Lol, I always thought it was thumb and middle finger. With my index and thumb there is about an inch gap (squeezing). Is there such a thing as Huge Boned?
Yikes? Which is it.. I can't do it with either. So..
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I'm medium boned by the index and thumb test. But it doesn't take long fingers in account either. I've always been told I should be a piano player. I say everybody should decide for themselves what kind of "boned" they are. If you want to be big-boned, be big-boned and proud
I have to say that I believed that I was large-boned until I lost weight. I used to wrap my fingers around my wrist and they couldn't meet, so I figured, yep, big-boned. Nope... now fingers easily meet, so it was just that I had fat on my wrists as well.
I do believe that people have different sized frames, and I would say that mine is a medium frame. My top is a 10/12 (8/10 US?) and my bottom is a 14 (12 US?), and my clothing pretty much presses up against bone, so I can't see my bottom half getting any smaller.
I saw on one site once that the best place to work out your frame size was at your elbow, although I only did that once I had lost the weight, so I don't know if you can have fat around your elbow too. Sorry, I can't remember the site address.
Well I am definitely big boned... for sure it is NOT a "lark" of false teaching. That has nothing to do with my being fat too... but of course some people are definitely built a lot larger than others!
There IS a such thing as small, medium, and large framed individuals... I have a large frame.... I would be considered "big boned" Certainly, for me at 6ft tall to weigh 200lbs, I will look quite normal... but for someone else of the same height that has a small frame, they would still be overweight at 200lbs. No, its not why I fat... but it is why I don't even think about fiting into some clothes or sizes... I will never be a "small" person no matter what my weight is.
This thread has reminded me of the latest Canada's Next Top Model. The gal who won was quite boney (far too thin, but that's not my point) She was probably not as 'light' as some of the others, had quite broad shoulders. But what they were looking for was a 'clothes hanger'.
Frame is like the hanger, soft tissue is the shape.
I'm not sure if that was pertinent to this thread or not
On a lighter note .... there were no bones in the parts of me that were fat!
I often wonder about the frame size thing whether I have a small frame or long fingers. My fingers overlap comfortably when I do the finger test (and when I measured it with a tape measure it confirmed my frame as pretty small I think, but I can't remember the numbers and don't have a tape measure handy. But I have huge feet and I'm tall, so there's no easy categorisation of me as small or large framed.
Anyway, my frame has nothing to do with the size I was. My frame might have affected my perspective of what lied underneath (because I'd never been small I assumed I never would be), but putting that down to bones rather than fat was a big mistake. It was quite a shock to discover just how much of me was fat and how little of me was bone, to be perfectly honest. I'd always assumed that I could get to "less obese but still bigger than average" but it was a big shock to realise that there was scope to go much smaller than that.
General Comment - I don't know how true this is but I was told there is such a thing as being "big-boned", but that on the average person it can only add 8 pounds or something. Also, a rule of thumb is said to be if your fingers overlap around your wrist you're small framed, if they touch you are average framed, and if they can't touch at all you're large framed. I don't really have an opinion on this, just what I've heard.
I wonder if a museum somewhere has a display of all kinds of human skeletons. Men, women, tall folks, short ones, dainty ones .... It would be interesting to see the differences.
I think it's more about one's build, or proportions, rather than bone size. I'm 5'5" and look slim at 150 lbs. I have large wrist bones and big feet (9-1/2W) so I could be in the category of "big boned" but I think I look slimmer for my weight because I have an 'hourglass' figure with a defined waist which tends to make me look thinner than I really am. I've read that big boned (or denser boned) people are at less risk for osteoporsis, so that's one benefit.
I was always told I was big boned. In reality I think I am just fat, still am but not so much anymore. I got told if you could wrap your thumb and first finger around your wrist and they never met that you were big boned. This was the case with me, however now when I do it my thumb and finger overlap by at least a centimeter and a half. God wudnt i love to be able to do that with my legs!
Fair enough everybody has their own different bone structures and some are bound to be bigger than others.
Of course, we can be big-boned! Both my father and brother played college football, and my brother was in the pros. When I was thin (back in the Dark Ages), I weighed 125, wore a size 16 jacket, and a size 10 skirt. But I can plow a mean field.
I had a friend in high school - same height, delicate little hands and feet, 15 lbs lighter, wore size 8 skirt and jacket.
Whatever.
I do think that everyone has a different make up. I often have thought of myself as "solid" because even when I got married and my husband said to me "you're too thin, I can see your ribs" I only wore size 6 and weighed 132 lbs. I'm 5 3" so it wouldn't seem like 132 was too thin....but I looked like I weighed much less than I did. DH thought I must have only weighed 110...and I weighed in at the Dr. a couple of weeks ago at 185 and the Dr, said she was suprised I weighed that much. She said " I would have guessed 165, and I see a LOT of weights" So, maybe there is something to concept....who knows!
There is definitely such a thing as being "big boned" but a lot of heavy people use that as an excuse, when they are medium, or even small framed.
My SIL and I for instance, I am 6" taller than she, but she is large framed...and I am small to medium framed. When we stand back to back, her shoulders come out about 1 1/2" wider on both sides than mine do...and she wears about an 8-9 in ring while I wear a 5 1/2. I have to actually try on bracelets and put my hands at my sides to make sure that it doesn't slide right off my hand onto the floor...while she has to get bracelets in the larger 8" length, instead of the standard 7" length.
Her neck is wider, while mine is more slender, and her hips are wider0so our butts are even shaped differently, even when we are in the same size jeans. Mine "bubbles out more" while hers is "wider" due to her hip shape. My feet are slender with a longer look to them and thinner toes(shoe size as in wearing a 9, 10, etc. doesn't apply so much here-but more how WIDE they are...) and hers are shorter/wider looking with rounder toes.
As I said before-a taller person can be smaller framed, and a shorter person can be bigger framed-just like the case with the two of us. Height and shoe size in length don't really make all that much difference here.
Place your thumb and index finger around your wrist. If your finger overlaps the thumb, your frame is a “Small Frame”. If they touch, your frame is a “Medium Frame”. If they do not touch, your frame is a “Large Frame”.
By this measure, I am a medium frame. But, I've always called myself "big boned" because that was so much better than simply saying "fat".
Do you measure just above that funny bump on the outside of the wrist or just below it? I'm about 1/3 inch away from touching above, and just barely touch below. So I guess I'm borderline large framed.
But I didn't need my wrist to tell me that. Now that I can see and feel them,
I've noticed my hip bones are ridiculously wide. I have like 4 inches more bone than my next most-hippy cousin, when we stand belly to belly.
