Well, to be honest, from what I can tell by looking at the picture, they seem awefully normal to me.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, many people have skinny wrists (I actually know quite a few, come to think of it) and it's pretty normal. People shouldn't be calling you anorexic just because of your wrists, that's a little extreme. Anorexia is visible EVERYWHERE after a while, so after knowing you for about a year and all you have to show for your supposed "anorexia" is skinny wrists then it becomes almost ridiculous.

If anything, they're probably just trying to bug you, in which case you should proudly let them know that you like your small wrists. Being ashamed of them so much that you wear long sleeved shirts won't make you feel any better than being called "anorexic girl". You can't change your wrists, so instead, work with what you have. Wear a bunch of pretty bracelets that most people can't or something.

Either way, life is too short to spend so much time worrying about something like the size of your wrists. Later on you'll probably regret not wearing that pretty tank top or expensive T-Shirt you love because of it.

Btw, something anorexic girls might do is wear baggier or longer clothes so as not to call so much attention on their sudden loss of weight, or so we were told in health class. So hiding your wrists won't help your case much

I also have really skinny wrists. And you can see the bone, hah o_O;;
but I haven't worried about it too much. I'm sure you shouldn't suffer too much.
In fact annorexia is a disorder that comes from their mind, when they look in the mirror and think they're fat all over, so they get into an eating disorder. It's really terrible how people can use a disorder that many people in the world have as an insult or anything. It would be good to let them understand that, and I'm sure you're not annorexic

Sometimes when I'm sitting or something and somebody comes and grabs my wrist and looks at it or compares it, I know they'll get these sorts of thoughts too. The best I'd have to do is ignore it because I eat as much as I can, always.

By the way, do those wrist curls actually work to make your wrists wider? because my piano teacher tells me to do these finger and wrist exercises. i haven't really seen a change yet, though.

You could try impact excercises like boxing. It really helps developing the basic core of wrists i.e; the wrist bone and would help you get yourself get strong and well formed wrists. I dont know about others but it sure has helped me a lot. Best of luck

i have skinny wrists too, these days they have a bit more muslce on them so thats good. My wrists have actually formed to my watch cuz i used to where it too tight! so watch out. just make sure you don't brake your arm, a guy i know with skinny wrists made a tackle on some one during grid iron (sissy tackle ) and he broke his arm in 2 places, but then again he was literally skin and bones.

Wow cherish, that made me feel ALOT better, it made me rethink about things.

haha yeah there's a few people that came to me who were my friends and compared my wrists to theirs and went like "OMG TRACEY YOU ARE SO FRICKIN SKINNY!" and yet my butt is bigger than theirs, lmao.

I've read about skinny wrists, the wrist consists of tendons and bones, not much muscle that can increase it's size.

mmmmm i think its genetics cuz my mom has skinny wrists and so do i. and it does have to do with your diet and such. underweight =obviously skinny wrists

Umm... Im not sure of eating and eating and eating is going to solve that problem. Then you would just be creating another problem for yourself. But ya i dont see anything wrong with it, its not like it is gonna be the end of the world if people know that you have skinny wrists. But ya you should look into it and see what it is all about.

I also feel like my wrists are skinny, but when I started going to the gym my whole arm grew and my wrists werent skinny as they used to. Iremember them being really really skinny, specially when I was in seventh grade also.

Why not try wristbands for your wrists? Especially if your forearms are normal, a nice set of wristbands or broad close-fitting bracelets should easily disguise it.

Physically, there isn't much that you can do about it - some earlier posters here mentioned this. The wrist contains almost no muscle at all - if you see a person with thick wrists, that person either has 1) thick wrists genetically, or 2) has a layer of fat covering his/her body (including the wrists) that makes the wrists look thicker.


My advice? - don't ruin your overall figure by overeating - once you put on fat in the wrong places, it's extremely difficult to get it off, so please be careful. Fat cells (especially in the stomach area) tend to produce substances that prevent them from being eliminated, which is why many people have trouble getting the weight off these areas.

The best idea I can give you is.. work on the rest of your figure - exercise well. Become so damn sexy, overall (excuse the language, hehe) that no one in their right mind looks at (or comments) on your wrists - their eyes should be.. elsewhere, shall we say

I know body-builders (I train people at fitness and the martial arts) who have skinny wrists. No one passes comments, because the rest of their bodies are so perfect that the wrist somehow doesn't matter.

Anyway, this is just my take on things.. don't focus on the negative - work on building the positive so much that ultimately the negative ceases to matter at all. And the comments you get then will be compliments (except for a few people who are just plain jealous, hehehehehe )

This post has been edited by Yratorm, LightMage: Dec 21 2006, 05:55 PM