How Many Inches to Lose 2 Dress Sizes
TAKE a good look at these four women who are dressed in identical outfits.
While all are different shapes and sizes, they wear size 16 clothes – the "average" for UK women today.
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Around 45 per cent of British women are a size 16 or bigger, despite a recent survey finding the "ideal" size is a 12.
Here, JULIA ETHERINGTON asks these Sun readers what it is like to be "Mrs Average".
I have to wear maternity clothes
SOCIAL care assessment officer Gemma Jamieson says she is happy with her weight, but admits being classed as "petite" and "plus-size" can make shopping tough. She says:
"At school I was called "the fat one" and as an adult, I've always been this size.
I've been on loads of diets but they haven't made much difference.
Five years ago, after meeting my current boyfriend, I began to feel more comfortable with the way I look.
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It's taken me a long time to accept my body but I'm finally getting there.
I have polycystic ovary syndrome and would like to have a baby. But first, the doctor wants me to lower my BMI by losing weight. With the help of a food psychologist, I'm hoping to lose around two stone.
Being petite and plus-size is a nightmare when it comes to shopping. Maternity clothes fit me but I don't want to buy7 clothes for pregnant women."
I used personal trainer each day
SINGER Emma Wilson, from Maida Vale, West London, has only recently learned to love her size 16 body. She says:
"When I was young I was very slim. I thought I'd always stay that way but not many of us do.
The weight started creeping on in my early thirties and by the time I was 35, I hated being a size 16.
I knew it would be harder to lose weight the older I became, so I got a personal trainer and started exercising every day.
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Seven months later, I was two stone lighter and a size 10-12 and suddenly, men started to notice me.
But after a year, the weight slowly began creeping back on.
Now I'm in my forties, I've accepted my body and dress to flatter my curves.
I like having a bigger bust and bottom but I do feel self-conscious about my tummy."
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TUTOR Caroline Gough has not weighed herself in more than a decade. The single mum from Hartlepool, County Durham, does not own a set of scales. She says:
"Until I got pregnant when I was 38, I had always been a svelte size 10.
Even when I was carrying my daughter Georgie, who is now four, friends said I just had a bump and didn't put weight on anywhere else.
Any weight I did put on came off again as I breastfed.
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That's why I was shocked when, over the next couple of years, the weight crept back on.
I don't know if it's because of my age or my metabolism slowing down, but I'd like to lose it again.
I have quite a few clothes in my wardrobe in a size 12 that I've purchased but never taken the label off.
I buy them because I think it will motivate me to lose weight – I think a 12 is the perfect size.
I live in leggings and loose tops at the moment because I'm trying to hide my body and the extra weight I've put on.
The only positive for me is that I have curves I never thought I'd have, which makes me feel more womanly.
Everyone's a different shape and size and shouldn't be judged on it but I must admit, I felt a lot more comfortable before I became7 a size 16."
My height helps me get away with being bigger
STAY-AT-HOME mum Emma Johnson lives in Teddington, South West London with her husband Darrin, 50, a strategist, and sons Ben, 15 and Sam, 12. Being tall makes her feel slimmer than shorter size 16 women. She says:
"I've always been bigger but fortunately I can get away with being a size 16 because of my height.
I've had a personal trainer since January, not because I want to lose weight but because I'd like to be more toned and fitter.
I see him once a week for a bootcamp-style session and go spinning three times a week because it fills me with energy.
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I have a really positive body image – the only downside is it's so hard to find clothes to fit. I shop in Long Tall Sally but take a size 16 in Marks & Spencer.
Recently, I was in TK Maxx and to get a top I liked to fit, I had to buy it in extra large.
It doesn't do much for your self-esteem if you need to wear extra-large clothes, it's completely unrealistic.
I also tried to get some skiing gear for a holiday but they don't go past size 14.
Presumably, they think people in larger sizes don't do any exercise. It's really frustrating.
It's funny to think I'm the size of the "average" woman when really, there is no average.
Everyone's a different size and shape and we should7 embrace that."
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/4140313/these-four-women-all-size-16/
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