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should your bust, waist + hips be?
for a female.
for a female.
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Every woman's body is different.
It's a ratio, it's about a healthy proportion of waist to hips, not a healthy size.
It's healthier to carry weight around your hips than around your waist, so if your waist is big in comparison to your hips, it's probable that you're carrying fat in an unhealthy place.
So, for example, if you have 34" hips, the ideal waist size is around 24". If you have 34" hips and a 30" waist, your ratio is a lot less healthy, even though overall you're still pretty thin.
i.e. 34-24-34 or 36-26-36 or 38-28-38 etc
Sorry if I'm really wrong!
I think you're right about the inches difference, it's about having the ideal hourglass type shape.
But the Beautiful South song is about being a size 10, which, before all this size 0 madness, was considered the ideal size. She's a perfect ten, but she wears a 12 etc.
Scientist reckon a 0.7 difference between hips and waist is what Males find most attractive.
I'm exactly the same.
Although I was slightly unsure about my waist, because the smallest part of my waist is not at my belly button..its above it.
I'd be 34-27-38 if I measured the smallest part.
Hips: 37.5
Ratio = 0.69
I'm farrrr to scared to measure myself but I recon i'm probably about 36-30-40 err maybe I dunno i'm a 30-32 waist in jeans but that means nothing as i can only wear low rise ones.
I'd say if you wear a 30/31 pants then I doubt you'd be a 40 Especially if they are low rise, resting on the hips. You probably have a nice slender curvy hip area and are just shy :flirt:
However i have massively wide hips as well which doesn't help much.
wtf? are you sure? photo evidence required!
oh well. ahaha.
Oh yes, and add to that, once you get past the hips going down, then it goes in, then the fat thighs stick out and I look like a weird wave
See, heres the top of the hips
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/aname/06-30-07_1546.jpg
And this is the horror a fitted shirt brings, and if I lose weight, the waist goes in and it just gets more pronounced and :yuck:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/aname/06-30-07_1735.jpg
It can't be that odd *hopes*:p
EDIT: Never mind, I just realised what the angle is.
ha ha, make a girl paranoid!
being a 34,28,39, i can see how i could be a hourglass shape....still need to be down the gym a bit more...
It's not your hips they're worried about though- it's your waist.
My diet is crap + I don't exercise at all.
I'm not really worried about the size of my waist, I thought it was far bigger than it as before I measured, so yeah, pretty pleased.
I could stand to lose a few inches through exercise though.