FRAME SIZE DOES MATTER!

SuperWoman120

I found this website that tells you how you can tell if you have a small, medium, or large frame. This way you know for sure how much you should weigh. I found out I am a small frame, and being 5'4, I can weight between 120-132 lbs, and my goal is 120 so I'm right on track!
use this link so you know if you are in a healthy weight range! It does not ask if you are male or female however

http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/ideal-body-weight-3146-143.html

hottottie11

I found this website that tells you how you can tell if you have a small, medium, or large frame. This way you know for sure how much you should weigh. I found out I am a small frame, and being 5'4, I can weight between 120-132 lbs, and my goal is 120 so I'm right on track!
use this link so you know if you are in a healthy weight range! It does not ask if you are male or female however

http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/ideal-body-weight-3146-143.html

doesn't work for me ..My fingers overlap (small frame), but at the highest of the weight range, I'll have 0% body fat....o well

BobbyClerici

Here is a good tool
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/fsz

PBmaria

Wow, this seems way too extreme.
I mean, I know I'm short (5'0), but this is saying I shouldn't weight more than 105lbs and it called me overweight at my current weight, which puts me in the mid/low range of a healthy BMI.

stylistchik

yeah I'm kind of in between small and medium (my fingers overlap but just the tips) so I checked out both and they both said I should weigh more than what the BMI chart says and the low end of the medium frame was what I weighed at 24% body fat and I like to stay around 19%. oh well

summertime_girl

Sigh. Just means I need to weigh even less to be healthy.

stylistchik

double post, sorry

staceyGO

I find this helpful, thanks!!

lessac

Needless to say, a calculator that doesn't take gender into account is not even remotely accurate.

xinahay123

OMG!!! Thank you for posting this!! I have been stuck between 165 and 174 for a year, and so frustrated because, while I work out daily and have body fat of around 24%, I am above all of the regular charts ideal weight range. This one said at 5'7", with my large frame I should weigh between 158 and 173.8. That makes me feel so much better!! I still want to get to the 150s, but at least it feels like I am not going crazy!!!

AldermanKP

Thank you for the link. I just tried it out and my goal is right in the middle. I was never sure if my goal was a healthy one or not. Thanks again!

teagin2002

angryeater

I found this website, which has gender and asks you to measure your wrist rather than if your fingers touch. I can touch my fingers around my wrist even though my wrist is 7" making me a large frame. I just have man hands lol

http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/bodyFrame.php

brit49

Im small frame and over weight by 4.4 which is just about what I have to lose.

lessac

I found this website, which has gender and asks you to measure your wrist rather than if your fingers touch. I can touch my fingers around my wrist even though my wrist is 7" making me a large frame. I just have man hands lol

http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/bodyFrame.php

That seems good.

smurfette75

Not good!!

Ideal weight range is 90 - 99 lbs. (40.9 - 45 kg.).
You are overweight by 11 lbs. (5 kg.).

I haven't been that weight since I was in high school!
I'm around 110 lbs now and that's small for me. Don't think I want to go below 105.

shakybabe

problem I have is, I've always had really thin wrists and long thin fingers, but my frame is definitely medium as I've never been small chested or around hips, even when I had a waist in my younger years.. lol!

According to medium frame I'm only 3lbs over which is great news! .. but if going on small frame I'm about a stone overweight still and would still be over if I did reach my goal of 133lbs!

According to one I found I should be between 119-147lbs there's no way I'm gonna get under 130 or look healthy there as also 42 now, it doesn't take into account age either?

mgmlap

hmmm..its telling me I am underweight..but I am 27% BF...with about 2% more to lose...

Strobins05

Here is a good tool
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/fsz

This is great, thanks!

FitnessBarbie99

This isn't working for me either. I've done similar tests based on additional measurements - pelvic bone, etc. and I have a medium frame. I have long bones -- 6 footer. This says I have a small frame ... nope.

babyshme

On one wrist my fingers touch. On the other wrist, the lap each other.

Athijade

I found this website, which has gender and asks you to measure your wrist rather than if your fingers touch. I can touch my fingers around my wrist even though my wrist is 7" making me a large frame. I just have man hands lol

http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/bodyFrame.php

Yep! I have very long fingers and easily can circle my wrist. However, when actually measured, my wrist is 7" to 7 and 1/8". So, if I go by the fingers I am medium framed (and they actually slightly overlap), but if I go by measurement I am large framed.

I think I will go with the actual measurements since that reduces the variable of finger length...

ignatiusreilly

Come, now. This is just silly. Wrist circumference?!?

bcattoes

I found this website that tells you how you can tell if you have a small, medium, or large frame. This way you know for sure how much you should weigh. I found out I am a small frame, and being 5'4, I can weight between 120-132 lbs, and my goal is 120 so I'm right on track!
use this link so you know if you are in a healthy weight range! It does not ask if you are male or female however

http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/ideal-body-weight-3146-143.html

I think male/female matters more than frame size when trying to judge a healthy weight.

StatutoryGrape

I found it comforting. My fingers touch easily but don't overlap, so I put in medium frame. It said my ideal weight range is 130-143, and I'm at 145 right now...so it made me feel better about where I am now (which is where I've been stuck for months).

Rilke

I am 5'8.5 with a small frame, but according to calculators my lowest "healthy" weight would be 110. I would look skeletal at 110.

Don't get too caught up in numbers.

mamamia410

Neat! 160-172 for me, that's where I'm headed, I'd be happy anywhere near that range I'm sure

TahliS

At the risk of sounding silly.. what is an elbow breadth?

nkziv

this calculator told me i'm 20 pounds underweight.. i don't think that's right.

CaptainGordo

Um... anything that would indicate that any of these calculators are reputable, folks?

Before you are traumatized by a calculator that a random site built, do you homework with reputable sources of information.

:noway:

servilia

I think this is way off (unless it's for men).

My frame is small
I'm 5'9" and 135
It told me I should be between 150-165lbs!