Apple shape vs pear shape?
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BlueSkyShoal
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So I've heard about having an apple shaped body vs a pear shaped body, but I've never been able to figure out what it meant. Is it like your weight gravitates to your stomach if you're an apple or to your thighs / butt if you're a pear? I feel like I'm both right now, ha ha!
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
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BlueSkyShoal wrote: »So I've heard about having an apple shaped body vs a pear shaped body, but I've never been able to figure out what it meant. Is it like your weight gravitates to your stomach if you're an apple or to your thighs / butt if you're a pear? I feel like I'm both right now, ha ha!
I'd like to figure out which I am, since I've heard being an apple shape puts you at more risk for heart disease.
Yes, you pretty much got it right.
Apple shaped means that you have android fat distribution pattern so your fat is more through the middle. This is the most common pattern for men but women can have it too. Pear shaped means that you have a gynoid fat distribution pattern, which is generally seen as the more feminine shape where you carry more fat in your hips/thighs/butt.
You can change over time too. I was very apple-ish when I was fat. Now I'm more ruler-like, which some people call banana shaped.0 -
I would define an apple shape as having your waist measurement be the same or bigger than your hips. You might have fairly thin legs.
A pear shape to me would have hips that are measuring bigger than upper body and waist area. The thighs might be larger.0 -
I'm an apple I hate my fat belly. But I bet if I were pear shaped I'd hate my big butt lol. Kim kardashian and J Lo have made pear shape quite fashionable, no one likes a big round Buddha belly like mine lol0
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I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.0
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girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!0 -
girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Inquiring minds want to know... Why?0 -
Bypass the queue for the loo? Lol0
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girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!
i hope youre kidding0 -
girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Lol been there done that!0 -
Not that that was a desired affect that is!0
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I used to be an apple, but changed my genetics and became a pear.0
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PeachyPlum wrote: »girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Inquiring minds want to know... Why?
If you are ever on a sinking ship, first one off.
Just one of many potential benefits.
Perhaps the apple shape has been evolutionarily selected for.
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No love for the banana shaped?0
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ceoverturf wrote: »No love for the banana shaped?
I'm very happy to have switched shape from apple to bananacallsitlikeiseeit wrote: »girlviernes wrote: »I think the only advantage to the apple shape is we can pass for pregnant if we so choose.
Better parking spots!
i hope youre kidding
Of course I am.
Or am I?0 -
No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, and I have a relatively (12 inches smaller) waist. No appreciable belly fat. Just a small had-a-baby-at-40 pooch.
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mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, relatively (12 inches smaller) waist.
Gourd shaped?
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girlviernes wrote: »mamapeach910 wrote: »No love for the old-fashioned hourglass? Why is no fruit shaped like one? I want to be a fruit, dammit! My hips and chest measure the same, relatively (12 inches smaller) waist.
Gourd shaped?
It's like looking in the mirror.
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I think of the hourglass and pear as pretty much the same.0
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