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Are You A Pear Or An Apple? (body shape)

HeyGrlHey
HeyGrlHey Posts: 640
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
So my boyfriends mother and I are trying to lose weight. I noticed that she doesn't really have a gut like I do, but has HUGE hips. I asked her about it and she said it's because she is pear shaped and I am more an apple shape. So I went home and looked it up.


Are You A Pear Or An Apple? (Body shape + Video)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/28/earlyshow/health/shapeup/main676926.shtml


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  • ChantalGG
    ChantalGG Posts: 2,404 Member
    pear
  • Quierstina
    Quierstina Posts: 201 Member
    Pear...and I love it :smile:
  • jtp5184
    jtp5184 Posts: 138 Member
    apple.
  • Legs_McGee
    Legs_McGee Posts: 845 Member
    Pear - I've always had a small waist and flat stomach....all my weight goes straight to my thighs and hips.
  • melissa0001
    melissa0001 Posts: 313 Member
    pear for me too... always envious of apples with skinny butts and legs!
  • abalicious
    abalicious Posts: 361 Member
    well I would define myself as an hourglass, but if i had to pick apple or pear, I am a pear!
  • abalicious
    abalicious Posts: 361 Member
    Pear...and I love it :smile:

    Me too girl!!!
  • anthony438
    anthony438 Posts: 578 Member
    I'm more of a watermelon
  • letsdothis2010
    letsdothis2010 Posts: 190 Member
    I am such a pear lol. But I think I have the potential to move more towards the hourglass side :)
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I've always been a pear, even as a skinny teenager, but I think I might leaning towards hourglass now. My shoulders and hips are about the same width.
  • Mrs_TrimWaistFatWallet
    Mrs_TrimWaistFatWallet Posts: 486
    This Baby DONT GOT BACK!!

    Apple.. :)
  • cat3nv
    cat3nv Posts: 389 Member
    Pear.

    I have to buy pants to fit around my bottom that are too big in the waist. I have a small top half. My biggest complaint about my body is my butt is too big to have boobs this small. :happy:
  • SarahofTwins
    SarahofTwins Posts: 1,169 Member
    pear for me too... always envious of apples with skinny butts and legs!

    Same here! Especially skinny legs, wish I had those :ohwell:
  • 1FitMomof4Girls
    1FitMomof4Girls Posts: 202 Member
    Hourglass
  • thedreamhazer
    thedreamhazer Posts: 1,156 Member
    It's an interesting article, but leads to confusion for me. Before I lost weight, I qualified as an apple. Now, I am definitely pear-shaped by the article's definition. I apparently lose and gain weight around my waist quickly. But I don't really lose off of my hips, which is why my ratio changed drastically in just 23 lbs. I went from .857 to .716. :\
  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    Another pear here!
  • tippett610
    tippett610 Posts: 67 Member
    apple.
  • MsLadyVirgo
    MsLadyVirgo Posts: 160 Member
    I'm an Oval. Would be an apple, but I got BUTT!
  • MrsSki
    MrsSki Posts: 196
    I'm technically an apple, but I feel like I'm a little bit of both, since my weight gain area is from below my chest to my thighs..... When I was skinny, I was a pear..... Can't wait to get back there!
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    Banana!
  • fattymclardass
    fattymclardass Posts: 14
    I'm more of a watermelon

    lmao
    Me too
  • WalkingGirl1985
    WalkingGirl1985 Posts: 2,046 Member
    A small pair. My hips/butt is getting a lot firmer and smaller. Seems to be all in my mid section as you can tell in my default photo.
  • Quaters
    Quaters Posts: 85 Member
    I think that i am an apple ,never have had a small waist.
  • sjhoffman
    sjhoffman Posts: 14 Member
    Apple! The best thing about getting overweight is I finally have a butt!
  • bunchesonothing
    bunchesonothing Posts: 1,015 Member
    By this definition I am technically a pear.
  • kathyhull
    kathyhull Posts: 327 Member
    I'm more of a watermelon

    Me too!
  • becky611
    becky611 Posts: 77
    100 percent pear...baby got back and no boobs..
  • bmw4deb
    bmw4deb Posts: 1,324 Member
    I use to be an apple (all my weight or lots of it in the belly)
    I'm turning into an hourglass yaaahh
  • dothompson
    dothompson Posts: 1,184 Member
    I am an apple, but I used to be a pumpkin.

    This is actually an important question. People who have apple shapes and gain weight around their mid-section are much more prone to heart disease and other health concerns than people who gain weight in their hips and bottom.
  • ritaadkins2002
    ritaadkins2002 Posts: 371 Member
    apple
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