Is a size 14 big?

I am overweight at size 14, yes. My waist to height measurement is also off at this size.

I don't feel it's particularly helpful to beat myself up about it though. I do lots of exercise and eat lots of nutritious food. I'll keep on trying to get the weight into a healthy range but I try not to get obsessed with it from a vanity point of view. I certainly have zero desire to be really slim - just healthy.

OP is well into the overweight BMI category. I'm.not judging, so am I, but she is.

For me yea, but I’m only 5’4

It depends on your height.

I used to be a size 14, and at 5 feet 3 inches tall, I was obese

Eh? 14 didn’t used to exist in normal clothes? Nonsense. 16 is U.K. average.
Or are you taking US sizes?

I'm exactly the same weight and height as you OP and I wear a 16, no way could I wear size 14. We are all different.

My BP was a bit high and when talking to my GP he looked at me, and said I was okay, didn't mention losing weight at all.

I have been looking at clothes and size 16 for shorts/ trousers out of stock and equally size 20-22 for shirts and tops. . This suggests that women are bigger than the shops think 😉

well I’ve just celebrated being a comfortable size 16 after being a size 22 at 5’2”. I’m extremely happy, getting to size 14 would be a dream.

I hate the bmi system, I was told when I was a skinny size 8 I was extremely obese, that stuck with me. What was never considered was my extremely heavy breast ( size G at the time), I’m a HH/J now and still my breast are not considered in my weight calculation.

Being 5’7” and size 14 would look pretty good to me, but it’s all relative. I now try to live by what I feel good in rather than what’s the right size according to an archaic weight system.

I'm the same height as the OP - 5'7" and a size 14, but weigh 10 stone. I have a healthy BMI. Even at 8st12 (my lowest adult weight) I was still a Sz12.
Having said that, I do feel "big" though and would love. I have boobs that never go below an F cup and I hate it.

It is quite big, a 10 or 12 would be much healthier but it's not permanent and not hard to fix when you feel like doing it. If you move up another size, that's when you should have more urgency about changing it.

I'm a size 16 at the moment,but I am steadily losing weight and I'd be happy to be a size 14. But I know that there will be many posters coming along and saying that a size 14 is 'Huge' and that they couldn't EVER imagine themselves getting that 'enormous'. One of the most ridiculous remarks I've ever heard (not on Mumsnet,I hasten to add!) was 'I think I'd kill myself if I ever went up to a size 14' (from a woman who was a size 8).

I wish I could get down to a 14. I'm currently a large 16, heading towards 18, with a big fat belly😥 I don't overeat, maybe carb heavy, and I'm not a snacker. I would have to eat next to nothing in order to lose weight. It's so frustrating.

When I look at size 14s, they look small to me, and would seem impossible to achieve. As for size 10 & 12...those were the days.

Not at all. Think thats perfectly fine

It's how you feel are you healthy

Of course a UK size 14 isn’t big in real life, and you’re unlikely to have an unhealthy BMI at that size. It’s just on Mumsnet where most people are a willowy size 8.

Exercise and eat well and you'll start to feel good about yourself regardless of size, IMO.

Do you mean you are a size 14 going by the labels on your clothes?

Load of tosh

Size 18 and 58 I did my first half marathon and climbed our highest mountain

Sizes on clothes mean nothing, other then they are another stick we can hit ourselves with

If you are concerned about health risks, take your measurements and weight and use the online calculators and make your choice

I have lost weight because there was no hiding the fact at 12 stone and only just above 5 ft I was touching obese and my health was suffering - yeah I climbed a mountain and did a half marathon - but I struggled

Worked hard to lose two stone

Oh and a two stone loss and Im suddenly wearing size 8 jeans??? Seriously never ever in my life have I worn size 8,( I was wearing 14's ) younger years and a clean size 10 would be tight, now I can take a size 8 on and off without undoing the button and Ive lost just 2 stone - vanity sizing has gone absolutely mad and measuring the 8's to my 14's, there's not a lot in it

If you are fit , healthy and happy at a shop's idea of a 14, then that's all that matters.

If you aren't for any other reason then a label , then that's when you do something about it

At 5ft 7 I'd say it's normal. Not slim, not fat.. just a normal adult woman size.
It depends on your body type as well obviously. I'm the same height as you and at 12 stone i was a size 10-12 not 14.
People carry weight differently. Just because you are in a bigger size doesn't necessarily mean you are heavier.

I bet you look pretty slim at 5’7 and 12 stone.

It is somewhat contested as to whether BMI is a good overall indicator of health. Anecdotally, It certainly is for me - A few years back, I was quite unwell and stressed and my BMI was 20. I'm 5ft 6" and had dropped to 8st 12lb - my entire rib cage was visible from the front and back, and I looked dreadful! My family genuinely thought I was in the throws of an eating disorder and were really worried.
I'd say at our height, a size 14 is on the larger side of a reasonable weight, and losing a stone certainly wouldn't hurt, but it's by no means "big" ( I'm currently getting uncomfortably squeezed in a size 12)

I'm 5 ft 7 and 9.5 stone. I would look and feel large at a size 14 and 12 stone, so to me yes a size 14 is large.
But what looks large for my body and yours may be completely different... I'm straight up and down with no bust (sadly) so any weight just sits on my middle... yours may well be distributed much better 🙂
My weight has been since I was an adult and I'm now nearer 60 but being 'slimmer' hasn't done my face any favours...I look like a bog witch😬

What does 'obscenely overweight' look like to you?

At your height, no.

5’8, although I’m a 14 on a good day, I feel chubby and self conscious, hate my photo being taken and especially now summer is suddenly here, dreading getting arms out. When I’m a 12 and few stone lighter it makes all the difference.

I am 5'8', I wear mostly 14, but some clothes can vary from 12 to 18, I have bigger bust than hips.
Like most women I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds, but I never diet, life's too short.