Where is my waist (Pic include)

[Waisted]

I keep reading that waist measurement should be more than half your height and about hip to waist ratio.

My problem is I am not sure where my waist is. Some say it’s on line with your belly button and some say it is the slimmest part. Those two things are not the same for me.

so which line on this picture is my actual waist?

Red is online with my belly button, Blue is my slimmest part and Green is where I would expect it to be, just above my hips?

I would say green is your waist?

It's between the two I would say, by your waistband.

I would say it's where your waist band is sitting actually.

I would also say green.

The top line is the base of your ribs and the bottom is in line with the hips almost.

I have those leggings too, OP!

Yeah me too - top of your waist band

Just above green.

If you were to tie a piece of elastic around your middle that's where your waist is.

I agree that it's green, or maybe ever so slightly above green where the top of your legging's waist band ends.

Bend to the side - it’s wherever you fold!

For me the green line. Though you could wear a fitted outfit with the 'waist' at the slightly higher position.

I'd say green line

This!

In my case which fold though? 😂

@Waisted Your waist is meant to be just over your hip bones. Whatever gap there is between hip bone and bottom of rib cage is the waist. So absolutely the bit that allows you to fold.

The Green line.

@JaneFoe - haha! Umm… Your favourite? 😂

I'd say roughly between the green and blue line.

It would be easier to tell if you weren’t wearing leggings, which compress and slightly change your shape.

Oh dear I am hopeless! Three stabs at it and still didn’t get it right. There is a big difference measurement wise too!

Get a tape measure or a piece of string, wrap it round and jiggle it about from side to side to find the narrowest part of your middle. Where it settles is where your waist is. Some people have a high waist and some have it lower, it all depends on the shape of your skeleton and ribcage.

When I did a diabetes awareness course, they said to get a piece of string as long as your height, then fold it in half and wrap it round your waist no chance with me!. That should be your waist measurement.

Green, or just above.

Green.

Tbh it’s not easy to tell when you’re wearing those clothes.

I would say it’s around your belly button.

If you stand in your pants and bend to the side, that’s where your waist is.

Green

I did the fold test and that suggests green.

going to measure now, what am I aiming for hips:waist? I know its waist must be half height.

@Sunnydiary my belly button is quite a lot lower than the fold when I bend sideways! It must depend on your shape (I am tall with a long torso mind!)

Just had an annual check up at the Docs and the waist measurement was made on the green line