big boned v. small boned

I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist. The
circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to determine what
"frame" a person has, and what weight range would be good for them. Now
this really seems sort of silly, because, well, we don't all have even
bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big behind -- but my upper body is much,
much smaller. My wrists are teeny -- but I am only small framed to my hips.
Then, the gods suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight
range based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good, but I am
not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of course,
but after that. Every night after that...every night I save you."
Spike to Buffy
After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things straight
from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why women are crazy
about him, doesn't it?

LOL you sound like me. I have tiny wrist, but large ankles hips feet, rear
etc.

I think I God had a sense of humor when he put me together. Two body types
combined.

LOL

Sheila
"nimue" wrote in message
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I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist. The
circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to determine what
"frame" a person has, and what weight range would be good for them. Now
this really seems sort of silly, because, well, we don't all have even
bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big behind -- but my upper body is
much,
much smaller. My wrists are teeny -- but I am only small framed to my
hips.
Then, the gods suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight
range based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good, but I
am
not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of
course,
but after that. Every night after that...every night I save you."
Spike to Buffy
After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things
straight
from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why women are crazy
about him, doesn't it?

turkeylady wrote:
LOL you sound like me. I have tiny wrist, but large ankles hips feet,
rear etc.

I think I God had a sense of humor when he put me together. Two
body types combined.

LOL

Ugh -- my ankles. And there is NOTHING you can do about it. I wish I had
cute little tiny ankles like my mom -- but I don't, and never have (even
when I was thin) and there is nothing that can be done. :-(
LCing won't help make my ankles shapelier, or my hair thicker. Darn.
However -- I am happy to take all the zillions of other wonderful things
that come along with LCing!


Sheila
"nimue" wrote in message
...
I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist.
The circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to
determine what "frame" a person has, and what weight range would be
good for them. Now this really seems sort of silly, because, well,
we don't all have even bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big
behind -- but my upper body is much, much smaller. My wrists are
teeny -- but I am only small framed to my hips. Then, the gods
suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight range
based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good,
but I am not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of
course, but after that. Every night after that...every night I save
you." Spike to Buffy
After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things
straight from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why
women are crazy about him, doesn't it?

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of
course, but after that. Every night after that...every night I save
you." Spike to Buffy After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things
straight from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why women
are crazy about him, doesn't it?

"nimue" wrote in message
...
I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist. The
circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to determine what
"frame" a person has, and what weight range would be good for them. Now
this really seems sort of silly, because, well, we don't all have even
bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big behind -- but my upper body is
much,
much smaller. My wrists are teeny -- but I am only small framed to my
hips.
Then, the gods suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight
range based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good, but I
am
not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?

--
nimue


We all are big boned when it comes to the charts aren't we? I think
anyones ideal is what you feel comfortable with. Throw out the charts, and
go by how your clothes fit you.

--
JK Sinrod NY
Sinrod Stained Glass
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

We all are big boned when it comes to the charts aren't we? I think
anyones ideal is what you feel comfortable with. Throw out the charts, and
go by how your clothes fit you.

--

This is how I feel. I think the scales can cause problems, too. I wore smaller
clothing at 116 than my best friend at 100lbs--and she is 2 inches taller. So
many people get freaked out over the scale. I would go by your your clothes
fit you, and how you feel. I am small boned, but now that I am over weight, I
look med to big boned. LOL... Its the extra meat :*(

You're right. It's silly. I have broad shoulders and wide hips and can carry
more weight than most without it looking too bad. In fact, almost noone ever
guesses my weight; consistently guessing about 10-20lbs low. Also, despite
having large hands (I can palm a basketball at 5'11") I have very small
wrists. So as you say, everyone's body is completely different and these
ratios simply don't work.

--

Thanks,
Tom
220/209/190

"nimue" wrote in message
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I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist. The
circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to determine what
"frame" a person has, and what weight range would be good for them. Now
this really seems sort of silly, because, well, we don't all have even
bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big behind -- but my upper body is
much,
much smaller. My wrists are teeny -- but I am only small framed to my
hips.
Then, the gods suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight
range based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good, but I
am
not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of
course,
but after that. Every night after that...every night I save you."
Spike to Buffy
After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things
straight
from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why women are crazy
about him, doesn't it?

Hi Nimue

I suffered with this my whole life. I will never be a size 2. I am
very big boned and to be honest with you I am built like a brick
****house. I went to a nutrionist (it was only 30.00) and at the time
I weighed 193 pounds. He said my muscle and bones weighed in at
130lbs. That is very high for a woman. He kept asking how many times
a week I lift weight I just sat there laughing. Apparently women on
average have 60-70lbs of muscle/fat. That's why he was so surprised.
Right now I am 185 lbs. He told me a goal of 125lbs is way too
unrealistic and my goal weight at most should be 167 - but on average
should be 155. I know one way you can tell if you are big bones is
look at your collar bone. This is just me but mine is 1" thick. I
look at my girl friend and theirs is so tiny! Makes me jealous. )
Again everything I said has just been my experience. Good luck to
you.

..•´¨¨)) -:¦:-
¸.•´ .•´¨¨))
((¸¸.•´ ..•´ CAROLYNN -:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.•´*

260/184/155

nimue wrote:

I have heard that "big boned" tests are done on a person's wrist. The
circumference of the wrist is measured, and that is used to determine what
"frame" a person has, and what weight range would be good for them. Now
this really seems sort of silly, because, well, we don't all have even
bodies. I have big legs, big hips, big behind -- but my upper body is much,
much smaller. My wrists are teeny -- but I am only small framed to my hips.
Then, the gods suddenly got generous! So, should I estimate ideal weight
range based on the medium frame for my height? Should I average them out,
and get a number that way? What? I know what I think looks good, but I am
not sure if that is the magical healthy number. Advice?


Unless they are using some electronic way to measure bone diameters, I think
they have to measure bone circumferences at places where there isn't much fat.
That would have to be wrists and ankles. But they would have to take height into
account, too, I would think.

I suppose that, normally, bone diameters fit a certain model all over the body,
unless you have some kind of dwarfism or something. I mean that, given your
wrist size, I assume they can predict the sizes of your other bones with a
reasonable degree of accuracy, unless your skeleton is outside one standard
deviation from the mean for some reason. In that case, the standard body style
classification system wouldn't mean anything anyway.

martin

Tom Archer wrote:

You're right. It's silly. I have broad shoulders and wide hips and can carry
more weight than most without it looking too bad. In fact, almost noone ever
guesses my weight; consistently guessing about 10-20lbs low. Also, despite
having large hands (I can palm a basketball at 5'11") I have very small
wrists. So as you say, everyone's body is completely different and these
ratios simply don't work.

Everybody has small wrists. I've never seen a person with big wrists except for
obese people who store fat around their wrists. But that has nothing to do with
being big boned. It's kind of silly to say "everyone's body is completely
different."

martin

M.W.Smith wrote:
Tom Archer wrote:

You're right. It's silly. I have broad shoulders and wide hips and
can carry more weight than most without it looking too bad. In fact,
almost noone ever guesses my weight; consistently guessing about
10-20lbs low. Also, despite having large hands (I can palm a
basketball at 5'11") I have very small wrists. So as you say,
everyone's body is completely different and these ratios simply
don't work.

Everybody has small wrists. I've never seen a person with big wrists
except for obese people who store fat around their wrists. But that
has nothing to do with being big boned. It's kind of silly to say
"everyone's body is completely different."

Well, people's bodies ARE different. I mean, there are different body
types. Um -- I will use celebrities to illustrate my point. Jennifer Lopez
has a very different body type from, say, Charlize Theron. For all I know
they both weigh the same, but their bodies look completely different.
Marilyn Monroe's body type was very different from Twiggy's -- you get my
picture? Neither one could diet enough or exercise enough or do anything
enough to look like the other. So -- my question originally was, how do you
know what weight is healthy for your body type? What is the magic number?
This thread (and thanks to all who contributed!) has kind of made me realize
those charts are unreliable. I think I will just go with what feels and
looks good to me -- that's unreliable, too, but what's a girl to do?

martin

--
nimue

"...but I want you to know I did save you... not when it counted of
course, but after that. Every night after that...every night I save
you." Spike to Buffy After Life

Gosh, when Spike says heartfelt, sincere things like that -- things
straight from his full heart, well, it just makes you wonder why women
are crazy about him, doesn't it?