big boned v. small boned

Jean B. wrote:

Hmmm. I have short fingers. (Alas.)

LOL - sorry Jean

Does it help to say that I can wear my son's gloves? A woman's size 6
gloves leave me almost to much room ..

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Kitty =^..^=
168/156.6/130 - November Goal 155
17 September 03
caloric needs visit http://www.femalemuscle.com/nutrition/calculate.html

Qilt wrote:
nimue wrote:

I am DEFINITELY genetically predisposed to have wider hips! Thanks,
mom and grandma.

so, just because you have wider hips, that doesn't mean that you have
bigger hip bones. It just means (to MY way of thinking) that your
hips were made wider. Not that you are small framed up top and large
framed on the bottom.

analogy

Think of two boats being built in a ship yard.

they are working on the skeleton of them

one is wider than the other

the wider one is for ocean travel to handle the waves and winter
storms the narrower one is for lake or inland sea travel

now .. is the wider ship big framed, or just wider framed???

think of yourself as that .. NOT that I am saying you are a boat ..
just the best way to compare this in my mind .. in skeletal form that
is

** hoping to God that she didn't step in it this time!

Interesting analogy. I think and have always thought that my bones were
bigger on the bottom, because my legs are big, but my arms are much smaller.
When I was younger and in better shape, I had a J.Lo-esque body (never as
firm or personal-trainered as hers, and I fill out a bra better, but still
similar). I figured my legs bones were bigger, hence my legs were bigger.
But you know, my stomach was always flat -- maybe all the fat that some
people carry there just went to my legs. Well, enough about my bod.
Someone posted that I should just forget about the magical numbers on those
charts, and just stay with a weight that looks good AND FEELS good to me --
that I can exercise and have energy with. I like that.

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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:

firm or personal-trainered as hers, and I fill out a bra better, but still

LOL

But you know, my stomach was always flat -- maybe all the fat that some
people carry there just went to my legs. Well, enough about my bod.

Fat deposits are a YMMV vary sort of thing .. I start in my paunch
(genetic me thinks as my mum has one and she is bone thin), and then
migrates to hips and then butt

Someone posted that I should just forget about the magical numbers on those
charts, and just stay with a weight that looks good AND FEELS good to me --
that I can exercise and have energy with. I like that.

Then you are rocking and have the right attitude!! Keep up the great
work!

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Kitty =^..^=
168/156.6/130 - November Goal 155
17 September 03
caloric needs visit http://www.femalemuscle.com/nutrition/calculate.html

Tom Archer wrote:
This is not true. Otherwise, there would be no point in comparing wrist,
fist, etc, measurements of fighters who are the same height and weight.
People are not build the same in terms of proportions. My little brother is
5 inches shorter than me and yet his wrists are the same size as mine
despite me having much larger hands..

So that must mean that he is more bigboned than you.



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Qilt wrote:

Jean B. wrote:

Hmmm. I have short fingers. (Alas.)

LOL - sorry Jean

Does it help to say that I can wear my son's gloves? A woman's size 6
gloves leave me almost to much room ..


My hands are also wide--my father's hands. My daughter has
beautiful long, slender fingers and hands. Sniff. Sooo, anyway,
I wonder how one does that little test for big as vs. small bones
if one has short fingers. I actually NEVER thought about that
before and assumed I have big bones. LOL!

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Jean B.

Jean B. wrote:

I wonder how one does that little test for big as vs. small bones
if one has short fingers. I actually NEVER thought about that
before and assumed I have big bones. LOL!

LOL .. no clue on that one .. google it maybe??

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Kitty =^..^=
NO MORE NUTS KITTY!!!
168/159/130ish - Nov Goal 155
September 17, 2003

Qilt wrote:
Remember your dominant side will be larger because you use it, and
people's bodies are NOT balanced on both sides, eyes are different,
feet size is different ... YMMV

Ummmm Not everybody is unbalanced like that lol.

My face is not. My both eyes and ears, mouth and nose and both eyebrows are
ALL 2inches.
My feet also measure exactly the same length.
Now my boobs, the right one is very much bigger, so much so it is scarey! I
always tell hubby it is cos he favours the other side and has deflated it
lol He needs to switch and deflate the right one down to the same size
hehehe

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Rayvyn Shadow-Black
Melbourne, Australia

"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.

I'm a bit the same - at 6 foot tall most people don't think I'm nearly as
overweight as I am. I can gain or lose a stone and even I don't notice the
difference. I have big hands for a woman, but smaller than most of the men I
know.

Last time I tried Jenny Craig they did the whole wrist measuring thing, and
of course mine was big framed ... well what do you expect for a 6 foot tall
woman?!!! Of course I have big bones (compared to most women)! But I think
they're proportional bones.



Rachel
(New Zealand)