Critique these body measurements honestly 32-26-34

[Yummytummygummy]

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!

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

What @churchandstate says ^. It’s not useful or helpful to comment either positively or negatively OP. I really dislike these sort of threads.

21seconds If you’re buying from online shops, you need to work out what size you are. It’s more useful to me than the scales for knowing if I’ve put weight on and need to start eating healthier and exercising more.

I agree, asking people to critique your measurements is a red flag but taking them in the first place isn’t.

No one lives forever, so you really want to spend years of your life worrying about this? Get out more

It sounds like your friends and family might be fed up of your asking them so now you have come on to MN.
Please look at the advice of PPs . You seem preoccupied with your body image and think it might be an idea to visit your GP.
As your GP the same question that you have posted and see what she/he says.

Sorry... ask not as.

Has someone suggested you need to diet ? You sound absolutely fine to me 💐

In the nicest possible way, we are all far too worried about our own anxieties to give your (or anyone's) body any thought.
No is judging you except yourself.
You have a Thoughts problem, not a weight problem.
That's where you need to focus your 'fixing' efforts.

@Oldbutstillgotit I think you’ve hit the nail on the head...my mam is smaller than me and has always implied I’m a big build. So I find it really hard to judge normally...hence the post and no idea if I’m ok.

I've just measured my so-called 'vital statistics': 38-33-40. Usually wear size 12, but I also have some size 10 things and some size 14.

I'm 5'9"

Am I big? Small?

Slim I would say

See I think I'm kind of average. What I'm trying to demonstrate is that it's all a bit of a nonsense and it's how you feel that matters.

Get this taken down. And get counselling. This isn't healthy.

This. Get some help, OP.

Sorry your mother has dented your own confidence in your body, OP. There' s a lot of it about - I could go into a rant about internalised patriarchy and the requirement some women put on themselves and others to take up as little room as possible. My mother and her many sisters are in their sixties and seventies and still eye each other up to see who has put on any extra pounds. (Oh, and each other's daughters too, lucky me).

You are either stealth boasting or have a slightly concerning body image issue.

Either way, asking a bunch of random internet strangers whether you need to diet is something that should concern you.

Your obsession with body size is very unhealthy. At 5'5" you sound skinny. One day you will, as I do, look back on photographs of yourself, and think "For goodness sake! the day that was taken, I thought I was so fat! I wish I looked that slim now!". Do you look at other women who are normal size and think they look fat/thin? Most of us don't worry about what others look like. We're too busy worrying that other people are looking at us and thinking we're too fat/thin. It's utter madness. And take it from me, if it's men you're trying to impress, most of them like women 's bodies to be shapely. That's why some women wear clothing to enhance their hips and bust.

I honestly cannot imagine giving a toss about this from one woman to another, please for the love of god find something more interesting to focus on in your life

YABU for posting an invitation for women to evaluate or criticise another woman's body. There's enough of that toxic crap in the Daily Mail.

Why would you need somebody else's opinion anyway?
Is your own opinion of your own body not good enough for you?

Honestly ? you sound like you have a great figure, not 'big built' or any other such nonsense and I say this as someone who looks like I have eaten a whole other Mumsnetter !
I don't know how old you are ? but at some point in the future you will look back on this period of body image angst and wonder why you couldn't see how bloody gorgeous you were. Try to enjoy what you have while you have it OP and remember if your Mam is smaller it just means you can beat her in a fight

You need counselling if you need validation from an online forum. It is so not healthy to think like this.

Find a local therapist that specialises in eating disorders and book yourself in ASAP.

Don't reduce your self to a few numbers. Your far more than that

TRIGGERING.. thanks

wanted mumsnet to be brutal on my measurements

@Yummytummygummy For the love of all that's sacred - WHY?

The best advice I can offer is for you to stop buying into the patriarchal bullshit that women's bodies are some sort of free-for-all for negative or positive comment.

If you are unable to snap out of this mindset, I suggest counselling.
This is a really, really, unhealthy attitude.
YOUR body. YOUR acceptance of it. YOUR decision.
If you live your life dependent on external factors for validation & approval, you will be self-conscious, anxious, & unhappy for the majority of it.

wttaf it’s obvious what the thread is. Why open it?

Your post has made me feel quite sad, tbh. Life can be fucking wild and beautiful, eat the cheese, drink the wine, live your life. It’ll be over in a blink, don’t waste it sweating about 26 inch waists.

The name of the thread was enough