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Originally Posted by Dare2Share but I'm wondering...if you see BBW in a profile headline or in a profile, how big do you assume (before seeing pictures) that this person might be? |
When a person describes
herself in a profile as BBW, in my experience, it means she's quite heavy, in the category of what the medical field defines as obese or often morbidly obese. Not that there's anything wrong with her size. It's just that I've found that women who define themselves as BBW, usually are in these ranges of weight.
This is a different thing from what an observer of you, me or anybody else may define as BBW. Maybe somebody thinks anybody over size 10 is BBW - that's
their opinion, right or wrong. In the profiles you're reading, she's calling
herself BBW. Know what I mean?
I don't give a lot of credence to height/weight stats because everybody is different. Women come in many different bone structure/frame types, and some women are more muscular (not fat), but
heavier than average due to their build. (This could even be regardless of their height.) Muscle weighs 4 times more than fat by volume, due to muscle's density. Women who work out may be heavier than a similar-sized woman who doesn't, but not
look heavier. Muscle is compact weight - it "hides" well, compared to fat weight. That was a long way of saying: bones and muscle both weigh more than fat, so scale weight doesn't always mean much!
