Once you've reached your weight loss goal...?

So it's official I've lost 20 lbs. I am so psyched for myself and feel awesome about the way I look and the way I feel. The weird thing is, I keep getting a vibe from people that I could stand to lose more.

It started with the person who weighed me in at weight watchers. I told her my goal weight and she asked "really? it's a big range that is healthy for your height." I reassured her that BMI ranges just aren't efficient for my body type. Yes my weight may be higher up on the range but even when I am "over" the BMI range I am very healthy.

When I was five pounds over the healthy BMI range for my weight my doctor told me that I was insanely healthy. I had very, very low cholesterol, very healthy blood sugar levels and my blood pressure honestly is always beyond perfect.

So now that I am ten pounds below what I was when I had that checkup it begs the question. Why do people think you need to have no fat on you to be healthy and look good? Sure I may not look show stopping in a swimsuit, but I do not look bad. I look great in regular clothes and am fitting into sizes that are much smaller than what I wore in high school, when I ran cross country and had the body of a teenager.

My brothers always told me and my sisters that we could stand to lose more weight, at every stage of our lives. Even when my sisters were running competitive track in college and playing college basketball, they did not seem to be as thin as my brothers suggested every woman should be. Granted my brothers both dated several anorexic (no I'm not exaggerating) girls before settling on there respectively naturally thin wives. But does that mean that you have to be super thin to be considered healthy and doesn't it matter more what weight makes you happy.

My husband is very sweet and supportive. He says that if I want to stop losing weight he will support me, but he is quick to suggest that he would love to support me in losing another ten pounds. (I think he's just curious to see what difference another ten pounds would make). After all right now I am thinner than he has ever seen me and I could look even more different if I were to lose another ten pounds.

I'm torn. I'm sick of trying to lose weight and I kind of want to move into the maintenance side of things, but I'm a little curious too. Would I be even happier ten pounds lighter? Or really will no weight seem thin enough to me in this world where even the size two's are airbrushed to be thinner when they are placed on the cover of magazines?