>>Actually, she's 15-20 lbs underweight for her height, if she is a slight framed woman. Recommended weights for 5' 6":
(small frame, medium frame, large frame)
120-133 130-144 140-159<<
That AND the food pyramid are baloney. My wife are quite familiar with those recommendations and find them quite comical. I am 6'1" and my "Maximum weight" according to the charts is 190 lbs. Yet, when I went on a diet and got down to 191 lbs., all my friends said I looked "gaunt." I did.
I don't want to even go into the "minumum" for my height.
Yet the womens figures are the opposite. They idolize chunkyness, pure and simple. It is odd.
Actually a 5'6 woman at 135 pounds sounds right to me. I think the women's weights are OK but the men's are too low on those charts.
I am 5'7 and it says I should weigh about 150. I'd look like a toothpick!