What Every Single Part Of Your Body Should Look Like When Healthy
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You’re often told to do an exercise a certain amount of time, number of repetitions, or “until you feel satisfied.” But with every person’s body having different limits and different strengths these vague instructions can leave us unsatisfied. But forget measurements and forget numbers. There are certain ways to understand what a healthy body looks like that apply to every woman, and they’re easy to understand.
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Arms
Women are supposed to have a little roundness in their arms. When your arms are down against your sides, the inner part of the arm should press against the outer part of your rib cage. If you’ve worked out your arms so hard, or dieted so intensely, that there is now a space between your arms and ribcage, your arms have gotten too thin!
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Shoulders
There’s something so beautiful about the way a woman’s round shoulder comes out, just a little, from her collarbone area. But if the shoulders are so lacking in flesh that the small round bone protrudes out of the top of them, or you can see the actual muscle strings in front, it’s time to ease up on the diet! (And maybe the pull-ups!)
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The collarbone
A woman’s collarbone is considered by many men the most sensual part of a woman’s body. It’s also one of the first places that indicates your weight loss or gain, quickly disappearing if you put on a few too many pounds, and quickly re-appearing when you get back in your ideal weight range. A little definition of the collarbone is beautiful. But it shouldn’t protrude so much that it looks as if someone could reach over and grab it.
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Hipbones
When a woman is at a healthy weight for her figure, her hipbones will be slightly apparent. But, in general the front of where the tummy sticks out should be in line with them. If the hipbones protrude out past the tummy, you’re mal-nourished!
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Love handles
All women have a little jiggle right where the waist turns into the top of the thighs and buttocks. However, at a healthy weight, the body naturally has an hourglass figure. Some glasses are more bottom heavy or top heavy, but the transition from waist to thighs should be a smooth curve. If your love handles hang over your thighs a bit, or protrude outwards creating an “extra curve” a few weeks of fat-burning foods could get you back on track for that hourglass shape.
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Thighs
Even women with naturally thin legs still have the insides of their thighs touching. Only when you’re very underweight is there a large gap in between your thighs, when you’re standing with your legs perfectly straight. That line created where the insides of your two thighs meet is one of the beautiful aspects of the woman’s body that artists like to capture. It’s nurturing, it’s sensual, and it’s maternal.
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Legs
Every woman dreams of having defined calf muscles. However, if you truly have strong and healthy calf muscles, they’ll only be apparent when you’re in heels, or flexing that muscle. Slimming down to the point that those muscles are apparent even in a relaxed position, could put you at risk for osteoporosis!
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Belly
The harsh truth is that there are all sorts of health problems that come along with having extra belly fat. So even if you’re blessed with thin legs, toned arms and a tiny waist, but have a little bulge in the middle, don’t just cover it up with flowy tops. It’s for your own good to study up on tummy flattening foods. The tummy should go down directly to the top of the pelvic area, without a bump. It may round a little, but if it folds at all or obstructs your view of your pelvic area when you look straight down, you may have health-threatening tummy fat.
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The ribs
The rib cage area is another that you don’t want to carry too much extra fat on, for health reasons. Remember, that’s near your heart. Just along the sides, under the outer parts of the breasts, the ribs should be slightly (an we mean really slightly) apparent. However, if you can actually make out where one rib begins and another ends, you’re underweight!
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The butt
The butt has a mind of its own. It can be practically non-existent on otherwise curvy women, or enormous on slim women. So, the size of the butt does little to tell us the health of the woman. In general, however, when a woman is overweight, the butt forms dimples. These look like exaggerated cellulite—almost like indents in the butt cheeks. At any weight, we all have a bit of cellulite. But the truly concave dots form when the butt carries extra weight.
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The back
If you’re a healthy, active person, the shoulder blades or “chicken wings” will be slightly apparent, as will the spine. But like the collarbone, these shouldn’t appear sharp, as if someone could get a grip around them. Then you’ve lost essential fat in those areas.
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The wrists
It doesn’t matter if you’re big-boned or little-boned, have naturally thin or naturally large extremities—at a healthy weight, the small round bone on the outer part of the wrist is visible on a woman. However, the sinews on the under part of the wrist should be barely visible. When these start to protrude, you need to put some fat back into your diet.
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The waist
The waist is a great gage for your overall weight. At a healthy weight, the waist will always appear much smaller than the upper body, and the hips/thighs/buttocks. It’s the dead center of the hourglass shape. But, when you carry extra weight in your belly or around your rib cage area, you’ll lose that ratio. The entire area will appear more padded. Many consider the waist to be the area just beneath where the rib cage ends. With that in mind, that area should curve out beneath the rib cage. If it concaves beneath the ribs, you’re underweight.
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The breasts
The breasts, like the butt, are their own entity. Based on the other measurements in this article, when your body is at a healthy weight, get your bust measurement. Then in the future, if yours bras begin to fit tight, you have an easy way to know you’re putting on weight!
