Do I look overweight?

[ZippyLimeBear]

Do I look overweight? I’m the one in grey. I’ve had two kids and I think I might have let my weight run away with me, but as a typical woman I want to know if I’m being over critical? Please be honest

Hi @Overflowingwithcosmos - do you have a link or recommendation for the posture exercises please? 😊

My hunch is that the posters who say she looks overweight are overweight themselves trying to make her feel bad. Or they have a distorted ana concept of thin.

Overweight means higher than the healthy bmi for her height and there’s no way she’s out of the normal range.

I'm a fat fuck and I think she looks perfectly fine.

Yes you DO look overweight, but you carry it well.

I’m a size 8/10 UK don’t “look” overweight but my BMI is definitely overweight.

I'm pretty sure most people saying she's super slim are themselves much larger than her. If you're a size 16, of course you don't want to say that a size 12 person is anything but skinny. Yes OP is certainly slimmer than an average British woman.
For me it looks like OPs waist to height ratio may put her in higher risk range according to NHS calculator.

This. I've spent far too long staring at that photograph wondering if there's another person in grey which is the one OP means. But no.

OP you look slim, absolutely fine. Which I suspect you know. But it gives a a perfect chance for screwed-up MNers to come and post their skewed ideas of what is overweight, so well done you for starting what my be the most popular topic of the day!

I think people look ‘a different sort of nice’ at different weights/BMIs. I’ve known people who were curvy who lost a lot of weight, who looked very different after the weight loss, but I wouldn’t necessarily say ‘better’ - just different.
Personally, I have broad shoulders, and when I gain weight, I quickly look ‘burly’ which I dislike. For others, it may be the tum that enlarges, or the thighs…we’ll be our own harshest critics.
You may prefer the lighter ‘you’ to how you look now; but to the outside world, you look great. Don’t let it stop you enjoying life!

35!

I’m pretty tall, 5’9

You’re right!

Yes, you look overweight but not massively so.

U may be bigger than your usual size !
That doesn't mean your overweight thou !
U look absolutely lovely and healthy
So I would say your being over critical of yourself !!
Please don't do this !!!

Some of these comments!

No, you don’t look fat. You look normal. Not super slim but normal. Lose weight for aesthetic reasons if that’s what you want to do but no one in their right mind would look at you and say you’re fat. Except the Mumsnet teeny-tinies and pro anorexics who think everyone above a size 10 is obese.

No your don't look overweight. You look a healthy size with large breasts. Large breasts with a loose top can make someone look bigger than they actually are, I think that's why some people are commenting that you are overweight.

8/10 in current vanity sizing is the old 10/12 so if you are petite I can see how that might be possible. Equally if you work out a lot and you have a lot of muscle. BMIs can’t measure muscle.

I think you look fine, I’d say high end of a healthy bmi If I’m being honest. But still a healthy weight.

why don’t you just weigh yourself? BMI works for most people.

You look great!

Now you’ve updated height I would say not overweight. I previously said just over ideal bmi but given you’re 5 foot 9 I think you’re more likely to be in the middle of the healthy range. I’m shorter than you, size 10 bottom half and 12 top half and bmi 22 at 57kg and I reckon you’d be similar from a bmi point of view.

this is not vanity sizing as I still wear my clothes when I was 15., I’m turning 42 this year…. I also have a 67cm waist which is small regardless, but I’m still overweight

You look normal to me, but not 'slim' like some people are saying. I suspect that if you've always been slim up to now, then you might 'feel' overweight, even though you're not.

I'm a similar build and I feel big, but that's because I was always super-skinny and now I'm not.

Before I saw your updates I’d have said you were at the upper end of a healthy bmi - a lovely shape and size. Now I know you’re pretty tall I reckon you’re in the middle of your bmi range.
But looks can be deceptive, I didn’t always ‘look’ especially heavy but I was, I’m tall and carried my weight quite evenly distributed across my body.
Weigh yourself if you’re wondering, or don’t if you’re happy as you are. Looks like you were all having a fun time!

You dont look overweight to an outsider. If you're asking the question, you're obviously not happy though - which is more important than a random person telling you that you don't look overweight.

I think you look like a 15 year old. Not at all overweight. Healthy mid range bmi.