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So there's a stereotype about overweight people: We all think we have a large bone structure. I remember hearing this many years before surgery was even a blip on my radar. I thought, yes that's true. Lots of overweight people probably think they have a large bone structure and don't. But not me. I REALLY have one.

Well guess what? I don't. My Fitbit broke after having it 10 months. It was a size large, but I'd gradually been tightening it to nearly the last hole. I measured to make sure a size small would fit before I got a new one. My wrist was 6.25 inches. Wow, that seemed small.

So it got me thinking. I looked up a bone structure calculator online. Sure enough, at 5'6" that means I have a medium bone structure.

Who would have thought? The fun things you learn after WLS!

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People soothe themselves easily by fibbing about all sorts of things. The bone thing is one that I never tried because I figured out early that a large frame is on the rare side. It probably shouldn't be a surprise that there's an online calculator. What isn't on line?

You're the standard-bearer, Miz Medium.

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I've long known I had a small frame because my wrists are tiny. My watches have always needed to be resized to fit. My wrists are around 5.4. In high school there was a gym teacher who would weigh us all in front of one another - cruel and mortifying - but I remember being surprised that other girls actually weighed the same, but appeared to be so much slimmer. She also had us measure our one wrist using the thumb and middle finger (which I wanted to shoot up at her instead) of our other hand, and then had us raise our hands with whether we were small, medium, or large boned. And then she told us what we were supposed to weigh. Gah. Ha, sorry for that random stroll down an unpleasant memory lane.

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I have a medically large bone structure. That still doesn't justify an extra 200 pounds.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/17182.htm

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Even when I was a (skinny) kid in high school, I had to buy two twist bands whenever I bought a watch. We would take several links out of the second band to make the first one big enough. According to one chart, I should be around eight feet tall. Either that, or I am going to have to shrink down in weight to when I was in 9th grade. That ain't happening.

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Weird, I just looked up a frame size calculator. It put me at large, but the weight range it gives me looks right. I have just always assumed my frame size to be small.

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@@gpmed

You might discover your bone structure / body frame is not what you had expected after weight loss. I thought all woman had an hourglass frame. I am an inverted triangle. My shoulders are wider than my hips. Who knew... :)

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I have small hands and wrists but I have some giant boney hips and a huge ribcage. I'm a full hourglass. I measure 41/31/41 AT goal weight after Tummy Tuck and breast lift. When my dad had shoulder surgery the surgeon told him he had big bones (Dad isn't overweight). I also have very broad shoulders and very muscular legs unlike my mom who is very short and petite and has twiggy legs. I basically got Dad's build with Mom's curves. People never believe me when I tell them I weigh 160. They say I look like I weigh 130-140.

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I knew I was big boned. I took the test and YEPPERS still large boned. LOL

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So there's a stereotype about overweight people: We all think we have a large bone structure. I remember hearing this many years before surgery was even a blip on my radar. I thought, yes that's true. Lots of overweight people probably think they have a large bone structure and don't. But not me. I REALLY have one.

Well guess what? I don't. My Fitbit broke after having it 10 months. It was a size large, but I'd gradually been tightening it to nearly the last hole. I measured to make sure a size small would fit before I got a new one. My wrist was 6.25 inches. Wow, that seemed small.

So it got me thinking. I looked up a bone structure calculator online. Sure enough, at 5'6" that means I have a medium bone structure.

Who would have thought? The fun things you learn after WLS!

same here - 5'6" and recently after years of assuming I had a large frame I discovered it was actually medium!

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@@jenn1 I wonder what the difference is between the neat hour glass and the full hour glass?

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@@jenn1 I wonder what the difference is between the neat hour glass and the full hour glass?

The neat hourglass is a better housekeeper. :P

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I had to laugh. @LittleBill Better house keeper. I'm sure the chart is not scientific... ;) Just funny at I have no hips or butt. Just like my father...Dang Genetics.

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My cardiologist told me back in October that I probably wouldn't get below about 76 kg (167 pounds) because I have a big frame. It surprised me that a doctor would even suggest that some people actually have big frames. Anyway ... I sailed past her prediction and am now 72.6 kg (160 pounds) and still going strong. I can't wait for my next appointment to show her.

Having said all that the body frame calculator does say I have a large frame so I should be between 131 and 147 pounds which is where my goal currently is.

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