is a 44 inch waist ok?

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  • Oscarinmiami
    Oscarinmiami Posts: 326 Member
    you are very round
  • flatlndr
    flatlndr Posts: 713 Member
    The British Heart Foundation takes a position you have a health risk with a waist over 37" ...

    http://www.bhf.org.uk/bmi/bmi_measurewaist.html
  • ncahill77
    ncahill77 Posts: 501 Member
    To answer your question No, a 44 inch waist at 228 lbs is not ok. I am sure you are aware of the dangers of abdominal fat and you fit the bill there if all your weight is in your stomach area. Try some high intensity interval workouts HIIT seems to be the most effective with stubborn belly fat and as many others said double down on watching what you eat. Full disclosure, I'm 6'2 270 lbs and have a 44 inch waist myself so I am fighting the same battle.
  • ThisCanadian
    ThisCanadian Posts: 1,086 Member
    According to the heart and stroke foundation:

    If your ethnicity is European/Caucasian, Sub-Saharan Africans, Eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern your waist should be under 40 inches for a male and 35 for a female.

    if your ethnicity is South Asian, Malaysian, Asian, Chinese,Japanese, Ethnic South and Central Americans then your waist should be under 35 inches for male and 32 inches for a woman.

    Anything higher than that will put you at an increased risk for heart disease, high-blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and type-2 diabetes.
  • Soccermavrick
    Soccermavrick Posts: 405 Member
    Well if this helps, I am 40+, 6'1, 218 lbs, and my waist is a 35 inches - 24% Body Fat. At my heaviest I was 250 and have a 42 inch waist - 38% Body Fat. Ideally, I think I would like to still drop a couple more and try for a 33 to 34 inch waist, possibly even getting my Body Fat to under 20%.

    So without seeing a picture, I would normally consider someone 5'11 with a 44 inch waist to probably be obese and at risk for developing a number of the conditions that you mentioned. But at the end of the day, if you are happy with you, then you are happy with you.
  • jyogit
    jyogit Posts: 280 Member
    im 5-10" and I've never gone above a size 34 in my life luckily..any time I've had tight trousers I've kicked myself and stopped eating as much till they loosened off again..Now thanks to mfp i weigh and watch all i take in and exercise out .. i think a 44 waist is huge for anyone tbh
  • Illini_Jim
    Illini_Jim Posts: 419 Member
    In Japan, if you have a waist size over 33.5", you have to undergo counselling and lose weight or you and your work company pay extra taxes. It's rather extreme and a little bit too low of a cut off point if you ask me, but maybe that makes the answer to your question a little bit more obvious?

    "In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife. But this method doesn't work with a tomato"
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    why do you think that I'm a troll? I am serious about my weight and health. all of my excess fat is in my stomach area. I have insulin resistance and diabetes runs in my family. I really need to lose weight but I have very poor metabolism. I wanted to know what the normal waist size should be for someone my height.

    you dont have poor metabolism, you eat too much.

    Eat to much? Yes, but metabolism could be a factor. Insulin resistance and diabetes are metabolic disorders. I have a metabolic disorder and one of the diagnostic characteristics is excess belly fat.
  • ThisCanadian
    ThisCanadian Posts: 1,086 Member
    im 5-10" and I've never gone above a size 34 in my life luckily..any time I've had tight trousers I've kicked myself and stopped eating as much till they loosened off again..Now thanks to map i weigh and watch all i take in and exercise out .. i think a 44 waist is huge for anyone tbh

    Thanks for vanity sizing a size 34 pants does not necessarily mean you have a 34 inch waist. That works for both men and women, depending on the retailer of course.
  • iggyboo93
    iggyboo93 Posts: 524 Member
    No. My health insurance company jacks up the premium for people with greater than 40" waist circumferences. Is this fair? Probably not but the insurance companies assess their risks. Heart disease and diabetes are significant risk factors with larger waist circumferences as a correlation. Personally, I view this as another monetary incentive to lose weight.
  • crsawinton
    crsawinton Posts: 96 Member
    my husband is about 5' 10" and wears a 31 waist in pants, (not sure of his measurement, he's not here atm to measure) 44 seems very high.
  • shankasaurus
    shankasaurus Posts: 116 Member
    you are very round

    Best reply. I burst out laughing. Just glad I was alone.
  • jyogit
    jyogit Posts: 280 Member
    im 5-10" and I've never gone above a size 34 in my life luckily..any time I've had tight trousers I've kicked myself and stopped eating as much till they loosened off again..Now thanks to map i weigh and watch all i take in and exercise out .. i think a 44 waist is huge for anyone tbh

    Thanks for vanity sizing a size 34 pants does not necessarily mean you have a 34 inch waist. That works for both men and women, depending on the retailer of course.
    didnt realise i was vanitising it ..just saying thats all .. i know all retail sizes are different in many places and countries, just meant i think a size 44 is huge to me …
  • kc5grw
    kc5grw Posts: 12 Member
    As a previous poster commented waist size does not necessarily equal pant size. This is especially true for most men who wear their pants below their actual waist. In my case I'm 5'11", 238 at the moment. If I measure my actual waist (at the navel) I have a 48.75" waist but I wear a size 40 jeans(snug) that ride below my waist. My actual measurement at the "lower" waist is something on the order of 43 or so.
  • Iwishyouwell
    Iwishyouwell Posts: 1,888 Member
    In Japan, if you have a waist size over 33.5", you have to undergo counselling and lose weight or you and your work company pay extra taxes. It's rather extreme and a little bit too low of a cut off point if you ask me, but maybe that makes the answer to your question a little bit more obvious?

    That's not an extreme cut off by Japanese standards.

    Hell 60+ years ago that wasn't an extreme cut off point by anyone's standards.

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