Well either my fingers are longer on one hand or my wrist is bigger on the other - using my middle finger this is - they touch on one side but not on the other lol - using my index finger the gap is bigger on one side. I'm totally lopsided! lol and of course the question is...am I medium framed or large framed...

Weight will make the wrist measure "off" a bit as well. If you have a good deal of extra weight still on you...you may think you are large framed, or even medium framed-when you could actually be smaller framed. This is why looking at the entire picture-your ring sizes, shoulder width, etc. is important as well...and also doing this the more weight you lose.

It would nto be uncommon at all for someone of 250 pounds to do the wrist thing and think that they are large framed...but when they reach goal, find out that they are actually smaller wristed and a size smaller in their ring-simply because of the extra fat loss.

Exactly.

My wrists are small now. My fingers overlap. Used to be they wouldn't even touch.

And rings of mine that I couldn't even get onto my pinkie finger are now literally falling off of my ring and middle finger. As well, rings that used to fit (snuggly) on my ring finger will now fall off of my thumb.

I don't base anything on that "big boned" theory, I think it's silly.

That's exactly what happened to my wrist measurement too! I lost about an inch or maybe even a little more around my wrists and had to have three links taken out of my watch and all my bracelets resized.

And yep, I always said that I was big boned.

I think I may be an exception to some of this... since there is very little "meat" of any kind around my wrists. LOL my arms and legs are pretty skinny except at very top of arms. My fat is nearly all between neck and stomach LOL. There is NO WAY I will lose much fat on my wrist... LOL when I put my fingers around it I feel bone <G>

I believe there is. I'm quite a large framed person, which led me in my young teen years to believe I was fat. This led to an eating disorder...

Now, many years and three children later, I've come to terms with the fact that my legs will never be as slender as my friend's. My knees are naturally large. I naturally have layers of muscle (not lean muscle, bulk muscle) on my calves, and my ankles are huge. My hips will always be wide. My shoulders? Always broad. When I'm thinner, my wrists actually seem quite petitie, because of all the muscle on my forearms. The bone test doesn't work, as I have very long fingers. I used the cm test once and came up are large framed.

My doctor measured my bone structure by my knees. When I was 15 I was told an ideal weight was between 140 and 160 (*gasp* putting me OVER bmi my for 5'6" frame!!!). I had friend's who were taller who weighed 105 pounds soaking wet. It's all about the bone density and muscle mass, at least that's my opinion.

I don't believe being big bones makes you fat but I sure have some literally big bones! At my weight now, obviously very much overweight, my hip bones are starting to stick out! My family just have HUGE pelvises! I always figured at least if I ever have kids hopefully I'll just have to cough and the poor thing will fly across the room!

So I don't see myself ever getting into a size 10 trouser whatever I weigh but I might do so on the top! I think I have a natural peasants body, big hips for balancing babies and baskets on! Doesn't mean that I can't lose weight though. Just means this shape will just get smaller with me but not change.

This doesn't work if you have large hands. When I went in the military, I was classified by them as an x-large frame with 7.5 inch wrist. But I can get my fingers all the way around them. Because of my frame size, no matter how skinny i get, I will never be smaller than about a size 9/10. but because of my bone structure, i can "pull off" some weight. People are amazed when I tell them how much I weigh, "you don't look like you weigh THAT much", its the bone structure. bones are heavy.

Yep, I had the SAME problem.

Isn't it interesting that being 'big boned' is used as a euphemism for largeness and yet, seems to be a good thing. As in a large frame can pull off a heavier weight more slimly.

That seems to be the one "beauty" of being big boned.

Or not breaking bones? I've had several near misses with snapping my leg in half. I had hairline fractures, but my bones are so dense they didn't break.

Another nice thing with being larged framed is that your body tends to develop more supporting muscle. You have more surface area (which seems like a bad thing) yet your muscles are stronger to support all your weight. Played right, it keeps your metabolism up.

Interesting. No way do my thumb and index finger come even close to touching, yet I have never felt myself to be big-boned. I'm just barely 5'4" and wear 7.5-8 shoes. But, when I think about it, I've always weighed more than it looked like to others, and at 165-170 lbs I wore a size 12 easily, and if it weren't for my DD breasts, could have worn a M shirt.

Pat, you sound like you're built exactly like me except for an inch taller.

When I was little and we had team building activity days where someone got lifted and passed around the room, I would eventually get picked because I'm short and look little, but people would be surprised at how little I am. I also wasn't fat then so that may have helped.

I have pretty big hands but my fingers barely touch around the wrist and I am small enough there that I'm feeling the bone. My bones don't break either. I twisted my ankle halfway around skiing once and got a nasty sprain but no break. Not only that, but my arms and legs are proportionally ENORMOUS, so most of my weight is concentrated in my extremities and therefore I can look slimmer than I am as long as I keep my arms and legs covered. Buying pants is a painful experience though because I'm narrow in the hips and wear about a size 10, but can only buy the pants that are the absolute loosest in the legs. Most jeans will not go over my calves no matter what.

None of this excuses me from being 20 pounds overweight, but it explains why I'm 20 pounds, rather than 30 or 40 over ideal at this weight.

Hmm.. my wrists are very boney. There's no way there's alot of fat there yet I can't touch my index finger to my thumb, and I have large hands. I have broad shoulders and I think I'd classify as 'big boned'. I've also never broken a bone in my life. I heard when you're fat as a kid your bones grow more than normal to support the extra weight.