What size would you guess I am?

[m0therofdragons]

Today I've seen a photo of me and I feel I look much bigger than I thought I was. Dh thinks I look fine. I'm wondering if my brain is just completely unable to identify what is normal anymore.

What dress size (UK) would you think I am and where on the bmi - healthy - overweight or obese?

About size 12. Certainly no more than 12 on bottom half. Would love your figure - slim waist and curvy!

Isn't it sad our perceptions of a perfectly healthy lovely figure is skewed because of the skeletal figures we idolise in the media. I'd rather look like you any day OP than a bag of bones with no tits or an arse. Well done on your weight loss you look amazing!!!

Well aren't you a delight perhaps just read that back and see how that might sound to many people?

Just saw how many pages there are! Can’t believe people saying you’re a 16 or 18!

I'd have said 12 bordering on 14 tbh. I'm around the same weight and only slightly taller and am a size 10 and I look much slimmer.

Since when was a size 14-16 fat or something to be ashamed of? People saying I can't believe some posters were so insulting as to say the op is anything more than a 12! Isn't the average British dress size supposed to be 14-16? No one as far as I've seen said the op looked fat, or bad in any way, she asked for perception of size from one (bad, and badly cropped) photo.

Dont know but massively jealous of your flat stomach!

I think it’s very difficult to tell. I’m also 5ft 5 and a size 12. But I weight 11st7. Yet I don’t think I look much bigger than you and I’m not that much bigger dress size in that I easily fit seize 12. But according to BMI I’m obese. 🤷‍♀️ I don’t feel obese but maybe my perception is skewed.

I don't see many women in the media these days lacking curves (in the original sense)

But you keep telling yourself what you need to Wereeaglesdare (sic).

14-16 but it's hard to tell if we don't know your hight.

I thought a 14-16 in the first photo OP but it would be rare for a photo taken at that terrible angle to reflect someones true size.

I would have guessed 10-12. There is no way you look a 14-16. Women on MN are fucking nuts when it comes to weight

Absofuckinglutley

It's difficult to see well because you are side on, so it's hard to see how wide your bottom half is, but 14-16?

I wouldve said 14 on the first photo and a bit overweight like myself, but im taller

Just to add I deliberately haven't read the thread because i didn't want to be swayed by what others said.

Neednewwellies, dress sizes can vary massively according to the shop or even just the style of clothing.

I think it's more sensible to listen to your BMI.

I'd rather look like you any day OP than a bag of bones with no tits or an arse

This is a vile thing to say. Plenty of women are naturally slim and have small breasts. What a horrible comment

@Neednewwellies - go by your measurements rather than dress size. What’s your waist measurement and hips?

@WorraLiberty, yes of course. I’m a 12 in most high street such as Oasis, Warehouse, Zara etc. I can fit in a 10 in M&S and some Next stuff. I also exercise 4 or 5 days a week and most days do my 10k steps on my Fitbit. If my BMI was telling me I was a bit overweight then maybe I’d accept that but I don’t feel obese. I posted the pictures because I take them regularly to keep me on track. I think my body shape is very similar to friends who are 2stone lighter. They agree. Maybe it’s my boobs. 36E. 🤷‍♀️

The OP has already said she is 5ft 5, usually a size 12 and 10 stone. That is exactly my height, weight and dress size. I look very similar to the OPs size, eg bigger hips and bust but slim waist. I cannot believe people saying size 18 or overweight. Reminds my of my SIL who is a tiny 4-6 and I’m sure she thinks Im huge but in the ‘real world’ I would say I’m fairly average!

@DownWhichOfLate, good plan. I’ll measure and be back!

16

I'd guess a size 12.

She's far more plausibly a size 18 than a size 10, let's be honest here

No she’s not. I thought she looked a ten waist up but more like a fourteen from hips down. And indeedThe jeans are a twelve and seem to be pulling over the hips. Classic pear. Not an eighteen.

@DownWhichOfLate, ok; my waist is 77cm and my hips are 97cm.

14-16?