Big boned?

I looked at your pics and I definitely wouldn't guess you weighed 260 at 5'4". And I'm a high guesser since I'm someone who weighs more than I look like I weigh.


If I go to see a doctor I've never seen before, the nurse ALWAYS starts the scale over 50 pounds too low. :laugh: To save time, I always say "Yeah... go ahead and bump that up one more notch." I've had to "prove" my weight to my older brother (who's 5'11" and a heavy man) on a bet that I weighed more than him (Sad bet, but at least I made $20!).

I have to chime in on this also. At my smallest in Highschool I was a size 12. You could see all my bones even when I was a size 16. At size 12 I weighted about 175 at size 16 I was about 210 maybe a bit higher. I am 5'8 but still I have a wide frame. Especaly my rib cage and hips. Ironicly I have a very small chest. Good luck on your weight lose adventure. I've got about 90lb to get back to my size 12 goal.

I think you can be big boned/densed bone. A few of my cousins and I have been tested for bone density and the doc said that our fam has some of the denses bones he's seen. Jokingly I told my cousin, she's a bit of an airhead, maybe it's affecting her brain, that's why she's dense.

You can find instructions online that will help you determine your frame size. I wondered this about myself not too long ago, so I went to a few different sites to try different methods - just to get an average consensus.

Here's are two that I've used :

http://www.ehow.com/how_2346297_determine-body-frame-size.html

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/tutorial_ideal.php

I hate to say it, but I think a lot of what we think in terms of "oh I don't look this weight" is because most people (women) lie about their weight.

I can agree with you to some extent but 2 people the same height/weight can be VERY different sizes all around. Maybe how the weight is distributed plays a role to some extent. Also, muscle mass will make a huge difference. You can't deny that a 200 pound person who has a large amount of muscle mass isn't going to look MUCH smaller than a 200 pound person who doesn't have nearly as much muscle mass.

I mean, I would never say I'm not fat at 227 pounds. I absolutely need to lose a lot more weight. I'm just saying that I've had very honest people nearly fall over in shock when they found out how much I weighed. You can lie to other people, but you can't (really) lie to yourself about how much you weigh, so you always have yourself as a frame of reference for others. My best friend is nearly 5'8", weighs 170 and is a size 12. I'm 4 inches shorter and 60 pounds heavier than her and wear just 2 sizes bigger. There's an obvious difference there somewhere that can really only be accounted for in frame size/bone density/bone size/muscle mass.

wow we have almost the same stats. weird!!! i'm 188 right now and in a normal fitting 14. a ten is where i wanna be also but my goal weight is around 160 im thinking [who knows]

i had a lean mass test don't recently and my mass [everything besides fat] is 135 pounds. my hips and ribs are huge. the ribs really bother me a lot cause i feel like ill always look big no matter what. [i have horrible body image problems too though and i'm aware that i think i'm much bigger than i actually am]

I often think i'm bigger than I actually am as well. Sometimes I see pictures of myself and just for a moment I think wow I'm really not that big but then I look in the mirror or something and i'm back to thinking i'm huge! :ohwell: Right now my goal is 174, but that may be revised depending on how i feel when i get there.

Why do I have Cartman from South Park going through my head right now?:bigsmile:

It's not just a women thing. When discussing my weight loss with other people I'll ask them how much they think I weigh, and almost always they'll guess between 220 and 230. They're shocked to learn that I weigh 50 lbs more than that, and that at one point I was 336 lbs.

The BMI chart says I'm supposed to weigh 195, Wii Fit says I'm supposed to weigh 166, nothing short of death an famine is getting me there.

The BMI is designed on a statistical average, because of that, there are millions of people who will fall outside of it's "range".

As long as I'm looking better, feeling better, running faster, lifting longer and heavier I'm not sure I give a damn what the scale says.

so by that website, (the first one) I am large framed.. I always felt like i WAS big boned, and my doctor says taht I don't look like I'm 230.. I know I am big boned, because at 180 lbs I thought I was fat (back then) but in the pictures I have, I look like a crack head.. very sick looking.. soo I don't know..
1st goal : 230
2nd goal: 180

This topic reminds me of a episode of Celebrity Fit Club when Bone Crusher (a big guy) said he was big boned, so one of the trainers (the ex marine) went and had x-rays done on both them. The end result, Bone Crusher, identified the wrong bones! The trainer then said that the density could be different, but there isn't really a such thing of big boned.

I too wear my weight pretty well and no one believe my weight or BF, especially when it comes to weigh-ins (I'm navy and we have a required weight or 33% BF for my age) I have always been border line.

This topic reminds me of a episode of Celebrity Fit Club when Bone Crusher (a big guy) said he was big boned, so one of the trainers (the ex marine) went and had x-rays done on both them. The end result, Bone Crusher, identified the wrong bones! The trainer then said that the density could be different, but there isn't really a such thing of big boned.

Genetics (& some environment) make up skeletal structure just as much as they do any other part of our bodies. I find it completely unbelievable there isn't a pretty significant variation in not only bone density but also actual bone circumference (and bone *weight*) from person to person.

Now I can understand the point of this exercise if "Bone Crusher" was BSing about being "big boned" and using it as an excuse. I definitely wouldn't take someone's word for it when their only qualificaiton is that they're an ex-marine drill sergeant. :laugh:

Yes! Yes! Yes!
5' 11" here, and at my thinnest was 170 ( now 208). Almost fit into a size 10, felt very healthy. I was running 15-24 miles a week then. My friend who does Weight Watchers said I should weigh 155. There is no way! I would look like a walking hipbone!
Now, my sister, who is one year younger and one inch shorter, weighs 150. And, while I think she's too thin, she doesn't look emaciated. She's just more delicately boned than me.

I have I have a LARGE frame.. is it the same as big bone?
I weight 184 lbs.. between size 14 - 16