Are you Big Boned Or Overweight

Liseii01
Liseii01 Posts: 20 Member
edited November 11 in Health and Weight Loss
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?
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  • dreamy885
    dreamy885 Posts: 18
    More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??
  • hapoo100
    hapoo100 Posts: 926 Member
    I just read this. Overweight tends to create big bones.

    http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/are-the-overweight-really-big-boned/
  • Liseii01
    Liseii01 Posts: 20 Member
    no, but I'd be interested in seeing that, also if you have a bridge I can buy let me know =)
  • chicky89
    chicky89 Posts: 260 Member
    Ive always thought I was big boned.... but possibly because I always thought I could never be thin, so "i must be big boned"
  • junyr
    junyr Posts: 416 Member
    Bones don't jiggle.
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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  • GinaJDarling
    GinaJDarling Posts: 16 Member
    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!
  • GinaJDarling
    GinaJDarling Posts: 16 Member
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    Perfect example!
  • Aerohead21
    Aerohead21 Posts: 333 Member
    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.
  • tmassy
    tmassy Posts: 21
    More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??

    hehehe^^^^
  • lovinmysoldier
    lovinmysoldier Posts: 156 Member
    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.
  • dreamy885
    dreamy885 Posts: 18
    "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.
  • Sapporo
    Sapporo Posts: 693 Member
    Yeah... I'm big boned, like Cartman! :)
  • Aerohead21
    Aerohead21 Posts: 333 Member
    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 chest :)
  • RonSwanson66
    RonSwanson66 Posts: 1,150 Member
    Bones don't jiggle.
  • Blessedmommy_2x
    Blessedmommy_2x Posts: 419 Member
    More importantly, has anyone ever seen a fat skeleton??

    TRUE!
  • lovinmysoldier
    lovinmysoldier Posts: 156 Member
    hhKKy.jpg

    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!
  • djkshdfd
    djkshdfd Posts: 443 Member
    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.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    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.
  • PammyKY
    PammyKY Posts: 129
    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.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    That's just one of the many excuses of some overweight people (I was also guilty of this before) & even if your bones are "big" it will only be slightly bigger & there won't be much difference on the weight. I read somewhere that our bones only weigh 2kgs. & if you're larger framed, its just a slight 5-6 lbs. heavier.

    First I thought I was big boned but when I was measured at the gym, they told me I'm only a medium framed based on many factors. One thing they did, they instructed me to wrap my wrist with my thumb & middle finger & my fingers just touched. On the finger test, if your thumb overlaps your middle finger then you are small boned, if it touch then you are medium boned & when fingers do not touch then you're large framed or "big boned". However being like that isn't an excuse for being overweight.
  • bobie1978
    bobie1978 Posts: 204 Member
    hmmmm you can have a big bones I'm short 5ft 2 and do have big bones for my height.. (of course i'm overweight at the moment) But when I was at my smallest.. still had a big bones (110lbs) Which is a healthy weight for my height.
  • SMoRZ3
    SMoRZ3 Posts: 6 Member
    I'm husky, or at least thats what my pants say! ;)
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,338 Member
    I am small boned, and know it.
  • joybell32
    joybell32 Posts: 252 Member
    im gonna have to say both! :grumble:
  • pornstarzombie
    pornstarzombie Posts: 297
    I don't care what someone wants to tell me, but when my wrist measurements are almost 8" [and there is NO FAT on my wrist, as I am not overweight and have "bony" wrists] and my elbow width is what it is...I have a large frame. Notice I'm not saying "big boned" and using it just as an excuse to be overweight. I'm also 6', however my friend who is 6' has a very small frame, her wrist only measures 6" and I forgot what her elbow width was but it was smaller than mine.
  • hapoo100
    hapoo100 Posts: 926 Member
    I'm husky, or at least thats what my pants say! ;)

    HAHA as a kid I had husky pants and I thought it meant tough like the dog. Then I got older and realized what meant...wasnt a good day
  • jworb
    jworb Posts: 146 Member
    you can use this site to calculate your frame size... it's helpful, since I've always thought I had a large frame but according to this I have a medium frame, so now I may change up my weight goals.

    http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/fsz

    good luck!
  • Bikini27
    Bikini27 Posts: 1,290 Member
    I always thought I was big boned because that's what they call big girls. Now that I'm losing weight, my wrists are tiny and dainty. Turns out I was just fat.

    Big boned, sadly, is just another way of saying big. :/
  • Allic1971
    Allic1971 Posts: 145 Member
    looking at frame size, I have a large frame.... which is true, when I was 16 my friend and I used to be in the same size clothes uk12 but I weighed 28lbs more than her, and from the photo's we look the same.....
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