I understand that different builds will look different at the same weight...but I'm curious. I came up with my goal based on what I think I used to weigh 20 years ago, when I thought I looked OK. Now that I'm actually getting closer, I think that I've set my goal too high. There's no way that all the fat I have hanging around is going to be gone in another 5 lbs. I need to readjust it, I think.

So what are others of my height setting as a goal?

I'm 5'4" and I weighed 128 twenty years ago. Now, after a 9 lb. loss, I'm at 179 and a friend of mine says I don't look that bad so you're right, different builds look different at the same weight. There is no doubt I'm overweight but I've decided that, at my age, 140 is a reasonable goal. I would love to be where you are now.

im 5'4"... my first goal is 160 but i ultimately wanna get down to 135

140 is my goal, I'm at 170 now, just 30 pounds away. Once I get closer to 140, I will be able to see if my "guess" of 140 was good or not. I have small bones in general - big hips. I just don't want the end up looking like a telly-tubby.

I'm 5'4" and I hope 150 looks good on me. I'll see when I get there .

I am also same height and wish to wigh150.I have lost 10 pounds so far and have almost finished 4th week.I use to weigh 128 but at my age I think it is too little now

I'm 5'4, and my goal is 133, but to comfortably fit in a US size 10 clothing is what I am really after. So I'm curious to know, Norag, if you see this post, what size clothes you are wearing at your current weight? I've been fat for so long I can't envision past the weight I'm at now.

Smudgie, I am wearing a size 8 for most things. Some of my former size 10s still fit me well though, and I have actually bought a pair of size 6 GAP jeans that fit well too. (I can't help but think they are sized wrong, however LOL) So generally and on average, I'd say size 8.

Thanks for that info, Norag.
Now I know maybe there is hope for me afterall lol!

Fifteen years ago I was a comfortable size eight anywhere between 123 and 130 pounds, but I had very little muscle tone. I'm comfortable in a size ten at my present weight, although my tummy still has most of the fat on my body, and I'm working out quite a bit. I'm pretty sure that if I keep toning, I will be a size six at 130, which would make me very happy.

I'm 5'4 and my goal weight is 140. I don't have much of an idea what I'd look like at this weight but that goal is about 35 pounds away and from the last 35 pounds I've lost, there's such a HUGE difference in the way I look. Even at my weight now, 175 I don't think I look like I weigh that much and people have also told me that so yes, I do think that different weights will look different on different people. Your frame size has a lot to do with it. I know that my "healthy weight range" goes anywhere from 117 up to about 140 but I feel that if I actually got down that low, it wouldn't look very good on me. So, I'd just say that when you get to your present goal, if you don't feel it's low enough, just re-adjust it. Good Luck!

At 5'3" I picked 115 and then revised it down to 112. I have been maintaining for a month at 110-111 but I'm thinking of making a run at 108 to see what it looks like. My waist is way out of proportion to the rest of me -- at 137, size 12 was getting tight at the waist; and at 110 my waist is still 27".

I'm 5'4" and have a goal "look", not a weight. As my body recomposes itself with muscle and fat distribution, it's quite possible that I could weigh 150 pounds and be lookin' right.

For an example of this, look here: What a one pound loss on the scale can look like!

Karen

I am 5' 4" tall and I am targeting 135 as my goal weight. However, I am reserving the right to "assess" once I get there and determine if that is the right weight. I initially set this weight goal by going through the Protein Power computation of my ideal weight... based on my lean body mass and then adding in my percentage of fat considered healthy for a woman of my age etc. It gave me a good starting point and as I said... I will assess how I look and feel when I get there. (which is only 7 lbs away I might add!)

Well....I'm 5' 3" and 25 years ago I weighed 112 lbs BUT...that was 25 years ago and this is now. I was a teenager then who was not yet fully grown and developed nor had I been through 3 pregnancies. My goal now is 140 pounds with which I think my doctor would be thrilled when I get there. Will I ever look like that teenage girl again? Not likely, but hey...I'm not a teenage girl anymore. I'm a forty-something woman approaching perimenopause.
My point is that very few people can turn back the clock and look like they did 20 or 30 years ago no matter how much weight they lose; bodies change as we age and it may be a very unrealistic goal to try and get to where you were then, that's why those infamous height/weight charts also take into consideration age as well as height.