Big Boned?

no. If you were a large child and teenager as you are actually growing your bones will grow a bit differently to support your frame but not as a adult.

For a bone to "grow", you'd have to have some calcium dose that's out of control. Your husband would be absolutely incorrect. In fact, obese people are more likely to have knee/back/ankle problems due to their weight because their bones CAN'T handle the weight. That's your first body clue to lose weight.

No. You're muscles will grow bigger to support your fat, and the areas where the ligaments and tendons anchor onto the bone will be bigger, but no, you're bones will not keep you from loosing weight.

Many women here who've been successful in loosing weight are at their lowest weights ever, which wouldn't be possible by your husbands theory. I'm sure a few of them will chime in with stories.

Also, its actually the fat that never goes away completely. When your body is storing excess calories as energy, you fat cells swell and fill up, and then divide to make more cells. But when you loose weight, the fat cells only deflate. You still keep all the additional fat cells that grew while you were putting on weight. That's why its so easy to gain the weight back.

LMFAO AT THIS...

Your husband is...well...I love you mindset...but your husband is an idiot.....LMFAO

Seriously.....OK, enough of my pissing down my leg from laughing so damn hard.

Big boned people are just that...big boned. I am big boned and fat. When I loose this weight, I will still be big boned but not fat and I was big boned when I was in the military too. I did not get big boned because I was fat. I got fat because I was lazy. I will get skinny because I am determined, and in the end. I will still be big boned...

I love you babe...but your husband....wow.....lmfaorortfpmss



WHAT ! DID YOU JUST SAY YOU HAD A BIG BONE ! wow I knee I kept you as a friend for a reason !! LOL

I think your husband might have confused 'frame size' (the basic geometry of your skeleton that is pretty much genetically determined), and bone density. A lot of the above comments seem to think your husband is an idiot (a little judgmental for my liking), however he has it somewhat correct - by adding weight to the body, bones can become denser. This is one of the reasons why strength-training exercises can prevent osteoporosis in the elderly. So a very overweight person, on average, probably does have heavier bones than a normal weight person of comparable height and frame size. As a person gets lighter, the loading on the bones should decrease so presumably some of that density will decline (i don't know if that's known for sure, but it seems logical). So as a person loses weight, there is not some impossibility that their bones will lighten along with the rest of them. It might not make bones bigger, necessarily.

Very overweight people tend to have troubles with their joints, not so much with the bones themselves. Joint misalignment from long-term weight loading during growth (this is sometimes evident in people who have been overweight since childhood who may have knock-knees, for example), does appear to make changes in skeletal geometry, but this is primarily from joint changes not problems with their bones. So when a person with these long term skeletal effects of being overweight loses weight, the frame may or may not realign, but this doesn't prevent them from being normal-weight.

There's a lot of things that can add to bone density - overweight, moderate to high impact exercise, even jumping off a step onto the ground repeatedly. But they don't really make the bones look bigger. That's why it's "density" - more mass with the same volume. (And the effect on your overall weight is pretty much negligible)

Bone density is not a bad thing. In fact, especially for women, it's very good. More density in bones means less risk of osteoporosis. So jogging, weight-lifting, step aerobics, or even walking are good for your bones (joints ... well, that's another issue). Interestingly, breast feeding also helps contribute to bone density ... there's a hormone released after that signals the bones to add mass. Of course, if you don't have enough calcium in your diet (and vitamin D, too, which is important in absorption), it won't matter.

I believe Robyn is right about osteoporosis. Thinner people have more trouble with it than overweight people. One of the few health advantages of being overweight. I have small bones so I have no excuse. However they may be denser than before.

question....have you ever seen a FAT skeleton?

If I recall my anatomy and physiology classes, women's bones only get denser as the muscles work harder from weight lifting. Men's bones can get slightly bigger at the tuberosities and processes and nodules that the larger muscles (like deltoids) attach to.

No.

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