How can you actually tell what your body frame?

Lounmoun

I've tried the various methods and I get medium to large frame. I felt and looked my best in the middle of the healthy weight range for my height so I'm going with medium frame.

robininfl

My wrists are very thin, and ring size is 5 which is small for a tall lady, but shoulders are broad, ribcage average, so frame can mean more than one thing, as binarypulsar noted. Thin bones but average build I would say. My weight can get very low and still look good, so that correlates with small frame; but my ribcage and pelvis will be always their size, they define the limits, basically.

While you are carrying extra weight, it is hard to determine frame size, because your bone structure isn't apparent. But carrying that weight through your teen years probably did give you good dense bones, which will weigh more, so you can probably look the same as someone lighter while carrying more pounds, and that's healthy. That's what I've noticed with my oldest daughter, who was an athlete. Since her bones are stronger, she weighs more than me even when we are in the same pants size (and I am 2" taller than her). Her body just weighs more because her teen years were spent building bone, while mine were spent trying to stay under 100lb.

BinaryPulsar

My ring size is 3.25. Like most things, it's difficult to find that size.

Russandol

kathrynjean_ wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

What results does this site give you? http://www.myfooddiary.com/Resources/frame_size_calculator.asp

Interestingly, my results on that site didn't match. My wrist measurement apparently indicates a "thin" frame while my elbow measurement indicates a "broad" frame. FWIW, I always thought I had a medium frame ...

OP, it just goes to show you that these numbers can be inconsistent. I think it's better to go off of how you look and feel.

I got the same result. Thin wrist, broad elbow, so the results don't match. (And believe me, I pinched hard on my elbow.) I have disproportionately thin wrists (I get that from Dad), but my shoulders and my ribcage are broad, ditto my hips (and I'm 5'8"), so I usually discount anything that only looks at wrist measurement.

kshama2001

duddysdad wrote: »

I am a 6'5" Male, and I have a large frame. Large chest, broad shoulder, long torso. No matter how much weight I lose I will never fit into a large shirt. I have to buy an XL, which may look too big for me, but if I were to wear a large, it would be way too short. I've seen people my height, similar weight, wear a medium, but they usually have like a 36-38 inseam, where mine is a 30. I'm just taller on top, but not comically so. I look proportionate.

Ya, I have a large frame - big hands, feet, head, rib cage. I look proportionate to myself, but girls my own height in high school always seemed much daintier to me. Eventually I stopped comparing myself to other women. I never felt right with men under 6 feet, unless they also had large frames. My OH has an inch on you, but probably a medium frame. He's been successful shopping for clothes at LL Bean.

timeforwork

One of my wrists I can overlap my fingers the other iv got half inch gap! Same sort of difference on elbows so not sure what's going on here! X

fattothinmum

I'm 5 foot 4 and a bit, UK size 7/8 feet. US 9/10. Big wrists, so I guess I'm large frame. Yes, I look thinner now than I weigh. My bones will never allow me to fit into a US size 0, even if I get to some ridiculously low weight for me. I should have been taller, I really should have.... Viking ancestors here too....

sunflowerhippi

Well just like the what shape are you think I am disfigured. I am either a small boobed hourglass or a wide shouldered pear. haha

Wrist is small
Elbow is broad/large

yippie go me.

Size 6/8 bottoms, and size L in little kids aka 10/12 year old tops.

Heartisalonelyhunter

nvmomketo wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »

I dont think those tests are 100 accurate. it tells me I have a small frame and I am more like a medium frame.Ive never been really small lowest weight after becoming an adult was 125 and at that weight I look emaciated.(Im 5'6 1/2)

What results does this site give you? http://www.myfooddiary.com/Resources/frame_size_calculator.asp

Hmm. Mine says I have a small to medium frame but I have a large frame with good sized pelvis and wide shoulders on top of a bit of a barrel chest. I have bigger shoulders than most women...

Perhaps my bones are not thick (thin) on my large frame?

Mine says I have a 'thin' frame? Small I understand but thin? How can that apply to bones? Makes no sense to me

SusanMFindlay

Thin bones are bones that aren't wide. Could also have said "narrow bones".

SunflowerCutie

Francl27 wrote: »

I don't think you can tell until you have at least a normal BMI. Wrists really don't mean much when you still have fat on them, and I know that in my case my wrists are relatively thin, but I have a large ribcage and if I go by elbow width, I'm medium/large.

Clothes size doesn't really mean anything though, for example it will be much easier for a 5'2" woman to fit in size 0 clothes than a 5'8" woman...

Yeah that is true. A size 0 on a 5'8 woman is too skinny.

Shana67

I mean.... if you're very overweight, your fingers won't touch around your wrist. That's how mine were back in the day when I was 235lbs. My excuse was ALWAYS that "I'm big boned." Then I lost 90 lbs and lo and behold my fingers could easily wrap around my wrist and even overlap. =/