Should I be concerned about weighing 118 lbs at 5' 7''?

Quick background: 24yo male, 5' 7'', 117.6 lbs as of this morning. That last number is what I'm concerned about.

I started calorie-counting in my junior year of college (January 2013) because I wanted to build muscle and needed to count calories in at least a rough way in order to eat enough to gain weight. I managed to gain around 10 pounds before graduating, at which point I moved back home with my parents and eating that much became annoying and inconvenient, so I decided to go on a very slow "cut" to get some better muscle definition. Got down to my pre-college weight (130 lbs) in February 2015 and was satisfied, but during my cut I'd picked up a lot of healthy habits that I continued after that point - counting calories, cooking healthy meals at home, eating only when hungry (most of the time), staying active, weighing myself every morning, etc. I also do IF w/ an 8-hour eating window when it's convenient because I'm rarely hungry in the morning.

As a result, I continued losing weight without really trying to. I do count calories, but I know that it's impossible to precisely determine calories out and I don't own a food scale so there's some obviously uncertainty about my calories in. To compensate for these uncertainties, I generally aim for a small weekly deficit, but I've always figured that I was really eating roughly at maintenance due to the above uncertainties. When I went off to graduate school four months ago and my scale eventually started showing slightly concerning numbers - 120, 119, then 118 (underweight for my height) - I figured my scale was probably a bit off because no doctor had ever remarked that my weight was too low.

I'm now on my winter break from graduate school and visiting home. This morning I weighed myself on my parents' scale, which for ridiculous reasons is located in the living room. My parents know about my habits and they've learned to accept them, but my mom is a typical mom and looked over my shoulder when I weighed myself this morning. When the scale said 117.6 lbs, she got a bit upset. And now that I have independent verification from two different scales in two different places that I weigh roughly 118 lbs, I'm starting to get a bit concerned as well. I don't want to start picking up habits like eating junk food or eating past the point of satiety just to keep my weight up, but I really can't afford to lose any more weight. Not sure what, if anything, I should do. I've got some doctors appointments coming up and I guess I should probably ask them, but I was also wondering about this community's thoughts.

Submitted December 18, 2016 at 09:05AM by 19bl92 http://ift.tt/2gYWaXD