To think that UK size 12 ....

[hairytriangle]

Is not a frigging plus size, and the BBC shouldn't be putting out features which insinuate that it is!!!!! AAAAAAARGH!!!!!!

I think I am a funny shape, I am 5'7 and a size 14 at 14 stone. So if I lose my target couple more stone, presumably I'll be a size 10-12 and still technically overweight.

it irks me that my bmi on the nhs website says i'm underweight when i'm 5"7 and a size 8. then someone i work with is just a bit shorter than me and a size 14 and is apparently obese! i think the bmi thing is rubbish to be honest.

Yes the bmi thing irks everybody I think.

I'm on the cusp of overweight by bmi, yet I get compliments all the time on my fab, fit figure.

At least I did before I got pregnant. BAH.

yy MorrisZapp, bah to bmi
bah to compliments
bah to overweight

there, I've said what we're all thinking

YANBU - size 12 is below average, isn't it? So, even if the fashion industry prefers women to be no larger than their skeleton, they still can't call size 12 models plus-sized. Normal-sized, perhaps

Mind you, high street brands in the UK are at least 2" bigger than the size stated on the label. Tactful of them, I think

I'm 5ft (40 wks pregnant at the moment so not weighing myself!!!). When I'm 9 and half stone I'm about a size 12 and do feel a bit chubby (but not that bad iykwim!) and my bmi is classed as overweight. People are so surprised though that at that weight I am classed as overweight officially as I don't look that bad? I think I look pretty normal and healthy IMO. It's just cos I'm so short!

I have to weigh between about 8 and 8 and half stone to be my ideal weight....(about a size 8-10). I find it almost impossible to achieve that kind of weight though unless I live on celery and run 5 miles a day!

Ahem..... didn't intend to cause all this 'commotion'. I am just over 5'8'' and size 10, however, after our twins were born, did wear size 12 for couple of months and did look 'dumpy', in my eyes anyway. Now't wrong with posture, thanks to Pilates, btw.
All I said is that it's relative, some look fab being size 12, some look fab being size 16 - Nigella, anyone? (No idea what her size is but she does look fantastic!)

"I am 5'8''+ and would look decidedly dumpy if size 12."

so... now I'm worried that I look worse than dumpy at 5'3" and size 12 :(

"it irks me that my bmi on the nhs website says i'm underweight when i'm 5"7 and a size 8. then someone i work with is just a bit shorter than me and a size 14 and is apparently obese! i think the bmi thing is rubbish to be honest. "

I think that sounds about right, to be honest.

Sizes are a load of bollocks. I am a size 10. In Next today, I had extra room in a size 6 top . I have to say that at 5'7 and a size 12 I don't look fat but I do feel it. I much prefer being a bit slimmer

hairytriangle - well, for me, being a size 8 at my height is perfect and i don't feel underweight, so disagree vehemently with the bmi calculator on the nhs website and also feel it's sending out the wrong message to people like me who have the same or similar stats. i for one love my figure and it seems that not many women feel the same about theirs. so while i might be apparently underweight, i have been a stone heavier and hated it and the only changes i have made to my lifestyle is not staying up late eating chocolate and biscuits and now only drinking water or green tea. so eff you nhs bmi calculator, eff you.

The thing on breakfast this morning was referring to US size 12 so UK size 16.

BMI is a load of bollocks as it doesn't take into account muscle mass. Muscle weighs more than fat. Rugby players for example are nearly all considered obese using BMI.

I'm 5'8, was a size 12/14 in my youth and was skinny - found a photo of myself the other day of myself in a string bikini and was gobsmacked by how thin I was. I was sitting down and there was no flab! Shame I didn't realise it at the time! I'm now 16/18 but don't think I look too bad.