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I'm 5'4" and I however around the 140's. Honestly 10lbs is in my chest so technically it's 130s. I can't loose too much weight because I don't have your average white girl ass and that's the first thing to go when I do start loosing weight. So I'm back into toning up again.
That is pretty friggin' pathetic, sad and makes me unhappy . 166 pounds? That is just waaaay too big. Did they make a mistake when they said WAIST is 37.5 inches when they meant to say HIPS? 37 inch waist is super unattractive and obese.
That waist circumference says it all. Unbelievable. Alarming, really.
I just read in a newspaper article about eating disorders that the average woman is 5'4" and 140 pounds. Hearing so much about the obesity crisis, I expected it to be about 5'4" and at least 170 pounds!
Help me understand this. I realize this is several pounds heavier than women used to be. It's debatable about whether 140 pounds really has health implications for a 5'4" woman. What I can't understand is where is the crisis? The average means that there are sufficient women way under this to counter balance those way over. So---is there really a crisis?
At a recent visit to Costco, I saw so many obese people that I was buying into the obesity crisis. But after reading the article and returning from the gym which has a predominance of extremely thin (and some muscular) people, I'm confused as to what is really the case.
I'm 5'4'' and about 130. It really surprises me that I'm 'average'. If I'm average, then when I buy jeans, why do I have to get Junior sizes or the men't type which come in inches, and get to pick from the short pile?
I find pants are always too long. When I wore skirts they had to be hemmed up. Where are all these other 5'4'' women hiding and do they just never buy clothes?
I think I've already commented in this thread, it's been around awhile. Weighing 140 is too much for only 5' 4" height. Hard to imagine being hefty is average.
This is the average for AMERICAN women. I've done a few share of traveling. Women in Europe (varies on the country but still lower than the US) and definitely Asia are lighter.
The same is true for men. I'm not buff but I do work out. I tried buying clothes in Europe and pretty much couldn't. Nothing fit me right. Too tight on my shoulders and chest and going one size up looked like PJ's. I didn't even bother in Asia.
Believe it or not but the US doesn't have enough fat shaming. In Asia, they laugh at you right in your face for being fat. Being fat in most of the world is just not acceptable.
This is the average for AMERICAN women. I've done a few share of traveling. Women in Europe (varies on the country but still lower than the US) and definitely Asia are lighter.
The same is true for men. I'm not buff but I do work out. I tried buying clothes in Europe and pretty much couldn't. Nothing fit me right. Too tight on my shoulders and chest and going one size up looked like PJ's. I didn't even bother in Asia.
Believe it or not but the US doesn't have enough fat shaming. In Asia, they laugh at you right in your face for being fat. Being fat in most of the world is just not acceptable.
Exactly.
But here in the US we coddle overweight people (despite their belief that we somehow shame them) and we're actually pretty accepting of them. Now whether or not the majority finds them attractive is a different story in itself.
In the US they come up with every excuse in the world for being overweight. It's always some imaginary disease making them overweight, never the fact that they're overweight making them ill.
But it's their prerogative to be overweight. They just can't complain about companies not making sizes for them when the largest markets (Europe+Asia) don't suffer from the same problems
What I find interesting is that often women who are slender and within acceptable weight categories for their height/build, etc. - are sometimes told by friends/family/strangers that they are "too thin" and are subjected to questions like "so when are you going to start eating more?" or remarks like "You have lost too much - you need to eat more - here have a cookie." Seriously.
I lost over 80 lbs. and now weigh 130 lbs - have kept it off for over 1 1/2 years. I'm just a hair under 5'9". (I am healthy, normal weight and my body is toned due to exercise and weight lifting) and it is amazing the things that others feel comfortable saying to me about my weight/size/menu choices, etc. I'd probably be considered fat in France or Japan - oh well.
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so technically it's 130s. I can't loose too much weight because I don't have your average white girl ass and that's the first thing to go when I do start loosing weight. So I'm back into toning up again.
