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..to invite you to a good natured game of guess my weight

348 replies

Backt0Black · 05/06/2017 08:54

...on this grey Monday?? (well - its grey and bloody miserable up here anyway!) .... not writing anything much here as don't want to influence guesses.

I'm 5ft10

V bored perma-breastfeeding, so hoping this will provide a lighthearted distraction.

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QueenMortificado · 06/06/2017 07:56

But Kim Kardashian is tiny, so of course she weighs less. You are tall and muscular, with very large hands and feet, so you are naturally going to weigh much more than her.

Yes, I bear hands and feet are to blame for weighing at least one stone each

BigGreenOlives · 06/06/2017 08:06

I have a similar height friend who weighs 61kg and she has no strength, can't do any push ups etc. I think a lot of people lie about how tall they are and how much they weigh (male & female).

QuimReaper · 06/06/2017 10:47

I do think hands and feet size are a good indication of frame though, which affects weight.

user1486669405 · 06/06/2017 11:32

I'm your height and work out a lot but still regard myself as newish on my journey. I'm 11st 8 and you look slimmer and a lot more powerful.

You look sexy as hell and am tempted to save the pic somewhere as inspiration!!

ohforfoxsake · 06/06/2017 11:42

Why are you hung up about the numbers?

You are healthy, fit, you understand nutrition and exercise. You've got it all right, why is that it good enough? Why does what anyone else think or weigh matter?

Can we not break out of the obsession with numbers? Why will being fit and healthy as you are never be good enough? What's the effect of you posting going to be on women who feel like failures because they are fat/unhealthy/unmotivated/depressed and that vicious circle that ensues.

Look at yourself! You're doing really well. What the scales say is irrelevant. Your body grew and nourishes a wee human being (who is gorgeous and looks like he is plotting to take over the world in that pic Wink)

Be positive about what you have. Share that positivity please. Most of us haven't got a hope of having what you have. Celebrate it.

hmcAsWas · 06/06/2017 12:10

QuimReaper I read somewhere that wrist diameter is a pretty good indicator of frame too (even if overweight we don't tend to carry weight on the wrist and its diameter is purely skeleton related)

hmcAsWas · 06/06/2017 12:14

Oh yeah, here it is:

how your wrist size relates to frame

My wrist is 6.75 inches (so big frame)

AmateurSwami · 06/06/2017 15:10

Oh my god my wrists are tiny. Now I have no excuse for being fat 😂

Iamastonished · 06/06/2017 15:41

My wrists are 5.75 inches. Whenever I buy a watch I have to have half the links taken out for it to fit.

I'm 5'7" so that makes me a small frame.

BigGreenOlives · 06/06/2017 16:11

That's fascinating, I'm only 5'6" but my wrists are nearly in the large for men category. Even when I was super skinny my hips were 37", my basic structure is large, I suspect doing a lot of swim training as a child helped me develop a strong body.

TatianaLarina · 06/06/2017 16:24

I'm 5'10 my wrists are 5 inches, I think that means I'm probably dead.

bbcessex · 06/06/2017 17:39

I wish they had head circumference on that too.. would account for a few stone in my case Grin

BarbaraofSeville · 06/06/2017 18:20

I'm 5'7 and have 6 inch wrists, so a small frame, albeight with wide hips.

My shoulders and head are small, so I can't claim my hands or head weigh that much. Many dresses fall off my shoulders despite 32F norks and I have to buy my glasses from the teen range at Specsavers as adult ones are too big. Like Kim K, for me, it's all about the ass but I haven't been able to claim being 8 stone since I was about 12.

StHeathensGrammar · 06/06/2017 18:50

According to that wrist thing I'm a small frame Confused
My head is massive though, as are my hips. At one stage I was unwell and so thin I could place a ruler across my abdomen so it rested on the front of my hip bones but didn't touch in the middle. My ribs stuck out, I had practically no boobs, and people were getting worried about me. I STILL weighed 9 stone! (10.5 normally)
Are my bones heavy or something?!

7461Mary18 · 06/06/2017 19:19

Looks very healthy.
No one over weight would ever do a thread like this!
I would say 18 - 20 BMI.

Ravenblack · 06/06/2017 19:31

I'm 5'10 my wrists are 5 inches, I think that means I'm probably dead.

LOL Tatiana! Grin

I hate these 'you should be this, you should be that' bollocks, and these weight charts that say if you are a 5 ft 4 inch tall woman who is (for example,) 9 to 9 and a half stone, that you are fat/close to being fat. The majority of women who are between 5 ft 2 and 5 ft 5 who are 9 to 10 stone look quite slim. And are generally quite healthy. It's bloody dangerous to say they're overweight. No wonder people have eating disorders, when perfectly healthy people are being accused of being fat!

One of the official weight charts (produced by the NHS I think,) states that my husband, at his height, (5 ft 9,) should be between 9 st 12 pounds and 11 st 10 pounds. He would look like had 3 weeks to live at 9 st 12 pounds.

Look at the chart above ^^^ FFS! A chart for the ideal weight. Look how TINY the window of 'ideal weight' is. What a load of bollocks really. DH looks fab at 13 stone to 13 stone 5, and quite gaunt at 11 and a half to 12 stone. These type of charts say he is overweight at 13 stone, and yet he looks his best at that weight, and too thin at less than 12 stone.. Confused

As for me, I am 10 stone 1 pound, and 5 ft 4 inches tall, and these charts say I am overweight too (albeit slightly.) They say I should be 8 stone 2 pounds to 9 st 12 pounds. Even at 10 and a half stone I still look OK. At 8 stone 9 I look too skinny and gaunt. Yet that is a 'perfect weight' for me apparently.

It's ridiculous, and is surely down to each individual.

..to invite you to a good natured game of guess my weight
TheDowagerCuntess · 06/06/2017 19:47

It is very individual, yes. I fall into the ideal weight category, but I can see that I am carrying padding on my hips, tummy and highs (which I am really struggling to lose, post-40). No way am I too slim or too gaunt.

My personal feeling is that our perception is skewed, and that our sense of 'normal' has adjusted.

Other people think they look too gaunt in he normal category.

I guess that says more about BMI than anything else. It is a blunt tool, but in the absence of anyone managing to come up with anything better, it's what we work with a a guideline.

lljkk · 06/06/2017 19:55

On a mostly female-poster site, just gotta point out that is a bloke's ideal weight chart. Here is a girl version in familiar units.

Please don't anyone let this do your head in. It's just one set of ideas. If you think it's stupid, it probably is.

According to that I'm overweight; I don't care but I agree I'm no skinny minny. A lot pudgier than OP. I usually get labeled large frame in those wrist thingies but the link above makes me medium. Maybe my bones have shrunk. This says test wrist using your thumb & index finger: since I have stubby fingers & get very large frame on that, ha! Also I have huge elbow breath.

..to invite you to a good natured game of guess my weight
Bumdishcloths · 06/06/2017 19:59

This just comes across as a massive ego massage imo, the sycophantic 'omg you look great' replies are overwhelming. It's almost like one of those awful Facebook posts where the OP vaguebooks about how awful their day was then gets floods of 'inbox me babe' and 'you ok hun, pm me' only to respond that they don't want to talk about it.

Highalert · 06/06/2017 20:01

I agree, Bum.

It's making me cringe.

2littlemoos · 06/06/2017 20:02

You look f-AB-ulous.

Same height as you. Almost a stone more. Almost all of it fat Blush

I am nosey but what do you eat? What exercise do you do?

Emmageddon · 06/06/2017 20:06

This reminds me of a typical post on Mrs Gloss - so, glossers, tell me, what do you think of my no make-up selfie/new dress/hair colour? And every single reply is OMG hunni u look fab xx or words to that effect, over and over and over, until Jules turns the comments off Grin

expatinscotland · 06/06/2017 20:09

Spot on, Bum.

rawsienna · 06/06/2017 20:10

You look to be a perfect weight for you height.
You seem a bit straight up and down and don't seem to have a waist.
You could do with some targeted exercises to give you more of a defined waist. It would give you more shape.

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