Where is my waist/measurements

You're waist is above the belly button. It's where your body naturally bends.

You're waist is above the belly button. It's where your body naturally bends.

Not for me.. it's not. Its below mine.

oops I just googled it and apparently I am deformed and wrong. Other poster is right.

Here's a link:

http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Your-Waist

Your hips are a couple inches below your belly button but your true waist is above the belly button near the bottom of your rib cage. Look it up.

This has been my experience. The narrowest part of my midsection is right below my rib cage, and that is where I take my waist measurement. My belly button is below that.

My belly button is slightly above my waist.... Almost right at my waist that's how slight. I am not an alien but thanks anyways. I have a really long torso though. The natural waist is for most people where they naturally taper in and that's where I taper in.

I must be an alien as well, lol. Right now, my waist (narrowest part of my tummy) is right at my belly button. But I am extremely long waisted. Guess, Joleen and I hail from Mars!

Mine is right at my belly button also.

My question is, where do we measure the abdomen? I see request for this a lot.

I really think to use measuring as success indicator depends on the contours of your body. For me, I am pear shaped. For my mid section I measure:

My chest - around the fullest part of my breast. Now I am not chesty so I measure with no bra so I measure the natural full section. But because they are not big (C cup) they do not naturally hang to far down so I am able to do this, as a chesty woman may have to wear a sports bra.

My ribs - right underneath my chest.

My waist - where my body natural tapers in. For me - pretty much at my belly button or a tab bit lower at this point. As I lose weight it seems to change

My abs - my largest part of my "pouch." Again I am pear shaped so for me this was my largest measurement and now it's second largest to my hips. This measurement on my body is between my waist and hips.

My hips - right underneath my "pouch" which on body lines up with my upper hip bones.

I don't know if this helps any, hell I don't even know if I do it right. But I guess as long as you are consistant you can still measure your progress accurately. As an additional note, I measure my thighs at the top or the biggest measurement, and my arms at my bicep or the biggest measurement and same with my calves I measure at the largest part. I measure my neck right at the center piece where the adams apple would be on a guy.... I'm not sure what it's called but it's the hardest part of the front of the neck.

Thank you, this helps so much. I am pear shaped too.

I did realize or remembered that measuring two inches below your belly button was a good place for abs, which seems to be what you said too.

Hey if we are wrong we are wrong together and being consistent.

If it's just a progress indicator... then being consistent is good enough. You will see the measurements get smaller over time which is what we want, right?

Thank you for this picture!