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Need to gain weight

Oldvatr said:
If you can sit in the bath and not go Ouch!!! then you are sufficiently padded in your Glutinous Maximal region (derriere) I too am 64kg and had similar comments from family, but I have maintained that weight fairly steady for 8 years now. So with my BMI of between 21 and 22 I am happy, the doc is happy. You have the option of turning excess fat into muscle which weighs more. (eat protein and up the exercise) It looks better than flab.
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I too have the problem of feeling my tail bone esp when I am on the bed. When I sit on a chair , I can feel my bones. Maybe gaining some more muscles in glute area and back area along with weight gain might help.
 
As others have indicated, 5ft 9 and 10st 2lbs equates to a BMI of 20.97 which is about half way through the "healthy" BMI range of 18.5 to 25. As so many of us are overweight (or even obese) these days I do find that it can effect the perception of what thin is amongst the general public.

For example my own BMI (which I'm working on reducing) is about 27 at the moment and even I have had comments that I look thin, or there is "nothing of me" - when in fact I've still got about another stone or so to lose even to get to the top end of the "healthy" range. Having said that, a decade or so ago I was well up into the obese range, and for the last 5 years or so had been around the top end of the overweight range - so it's perhaps in comparison to remembering me like that!
 
saky said:
I too have the problem of feeling my tail bone esp when I am on the bed. When I sit on a chair , I can feel my bones. Maybe gaining some more muscles in glute area and back area along with weight gain might help.
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Me too whether slim or fat I’ve always had prominent sitting bone. Just the shape of my skeleton, rather than the softer stuff around it.
 
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