What's your waist to hip ratio?

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/waist-to-hip-ra tio-calculator/

It says mine is .74 (low risk). However before I lost weight it was more like .82 (moderate risk). Jeans fit a lot better these days, because in the past whatever fit my butt gave me a muffin top.

My mother in law is an extreme pear (.66). So is my mom. I believe Kate Moss was/is also. I wonder what the ideal ratio is?

Original Post by jblarghp:

.73, no idea what this means.

 It means you're hot!

Sweet!

mine was .73, which is low risk. However, the site seems to imply that women only come in two shapes, apple or pear. They completely forget women have a bust, which figures into shape and weight. You cannot really call a 39-29-39.5 inch figure a pear... Some women also have that slim boyish figure, while others like me are hourglasses, and yet others are boxy. I do not think their little calculator can be accurate for all body types with how limited their criteria are.

thank you. if audrey hepburn had a .7 then that makes .7 desirable as she had a lovely figure!

My waist to hip ratio is .7. My measurements are 34-28-40. I think I'm definitely a pear shape though! I've heard .7 is ideal which is interesting because girls in high school always bragged about being a size 2 and I wore a size 8. I used to get made fun of for being to "heavy" from this girl who was a 2-4. But now that I look back those girls never had any curves and I think I was more attractive than the size 2-4 girl. 

i think i have one of the most extreme ones. I have a waist of 22 inches and hips of 37 inches so my waist to hip ratio is 0.59.

.70, apparently. Waist measurement of 26, hip measurement of 37. I hope I lose the remainder of my weight proportionally, but it's not like that sort of thing can be controlled.

Anything in excess of 0.97 is considered high risk for males. 0.90-0.97 is 'moderate' risk. Population average for males is said to be 0.89, but I'm not sure that figure is very reliable.

My stats:

1.02 - (down from 1.11) that's taking my waist measurement correctly

0.93 - by cheating and measuring my waist where most do (where my belt sits below my panniculus, i.e. below the overhang)

 My target is 0.87 (0.83 at belt level) = bottom of the range of XL (top of the range for L) sizing.

PS. There's a better WHR calculator here.

,7

I am originally an apple but I have managed to turn my body to look like an hour-glass figure :)

My measurements are :

35,5-25,5-37

But I really get the tiniest part of my waist and then hold my breath and then hold the metre so hard :))

so that is cheating but who cares?

Alright I guess if I do not hold the metre so hard,I will be 26 inches or 26,5..not much of a difference

I have a weird case, My hip bone IS TINY and narrow, so I'm 27" 32", and i have wide shoulders. i have the weirdest frame ever

22?? youre tiny!!!! with hips! i'm so jealous, curves are so attractive and I'm a female myself, how can i ever get curves with a 32 inch hip? hip implants?

You have a Waist to Hip Ratio of 0.84 :(!!!!!!!!!!, so in order for me to be .7, my waist would have to be 22-24

Original Post by needtofinallylose:

You have a Waist to Hip Ratio of 0.84 :(!!!!!!!!!!, so in order for me to be .7, my waist would have to be 22-24

 We have the exact same measurements (at least on bottom) - mine are 32-27-32 and I HATE my waist!  I've had 6 kids so some of it is skin but it's mostly fat I guess.  I can't imagine ever getting my waist to 22-25 inches, I started at 38 inches so I've come a LONG way but it's turning out to be the hardest part for me to get toned.

I have no clue how I gave birth to 6 kids (one who was 8lbs 12oz) and still have 32 inch hips!! ROFL

aww, i was hoping maybe i can have wider hips some day if i have kids, guess not haha. hey at least we don't have to get bigger size in jeans because of big hip issues.well they do fall off sometimes tho:(

0.71

my waist to hip ration is .85 apparently? but i'm a teenager and not all that curvy so that could be it, because i've NEVER seen myself as an apple!

p.s. what waist measurements are you ladies using, at navel or narrowest point? i used navel because that's what it told me to do :) but when i use my narrowest point it is much less obviously!

i used smallest

.71 . . .but I don't feel anywhere near ideal. My hips are HUGE.

apparently mine's 0.63, putting me at low risk. I'm definitely somewhere between a pear and an hourglass (35-24-38)

.6 I think I am an hourglass