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Body size represents the mass of your bones and muscles, and plays an important role in determining the theoretical range of your body weight. This weight range as well as guidelines to help people determine how much weight they should keep depends on their body size. There are three types of body size: small, medium, and large. Each weight range is different, depending on your gender. You can determine which type you belong to by measuring your wrist circumference or elbow width. Step 1 below will explain in detail each method of measuring body size.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Measure Wrist Circumference

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   Wrap the gauge around your wrist (left or right). Hold the end of the tape measure and wrap it around your wrist.

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   Record wrist circumference. You can use the table below to see your body size, based on wrist size. advertisement

Method 2 of 2: Measuring Elbow Width

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   Fold your arms at 90 degrees. Make sure your forearms are perpendicular to the ground. It doesn't matter which hand you use, but you may realize that the table below will give you more accurate results if you use your dominant hand.

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   Complete the dimensioning process. advertisement

Advice

• You can use the online body size tool to determine your body size. You still have to measure your wrists and elbows, but you will enter the data into the tool and the results will appear automatically.
• Regular exercise and good diet can change your body and get in shape because you've lost weight. Use these variable metrics as motivation to help you maintain the fitness regimen that's right for you.
• In addition, there are three popular "body types": fat, solid, and thin. Fat people often have large bones and very high body fat, so it is difficult to lose weight. The solid person is of medium size, strong, muscular, losing weight and building muscle pretty easily. Thin people are very small and have long limbs, often less muscle and fat.
• Use your body size to determine how weight loss will affect your appearance. If you naturally have a large body size, then certain parts of your body like your shoulders will always be muscular no matter how much weight you can lose. If you are naturally small in size, you will feel that your weight loss appears to be faster than those of medium and large sizes.