So I can touch my pinkie to my thumb??? By your test, I would be small boned. But what if I have long fingers?

Ah well, as long as I get that thong worthy butt, I don't care!

OMG - I just found your theory on the web, Supersized. According to them, I'm small framed. Being 5'3", that would make my ideal weight 115.

Woohoo! According the the "wrist test" I really am big-boned.
As far as sizes go. I have the large belly, teeny thighs and hips type of body too. Right now (at 205-6, 5'6") I'm wearing a pair of size 16 Lee S-T-R-E-T-C-H jeans. Depending on the brand, I'm mostly in 18s for "regular" jeans. Some of the cheaper 18s still don't fit, though. Size 18 Lee or Levi jeans are perfect around the middle. It's amazing how different all our bodies are.

Jen

SP. I just found it. It was a link to the countcarbs.com site you provided for us. http://countcarbs.com/tools/ideal_weight.htm.
It says major finger instead of middle finger.

It is amazing how different our bodies are. I have the stomach and butt sticking out more than the wide hips. It's shrinking away though. YIPPEE!!!!

I'm still in X-Large tops. I'm still wearing a 40DD. I tried on a 38D hoping and wishing it would fit. Nope, nope, nope. It was too tight and I was spilling out. Maybe in another 20 pounds or so I'll go bra shopping again.

We will all someday look just mahvalous dahlings!

According to the tool, my ideal weight is between 138 and 151.8.

I am 5'8" and now weigh in at 225. I am wearing size 18 pants with elastic waist. I too have the "apple" shape and when I get regular button/zip pants to fit the middle they totally bag in hips and legs making me look really huge, so I stick with the elastic waist. Since I am top heavy I wear mostly 22/24 tops or 2X. I'm in a 42C bra. Nothing like fessing up!
I was at 180 a few years ago and was wearing 14 jeans with a regular waist. I still was large to extra large on top.
When I do the wrist test I seem to be medium boned.
Thanks for this thread it is really neat!
Michelle

I'm 5' 8'' current weight is 229, and I wear a size 16 Lee jeans (and tight). I think I've lost almost an inch in height though throughout 4 surgeries with 3 being spinal fusions. I'm not ready to give up that inch until I know for sure and also lose a little more. LOL After losing 6 pounds this week, my jeans are still tight, but much looser. I'd say I'm evenly fat all over with a smaller rear, and I have a medium frame, but can squish my tummy above my jeans. LOL I'm always endowed regardless of how thin or fat I am. I've been down to 128 lbs 13 years ago, but my doctor told me I was too thin. Too fat, too thin...now too fat again. LOL I want to be thin again. I mean I AM going to be thin again. I have to think positive.

I am 5'2 and weigh 212. I am currently wearing size 18/20 pants and tops. I am a nurse so I am excited that in scrubs I am wearing a XL! was wearing a 3X when I was 251 and some of those were tight around the stomach and hips. biggest size in pants were 26/28. I still pretty much have the same body shape..need to exercise and tone up more. tried pilates..a DVD by Denise Austin that is supposed to be for everyone...i guess it might become easier the more I do it. I did go down in bra size as far as the width but cup size still the same...if not bigger...more skin I guess I dont know...was wearing a 42D and the other day i had to buy a 38DD but I actually got fitted for this one so who knows i might have always been buying the wrong size! no wonder those things were saggin! lol...

Wow! I am completely amazed at how different our bodies our with the same general specs. You know you see someone says they are 5'4 and 192lbs and you are too and you think you must be really similar but based on all the stories above nothing could be more wrong.

I'm 5' 4 and 192lbs I currently wear a 20petite. Before I had the baby I may have been the same weight but had a flat tummy, ever since the baby I have the added pooch. I have what I would consider a "goddess" shape body. It's like those figurines of the earth goddess, big boobs, smaller waist, big hips, thighs and butt. It all shrinks proportionately as I lose weight and I am perfectly happy in a size 10. Maybe I say that because I just don't remember anything else. Honestly I don't even remember a 10. But I'm gonna get there!!!!!!
Boobs are currently a 40D and normally a 36C maybe less someday hopefully. Sighhh...

I too am really amazed at the differences in body types and it makes me sad to a point. Society teaches our children that in order to be accepted and well liked, you must be rail thin and a size 0. I'm coming to terms with the fallacy in that concept reading about each and every one of you. I am so happy that we are all diverse, it certainly makes me appreciate my body and it's differences. I don't want to be just like everyone else!!!

At my highest weight (220) I was comfortably in a size 20. I could wear 18's, but I was ever so quickly spilling out of them. I currently weigh 184 and am in a size 14. There are a few pairs of 13 I can get into, but can't imagine leaving my house and walking around the free world in them. I can remember being in high school, weighing 135 and being a wonderful size 5. I used to think I was hugely fat back then, boy was I ever wrong! I have an odd body type, very large boobs, little waist, and large hips, so finding pants that fit me is a challenge. Normally to get them to fit my hips, the waist is just huge. I have the same problem with the butt and legs, baggy. Luckily, stretch jeans have been invented, which help cling to the waist and butt challenged.

I also unfortunately inherited my grandmother's small bone structure. I carry a pic in my wallet of my grandmother after having 4 children. My grandfather is grasping her waist, thumb to thumb, finger to finger, with no effort at all. I know under all this unsightly fat is a girl that little. *sigh* (I don't ever wanna be THAT small, but it's nice to know I could be!)

Luckily, a good percentage of my weight loss has indeed been in my boobs. I was really disappointed at first, in fact I think I cried unhappy tears when I realized my bra was indeed MUCH too big. I went from a 40FF and currently am an ever shrinking 36 DDD. We'll see where it goes. I really hope I don't lose too much more! What would I have to offer then? hehehe

I'm 5'11" and a quarter :lol and I'm still in a 20 at 215 pounds. I was 138 pounds in school and wore an 11 maybe that was because the clothes were cheap and not a name brand or they may have been a size 9, come to think of it I think I did buy a size 8 or 9 from the Gap once. Maybe the 11 was Chic brand. lol

anyway, my goal is to get down to 200 by xmas and then my new new years resolution will be to hit 180. I'm in a 14 at that.

BUt I have the smae problem as super above, bigger hips and boobs very small waist. SO to buy jeans that fit the butt but they stick out about 5 inches around the waist. To find jeans that fit they come too big in the legs which make me look even bigger in pictures which is why you won't see me on here in them. I like the way strech jeans fell but not look on me yet, can't decide if they do anything flattering on me.

Hello everyone!

Wow, it is so interesting to see women the same height as me, with similar weights, in very different sizes! Bodies are fun, aren't they?

I'm 5'8", 195 pounds, and wearing a 20 top and 18 bottom. At my heaviest ever, 209, I was wearing a 22 top/20 bottom I think.

When I got down to 157 in July 2001, I was wearing an 8. It was AWESOME! The part I loved the most was that I walked in the July 4th parade in a sleeveless sundress and MY THIGHS DID NOT RUB TOGETHER. Yes! I loathe the dreaded "shorts creep" when your shorts bunch in between chubby thighs, and every few steps, you have to do this weird Monty Python Funny Walk huuuuge step to un-bunch them.

My body is 43 - 35 - 48 right now. I have giant thighs My thighs at their widest are 28", two inches bigger than I remember my waist being in college! Egads! (I used to be 38 - 26 - 40 in college, back in 1989-1993, 36C bra, size 12 top, 10 bottom.) I wear a 40D bra. Thank God I lose weight from my thighs as well as the rest of my body when I lose... otherwise I'd have serious thunder thighs underneath a skinny upper body!

My goal is 140. I'm hoping to be a size 6, maybe even a 4. I've mostly always been a 12, sometimes a 10, until after college anyway, after which I walked much less and ate a lot more. But I think it would be nice, if only for a while, to be "tiny". I would not be sad if I lived as a 10 either...

Oh yeah, the frame-size tool says I am a small frame, and my ideal weight would be 144-158 pounds. We'll see!

Sarah

Ansnoopy2, your weight loss is very noticeable in your pics. You should move them over to the before and after pics thread for all to see. You're doing great.

Great pic of you too Berkshiregrl.

It is amazing how different we all are. I wouldn't care if weighed 500 pounds as long as I looked like I was about a size 9 or 10. haha

I'm proposing that we make a sticky "Before, During, After" thread. Maybe call it "Going, going, gone!" That way we can keep posting the pictures.

Great idea, Star! It would be great motivation to see everyone's progress! And, to put a face with all the names.

Hi! I felt I needed to add...

I'm 5' 3/4" but in my opinion 5'1" sounds good! My weight is 145lbs. and I wear a size 6 or 8 depending on the brand. I also fit comfortably in a size 10. ( I have one of each that I wear every week!)Back in high school, I used to wear a size 3.(and weighed only a horrible 105lbs.) I can't even imagine wearing that size now! After having kids, I've expanded!

And then you get into these "low waist". "at the waist". "just below the waist" jeans....you're going to find they all fit differently. I love the "just below the waist"... I finally feel like I have my circulation back without exposing to much butt!!
Whatever brand your wearing... as long as they are all shrinking... then it's all good-- no matter what the size.

I don't think you should ever judge yourself with someone else's weight and heighth that's the same as your own. We all have bodies that may have different bumps and rolls that the other person doesn't. The only thing you want to compare yourself with is your old jeans! We're all like snowflakes,,, not one of us is the same!!