Comments on: How Your Diet Wrecks Your Waist to Hip Ratio

By: Project Swole

Project Swole — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:42 +0000

It seems to me that many men these days prefer skinny little stick figure women and/or women without hips. Personally, I go for the hour glass figure. Gotta have boobs, gotta have hips, the waist is not that important, but obviously a belly with pock-marks and cellulite all over it is nasty. Fat middle aged men have pot bellies, not ladies. My $.02

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:11:10 +0000

this all seems to make sense. however, I find that, like many of my female family members, I do not have large difference between my waist and hip measurements. According to my BMI I am healthy, and had my body fat measured: all was a- ok. I’m just more of an athletic build; slim, kinda squarish, and well, lets just say “busty”. I mind what I eat, and I live an active lifestyle. But according to this, I am one of the ladies who males are “genetically programmed” not to be attracted to? I think there are some oversights or over generalizations made about the shape of a woman. It’s like everyone wants to find the key to womens beauty and too quickly proclaim one type of attractiveness over another. Considering that myself and the ladies in my family have not had any trouble finding a mate and “makin’ babies”, I don’t really buy this hip ratio stuff.

By: DR

DR — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:41:13 +0000

touche

By: julie

julie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:38:11 +0000

Maybe these women look that way by not eating processed carbs, but don’t leave out the breast enlargement that is glaringly obvious on at least one of them.

By: scorpio

scorpio — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:05:56 +0000

And what about the people who don’t want to lose weight, but gain weight and get a lower waist-hip ratio? I mean, you say replacing carbohydrates with proteins will change the waist-hip ratio but what about underweight people? Will replacing carbohydrates with proteins do something for their waist-hip ratio while their gaining, or should we soak ourselves in carbohydrates in hope we gain a little bit and all the weight goes to the waist?

By: Mom AJ

Mom AJ — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:52:05 +0000

It works.
2 kids, still 36-26-38 because I avoid carbs. Happy husband too.

By: Brit

Brit — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:39:53 +0000

I know you weren’t trying to upset anyone. That’s more on me than you. I just get discouraged easily–I look at that picture and think, wow, I haven’t really done anything yet.

I haven’t noticed any health improvements, but really, I’ve never been that bad to begin with (in my own opinion, of course). I’m not good at running, and I get a little out of breath when climbing the FIVE flights of stairs in the parking garage I use on campus, but I get around fine for daily stuff. And whenever I donate blood, my blood pressure is in the normal range. So I’d say I’m okay on that front, even before I lose any weight.

Thanks for the compliment. I don’t know how well I’ll do, but I am going to try to continue losing weight in 2009, because I recently tried on the dress I’m supposed to wear in my friend’s wedding, and I don’t completely love how it looks. I’m not sure what you could do to help, though. Sometimes I feel like I need someone standing over me 24/7, telling me what to do–and as a graduate student, I’m never going to have the time or money for that.

By: DR

DR — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:20:47 +0000

Hi Brit,

I am sorry if my use of that picture upset you.

My intent was to illustrate the difference between a healthy and unhealthy waist to hip ratio.

It should be enough for us to realize that our way of eating has had a negative impact on our health…metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity, etc… But, the numbers of diet-related chronic disease are still increasing. It amazes me that people are willing to sacrifice their health just so they can continue to eat Big macs and pizza.

But if self-preservation isn’t a strong enough deterrant to junk food, maybe vanity is.

That is what I hoped to get out of this article.

Your weight loss is something that you should be proud of. Hopefully, it has paid off by improving your overall health, energy, strength, etc…

And, believe it or not, whether or not you lose another pound, I am more than impressed. We are all blessed with a different body types. For me, I can build muscle mass very easily, but if I don’t restrict grains and sugar from my diet, those muscles WILL be covered in fat…very quickly. That’s just the way it is. I will never be built like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. I am pretty sure that each of my thighs is bigger than Brad’s entire waist.

But, I can strive to be the fittest and healthiest me.

I hope that you continue trying to get fitter in 2009. Let me know if I can help

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:24:45 +0000

Brit, I like the picture of the woman that you mentioned . I think she has a nice shape, with a narrow rib cage/waist, feminine curves and to me that is what makes a woman pretty, not whether I can see her abs or not.

If you eat and exercise in such a way as to feel energized and healthy, I bet you look great already.

By: Brit

Brit — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:53:10 +0000

I think one of my goals for the new year needs to be to stop taking things so personally.

Case in point: I’ve been kind of happy that I’ve lost about 20 lbs since August. Then I looked at the last pic on this page, which is of a woman who is about the same size as me, or maybe even a little smaller, and now all I’m thinking is, in DR’s eyes I’m still a fat sausage.