How small can your hips get?

Hi,

I'm 5ft 7 with size 37 hips and I want to know how small can I actually get my hips to be?

How do you work this out? I've used a tape measure and squished it around myself until it's so tight it's practically in me and I can get it to go to about 35 inches.

Could I get my hip measurement to be 35 inches through hard work with diet and exercise. Could they actually get any smaller than that?

 

 

 

 

Everyone has different hips. If you have naturally large hips there is nothing you can do to make them smaller past a certain point because of your hip bones! If 35 inches is the smallest you can measure by squishing yourself, that's probably close to the limit. Remember, women have more fat then men and it is natural for women to have a layer of fat over their muscles.

im 5'7 very pear shaped 35-24-39, for my hips to get down to 35" id either have to have liposuction or lose so much weight my top half would disappear. When im laying down i can see my hip bones poking out but the rest of the time theres a good inch or two of fat all the way around.

The point is everyone is different, at 37" you must be close to seeing your hips already and therefore you can see how small you could become, if all the fat was removed, but do you really want that?

Hello I am 5' 91/2" tall, my hips were a 42, now they are a 38, if they get any smaller I will be surprised, but you can do weights - that will tighten the muscle then they will get slimmer.

Isnt the stereotypical 'perfect' figure 36-24-36?  relax, dont worry about your hips, they are hardly big. 

Just read in a magazine that 35"  hips is a size 2. The average woman is 44". At 5'7'' I bet you shouldn't be a 2. Just my .02!

Not everyone has dress size proportions. I have 34" hips, which I think is close to a size zero -  there's no way any other part of me could fit into a size zero. I'm 5'8, weigh 146lb, just have small hips. It all depends on the size of your hip bones, I wouldn't focus too much on it.

you guys look real smart! perhaps you could answer a question for me? im 5'3'' and 144lbs. cc's said that im suppose to be about 128. . . .  do you think that this just mite be a little over doing it for my hight? if Im that skinny, i might lose my boobs! lol:)  thanks for the answers!

What will most likely happen (unless you incorporate weight training) is that you will simply shrink down to a smaller version with the same basic proportions. So for example if you lost two inches off your hips, you may *also* lose two inches off your waist, and two inches off your chest.

Incidentally I'm 5'0" and at the start of this my hips were 35 inches, which was just fine with me. I just wanted to lose my gut. But now my hips are 31.5 inches. Initially the weight came off first from my hips, making my gut look even more ridiculous. Then finally it came off my gut too, but I still have the exact same ratio, about 0.8.  

If you are a pear, I'm envious!! I think it always looks better if you have a proportionately small waist compared to your hips. No matter what size or weight.  

This! From the other side of things, I am also 5'0"ish and my stats are about 31-25-37.  I actually don't mind my hip size since it probably makes my waist look comparatively smaller.  The only problem is that my thighs still rub together a lot so I can never go without tights even when I've been a little smaller than I am currently.  Which is quite silly of my thighs I think.  Ah well though - there are worse things in life than touching thighs says I!  I excercise a fair amount so I think I am likely predisposed to be this way.  I think I'd have to go at least below 7 stone to loose touching-thighs and I don't think that'd be particularly healthy (or doable since I love chocolate too much... and as much of it as I can get grabby hands on :D.  Maybe that's the problem?  haha, ah well!)

But if I'm alright with my 37" hips at 5 foot I certainly think the original poster should be at much taller!