To say this is average size?

[PinkRiceKrispies]

5'3 and 8 and a half stone.
Would you say that is average and not 'tiny?'

It’s not considered average. It’s statistically average. Which is pretty scary because the size 16 of a few decades ago measures the same as a current 12.

A GP would say she is the perfect weight for her height (providing she has a healthy, balanced lifestyle ofcourse). She falls into the middle area of what is a healthy weight for her height. NHS BMI calculator can tell us this info.

OP, you are a giant fatty fatty fatso.

Ignore your colleague. And quit your job, you have a lot of odd colleagues.

I'm 5'3 and I weigh 12st 8. I look like a chubby ox but I'm not too bothered, I like food and wine more than I want to be skinny

What does average mean, other than “statistically average”? What other average can there be? I don’t understand.

😂Ah yes, the corduroy pinafore, siren call of the maneater.

Only Amy Farrah Fowler would find that dress sense a come-on ...
(fwiw, I like the look, & it's entirely appropriate for the office.)

Did HR tell you their response to the complaint, Bass? Pleeeeease enlighten us!

I'm the same height and 51kg, just over 8 stone, I'm not tiny, I just look a normal healthy size and I am.

I've been thin shamed, always by a fat person I'll add. Even when I was pregnant I had comments about not looking pregnant enough "ooo your bump is too small", my children were all over 8lb and born before their due date I'll add!

There’s a difference between statistically and considered. One’s fact, the other’s perception.

I’m that height

no way would I of said I was average height. I’ve always been usually in the shorter size in a room full of women

thst really astounds me 😂

It's a little bit teeny tiny.

Seriously @PinkRiceKrispies 5 ft 3, and 8 and half stone sounds fine. But my cousin is 5 ft 3 and 10 stone, and she looks fine. Indeed, she looks a bit gaunt and 8 and a half stone. She looks better and 9 and a half to 10 and a half stone.

Everyone is different.

Many oxen have wonderful bone structure & delightfully sweeping eyelashes Friar.

Also, any man I'd be happy to shag is far more interested in how much laughing you do together after the event than what a woman's BMI is. The kind of man who only wants a skinny woman is usually after arm-candy compliance, & distressed by individuality.

And it's the same bmi as a 5ft 8 woman who weighs 10st, you can't compare to a group of tall women without using bmi.

What did these remarkably dense people expect you to do about your bump, TeaTime? It's not as if you can grow them to order is it?

But perception, opinions, thoughts, who you know, your mum’s mates, etc, have nothing to do with it. There’s only the actual fact - 5’3” in height, 11 stone.

I was average height for my age when I was 18. But that was 50 years ago, when 5'3" was the average. It didn't stop me from being known as Titch though.
I don't know, but strongly suspect, that the average height for an adult woman is about 5'6"/7" now.

Your bmi is within a healthy weight range but you probably know that

Tbh, I was only just over 7st, so probably was quite tiny. Those were the days ..sigh.

No, you're morbidly obese.

Have you heard of Google? Might give it a try instead of fishing for validation on Mumsnet.

OP that is an absolutely fine weight for your height. Anyone and I mean anyone who comments on another person's weight, I would say even if that other person was technically a dangerous weight for their height/circumstances unless they are that person's doctor or a medical professional who is working with the person in question is incredibly rude and out of order.

It is literally none of their business.

I say that as someone who has also been in similar types of height/weight as the OP and it drives me mad when people think they can comment ("you're too thin" - no I'm not but even if I was how dare you think you can come out with that!).

Your body is just that - your body. It is literally no business of anyone else to comment.

You're short.

I’m shocked at those stats.

@TaunterOfWomenInGeneralSaysSayonarastu I was made to feel like a smelly pirate hooker who'd purchased office wear from the local sex shop 😂

HR Manager found it hilarious but calmly said that Complaint Woman #1 should know that people have complained about her not wearing shoes in the office as her feet were very stinky. And suggested that they focus on themselves rather than other people.

Thankfully one has since retired and the other has calmed down.

Agree with this, I have similar proportions and get called tiny a lot. I’m a healthy weight, shouldn’t be anything special but in this day and age apparently it is.

I have been

5ft 4
7stone 10 - size 10
14 stone 4 - size 24
and am now 9 stone 1 and a size 12

I am happy being anything from a 12 - 14, If I squeeze into a 10 it makes me look busty and accentuates my belly, but having 3 large babies and being nearly 60 I prefer a little extra or my neck looks like a turkey! :)

As a nation we have absolutely lost sight of what a healthy weight is, otherwise we wouldn’t have an obesity crisis and a body positivity movement movement to pretend it isn’t happening.

I agree. Two thirds of adults are overweight or obese. That's not a good statistic.