"Big Boned" expectations

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  • crazy4lulu
    crazy4lulu Posts: 822 Member
    we are Large framed.thats it... just taller and well larger. Im 5 ft 11 inches, a size 8 or 10 on a "bad" day. i weigh 194 lbs and will never be petite. Life hands you lemons.... make lemonade. Dont let them go to waste. Keep doing what you are doing.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    My mother starved to 115 pounds at 5'9" from a thyroid condition.

    She still took a size 12/13.. That's pretty much the dress size her *skeleton* takes. We ueed to joke that I'll see size 12 again .... six months after I'm dead.

    Human bones actually have a pretty wide variation in both robustness and how they're arranged. If there were less, anthropologists wouldn't be able to tell anything about a person from their bone structure.
  • kaylacharlton1
    kaylacharlton1 Posts: 2
    Don't worry about scale numbers or dress sizes. Go until you feel healthy, meet your fitness goals, and like what you see in the mirror.

    If you do want a number to go by, find out what your healthiest Body Fat Percentage (BFP) is. I think for women it's usually in around 20-30% range (though of course age and whatnot play a factor), but it accounts for things that dress sizes and BMI don't like muscles, water, frame size etc.

    As a fellow big-framed lady this is what I've been going by. I haven't reached my goal, but it's definitely nice to know that I'm not as fat as BMI tells me.

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