(12-09-2013, 12:38 AM)AbiDrew85 Wrote: (11-09-2013, 11:59 PM)timarie Wrote: I am going to do a little tweaking to what Abi wrote above but-- from my experience with hourglasses, they gain primarily in the lower abdomen and hips (and because you gain on the hips, this transfers to the butt) and bust (here you can insert Abi's "but!" about if you don't have your hormones in balance), NOT really the thighs, and DO gain a very little in the upper arms (so I've noticed)... about as much as they might put in their thighs. They have just a little in their arms, but not as much as apples, and just a little in their thighs, but not as much as pears. But mostly in their hips and especially lower abdomen. So, based on your photos showing where you hold your weight and based on what you say, I'd say definitely an hourglass.
OK. When I said what I said I was sort of distinguishing but not saying it clearly enough between two types of gain. Fat and muscle.
We tend to gain muscle gains in our arms and chests and legs and not much fat, just enough to soften it up. The arm muscle is also much less dense than the leg muscle on an hourglass. We really do tend to have very nice limbs. Tones ridiculously easy with hardly any effort at all. Just daily life is enough if you're a mesomorph hourglass.
Our LOWER hips also tend to be more muscle than fat gains. While our UPPER hips put on the pudge along with lower abdomen.
And part of what makes our boobs perky is that we really truly do get a muscular bust. Seriously. We have some of the leanest perkiest "strongest" breast shapes of all the types!
Womp womp. I think you moved from talking about body shapes to body types. I was not talking about muscle in the arms and legs. I was talking about fat! Because we are talking about shapes here, right? and where fat is deposited depending on shape. How bodies place their muscle is a completely different ballpark (discussed more below), and is more a discussion of body TYPE.
Keep in mind, when I was speaking about a little fat on the arms and a little fat on the thighs, I am talking small amounts on the thighs and arms (small enough that you are thinking I am talking about the muscle that is there, haha, but every shape has muscle on their arms... that varies not from body shape to body shape; rather, from body type to body type). Just enough fat to make an hourglass's arms obviously not like a pear's arms (no fat at all), and to make an hourglass's thighs not like an apple or banana's thighs (not any fat there, either). I am speaking off of example of the hourglasses I have known. And I visually see the difference between muscle and fat. No hourglass has arms like a pear, or legs like a banana or apple. Their arms and legs are more combo.
If you want to get talking about muscle, well, that would be talking about body TYPES and then where each body shape gains muscle easier I suppose might be different too, but it is really hard to tell because of fat. For example, I believe that I gain muscle in my legs/butt very easily, but how can we know? Because it is always covered by a layer of fat! It is easy to see my arm's muscle growth, because there is almost 0% fat on my arms. So yeah, I don't think where an hourglass puts their muscle (which, again, is a mirage since we all have muscle in all parts of our bodies) was much a part of that discussion
We were just talking about fat distribution as far as I was aware! And a discussion of body types would only tell us WHO gains muscle easier, not WHERE they gain it easier, because that we will probably never come to knowing...
But yes, any mesomorph SHOULD have perky breasts, no matter what their shape (although apples have a little extra fat up there, but that will not effect the support their breasts receive from the muscle). And a mesomorph banana and mesomorph apple will still have better legs than a mesomorph hourglass, as a mesomorph pear will always have better arms than a mesomorph hourglass. And a mesomorph hourglass will always have better legs than a mesomorph pear, and a mesomorph hourglass will always have better arms than a mesomorph apple and better torso than a mesomorph banana. Lol! It is important to not get too carried away with being in love with being an hourglass haha, they all have their benefits and drawbacks! It's just that the hourglass is the most visually appealing because they are the most BALANCED and symmetrical. Does this make sense?
(12-09-2013, 03:13 AM)echapman Wrote: My height- 5'9" ish. I keep getting told different things, but that is what my license says so I am going with it. It may be more like 5'8'' and I just have big hair (it's full of secrets)
Measurements-
Waist is 27 inches
Butt is 38.5 inches.
My weight history is something like this... my great-grandmother fed me a lot of bacon. I was a chunky kid and my pediatrician ended up putting me on a diet, which of course did nothing because Granny was secretly feeding me when I was at her house. 6th grade hit and along with it came the most horrible growing pains ever, suddenly I was taller than everyone. By 8th grade I had thinned out and I was lanky and awkward. Always always always had an issue with my stomach though. I'm not sure it has ever been flat, but I also bloat like a mofo EVERY time I eat. My senior year and into the first semester of college I had was in a bad relationship and barely ate and exercised too much. I think I got down to 115 pounds. I looked like a Tim Burton character.
When I met my fiance three years ago I was still only 120 pounds and apparently being happy makes you gain weight, because I am sitting here at 143 pounds. That is heavier than my ideal weight, but I am in school in a bad neighborhood and I have apparently developed a stress eating habit.
When I exercise, I build muscle quickly and lose fat fast while my weight stays about the same. I was eating super healthy, hula hooping, and doing zumba and I still stayed at 140. Now I am pretty much the same, just squishier. lol. I have picked up hula hooping again and started eating healthier again. 135 is where I want to be.
You are.... drumroll please... a mesomorph, definitely. An endomorph could never get that skinny, and we've already established that you are not an ectomorph. AND you say you gain muscle very easily. That was an easy one! I am very mesomorph myself and have fluctuated between the crazy poundage that you have been (I have gone from 115 to 145), but it is always easy to gain muscle, we can lose a lot of weight if we want to, and can gain a lot if we just don't give a hoot (or, in your case, are just too happy! haha). I actually am the same way--I don't eat when I am very low and I usually eat better when I am happy. However, almost 2 years of yo-yoing and feeling low most of the time has brought me to a point where I have a permanent pathetic apatite (although I am not entirely complaining...). I just have to force feed myself to keep my muscles!
And reflecting on your measurements, confirmed hourglass. You have a hip to waist ratio of 70%, which is definitely hourglass (anything smaller than 80%). So there you have it. Mesomorph Hourglass
EDIT: And then I see Abi beat me to the punch while I was still writing my post. *shakes fist* lol
LOL