Apple shape vs pear shape?
BlueSkyShoal
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So I've heard about having an apple shaped body vs a pear shaped body, but I've never been able to figure out what it meant. Is it like your weight gravitates to your stomach if you're an apple or to your thighs / butt if you're a pear? I feel like I'm both right now, ha ha!
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
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BlueSkyShoal wrote: »So I've heard about having an apple shaped body vs a pear shaped body, but I've never been able to figure out what it meant. Is it like your weight gravitates to your stomach if you're an apple or to your thighs / butt if you're a pear? I feel like I'm both right now, ha ha!
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
Yes, you pretty much got it right.
Apple shaped means that you have android fat distribution pattern so your fat is more through the middle. This is the most common pattern for men but women can have it too. Pear shaped means that you have a gynoid fat distribution pattern, which is generally seen as the more feminine shape where you carry more fat in your hips/thighs/butt.
You can change over time too. I was very apple-ish when I was fat. Now I'm more ruler-like, which some people call banana shaped.0 -
I would define an apple shape as having your waist measurement be the same or bigger than your hips. You might have fairly thin legs.
A pear shape to me would have hips that are measuring bigger than upper body and waist area. The thighs might be larger.0 -
I'm an apple
I hate my fat belly. But I bet if I were pear shaped I'd hate my big butt lol. Kim kardashian and J Lo have made pear shape quite fashionable, no one likes a big round Buddha belly like mine lol 0 -
I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.0
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girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!0 -
girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Inquiring minds want to know... Why?0 -
Bypass the queue for the loo? Lol0
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girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!
i hope youre kidding0 -
girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Lol been there done that!0 -
Not that that was a desired affect that is!0
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I used to be an apple, but changed my genetics and became a pear.0
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PeachyPlum wrote: »girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Inquiring minds want to know... Why?
If you are ever on a sinking ship, first one off.
Just one of many potential benefits.
Perhaps the apple shape has been evolutionarily selected for.
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No love for the banana shaped?0
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ceoverturf wrote: »No love for the banana shaped?
I'm very happy to have switched shape from apple to banana
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!
i hope youre kidding
Of course I am.
Or am I?0 -
No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, and I have a relatively (12 inches smaller) waist. No appreciable belly fat. Just a small had-a-baby-at-40 pooch.
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mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, relatively (12 inches smaller) waist.
Gourd shaped?
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girlviernes wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, relatively (12 inches smaller) waist.
Gourd shaped?
It's like looking in the mirror.
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I think of the hourglass and pear as pretty much the same.0
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I'm human shaped. And all this time I had no idea I was interacting with so many fruit.0
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The formulas listed here are pretty interesting.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_body_shapeTiffanyR71 wrote: »
You are right. I tend to lump them together in my mind because I think of them as one big mega called "curvy in the ideal places." It was interesting to see that the Wikipedia article noted a study that found far more rectangular shaped women than hourglass and spoon (pear) combined.0 -
I'm a rectangle. Bust and hips are the same but waist is only about 5 inches smaller. I become more hourglass the thinner I get, but still a banana or rectangle. That's what ia lot of women are I think. If I got really, really overweight I would probably turn into an apple eventually.0
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girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Unless we're 62 . . .0 -
Aw. I used to measure 34, 29, 44. Serious pear. I've definitely lost some of my pearness.0
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Yes, you can change shape! I used to be somewhat of a pear. Now I'm still slightly pearish but my shoulders are wider than my hips, but I don't have big breast. Some kind of mix-shape I guess0
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I don't think we can all change shapes. If fat was giving you most of your shape, then yeah. But from 140 lbs to 305 lbs my shape has remained the same.... I have an inverted triangle/apple shape that becomes more pronounced the more I lose weight.0
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mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, and I have a relatively (12 inches smaller) waist. No appreciable belly fat. Just a small had-a-baby-at-40 pooch.
I saw it referred to as butternut shaped. Butternuts must look different in other countries.0 -
The formulas listed here are pretty interesting.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_body_shapeTiffanyR71 wrote: »
You are right. I tend to lump them together in my mind because I think of them as one big mega called "curvy in the ideal places." It was interesting to see that the Wikipedia article noted a study that found far more rectangular shaped women than hourglass and spoon (pear) combined.
Yup, us hourglasses are actually rare, and therefore more special
(just jokes, we're all special). A lot of people think they are hourglass when they are not, comes down to waist to hips/bust ratio (as I imagine Wikipedia already told you!). 0 -
mamapeach910 wrote: »girlviernes wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, relatively (12 inches smaller) waist.
Gourd shaped?
It's like looking in the mirror.
I just scared my dog laughing so loud and hard. You made my night. Gourds unite!
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