What's a healthy weight? (Looking for advice on eating disorder recovery)

Wondering if 110 pounds is pushing it too low for someone who's 5'8" or 5'8.5"... :/

Well, it’s a bit subjective, I suppose—it really depends on how you look at it. If we were strictly following a textbook formula, an ideal weight might be around 139 pounds, but life rarely works out that linearly.
It’s difficult to judge someone through a computer screen and just say, "Yeah, that's way too low, you're anorexic."

I’m roughly that same height (5'8"), and I remember dropping down to about 115 pounds during one particularly exhausting stretch of my life—and let me tell you, I was right on the edge. I looked like a walking clothes hanger; just completely flat and gaunt. (which, if I'm being honest, was probably the catalyst for some hormonal issues and all the subsequent headaches that come with that later on)

I suspect there’s a baseline somewhere around 115 pounds that you really shouldn't drop below

If she isn't a model, then no. But she's close. Shouldn't be under 5'3".

At that height, yeah, 110 pounds is definitely on the slim side, especially since I’m about 5'4" and weigh the same, so I come across as pretty thin myself. My sweet spot is closer to 120 pounds, though it really comes down to your specific build. I have a heavier bone structure, which means even when I drop below what most people would call a normal weight, my legs and hips stay solid while my arms stay skinny.

Hard to say. I’d need to see you in person first.😁
I’m about 132 lbs at 5'6", and I usually rock a size 2 or 4—which, honestly, makes zero sense given what the scale says.

So if you're standing at 5'8" and weighing in at 110 lbs, your BMI comes out to 16.5.

Basically, anything under 18.5 is flagged as underweight... a healthy range usually sits somewhere between 18.5 and 24.9, and once you cross that top number, you're looking at being overweight.

Which means, uh, you'd need to hit about 123 lbs just to scrape the bottom edge of that "normal," healthy BMI zone.

BMI = ( Weight in Pounds / ( Height in Feet x Height in Feet ) * 703 )

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Jason Flores14 said:Wondering if 110 pounds is pushing it too low for someone who's 5'8" or 5'8.5"... :/

Look, no matter how you slice it, or what your frame looks like, 😁 Tyler James5
already made it clear that it's below a healthy range.
Now, whether that counts as anorexia is a different story. Here are two examples of people who are both 5'8":

1. A friend of mine—around 110-115 lbs—but she’s just built that way and doesn't look sick. She's thin, sure, but at first glance, you can tell she's totally fine and eats everything.
2. Another friend—she was about 112 lbs when she ended up in the hospital. She didn't look healthy at all; she was shaking because she wasn't eating, looked washed out, exhausted... basically, you could see she was suffering.

So, I guess someone can be that weight just because of their genetics and not have anorexia (one person is just naturally skinny, maybe they lost weight due to stress), or they could be that weight and actually have anorexia (they won't eat, over-exercise, drink tons of water, and honestly look like they got hit by a car). Anorexia is more about the mental relationship with food than anything else. So, if you want to know if someone has an eating disorder, I guess you judge them by how they treat food, not just the number on the scale.