To think size 18 is plus size and not 'hardly plus size'

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The poster, with a very large following, is saying a size 18 isn't really plus size by much, and that 'most people (in the UK), are above a Size 16?

Really? I don't know that many people above a size 16. I really don't. I know lots and lots of size 12/14 and thought that was about average? It's usually the first sizes to sell out

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There's a website where women post photos of themselves along with their heights and weights (note, not dress size ) and it is interesting to see the variation. Assuming that they are all telling the truth of course.

I was definitely 20 stone, stayed like that for a year and measured at drs as I was worried about diabetes at one point. I was absolutely morbidly obese and I'm not denying it, just showing how different we can look at various weights.

It's massive. Very fat. No way around it.

Maybe not the case 30 years ago, before mass vanity sizing, but definitely now. I've stayed the same size more or less since I was 18 and began life as a solid 12. Now most of my clothes are an 8 or 10. I'm 5'9'' and I'm not skinny at all below the waist. I can't imagine that anyone who isn't a) very muscular or b) very tall could be more than a size 12 and have a healthy BMI,

Not necessarily. After giving birth I was 16 stone and a size 18. I'm 5'6. It really depends on your shape.

Having said that clothes are massive these days. Some size 18 clothes dwarfed me. The sooner the oversized look is over the better!

That's a bit ridiculous. It's not massive
Size 28 might be
Size 18 is hardly someone you turn round in the street and go oh my god they're HUGE unless you're on MN apparently
At a size 18 I can happily run, bike, do yoga and aerial hoop and do a 90 min spin class. I don't have huge rolls of fat, I'm just broad (even at a smaller size I'm broad)

Huge sizing is an issue for people who genuinely are 6 or 8 size though, just to say!

I disagree with this. It is huge. We just don’t see it as such because it’s been normalised.

I'm size 18. I knew I was big, I know I am unhealthy (I'm dieting and exercising) but I didn't know a size 18 was huge. Ah well. Live and learn.

Baffled at this.

@Ithinkitsenoughnow huge as in?
I mean yes I'm fat, but I'm not huge! I'm 5ft 10 though so yes different to 5ft and a size 18

I don't have rolls or a stomach overhang or anything like that

What baffles me is there are always so many obese Mumsnetters apparently doing more exercise than a triathlete and yet they're still massively overweight?

I get why someone wouldn't think a size 18 is huge.

If 6/8 is very slim... 10 is slim... then a 12/14 is around a medium, a bit curvy on the 14 side.

So going from that, you might call someone who is a 16 "big" but not "huge". So an 18 might be "large", but I wouldn't say it's "huge" or "enormous". When I think of someone "huge" in my head they are bigger than a size 18.

But then I see a distinction between "big", "very big", "huge", "enormous" etc.

I can do solid HITT session (now with only few tears) I remember it at more kg and some of these exercises would require a defibrillator ready for me. 😳 And throw up bag.
I am often also surprised. Mainly because absolutely everyone irl who does LOT of sport I know is slim. Then there is me slowly behind them🙈

Yanbu I'm a 16 and I'm plus size. Feel like a huge whale tbh.

I dunno. Honestly. I'm on a shit load of medication and have hashimotos

I don't really walk as I'm sat down all day at work but after work I do a 30-90 min spin class and barre/yoga/stretching to try and make up for the lack of movement in my day

There's no other female relatives (except mum obviously) in my family, my uncle is a heavyweight boxer and my grandad was a wrestler so that kind of says how we are built. I have never been a size 10, ever. My shoulders wouldn't fit in it. Everyone is over 5ft 9

Today I had a ham and coleslaw sandwich and an apple and a kit Kat (2 finger one). Tea will probably be an omelette with mushrooms and salad. I fast daily from after my last meal until 2pm

26" hips? I doubt that

I've just googled 40" hips and it says size 12. Even that is vanity sizing, surely? 40"??

No it isn't. I would say 10-12 depending on shop. I was 12 with more

36 used to be standard for a slim woman (Marilyn Monroe had 36 inch hips and she was tiny)

So 36" = size 8, 38" = size 10, 40" = size 12

Seems fairly sensible?

Clothing is produced with ease in it. So a size 12 skirt is probably a 38-38 inch hip with 2” ease.

The point is a 40" hip would not have been a 10/12 not that long ago. Probably about a 16.
Of course it's vanity sizing.

And if a size 8 is now 40 inches hip,

I have hips this size and I'm a 14.

When do you mean when you day "not that long ago"

Is Noom actually any good? It’s making a lot of promises to me about getting the baby weight off before December which would be nice…

Years ago a size 8 was very slim. Now it really isn't. At ASOS, for example, it's a 26 inch waist and 35 inch hips.

When I was at school years ago the largest uniform size skirt had a 26 inch waist. I spent the last year of uniform with it unbuttoned after lunch. I used to buy size 14 in a lot of shops. My waist size is exactly the same as before (26 1/2), but now I'm often an 8 in high street shops and never more than a 10. If you looked at me in a bikini (currently on holiday) you would see that I'm far from skinny, and am in fact somewhat out of shape. My genuinely skinny friends now struggle to shop in high street stores.

A size 18 at ASOS has a 36 inch waist. Any woman who isn't pregnant whose waist measures 36 inches is very big, and running serious health risks. I agree that no one would turn round in the street and notice someone of this size, because we are a very overweight nation. But it is not a healthy body size.