I need a crash course in measurement.

alaskagrown

What and where am I supposed to measure? Specifically, where is my waist? Is it where the waistband of my pants are (just above hips at my navel) or is it the slimmest part of my torso ( on me, a few inches above my navel)? Also, does a hip measurement include my booty or not?

Shawnalee0703

Get a digital food scale and some different size pyrex measuring cups! I love my food scale!
Lol just kidding! Shawnalee, read the actual post!

WEN575

your waist measurement, typically, is around your navel. Your hip measurement would include your booty, but really as long as you measure the same spot each time, it doesn't really matter.

MsImperfect0

Get a digital food scale and some different size pyrex measuring cups! I love my food scale!

i think u forgot to read her post

Shawnalee0703

Get a digital food scale and some different size pyrex measuring cups! I love my food scale!

i think u forgot to read her post

Lol sure did, but I edited my post. Ha ha

mkw122680

From what I understand, the waist measurement should be taken about where your jeans sit, about at the navel. As far as the hips, I believe your booty is included, as the tape measurer should go right over the wides part of the hip bones.

Shawnalee0703

I have been told waist is actually at your smallest point. But I measure my smallest and at my navel because I have an annoying pooch right there lol. Hips is the largest point of your butt. Although, I agree as long as you measure the same place each time then you will still be able to measure progress.

alaskagrown

HAHA Shawnalee. Oops.

Okay, so I should basically be measuring where my jeans sit and my entire backside. excellent. also, what other body measurements do folks take?

MsImperfect0

i do waist, hips,arms, thighs and chest

slummymummy

Your waist is measured halfway between the top of your hipbone and bottom of your ribcage - typically where you "go in" in the middle! Your hips are measured around the widest part of your hips - and yes, the tape measure will cross your backside (sorry!)

I also tend to measure around my naval crossing the tape measure in line with my belly button this is because I have quite a small waist but a bit of a pot belly! It's nice to know the weight is coming off my beer belly!

Always measure in your birthday suit - clothes will pull you in and give you a false reading. I find it helps to measure in front of a mirror so you can see the tape measure is straight.

Hope this helps!

Edit to clarify - you shouldn't measure the whole of your backside - just around the widest part of your hips. The tape measure will cut across probably the first couple of inches of your rear end.

NoAdditives

I do my waist where it's the smallest. Not because I want the smallest number, but because that's where I was taught your true waist is in sewing classes. Your hips should be measured at the biggest part of your butt.

I also measure my neck, chest, thigh, calf, bicep, forearm and wrist. Doing all of these gives me a more complete picture of what's going on with my body and my fat loss.

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kezziemc

I also measure just under the bust where my bra sits. I often loose inches there but no where else.

LuckyLeprechaun

that's fat layers leaving your back!~ Hooray! Love that my bra size is dropping in ribcage but not in cup size

Shawnalee0703

that's fat layers leaving your back!~ Hooray! Love that my bra size is dropping in ribcage but not in cup size

Ditto! I am nearing 34 d! I was at one point a 38DD. And most constantly a 36 d. But yay for that ribcage measurement huh!;)
I measure bust, bicep, 2 places at waist,.thighs, hips and neck. Although I have zero fat in my neck so haven't changed in some time.
Everyone loses in different places, definitely!

melodyg

I don't really measure because every time I do I have GAINED inches. I think I am just not measuring in the same spot but I am not sure how to make sure I measure in the same spot each time?

Anyway, besides trying to measure hips and waist, I measure chest size (band and cup size). I need to measure those again I guess, I can do a little better at getting the same spot there.

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emmaleigh47

Waist measurement is actually at the smallest point even though that is much higher than most of us view our waist ..

Stand in front of a mirror and bend side to side... whereyou bend is where your waist is. I also measure across my belly button and call it my gut (or abdominal girth measurement).

Hops should be done at your fullest point of the hips - stand sideways in front of mirror to make sure the the tape is straight in the back.

Thighs are measured approx 6 inches below the groin crease for consistancy.

Other things you might want to measure...
- Neck
- Upper arms
- Bust
- Calves

Good luck measurement are great - make sure to take them 3 times to show that they are the same -- and dont look at last months measurements while you are doing your new ones so you arent swayed..

cnichols6898

By military standards waist is around your navel and hips are the largest part of your booty!

mamagooskie

I've been told the way to measure yourself is several places for each body part.

Like measure you chest across widest part and below bra strap, measure waist at smallest part at belly button and then below a few inches, hips at the bones and across butt at widest, thighs do the upper widest part and then closer to the knee.

It's nice because the inches don't only come off the biggest parts......they can come off the entire torso, limbs etc so it's nice to see where you lost the inches.

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USAFwifey12

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-get-your-body-measurements.html

This is the website I used when learning how to take my measurements. Along with everything listed here I measure about an inch below my belly button at my "pooch" because that's my problem area and the place I'm not desperate to lose inches.

BrownEyedG1rl

I took the following measurements:

neck
upper arms
under boobs
waist (at belly button)
hips (at hip bones/widest part)
thighs
calves

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