Wasit to Hip Ratio

jazpiri
jazpiri Posts: 114 Member
edited September 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I am very active, have a pretty low body fat%, and at a healthy weight (5'5" 129lbs) but according to the "waist to hip ratio" theory I need to lose weight in order to lessen my risk of heart disease. Any thoughts or tips on this?

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  • jazpiri
    jazpiri Posts: 114 Member
    I am very active, have a pretty low body fat%, and at a healthy weight (5'5" 129lbs) but according to the "waist to hip ratio" theory I need to lose weight in order to lessen my risk of heart disease. Any thoughts or tips on this?
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Honey, there are outliers to those statistics, and some of us just naturally have large set hips. 5'5" and 129lbs... don't sweat it. Be curvaceous and love it!:wink:
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    Those are good child bearing hips.........:tongue:
  • pattijoan
    pattijoan Posts: 4
    correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe what she was saying is that she doesn't have hips - like myself - I go straight up and down so there is not enough of a difference between our hip measurement and our waist measurement. I'm also 5'5" and 128 lbs. I wear a size 4 but I have a big, flabby belly and love handles - would love to move some of that down to my hips and booty but that's not going happen so I have to get really thin to lose the stomach...aagh
  • TRLTAMPA
    TRLTAMPA Posts: 824
    chrissy's right. child bearing hips. i had those since i was born....even when i was skinny. men love it!
  • loreeb18
    loreeb18 Posts: 1,221 Member
    correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe what she was saying is that she doesn't have hips - like myself - I go straight up and down so there is not enough of a difference between our hip measurement and our waist measurement. I'm also 5'5" and 128 lbs. I wear a size 4 but I have a big, flabby belly and love handles - would love to move some of that down to my hips and booty but that's not going happen so I have to get really thin to lose the stomach...aagh

    I'm the same way. I don't have an hourglass shape. I have more of a straight up and down shape. So even though I'm not "overweight" -- 5'4" 132 lbs -- I have a bad waist to hip ratio. My hips are only 2 inches more than my waist. So I don't use that measurement.
  • sherris
    sherris Posts: 112
    where do i find this waist to hip ratio stuff?
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