How do you measure yourself?

[emsbugbug 7]

I have never really measured myself before, only weighed, but now I am really curious to see the inch loss. So, how do you do it?

:confused:Do you hold your arms out, or hang them down?

:confused:Where do you measure your waist? Above my belly button is bigger than below but my pants sit right at my belly button...so which is the right place?

:confused:Measuring hips, I, like most obese people, have a large stomach that hangs down. Where I would measure my hips, my stomach is there...do you measure around your stomach or underneath?

:confused:Thighs, sitting or standing?

:confused:How tight do you pull the tape?

I am so confused!!!

[isaviolinist 11]

Do you belong to a gym or fitness center that has people who help with things other than personal training (i.e. food logs, weigh-ins etc)? Every six weeks at our place, we do a body composition and part of it is our practitioner measures us. I've measured myself before but I'm not entirely sure if I was being very accurate. If you have someone else do it, they can measure you in the same place every time.

If you do it yourself, try to just write down where you measured yourself somehow so you can measure in the same place again (that's hard to do though lol). I would say just do your best. I measured myself by myself for awhile and while it may not have been completely accurate, I could definitely get a rough idea of where the inches were coming off. Don't pull the tape too tight - it should just fit around whatever part youre measuring, but not be cinching it.