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Original poster

Critique these body measurements honestly 32-26-34

203 replies

Yummytummygummy · 06/12/2019 08:10

Mumsnet is only place I can ask this and get straight, honest responses.

So asking for your blunt opinions on bust 32, waist 26, hips 34. Think thigh is about 19 at biggest point. Small, big, good, bad or somewhere in middle?

Just trying to work out if I need to go on my annual pre Xmas diet and for once want to go on measurements not weight! But struggle to know what good normal is with all media/insta bodies!

5ft5 if relevant. Thanks!

OP posts:
yearinyearout · 06/12/2019 08:41

You are clearly tiny and do not need to diet at all.

FrauleinF · 06/12/2019 08:42

At your size I would base a choice to diet on health, rather than measurements. How do you feel in yourself? Maybe one of those Thriva blood test things would be more useful?

TWD89 · 06/12/2019 08:42

You need a mental health professional, not MNs opinion.

Seriously. Go and see your GP because this isn’t normal!

Original poster
Yummytummygummy · 06/12/2019 08:43

I’m sorry- I didn’t mean to cause upset- I just don’t feel small or tiny so wanted mumsnet to be brutal on my measurements in a way my friends/family never would be (even if they thought they were big or blocky).

OP posts:
JumpiestBat · 06/12/2019 08:43

That's very slim! Bring out the pies!

MarthasGinYard · 06/12/2019 08:44

Unhealthy outlook

churchandstate · 06/12/2019 08:45

No sensible poster on MN is going to tell a stranger who obviously has an unhealthy preoccupation with their measurements that they need to lose weight, OP.

SerenDippitty · 06/12/2019 08:45

Knowing Mumsnet someone will be along in a moment to say you are on the chubby side and could do with losing some weight. Please don’t listen to them.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 06/12/2019 08:46

Unless you are only 2 foot tall, that’s very slim. The fact that you think you need to diet is worrying. Be kind to yourself this year, no diet, get some support to feel better about yourself.

Gazelda · 06/12/2019 08:47

You want brutal? OK.
Those measurements seem very slim.

But your attitude to your weight seems very unhealthy.

Personally, I'd rather be healthy than very slim.

Rumnraisin · 06/12/2019 08:48

“Mumsnet is only place I can ask this and get straight, honest responses.“

I’m confused why you would think this - there is an abundance of valid health websites, including the NHS, that can give you information on body measurements which would answer your question completely objectively Confused

Elodie2019 · 06/12/2019 08:49

As others have said, get support.
The very fact that you are thinking about dieting when you are so small is unhealthy.

Gwenhwyfar · 06/12/2019 08:50

Not sure if this is serious. You must know you're very slim compared to the average today.
You're going to be slaughtered by a lot of jealous people on here OP. I'd take this down.

hipposarerad · 06/12/2019 08:50

Or look at it this way, the size of your bust, waist, hips, thighs, epiglottis has absolutely no bearing on anything except possibly health and even then only if they really do become very large measurements.

Comparison is the thief of joy and, in any case, there's a good chance that in years to come as you age your measurements will change anyway.

So shurrup!

(and try to remember how insignificant it all is in the grand scheme of things.)

NameChangeNugget · 06/12/2019 08:50

I’d say average and healthy, without being too thin OP.

wildcherries · 06/12/2019 08:50

This is so unhealthy and could be triggering for others.

DontLettuceBrexitLettuceRomain · 06/12/2019 08:50

But you know what dress size are you are (6-8 I'm guessing), so how do you need outside assessment? Be happy with yourself OP and how you feel, not what others tell you.

Elodie2019 · 06/12/2019 08:51

Mumsnet is only place I can ask this and get straight, honest responses

I suspect people in OP's real life are telling her that she does not need to diet and she is having trouble believing them.

Heismyopendoor · 06/12/2019 08:51

Numbers don’t determine your worth op. Have you thought about speaking with someone about this?

PlanDeRaccordement · 06/12/2019 08:51

ok, you have the measurements of an adult female.
If you want to indulge over Christmas, just move a bit more. Take a few extra walks or exercise classes.

needsomehelptoday · 06/12/2019 08:52

Ffs

NemophilistRebel · 06/12/2019 08:53

Most normal people enjoy the Christmas festivities by eating treat food and then start the diet in January.

I would think anyone who does a pre Christmas diet yearly and is so focused on measurements rather than health and how they feel need some help in other ways

TheNavigator · 06/12/2019 08:53

I am not going to critique your perfectly lovely, normal, healthy body. Be at peace with yourself.

needsomehelptoday · 06/12/2019 08:54

I just don’t feel small or tiny

Is feeling small or tiny essential?

What about confident, clever, kind, ambitious, healthy?

Ponoka7 · 06/12/2019 08:54

So you're in a size 8-10 in all shops and possibly a 6-8 in vanity sizing shops?

No one of that size is overweight. Work on why you feel as you do.

A diet would never be needed. If you genuinely have body fat then do toning exercises.