Am I "tiny"?

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I'm not. I've always thiigh of mysefl as a normal healthy build. In a world where a majority are over weight , I'm not that, but I don't think I'm exceptionally thin either.

I've just been for my NHS health check. A bit of a waste of time really, but I hadn't had my cholesterol checked for a while, so I went when I was invited.

I was weight and measured. 5'7", 10st1 in my clothes and 75cm waist. At both my weight and my waist the HCA explained "ooh you're tiny".

I'm 5'7" and didn't feel tiny at all when I was 10 stone. 9 stone is my happy weight, but thats usually when im training, eating well and physically fit in general.

Everyone carries weight differently though I guess.

Thanks for the opportunity to stealth boast OP 🤣

Never come across this personally, 18.5 is 'underweight'. I'm Currently 19.3 apparently and never had anyone call me skinny, tiny or underweight. I'm certainly none of those things and I know of people with a much slighter frame than me!

I suppose some of it might be regional. I work in London and live in tbe suburbs.

I guess people have different perspectives of what “tiny” is 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m 5’5”, and 125lbs last time I checked. I’m within the healthy weight range for my height. If you saw me on my own, I doubt anyone would think I’m tiny…..
But if you saw me and DH together? You’d probably say I was tiny. Which in comparison to my 6’5”, 260lb DH would be accurate 😂 I look like a child next to him, especially in pictures.

Perhaps a lot of people that go for these health checks are on the big side, so you would be tiny, compared to them. I'm mid 60s and don't recall ever being called for a health check though. I used to have basic health checks at work, a nurse would come in and do them but not NHS

Practically a borrower.

I don’t think the word ‘tiny’ is a great descriptor for adult full stop. Newborns yes, my chihuahua, definitely, but it seems a silly word to use, and not helpful.

You sound fairly average size to me, I'm 5'10" and 11 stone so bigger than average.

Of course you'e not tiny. Well you might be compared with the constant parade of overweight and obese people the HCA usually sees, but your proportions are what people are supposed to be like. There is a 'thing' whereby your waist measurement is supposed to be less than half your height, and maybe the HCA doesn't come across people in that category all that often.😂

Throughout my 20's I was 10st 4 and I'm 5ft 7 and a half. I was a size 12. My waist size was about the same as yours too.

For age 55 and 5ft7 I’d say you’re probably an ideal weight.

im 15 years younger and 4 inches shorter and 8st2/3. I’m mirror less in the middle of my healthy weight. Maybe a little towards the lighter end but I’m very active.

No you’re not tiny, I’m 5ft6 and 8.7 stone. I am not tiny… normal. You weigh 1.5 stone more than me so are probably curvy/normal. X

DH went to a drop-in blood pressure clinic at the GP. The staff seemed rather surprised to have someone with normal blood pressure and not need to go to the zones for high blood pressure and very high blood pressure.

While I'd associate "tiny" as being small height with slim build, statistically a mid-range healthy BMI is the minority in mature adults and nurses will see a bias towards heavier people with health issues compared to the general population.

Apparently 72.8% of adults in England age 55-64 are overweight or obese so that is probably why they she thought OP was tiny, they probably rarely see a normal sized older person

Everyone i know including myself whos had this over 40 health check thing has been told their cholesterol is high.

Me early 50s & xH late 40s, our checks : My numbers were 'perfect'.

His numbers were both terrible and amazingly good (how can that be, you ask):
His raw number was "high" but his ratios total Tg: or xDL:yDL were excellent. Long story cut short: He's probably got a lot of circulating fats to support endurance sport habits. Nothing is clogged up though, or likely to become so.

I was living in the London suburbs when all this happened so I don't think it's regional. Maybe it's just who you happen to be around.

I’m very thin at that weight and height as I have a wide skeleton. Anorexic at 9 1/2 stone
But I’ve never been described as tiny as thought that was reserved for short people

Bring back the 🤣 emoji 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Me too.

5 ft 7 and 9 stone 3 here... (I'm 57) and I would never describe myself as tiny... I'm slim I suppose but I'm above average height.

Completely depends on your build..
I'm the same height as you and a stone heavier. I'm not tiny but I'm a uk size 10 so I'm not large either. But I'm quite pear shaped... thin upper body, flat chest etc. Makes me look quite slender when actually I'm top end of healthy weight range on BMI.

Yes I get it too I’m in the healthy bmi range and I’m 5ft4 but get called tiny all the time 🙄

It depends on your frame size op (you can check this by measuring your wrist).

Someone of your height, with a larger frame and of that weight would look very slim.

Yep. Making personal remarks like this would be pretty unprofessional

Once upon a time when I was growing up, it was thought / suggested that the ' ideal ' measurements for a woman were:
34
24
34
Now where this thought/suggestion came from I have no idea !

I had to convert cm to inches and 75 cm is 29.5 inches.

Google tells me that a 75 cm waist is a size 12 / medium.

My idea of tiny would be less than 5' in height, and less than a size 8.

Agree that you don't sound tiny from your stats but as others have said, it depends on your build. I am 5'5 and when I got married weighed 127lbs which gave me a BMI of 21. Absolutely perfectly normal on paper. But in the photos I so clearly look underweight and unwell and oddly shaped. My head is too big for my skinny little body. I look emaciated.

No. I’m slightly heavier than you and an inch shorter, and I’ve also had comments from nurses about how slim I am on more than one occasion. I’m not especially slim, my BMI is leaning towards the higher end of normal. I’m not sure whether it’s said to try to make the patient feel better, or whether it’s simply because most nurses are fat!