The problem with the "big boned" excuse Ok. So I'm a long, long time lurker but I finally just had to share.  I'm a big boned woman (damn German ancestry). I've got broad shoulders and wide-set hipbones (hello massive thigh gap). So I weigh a little more than my body fat % says I should. My BMI is 22 though. Because fuck being fat, my bone structure isn't an excuse to be a fucking fatty!  I'm so done being silent when hams around me shovel food in their faces and say it's because they just have a big body type. Or, when they tell me I need to put on weight because I'm too "bony". I'm not.  Tl;dr: fuck "I'm just big boned", just stop shovelling food down your gullet. sincerely a big boned shit lady.