To think that a size 16 is not fat

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I mean I would say this, as I am surprisingly enough a size 16.

When I was younger I dieted, starved and fought myself into a size 10-12. I just can't be bothered anymore. My DH seems to like my curves and I feel it is only society that deems I should be thinner.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a size 10-12 BTW but I think some women are naturally smaller sizes than others

I want to stand up to all this size 0 shit! Why can't we just be the size we are without feeling inadequate.

What do you all think?
How do you feel about your size?
What is your opinion of other's size?

Am I harking on about nothing or should Mnetters stand up and embrace their curves/lumps/bumps

The UK is sneakily making sizes bigger too.

I am 5'5"

When I was 20, I weighed 7 stone and was a size 10. There was no such thing as a size 8.

Now I am 44. I weigh 9st 4lb. I am wearing a size 8 pair of trousers from Next.

Oh my god, fecking liar, they're a 10!

Anyway you get the gist

Sizes are definitely bigger now.
I am the same size now as when I was 15 yet I'm a 6 now and I was an 8 back then.
No way am I slimmer, I'm the same weight just less toned.

Thank you ormirian, at least i know im not going mad!

im 5ft 7" and a 18-20, same as you elliegant.
i also would say i was active [ish]
however even though dp loves me as i am, i am not happy with my size, and NEED to lose weight, not just for my health.
i suppose its all about confidence, i mean you remember someone initially by what they look like, but when you get to know them,(and like them) size pretty much goes out the window.
i want some weight off, so i can run around with my kids, and not feel out of breath all the time,(at the moment i leave that sort of stuff to dp, while i sit on a bench and read a book, but secretly im
i think i am in the right mindset to actually lose some this time, although i have said that numerous times before!!
im never gonna be kate moss or the like, and quite frankly i wouldnt want to be so regimented with my eating, i just would like some nice skinny jeans!!!
xx

I am a 12-14

But I am 5 stone overweight and I have a fat look about me. If I buy clothes, the assistant always looks at me as if to say "fuck me love, yoiu are never going to get into that size 12 skirt"

However, y mate is a 14-16 and is within her perfect weight range for her height

I would suggest a 16 is overweight. Iam a size 12 and obsese accaording to my BMI and body fat measurements.

Sheik, how on earth can you be 5 stone overweight if you wear size 12/14??

It's out of plaster but sore and swollen kerry! I thought it was supposed to get better in a cast . But I've been assured by people who are supposed to know about such things that it is to be expected and I have to be patient

I've been patient for 5 f*ing weeks!

Tis a bit of a rant subject for me atm. But thanks for asking

Gosh there's a lot of crap on this thread. My mother (aged 56) has always worn a size 8, until she reached a 6. I always wore a 6 before children and then 8/10 after.... I look better at his size. Anyone under 5'3" wearing a 14 has got to be fat, it doesn't matter if you're happy whateer you are. If you don't like the word fat there's always womanly, ample, voluptuous, curvy etc.

We all have labels given by others it's whether or not we see them as meaningful. At 5'1" so many people have commented on my height, but I love being little and so have never taken offence.

Yes, sizes are way bigger now. I've been a size 8 all my life since I was about 17 and I am in no way the same size now as I was then. For a start, I'm at least a stone heavier!

I've ever been anywhere near a size 16 was when I was pregnant, so as I'm of average height, I'd say 16 was fat unless you are tall.
Otherwise, the most I've been is a 12/14.

I'm now a happy 8/10. That's not from working out and I've never dieted. I just avoid sweets and alcohol until the weekends and walk about 8 or 9 hours per week through not driving

Matildax - I agree it is all to do with confidence, I worried for years about being overweight and finally accepted I am what I am and I make the most of the curves I've got. I am much happier now, I dress to compliment my size and always feel fab when I get dressed up.

No your just 5" to short

Muscle doesn't weigh more than fat, a pound of fat is the same as a pound of muscle, muscle is denser than fat.

Yes, so a specific volume of muscle weighs more than the same volume of fat.

Size 0 is Amderican, that would equate to a size 4 in the UK. I'm a size 8 and I'd like to lose a few pounds to be honest, I have a tummy from having my 3 children that I never had before. I don't diet though and I rarely excercise, I really need to excerise to get fitter though. I do walk at the weekends and sometimes during the week but nothing aerobic.

I don't notice other people's sizes on a general basis, it doesn't both me what anyone else looks like.

That wasn't what someone said though, they simply said muscle weighs more than fat which isn't the same. Clearly the same volume of muscle would weigh more than fat but the fact remains that muscle does weigh the same as fat.

Mercy, I am very short and small framed.

However, I don't look like I weigh what I di, IYSWIM, but I look more like a 16-18 than a 12-14.

I am honestly the size I say I am. I drown in a 16.

I am a size 16, I am also 6ft2. Pre babies I was a 14. I am a stone overweight. I hate being a 16 but don't think of myself as fat.

I'm a 26/28 and go off the BMI scale on Wii Fit. I was a 24 before I had Tom. Unfortunately, I have no willpower to stop eating cakes, biscuits and the like. The plan was to loose weight before the next baby, but Tom is 2.6 and I don't want too big an age gap. Someone told me that eating Mars bars makes your breastmilk creamier, which I religiously had one a day for the first 3 months. I think, if i'd gone back to my old job, and hadn't moved, i'd still be a 24, as I was for a few months after I had Tom.

Losing weight, my goal would be 18/20.

It annoys me when real skinny people (size 8s) say they are fat, then tell me i'm not!

Wouldn't it be great instead of justifying themselves CONSTANTLY (which we woman are terrible for doing) we just said 'Yeah, I'm fat, so what'?