Critique these body measurements honestly 32-26-34

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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!

My measurements are bust 32 waist 20 Hips 32. Thigh 17 feel so fat so you're obviously massive🙄

If you think you are overweight with those measurents @Trinighana you clearly have a problem. Please get some help.

Never measured my thighs in my life

How tf is this thread triggering? Just don’t open it. Honestly, I think people just love using that word now.

Obv you’re not overweight!!

If you’re buying from online shops, you need to work out what size you are.

Yes, but I've never had to measure my thighs. That's the bit that suggests an unhealthy obsession, not knowing bust-waist-hip measurements which is necessary for clothes shopping.

... reaching for the tape measure

my mam is smaller than me and has always implied I’m a big build.

Does your mother undermine you in other areas as well, OP?

Your body is neither "good" or "bad" btw.
It carries your mind around & takes you wherever you want to go.
So long as you are ensuring proper nutrition & reasonable exercise, forget about your body & start working on your mind.

wttaf it feels like you’re attention seeking here.

Are you the poster who starts a thread every couple months or stating your height/weight and asking if you're overweight, despite knowing for a fact you have a healthy BMI?

You need to stop posting on MN and access professional help. Not only do these threads not help you, they could also be extremely triggering for other women recovering from eating disorders.

This is super stealth boasting. Nobody of 5’5 is overweight with a 26” waist and the dogs on the street know that.

Now I’m only 5’1 and have just had to trade my size 6 jeans for size 4s. But they’re from Primark who are the worst for vanity sizing and as a short person I’m wondering if I really should knock food on the head for a few months because I really should be a proper 4 rather than a vanity 4 right?

Jokes aside, I think OP knows she isn't in anyway big.

It's concerning to me that you feel the need to measure yourself OP. What's slim for one person, is skinny for another.

Please put down the measuring tape and learn to be comfortable in your own skin

Firstly you need to look at this reddit thread where people call out instagram posters who clearly photoshop their images.

www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/

Secondly, you need to watch H3H3 show you same day photos of people and the difference between unedited and edited. It is a real eyeopener.

That video is brutal, but I do love them for their honesty.

You have a very unhealthy view of your body size. I am over 40 and cannot tell you when I have ever measured my thighs.

Ah. My pre baby measurements. Those were the days.

As an aside I measured my thighs yesterday because I needed to know for buying some medical grade compression tights, in the hope my varicose vein disfigured legs actually look leg shaped. I'm 42 and have had ruined legs for 30 years.

I hope this also helps you see that, in the grand scheme of things (and I'm not trying to be unkind) you are really ok and that some of us have 'real' image issues and not just imagined.

“Critique your measurements “ ? Might as well “critique” whether rain is wet.

Your measurements are your measurements.

If you feel uncomfortable or too heavy or don’t fit your clothes, or know you don’t make nutritionally sound choices of food, or don’t exercise enough, then you know also you can do something about it.

But we can’t see you or know how your body fat and muscle are distributed nor know how fit you are.

So YABU

Let's be honest why do people think they need to be perfect .........nobody is, if we were all perfect skinny trout pouted botoxed shallow manufactured caricatures life would be so boring

If women stopped spending time, energy and money and what they looked like, we could run the world.

As you get older you’ll realise that life is about what you can achieve not what you look like.

Most “beauty” is just youth.

How tf is this thread triggering? Just don’t open it. Honestly, I think people just love using that word now

Have you ever suffered from an ED?

I first encountered the word 'triggered' on pro-anorexia websites in my 20s/30s when I was very, very anorexic. So that's at least 17/18 years ago. It was used to describe anything which might 'trigger' a recovering anorexic/bulimic to go resume restricting/purging. Examples might be viewing pictures of very thin people ('thinspo'), hearing about others' EDs/intake/purging and things like this thread, where people list their very tiny measurements.

So yes. Being triggered in this context is real and dangerous. Someone with/recovering from an ED would find it very difficult not to open this thread. Me, for example. I'm a good few years into recovery but it is still very uncomfortable for me to read.

Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's not true. Please don't be so ignorant and judgemental when it comes to others' mental health.

What a fucked up question.
No. You're not big. Do you feel validated now?

I wish!

Mine are similar (33-26-33) and I'm a UK 6-8 at 5ft4. You definitely do not need to diet OP!

Only read first page of replies, but to be bluntly honest I wouldn’t worry about your physical shape. But I would get your MH checked over........

Stop humblebragging.