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I'm writing a story about a tall bbw who is 6ft and want her to be the same ratio weight as an average height bbw weighing around 200lbs (so more bbw than ssbbw). Is 300lbs too much or about right?
 
Don't worry about the numbers. Her size is important for completely subjective reasons.

Call her "A big girl" a "Giantess" a "bountiful amazon." Mention the way she towers over everyone else, how good it would feel to be crushed under her weight. Notice how, when she wears those heels, she has to duck to get through the door, and if the door were narrower she'd have to squeeze those hips and that ass through.

All the good stuff.
 
IMHO, one person's BBW is another's 'big girl'. As Stella says: numbers are not important. In fact - and I say this as someone who quite likes 'big girls' - numbers can be a big turn off. Just paint a picture. Let the reader reach his or her own conclusion.
 
What Stella said. Failing that, leave it vague - "she must have weighed more than 250 lbs". If you really need an exact number:

Average woman in the US or UK is about 5'4", i.e. 64 inches. 6'0" = 72" so your goddess is 72/64 = 112.5% the height of an average woman.

If you want to scale all her measurements in proportion to that, weight increases with the cube of height, so she'll be around (1.125^3) x 200lbs = 285 lbs. So 'about 300 lbs' is right.

IRL taller people tend not to be quite as wide in proportion to their height, in which case she'd be a bit less - say about 270 lbs.

(But as somebody who has to mentally translate pounds to kilograms when I read stories, I'm just as happy to take subjective descriptions. "Her butt wobbled like jelly on springs," etc etc.)
 
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As a tall person, from a family of tall persons, and as an ex-fat kid, I agree with Stella and Bramblethorn, except for this:

Bramblethorn said:
IRL taller people tend not to be quite as wide in proportion to their height
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Just for the sake of argument and differing perspective, it would be: "Taller people are wide in proportion to their height, if not wider."

BTW, Stella: Bountiful Amazon = A+
 
I agree with others, don't lock yourself in with "stats"

People, especially women have a variety of body shapes, types and weight can be deceptive depending on where one carries it.
 
Will chime in agreeing with everyone else. I wrote a BBW story from the man's POV and weight was never mentioned. I did mention probable size of the clothing she was wearing (size 20) but only because the man worked in the fashion industry.

Which is to say, when writing a story, keep in mind who's POV you're in. If it's from the man (or woman?) enamored with this Amazon, then what do they do? How do they think? What would pop to mind when they look at her? Probably not "She must weigh 300 lbs!" as that is usually the person who is shocked by a woman of that size and weight, not captivated by her.

The person who is captivated is going to think more in line with the descriptions Stella mentioned. And your job is to get the reader into that man's (or woman's) head and see her as that person sees her. Not as 6'6 & 300lbs (sounds like a police description ;)), but as a goddess.
 
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3113 said:
Will chime in agreeing with everyone else. I wrote a BBW story...
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That story opened my eyes to something that I wanted. Dunno if my preference was latent, or if I'm just easily lead by a good writer. :eek:
 
skinnypom said:
I'm writing a story about a tall bbw who is 6ft and want her to be the same ratio weight as an average height bbw weighing around 200lbs (so more bbw than ssbbw). Is 300lbs too much or about right?
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300 is positively obese.
At 71 inches an average frame would run out at about 180lb.
See the charts, like this one.
 
Stella_Omega said:
That story opened my eyes to something that I wanted. Dunno if my preference was latent, or if I'm just easily lead by a good writer. :eek:
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:cattail: I'd say the former if I didn't want to take credit for the later :devil:
 
PayDay said:
Height/weight average stat charts are junk IMO, they're like 1 size fits all Army gear from WW2.
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Yep, formulated from cadavers donated to medical research. You just have to think about what kind of cadavers they would be, to realised how unreliable the figures are.

And they don't have any relevance to anyone who does regular exercise.
 
redzinger said:
Yep, formulated from cadavers donated to medical research. You just have to think about what kind of cadavers they would be, to realised how unreliable the figures are.

And they don't have any relevance to anyone who does regular exercise.
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Wow, nice. Hadn't even thought of that.
 
redzinger said:
Yep, formulated from cadavers donated to medical research. You just have to think about what kind of cadavers they would be, to realised how unreliable the figures are.
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I don't think that's right. There's plenty of height/weight data taken from representative samples of live people - see e.g. here - so it's not like you'd need to use cadaver-sourced data.

(But I agree that measures like BMI are very badly flawed.)
 
Bramblethorn said:
I don't think that's right. There's plenty of height/weight data taken from representative samples of live people - see e.g. here - so it's not like you'd need to use cadaver-sourced data.

(But I agree that measures like BMI are very badly flawed.)
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That's how they first formulated the charts, by liquidising cadavers to find out what actual body fat percentages they had. This came up when I was studying for my degree, when we were looking at how reliable different methods (skinfold calipers, scales, water displacement) were. At the time, there was no accurate way to calculate someone's body fat other than to liquidise them. Nowadays, some scanners can do it.
 
I dunno, I see the pros weaving in the stats so anything goes if you write well.
 
redzinger said:
Yep, formulated from cadavers donated to medical research. You just have to think about what kind of cadavers they would be, to realised how unreliable the figures are.

And they don't have any relevance to anyone who does regular exercise.
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redzinger said:
That's how they first formulated the charts, by liquidising cadavers to find out what actual body fat percentages they had. This came up when I was studying for my degree, when we were looking at how reliable different methods (skinfold calipers, scales, water displacement) were. At the time, there was no accurate way to calculate someone's body fat other than to liquidise them. Nowadays, some scanners can do it.
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The Insurance Industry obtained a lot of data from live people from all walks of life.
It gave the actuaries something to work from.
So how heavy SHOULD a normal active woman, aged about 30, six foot one, weight then?.
It's no good blinding us with science, such as BMI and then having a discussion about the applicability thereof. A simple average will suffice.
 
Handley_Page said:
The Insurance Industry obtained a lot of data from live people from all walks of life.
It gave the actuaries something to work from.
So how heavy SHOULD a normal active woman, aged about 30, six foot one, weight then?.
It's no good blinding us with science, such as BMI and then having a discussion about the applicability thereof. A simple average will suffice.
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Sure sure, but the problem with 'average' when applied to humans is that there are 7 or 8 billion of us.
 
 
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