I am 5ft 6 and a half inches. Aibu to ask, what do you think I should weigh?

[ferriswheel]

Am very fat and need perspective and motivation.

tia

[Trainspotting1984]

9 stone

[Trainspotting1984]

"Yesterday 06:39 onewhoassociates

Height to waist ratio should be 50% or under (i.e. your waist should be half or less of your height).

Your waist is essentially measured around your belly button.

Weight, intrinsically, isn't necessarily the important thing, but this ratio is a marker for all sorts of acquired diseases that you really can and should want to avoid."

I've read this about 15 times and don't get it. My waist is 29 inches. Are you saying as long as I am taller than 58 inches (4ft10) I am less likely to get said diseases? I dont think that's true, as very very few people are under 4ft10

[Thefitfatty]

hmmm... according to the wrist measurements I have a large frame.
I have a BMI of 21-22.
I have lots of wobbly flabby flubby soft squidgy fatty bits. I am about the right weight, but in no way would I be a better size if 10% heavier.
The idea that large frame gives me extra BMI allowance.. doesn't make any sense to me.

Obviously the wrist measurement is just one way to try to easily see your frame size, but hardly scientific. :) I also have size 9 feet and wide shoulders and hips.
As for wobbly bits, are you active? Do you life weights?
I'm 12 stone (healthy for a large frame) and I have no wobbly bits at all except for my c-section overhang (not much to be done there).

[ActuallyThatsSUPREMECommander]

Yes that's right Trainspotting. The alternative "hard and fast" measure is 31 inches for a woman. It's not a solid cliff edge though - it's a J shaped curve. A 5 foot woman would probably be better off with a 27 inch waist but 29 is within the limits normally considered less at risk. You can also look at your waist to hip ratio which would ideally be below 0.8 but that can be down to the luck of the genetic draw.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-to-height_ratio
www.heartfoundation.org.au/your-heart/know-your-risks/healthy-weight/waist-measurement
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist–hip_ratio

[misscarlar]

I'm that height and weigh 10 stone which for me is a size 10.

[WilshireBoulevard]

I'm 5 foot 6 and weight about 11 stone 4 pounds. For me this is really overweight as I am wearing a size 16. I think I have a small frame and shouldn't be carrying anywhere near this amount of weight. Plus it's all on my stomach and I have skinny arms and legs. Trying to do something about it.

[Lilly11a]

I'm that height I'm 10 stone 1 at the moment I was 12 stone 10 last April, have been dieting down ever since( with holidays and Christmas off).

I was a solid size 16 at 12.10 ( my heaviest ever 13.12 probably pushing a 20).

Now I'm probably a big 10 but it's taking some time for me to accept this as I don't think you notice the difference as you see yourself ever day ( I still order/ try on 12s and 14s first).

I'm curvy somewhere between hour glass and pear. I still have my shelf ( pot belly). I'm aiming to get to 9.10 and then maintain it.

I have just been using s health to calorie count 1200/1400 a day plus run 3 times a week. It has been hard at times and slow going once I got under 11 stone.

Once I am there I will be doing 1600 cals in the week and 2/3 days at the weekend off and then monitor to see if it needs adjusting

[lljkk]

@thefitfatty,

I'm a large frame by all the measurements to do with skeleton. Broad shoulders, plank feet, bony broad wrists. Short fingers, mind.
~ 2 hrs of exercise a day, of which 45 min. aerobic.
I don't do resistance work (unless cycling, swimming, walking up stairs, shifting firewood counts). I have RSI in all joints so I'm not doing routine structured resistance exercise.
Cellulite plentiful to find, that's me! :). More muscle mass would be fine, I guess. I'd rather lose 5kg fat, instead, though, so I could run faster .
Upper Arms are good, though, swimming keeps bingo wings at bay.
I sure as heck don't need another 10 lbs or 10% or whatever on my frame just because it's a broad frame.

Just thinking DD is about 5'5" and maybe 120 lbs. Got my broad shoulders & short fingers. She is svelte without being in any way scrawny.

[wetotter]

"Unless a real outlier, in terms of both size and density of bones, it's pretty unlikely this is the case. It's one of the variables allowed for in setting the range.

"Nope. BMI does not account for frame size. BMI is purely weight vs. height and doesn't account for the fact that people are 3 dimensional. "

Not BMI, BMI range.

The healthy range is from about 18.5 to 25. Having that range as 'healthy' accounts for a number of variables in build.

[CupOfTeaAndAbiscuitPlease]

I'm 5' 6" and weigh 13 stone. I am overweight and need to loose weight.

I carry my weight on my bottom and thighs. My top is size 14 and bottom is 20.

I am trying to loose weight but I am struggling as I constantly think about food.