Nope.
I went through a phase of being alarmingly underweight though; if you do it on BMI (which I realise is a ropey indicator) then I've gone from being right at the bottom of the 'healthy' range to right at the top of it. But then I do like beer.

As for 16 being 'overweight': I think that's an even more ropey indicator than BMI. The trouble with that scale is that it takes no account of the different shapes of women's bodies, even though they vary far more than those of men. I can walk into a shop, pick up a pair of trousers and I'm treated to a waist circumference and an inside leg length by which to judge whether they'll fit. The ladies, I'm told, get nothing more to go on than a single and seemingly arbitrary number, which - again, so I'm told - works fine if you're shaped like a two-legged lamppost, but is fairly useless otherwise.

So I wouldn't judge her weight by the "size" she takes. However, the fact that she's a few inches shorter than me and yet weighs almost as much as me suggests she might be pushing it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:15, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Fair comment

I wonder if the average size rises to 22 if people will still hide behind the fact that it is the average so therefore ok somehow.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:17, Reply)

Well, it does feel like we're making excuses for the increasing lolfattitude of the nation
But again, it goes back to how crap the sizing system is: a woman who was 6'5 and still had some curves could probably be reasonably expected to take a 22 and still look fine (I'm guessing here, all figures are entirely arbitrary). You can tell if someone's fat by looking at them, not by the number on the tag in the back of their dress.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:25, Reply)

I agree.
I'm roughly a size 18. When I lost a lot of weight years ago I was a size 16/14 and looked anorexic. This is because I'm tall and built like a brick shithouse. Horses for courses really.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:29, Reply)

ha
fattitude.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:46, Reply)