Thanks for clearing that up for me, Steph. When you put it in terms of a five-foot person, it's easier for me to imagine, because that's roughly my height and weight, and I am probably not a candidate for Weight Watchers.
The reason I said what I did was that a good friend of mine, when we were in university together, was one of those "looks skinny but really isn't" kind of people. She is five foot five, and back then probably only weighed about 115 lbs. She really did look thin. However, she was absolutely not an athlete and used to joke about being totally out of shape. She and I took a kinesiology (human kinetics) class together once, and there was this one lab we did that involved a lot of different measurements and calculations to work out your BMI, among other things. She discovered that she was actually kind of flabby -- she had poor muscle tone, and her body fat percentage was much higher than you would think. In fact, her body fat percentage was significantly higher than what was considered healthy for a woman, although I can't remember what the actual numbers were. Everyone was surprised, and we re-did all the measurements and calculations, and had the prof check it. We had done it correctly. So it is possible to be a little flabby without actually being overweight. My friend looked thin, but she wasn't healthy.
Interestingly, this friend is now 39, and over the course of twenty years she has put on a good eighty pounds. She is unhappy about this, and is trying to lose weight, but she did say "I should have seen this coming....but it's so hard to eat right and exercise when you've never done it before."
I can see why Weight Watchers would want to weed out those with eating disorders, though.
