Big boned/Small boned

I am 5'4, with 35 inch hips, size 4 ring, and I weigh 140 after having babies. I use to weigh 113 before I had them. 122 is the perfect (healthy) weight for your height and bone structure. Don't let anyone tell you different, they are just jealous.

I think frame has a lot to do with it more so than bone size. I have been told this by both my primary care doctor and my ortho doc while he was looking at x-rays of my leg bones. I have a big frame, I wear a size 12 shoe and even when I used to be VERY thin, I still wore a size 9 ring. I have bery broad shoulders and hips as well so there is more "space" on my frame to fill out. I think that it will contribute to a variance in weight and where someone looks good vs too thin or too heavy, but I don't think that using "big boned" is a good excuse for being over weight. (Which is why I am on here to work on my weight!)

Personal opinion, bone size matters.

I'm 5'4" and have a 6.75" wrist (big boned).
My mom is 5'8" and has a 5.25" wrist (small boned).

I look my best at 145 lbs. She looks her best at 135 lbs.

Bones are bones people can do the math on that.

Body type absolutely matters. I weight a little under 130 right now, which is considered a very healthy weight or my height (5'4"), but because I have a small body frame, the weight looks much different on me than someone who has a larger one. My goal right now is 120, but someone else would look very thin at 120.

There are all sorts of "ideal body weight" calculators that take body type into consideration because it does matter. The size of your bones may not make a huge difference, but it affects how big the rest of your body is too.

There are most certainly different bone structures, and your wrist and ring size sounds teeny! I think I have small wrists, mine are at 6 inches!

If you wanted to weigh 102#, I'd say you were overstretching, but 122 sounds perfectly reasonable at your height, well within the normal range.

Ditto.

I am big-boned. I am also *not* currently overweight and have never blamed being overweight on my bones.

But the fact is... according to scans my bones are denser and heavier than the average woman. The breadth of my ribcage is larger and more spacious than the average woman of my height (5'9"). My pelvis and shoulders are wider than average, too.

I hate when people say 'big boned' is some kind of fake excuse for being overweight. :-(

Scroll down on the page with the chart http://www.healthchecksystems.com/heightweightchart.htm to see how to measure your bone/frame size. It depends on your height.

Well I'm about 10 years younger, but I have a small frame too and have a similar weight and height. I have been accused of being anorexic. Mostly be people who are insecure that their own weight is a bit higher than what it should be.

Apparently I have a large frame size but to be quite honest I don't pay attention to it. I'm just going to carry on losing weight and once I reach my goal and feel I'm still too big, I'll lose more. I think being big or small boned shouldn't significantly affect how you look in general as oppose to factors such as height.

Don't pay attention to what they are saying only you know if your weight loss journey should end here or if you need to carry on further.

To say you are anorexic at 122lb is ridiculous. It is a perfect weigh for your height. I am only slightly shorter than you and weigh the same, but am not even what you would call "skinny". I am not aiming below 119/120 though, as I am a medium build and have more of an hourglass shape and look too scrawny otherwise.