Are you Big Boned Or Overweight
Liseii01
Posts: 20 Member
So seriously?
How can you tell if you're "big boned" or "overweight" I can do the finger (or measuring tape) around the wrist measurement, but won't my wrist size change as I lose weight?
How can you tell if you're "big boned" or "overweight" I can do the finger (or measuring tape) around the wrist measurement, but won't my wrist size change as I lose weight?
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More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??0
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I just read this. Overweight tends to create big bones.
http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/are-the-overweight-really-big-boned/0 -
no, but I'd be interested in seeing that, also if you have a bridge I can buy let me know0
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Ive always thought I was big boned.... but possibly because I always thought I could never be thin, so "i must be big boned"0
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Bones don't jiggle.0
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More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??
Very True!! Your bones can be larger than others but large bones will not give you a double chin, stomach rolls, or a muffin top lol I am over weight along with big bones, My hands are huge and long like a mans and so are my feet and I also have big features but I also know I need to loose more weight!0 -
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I don't think the weight has much if anything due to bone size. I do think people of the very same height ca vary in musculature and bone length. It may be that you carry muscle differently than others. For example I have two brothers: one is stocky and heavy in the shoulders and chest. The other is lean and long like a runner's build. The way their bodies put on muscle was different.
Just my speculation, anyway. I don't actually know for sure.0 -
More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??
hehehe^^^^0 -
You can measure the width of you elbow. That's supposed to tell you if you have a small, medium or large frame. You'll have to look up the actual measurements for which is which.0
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"The initial findings of this study show that having big bones does not make you fat, being fat gives you big bones."
^from that website posted, in case anyone didn't check it out.0 -
Yeah... I'm big boned, like Cartman!0
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And fat too I wasn't going there but since someone put the xray pics up It explains my big booty and my friend's larger chest0
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Bones don't jiggle.0
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More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??
TRUE!0 -
Very interesting. Point made but will say that the left is male, right is female. Notice how compressed her diaphragm is, granted his is a closer X-ray but you can definitely tell that his lungs have do much more room!0 -
You can have a larger frame which you can find out by measuring your elbow width. Google it.
But you can get pretty thin with a large frame. I am a larger frame, at the low end of my BMI and I still need to lose. So I don't think larger frames are a good reason to be overweight.0 -
My doctor told me I had big bones (he seemed to be surprised and impressed by this). I was 90 pounds at the time. I laugh when people say they're not over weight, they just have big bones.0
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In my opinion there is no such thing as being big boned. Yeah everyone kept telling me that is why I was built the way I was. Let's be honest I am not big boned I am just simply overweight. I guess they were trying to make excuses for me but as they say on the Biggest Loser this is a year of NO EXCUSES.0
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