Standards of female beauty change from century to century. I recently argued with a friend whether clothing size 46 is really a critical mark, after which you need to urgently go on a strict diet? Opinions on forums are radically different, but where is the truth?
Victim of advertising
Marketing is an insidious thing that is on its own. For example, it is now fashionable to play sports. A healthy lifestyle has become a priority, and it makes me happy! A pumped up body, toned muscles and a flat tummy at any age become a reason for envy. But what to do if there are clubs at every turn, but potential clients don’t come? Right! Run active advertising! Every day we come across offers of profitable subscriptions and biological food additives.
More and more professional models, using social networks and publicity, speak out against the imposed standards, complaining about excessive demands and the need to exhaust themselves with diets and harm their health.
Playing on the subconscious desire to always remain a beautiful and elegant woman, we are constantly offered to take a magic pill that will save us from going to the gym and a tedious diet. Laziness is also one of the engines of advertising; many pharmacological and technological innovations are based on it, allowing you to lose weight without leaving the couch (dubious methods, of course). Fashion shows add fuel to the fire, where in most cases thin models with an almost youthful body structure without secondary sexual characteristics are shown. Against this background, even fragile girls find telltale folds on their stomachs and begin to lose weight! What can we say about size 46? They begin to push him into the shadows, labeling him “fat.” But is it?
Numbers and nothing more!
To find the truth, I propose to go back to the origins and restore the picture bit by bit. We start with the parameters of size 46 for a woman:
- chest volume – 90–93 cm;
- waist – 71–74.5 cm (according to some sources up to 77 cm);
- hips – 98–101 cm.
For men, the number 46 refers to the letter S, which stands for Small.
Sexy figure parameters. Most Russian women fit perfectly into 46 and 48, without feeling any contrived shortcomings at all. If a woman goes in for sports, aerobics or yoga, her muscles are toned, and her skin glows with health, then the question arises: why should she lose weight to size 42? Nutrition should be balanced, without increased consumption of fast carbohydrates and without excesses in depriving important foods.
How to determine if you really need to lose weight
I recommend that anyone who doubts resort to calculating their body mass index (BMI). The Internet is full of online calculators on how to quickly calculate it.I want to dwell on it because I think the situation needs to be assessed sensibly: from the point of view of medicine, and not from marketing and fans of anorexia. Calculating the index is a proven way to find out healthy weight, that is, how it corresponds to height.
How it stands for:
- less than 18.5 is underweight;
- 20–25.9 is the norm, but provided that the waist is no more than 80 cm, and this fits into size 46!
- 26–27.9 – overweight;
- 28–31 – 1st degree obesity;
- 32–35.9 – 2nd degree obesity;
- 36–40.9 – grade 3 obesity;
- and above 41 – grade 4 obesity.
It is calculated simply: take the weight and divide by the height in meters squared. For example, a girl with clothing size 46 weighs 65 kg, her height is 1.7 m, it turns out: 65/(1.7)2=22.49. According to the BMI table, this is a normal weight.
For starters, I want to remember the actress beloved by millions, who became the standard of femininity and sexuality - Marilyn Monroe. She had incredible body parameters, close to size 46, and who would dare call her fat? A woman should always have that charm that cannot be adjusted to a far-fetched standard.
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