weight & size

[npxo713]

I have been trying to get healthy. Im very busty . I am disabled and 105 pounds go for walks when i can and eat <700 calories a day. I still fit in size 12 and have an untoned belly. I am wondering why im size 12 is it my body shape. Ive tried 3 scales all say 105-108.

[npxo713]

I have been trying to get healthy. Im very busty . I am disabled and 105 pounds go for walks when i can and eat <700 calories a day. I still fit in size 12 and have an untoned belly. I am wondering why im size 12 is it my body shape. Ive tried 3 scales all say 105-108.

[tiffsterr]

I don't know the answer of course but I will tell you about my college girlfriend.  She had a very large bust, I can't even say what size and she wanted to get a breast reduction.  I could see it affecting her shoulders and back at such a young age.  When she finally did get the reduction surgery to like a size C or something all of a sudden she looked like a petite girl... still sort of tall but very slender.  The change was dramatic and she wore completely different kind of clothes after that.   So I would say it could just be a function of your blouse and jacket size needing more room in the front.

[npxo713]

Good to know! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you,
Nicole Punzo

[SunsetRunner]

Moved this thread from a charge hr to the weight loss section since more relevant to the topic.

Wishing a wonderful day

[emili]

I honestly can't imagine anyone at that weight being a size 12. I was a size 12 when I weighed 185 pounds. I am 135 now and a size 4. Unless you are extremely petite? I think you might be wearing the wrong size or the wrong clothes. maybe have a sales assistant measure you and offer advice on what size and cut you should be wearing. I know Macy's does a pretty good job with that.

[awood08]

I'm 170 pounds and a size 8, medium shirts. I have larger legs and hips but small upper body. Every person has a different body composition. For me, I look healthy right now. But for someone else at 170 may be very overweight. Are you as concerned about the clothing size or the scale number? Because depending on your height and weight you could very much be considered "healthy" by the BMI charts.

[npxo713]

Im concerned as to why im a 10-12 and a 14 in dresses but 106 lbs

Thank you,
Nicole Punzo

[awood08]

You need to take into account your height and age. Is your doctor happy with your weight? Is it more that you are unhappy in your clothing size? I get that you are 106 pounds and a size 10 but depending on your height and age you could be right in the healthy range regardless of your clothing size.

Are these also pant sizes or just your dress sizes?

[npxo713]

Im 106 5 ft 3 and 23. My doctor says im fine i guess im unhappy with my size not knowing why my size is so big. I wear a L in tops 12 or L in pants 14 in dresses. I have dd chest.

[taekwondogirl]

I know this sounds ridiculous of me to even ask this, but by chance are you wearing a size twelve in girls clothes. The way to design girls clothes now a days they look very similar to juniors sized clothes. Just a thought because when I was 112 pounds I wore a size 12 in girls but they were too short for me and I wore a 3-5 in juniors clothes.

[awood08]

I saw another post you put and some people were answering that thread, is it possible you are in girls size clothing and not women's or juniors? If that's the case you could easily be a size 0-3 then

[npxo713]

I do wear juniors but also womens too. im always a large

Thank you,
Nicole Punzo

[thespecialk]

Hi Nicole 🙂

I too am 5ft 3" and I weight between 112 - 114 pounds and fit into UK size 6 or 8 jeans. I do incorporate a strength training each week and so I am quite toned but am still working on getting my body fat percentage down from 23%. I also have a large enough chest with a 30DD or 30E. I usually fit into a UK 6 / 8 for tops depending on the style of the top (some styles of tops are just simply made for skinny flat chested people and so I would need a quite a large size to fit my chest into but then the rest of the top would not fit). You mentioned you are also a DD. Are you also a 30 / 32 or higher? Perhaps you have a wider ribcage and thats why you need larger tops?

When I check my frame size (the wrist test) I am small boned. There are definitely people who are tinier and more delicate than I am (some people are just so small they look like they could be snapped in two!)  So I am guessing I am around the bigger end of the scale for small boned. I also know some people who are my size and are much broader than I am and have wider hips. Have you tried to do a wrist test to see if you just naturally have a larger body frame size? 

In addition to that perhaps you are skinny-fat? This means your weight is low but you have no muscle tone and so you need bigger sized clothes than perhaps someone who would be heavier but more slender because of their muscle mass. Perhaps you could also be very heavily bloated on top of all this from medications or some other factor like this?

I also saw that you eat less than 700 calories a day. I eat around 1200 a day as I am trying to lose weight and I know that even 1200 is seen as being low. If you do not eat enough then your body will go into starvation mode and start storing every piece of food you eat as fat. I can't imagine you need to lose any more weight as you are aleady at the lowest point if not below a healthy weight. Maybe you should instead try to gain some muscle mass and try to get your calorie intake up a bit higher to accomodate this?

Hope some of this helps 🙂

[npxo713]

Good point. I dont have much muscle as i have a disability and the only exercise i can do is walk perhaps this is why

Thank you,
Nicole Punzo

[thespecialk]

I don't mean to pry into your disability but if you are able to walk perhaps there are some modified strength exercises you could do at home that your doctor or a physiotherapist could recommend?

I had a fractured spine  9 years ago and spent a lot of time doing modified exercises to build my core to compensate for the crushed vertibrae. They just include small things like doing squats with a chair and supermans and things like that. I didn't have to hit the gym and go crazy with weight machines or anything.

(P.S. I don't mean to suggest by this that you have not already tried any of these things.. I just wanted to suggest it in case you had not considered them! From experience I find that doctors are usually not that helpful when it comes to giving advice on specific exercises. On the other hand I saw a private physiotherapist who was amazing and really helped me out!) 

[npxo713]

I have cp so i use a walker. I did go to therapy but they would make me do far less than i could. Just weights basically and i know i can do more. I do squats on occasion and wheel myself around. I do go for walks when its nice out. Any exercise anyone can rec?

Thank you,
Nicole Punzo

[Loriapt]

I believe it ends up becoming a personal choice and I've been figuring it out as I go as I lose. I think, we need to consider height as well as weight, bone structure, age and BMI.  I think, BMI is a little on the low side.  I'm 5'6'', and currently 165-167, age 64, and still between size 14 and some 12s. My BMI max weight is 155 and I'm trying to get between 150-155.  Minimum weight on BMI, is way too low for me personally.  Good luck everyone! 

[shipo]

I would drop BMI from any sort of metric regarding proper weight; it is horribly outmoded.

There are a number of new metrics being proposed to replace BMI usage, the simplest/easiest to use I've come across is a simple height to waist circumference ratio; if the distance around your waist is no more than half you height you're considered of a good weight.  Using this method allows for folks who carry a lot of muscle and/or have "big bones" to avoid being classified as obese when they are anything but.

[sunshine923]

I have the same problem but in my case I know it is because I have wide hips and a big booty that no matter how much I weight it will always be there.