I need a crash course in measurement.

Get a digital food scale and some different size pyrex measuring cups! I love my food scale!
Lol just kidding! Shawnalee, read the actual post!

Get a digital food scale and some different size pyrex measuring cups! I love my food scale!

i think u forgot to read her post

From what I understand, the waist measurement should be taken about where your jeans sit, about at the navel. As far as the hips, I believe your booty is included, as the tape measurer should go right over the wides part of the hip bones.

Your waist is measured halfway between the top of your hipbone and bottom of your ribcage - typically where you "go in" in the middle! Your hips are measured around the widest part of your hips - and yes, the tape measure will cross your backside (sorry!)

I also tend to measure around my naval crossing the tape measure in line with my belly button this is because I have quite a small waist but a bit of a pot belly! It's nice to know the weight is coming off my beer belly!

Always measure in your birthday suit - clothes will pull you in and give you a false reading. I find it helps to measure in front of a mirror so you can see the tape measure is straight.

Hope this helps!

Edit to clarify - you shouldn't measure the whole of your backside - just around the widest part of your hips. The tape measure will cut across probably the first couple of inches of your rear end.

bump

that's fat layers leaving your back!~ Hooray! Love that my bra size is dropping in ribcage but not in cup size

I don't really measure because every time I do I have GAINED inches. I think I am just not measuring in the same spot but I am not sure how to make sure I measure in the same spot each time?

Anyway, besides trying to measure hips and waist, I measure chest size (band and cup size). I need to measure those again I guess, I can do a little better at getting the same spot there.

Waist measurement is actually at the smallest point even though that is much higher than most of us view our waist ..

Stand in front of a mirror and bend side to side... whereyou bend is where your waist is. I also measure across my belly button and call it my gut (or abdominal girth measurement).

Hops should be done at your fullest point of the hips - stand sideways in front of mirror to make sure the the tape is straight in the back.

Thighs are measured approx 6 inches below the groin crease for consistancy.

Other things you might want to measure...
- Neck
- Upper arms
- Bust
- Calves

Good luck measurement are great - make sure to take them 3 times to show that they are the same -- and dont look at last months measurements while you are doing your new ones so you arent swayed..

I've been told the way to measure yourself is several places for each body part.

Like measure you chest across widest part and below bra strap, measure waist at smallest part at belly button and then below a few inches, hips at the bones and across butt at widest, thighs do the upper widest part and then closer to the knee.

It's nice because the inches don't only come off the biggest parts......they can come off the entire torso, limbs etc so it's nice to see where you lost the inches.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-get-your-body-measurements.html

This is the website I used when learning how to take my measurements. Along with everything listed here I measure about an inch below my belly button at my "pooch" because that's my problem area and the place I'm not desperate to lose inches.

*