll post an update:

In short, yes I'm still overweight. I actually got to the point where I was bordering obesity back in Nov/Dec; I'm 5'3" (technically 5'3.5") and I weighed about 183 lbs. I really don't know how I let myself go like that.
I just weighed myself a few days ago and I'm down to 155. my goal is still 135 so I've got a ways to go but after about 6 years I'm finally on my way to being a normal/healthy weight

 

[Croconaw]

I would say I’m at a healthy weight. I’m 23 and I’m around 110 lbs. I’m 5’2” though, I’m short.

 

[Neb]

I’ve been overweight, underweight, and average weight at some point in my life. Right now I’m at the average weight for my height.

Being underweight is definitely the worst of the three. My body ached all over and I had little energy.

 

[Autumn247]

I was normal weight for all of my life then I gained a lot of weight due to medications and poor eating habits, I lost 100lbs though. Now I'm a few lbs overweight but not obese like I was for awhile. I still want to lose about 20-25 more lbs though, I'm currently working on eating healthier

 

[ali.di.magix]

Sometimes I know when people ask me questions like "Did you lose any weight?" and the response I usually say is "yes and I am still trying so hard". For the longest time I have always struggled with this. I was growing with so much weight on me because I was eating out of control. My parents would always tell me to "keep losing weight you're too fat" but then its like I try my best but my weight doesn't go down. This went on for years until around 2021 I started pressuring myself to lose weight.

I began to cut down every junk food, started working on treadmill every mornings, and of course eat the right healthy foods. I've been doing this since February 2021 where my weight was about 343.6 which looking back I am so mad at myself for not losing this weight sooner, because I was going through difficult moments in my life that I haven't really gotten around to it. Eventually when I started to lose weight, my parents at first were not too impressed and they told me I wasn't "trying hard enough", because of this I had to keep doing more and more.

By the end of March 2021, I've lost 20 pounds and my weight was down to 321.3 it was at this time my parents were still telling me to do more, because they still weren't satisficed. As time kept going on and on I keep hearing voices in my head telling me "You're not good enough to lose weight" and "Its no use you will never lose the weight." I kept telling myself "NO! I will not be defeated". So I kept going on exercising every single day, eating less junk food, and eating more healthy foods.

When it was the end of April 2021, I've lost 10 more pounds and my weight was down to 311.4 and when I finally went to Doctor for a checkup he told me that my blood results were actually improving and he was surprised to see how much weight I've lost. He was happy, but then he said that he wanted to see me go down in the 200s in my weight. Which didn't make me feel any better, because I told myself "Darn it I should've tried harder" While my parents were actually happy to see me lose weight, I felt myself just feeling more pressured to continue to lose weight.

Finally now at the moment when my mom asked me "When last you weighed?" it was probably the first time I felt pressured to even check my weight. Feeling scared I went up on the weight scale and to my shock it was at 301.4, part of me is suppose to feel happy, but I didn't because I didn't get under 300. When I told my mom about it she told me "You are doing a good job and I am proud of you for losing the weight" this is probably the first time in a long while she has ever said that when she was so hard on me the first time about it. My emotions were all over the place. I was annoyed because she asked me about my weight and I was even more angry with myself that I didn't try hard enough to get under 300.

I know they say losing weight is suppose to make you feel happy but for me I just feel pressured to lose weight, just to make sure I don't get shamed on or feeling pressured by others to lose weight. Then again its my fault for not doing this sooner and I was being neglectful about my own weight in the first place. Do I feel happy losing weight? Well kinda yes and kinda no, on one hand it made me feel better, but at the same time I just feel like I didn't do good enough despite some of the complaints I got. I don't know maybe I'm just going crazy.

Im sorry that your Doctors and parents pressured you like that. Saying stuff like that can't be encouraging. Losing about 50 lbs is a good accomplishment, give yourself credit for that! Idk about you but I never thought I could even lose 5 kg (11 lbs), so good on you for doing so well bear in mind that if your weight loss has slowed, that's totally natural as your body tries to fight against losing weight! I also agree with you about feeling better after weight loss/. Everyone goes on about feeling more energetic, happier, healthier etc. I've never felt any of that through weight loss/exercise lol.

For me, according to my BMI I'm obese lol. I wouldn't say I look obese, definitely overweight but not obese. I've lost about 20 kg since last year, ideally I'd like to lose another 20 kg to be closer to a healthy weight. I've always been overweight. I'm sure that genetics plays a role since I've got PCOS and my whole family are on the bigger side.

 

[Bluebellie]

I would say I’m underweight. I wouldn’t mind putting on maybe 10 more pounds. My weight makes me look 10 years younger than what I am.


It doesn’t help that I don’t generally eat junk food, sweets or anything that puts weight.