To think a 84cm / 34 inch waist is not "slim"

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I'm very open to being told IABU, in fact I'd be quite relieved to be told I have a warped view. Right now though I don't think a 34 inch waist is slim. To me slim is no larger than a size 10 so around a 27 inch waist max.

Unless you are a much taller than the average woman (average being 5' 4"?) I think a healthy (in the general sense of the word) waist is less than 30 inches.

However I have a small frame and have felt overweight whenever I've needed to wear size 12 bottoms (and that's still not over a 30 inch waist).

The irony is that I still think I'm at high risk of developing diabetes because my father has it and whilst not overweight I have a diet quite high in sugar.

Genuinely interested in people's views on this and whether my own view is out of kilter with the norm.

SoWhite I bet you don't look massive. i always have an ass and boobs too, regardless of weight.

You I know what you mean about belly. Mines never been properly flat and I hate it. It's sort of gently curved. I don't think we're properly skinny either, just on the smaller end of normal.

What amazes me is if I wear an 8 I see so many women smaller in both height and general size, what the hell do they wear?! Must be hard to get clothes

I have permanent womb podge.

That's a perfect description So!

LOL at womb podge! Me too!

Yikes 34 isn't slim.
IMO kate Middleton did look a bit like a spoon for a while before she had her dc2 but maybe that's my warped perception from constantly only ever seeing overweight people in real life.
The media about weight are q bit bizarre though. They are busy congratulating that Lauren Goodger woman for her weight loss. She could drop another stone yet if you ask me

Did anybody always have womb podge? Even before kids?

I'm fat but my waist is 31 inches exactly

I am fit but overweight at 5ft 1" and 9st 8lbs

I have a fair bit of womb podge

In my 20's I had a 23 inch waist - I can't imagine that now!

Heart disease is the killer in our family - it's unavoidable as we have shite dna that makes bad cholesterol and gives us angina - even my super fit mum has had a mild heart attack and it killed my also very fit grandfather

I tend therefore to concentrate on my cardio fitness by running and aerobics (and generally walking and taking the stairs etc)

I have lost a stone since December so I'm working in the tum!

But I do think your hight etc also plays a part

SoWhite yeah, I've always had it. I only have one child, he was normal sized and I gained 17lbs and never measured more than 31cm bump.

Still have womb podge and did before!

Yeah I've always had womb podge too. Since puberty kicked in.

I am 40 run 2-3 times a week,swim when I can (twice last week) and mostly eat well, I am also in the middle of dry January. My waist was 24.5as a teen and 26" before the dcs, now 27" on a good day 28" today (tom). Around my belly button is 30 with 34" hips and 36" boobs. I weigh between 54 and 59kg (or 8.5-9.5 st) and always have done.Before I sat my A-levels I had to buy a size 12 dress. 20 years and 2 dcs later I am an 8. At 18 I felt sort of average size, I wouldn't have minded being a bit slimmer. I now think of myself (if I am honest) as quite slim and am regually told so.Actually I am still an average size.

If you live in the UK abs you are much slimmer than average as the average UK woman is quite overweight.

Exactly but not really slim IYSWIM. BMI 21-22 middle of normal range. I am an extremely average size woman.

Abs it would be correct to say that you are a medium sized woman who doesn't understand what average means .

I think she's meaning in a non relative sense Barbara

Yes no longer the mean or mode, but perhaps still the median.

A although it ma maybe that the normal distribution curve has shifted to the right.