Do you think big boned/large framed people exist?

misscastle · February 2012

OK, I have to get work done, so this is my last starter post for a while :-p

Inspired by this thread on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/phwr4/medical_recommended_weight_180_200_lbs/

A lot of people say that "big-boned" or "large frames" don't really exist, including that top post on Reddit. What do you think?

I say hogwash, people obviously have larger frames than others. At my absolute lightest 143 pounds (that required basically having an eating disorder), I was a big 8/small size 10. I'm 5'9.

I really think my frame will never allow me to be anything lower than an 8/10. Or am I just justifying?

misscastle · February 2012

Wow, this is a cool chart: http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/bodies/heightweight.html

summer08bride · February 2012

misscastle:

I say hogwash, people obviously have larger frames than others. At my absolute lightest 143 pounds (that required basically having an eating disorder), I was a big 8/small size 10. I'm 5'9.

I really think my frame will never allow me to be anything lower than an 8/10. Or am I just justifying?

I agree with you. I know I could stand to lose a few pounds, but at my smallest I was around a size 10. I come from a family of football players and swimmers, none of us are small boned or small in general. People are all different shapes and sizes because of bone structure and their lifestyle.

mrsbecky07 · February 2012

Yes, absolutely, even just as a matter of bone structure itself. Just in my family, my sister has much bigger bones than I do. I have fairly delicate wrists, she does not. It's apparent in comparing our bone structures that hers are bigger than mine. My dad, despite being very thin, has big bones if you actually look at them. My mother, who is overweight, has tiny bones. (which is why her wedding dress won't even fit up my ribs, even at my skinniest. Her ribs are much smaller than mine.)

and then as a matter of "large frames" - yes, again, I think they do exist I don't think every person who is overweight is a large-frame person (again, my mother, tiny bones, tiny frame, overweight), but different people have different body types. I'm a size 2 or 0 (vanity sizing, woot!), sometimes a 4 for my rib cage in pre-pregnancy sizes. That's pretty natural at this point in my life. I work out but not a ton. I have friends who are sizes 8 or 10, and that's pretty natural for them. They just literally have larger frames than I do, no matter how much weight they try to lose, and ultimately, its not healthy for them to try to be a size 0 or 2. They're a size 8 or 10. People are built differently.

mrs. remy · February 2012

misscastle:
OK, I have to get work done, so this is my last starter post for a while :-p

Inspired by this thread on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/phwr4/medical_recommended_weight_180_200_lbs/

A lot of people say that "big-boned" or "large frames" don't really exist, including that top post on Reddit. What do you think?

I say hogwash, people obviously have larger frames than others. At my absolute lightest 143 pounds (that required basically having an eating disorder), I was a big 8/small size 10. I'm 5'9.

I really think my frame will never allow me to be anything lower than an 8/10. Or am I just justifying?

I'm the same way. At my lightest (well, post-high school) I think I was maybe 137-138 and 5 foot 7. This was right around the time of my wedding and was the result of months of running, weight lifting, and eating virtually no sweets or a lot of carbs. It doesn't sound 'skinny', per se, and its not considered skinny on paper, but my collar bones, hip bones etc were sticking out and people were telling me to gain weight. I really don't think I could have gone below that without starving myself, and I was like a 6/8. Some of my cousins on the other hand are close to the same height and naturally a size 0/2. there is a huge variety in people's frames and how they carry their weight.

BlueGeneBaby · February 2012

Absolutely. All you have to do is look at someone's wrists (like Becky mentioned) to see that people have different sized skeletal structures. Now, whether that contributes to their weight, eh.

Like others have mentioned, someone's natural (and healthy) size is not just a factor of how well they eat and exercise. At my smallest I was running 7 miles a day, 7 days a week, eating relatively small but balanced meals and I was 5'8" and a size 8/10, depending on brand.

I can't say that I fully accept it, even knowing that that is my body's limit, but it's my own ancedotal evidence that we are not all capable of being the desired small size.

SarahKate31 · February 2012

I definitely think that people have different size frames. You can even tell from that chart of photos - one person of a certain height/weight looks heavier than another person of the same height/weight because they have different frames.

For me, according to BMI, 137 lbs would be the high end of the "normal" weight range, but it's just not gonna happen. I was that weight about 4 years ago after a diet followed by a short period of rapid weight loss due to illness. I really think a normal comfortable weight for me would be in the 150lb range (size 10-ish) and according to BMI, that's "overweight". Regardless, I have many lbs to lose before I get down to that range anyway.

linzee · February 2012

Yes I feel they exist. I am one of them.

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