According to the NHS, a woman’s waist measurement should be 31.5 ins or less.

Minimoon, my late, very glamorous MIL said that after 60 you choose between your bottom and your face ?

My body frame is that from a long line of maternal female body shape, slim 5ft-6in but my waist measurement has been 30in since I was a teenager. All my trousers have a V fabric insert at the back of the waist to get the right overall fit.

Well I just bit the bullet and found a tape measure. At 5’ and a half inch my waist, if I found the right place is 40. Hips worse at 47.
I have always watched what I eat, don’t drink much and cook from scratch, no takeaways and walk a lot, take no meds and don’t have any ongoing health problems apart from 32 bmi. It’s disheartening.

Still am grateful to be healthy

Kandinsky do you think you made a mistake in reading and that those measurements should apply to the thigh only?

Well, that ship has sailed……

Should we return to the era of the tight corsets? Then we can all have a 25” waist.

My BMI is 23.6 but there’s no way my waist is 31 inches.

But I would like to get down to 10 stone, only another half a stone to go.

Like you Oopsadaisy. My BMI is 23.5, and I need ideally to lose just about 10lbs for my fat measurement to get to an acceptable proportion of my body. By which time my BMI will be 21.5.

BMI should be junked. The only thing that matters is what proportion of your make up is fat. Instead of scales doctors and chemists should have bio-impedance machines, so we are no longer misleadingly beng told our weight is OK, when like me, you are actually quite overweight, nor do muscly sportsmen and the like get told they are overweight when they are not.