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[Mwezzi]

I must say Christie it's a little worrying. I'm 5'7"/8" and my weight fluctuates between 8st and 8st6, by BMI standards I'm a little underweight but it's not affected my health. However it IS my natural weight, taking less than the recommended amount of exercise and a reasonably healthy diet and not doing anything to affect my weight. I said before, I'd have to reverse my body back to its 12-year-old state or exercise so much that I burn muscle in order to go to 7st - my body is not naturally like that, and I'd have to lead a really unhealthy lifestyle in order to maintain such a weight.
You're currently a little lighter than my sister who is around my height and she looks pretty good - size 12 is not fat by any stretch of the imagination at our heights, both you and her look perfectly healthy and are a perfectly normal weight for your age and height. Also take into account the fact that the adult female body in particular needs fat to function - a lot of hormones such as those that control the menstrual cycle won't be produced below a certain fat level. That's one reason why we have all those jiggly bits. I'm not saying you couldn't lose some weight and stay healthy, but the amount you proposed is not good. Like bikuki said, the BMI is more useful for extremes of weights - you can be 'borderline' and be healthy, like me, but a BMI of 15 is far more likely to be indicative of ill-health. If you really want to lose weight, I'd reckon you could be possibly around eight-and-a-half stone without worrying especially seeing as you're a bit shorter than me, but a drop of three stone is not a good idea if you aren't naturally a 7 stone pixie. You're not overweight, so while I'd advocate leading a healthy lifestyle to anyone (and not worry about any ensuing weight loss too much), actively working to be quite noticeably underweight is different.

Also, 'so long as you can be a size 8' - why are you trying to fit the clothes rather than the other way around? I never understood this tick-the-boxes mentality. As if size 10 is massive or something. The average woman in the UK is a size 16. By that measure, size 12 is smallish, 10 is skinny, and 8 is about the lowest it goes without having to really hunt for clothes.