Well, I've often thought it but my daughter, who is a midwife has confirmed it.
Obviously you can't go up to people in the street, have a good look at them and then ask what they weigh. Well, not without getting thumped anyway.
But, now I've been dieting, I do wonder what other people weigh according to how they look to me. I can remember feeling awful when someone described a man in a very derogatory fashion as 'looking like a hefty 16 stone rugby player.' At the time I was 16.3 and I wanted to crawl under a rock and stay there.
I can remember my husband carrying (one at a time!) four fellow students through a flood. Gallant huh? I was skinny then. He said how much heavier the shortest one of us was, (not me) and he didn't carry her last!
Years later a skinny friend asked me to guess what she weighed. (I underestimated of course) but I thought to myself that she'd weigh about 10.5 stones. Turned out she was 11.7 - quite a surprise.
My daughter in the course of her work weighs women often and she says she used to be surprised at some of the weights. A fairly small woman could weigh a lot and a large one much less than she expected. So, it seems that someone of my height - 5'6" and weighing the same as I do 11.12, might look very different to me mightn't they?
And this leads me on to wondering about the whole BMI thing.
I'd like to see a line of a dozen women, all the same height and size and see what differences there were.
No point to this really - just a ramble......what do you think?
Obviously you can't go up to people in the street, have a good look at them and then ask what they weigh. Well, not without getting thumped anyway.
But, now I've been dieting, I do wonder what other people weigh according to how they look to me. I can remember feeling awful when someone described a man in a very derogatory fashion as 'looking like a hefty 16 stone rugby player.' At the time I was 16.3 and I wanted to crawl under a rock and stay there.
I can remember my husband carrying (one at a time!) four fellow students through a flood. Gallant huh? I was skinny then. He said how much heavier the shortest one of us was, (not me) and he didn't carry her last!
Years later a skinny friend asked me to guess what she weighed. (I underestimated of course) but I thought to myself that she'd weigh about 10.5 stones. Turned out she was 11.7 - quite a surprise.
My daughter in the course of her work weighs women often and she says she used to be surprised at some of the weights. A fairly small woman could weigh a lot and a large one much less than she expected. So, it seems that someone of my height - 5'6" and weighing the same as I do 11.12, might look very different to me mightn't they?
And this leads me on to wondering about the whole BMI thing.
I'd like to see a line of a dozen women, all the same height and size and see what differences there were.
No point to this really - just a ramble......what do you think?
. I'd love to do one of those Gok Wan lineups where you have to place yourself inbetween other ladies of varying sizes. They always think they are much bigger than they are!! I think most of us on here have a bit of a warped view of what we look like, I now I do 
but she is very round and im not so meh!
