Look. I'm still a freak!!
First of all, I'm back. I had a good long weekend, and despite the (occasionally) crappy weather got a lot of stuff done (which these days, is always an important thing). One of the things I did was come across a new fact that I had not yet come across.
This new fact? I weigh less than the average American woman.
I was leafing through a New York Times article about the marketing of plus sized fashions when I saw the statistic that the average American woman weighs 164 pounds, and that clothing designers are, in some cases, trying to come out with lines that reflect that fact. I don’t remember exactly what the rest of the article was about, because of the fact that I realized that I weigh four pounds less than the average woman in this country.
And it’s funny; at 160 pounds, I feel like I could drop a pound or two myself, probably because I have an idea of how I want to look (you know, like I have muscles) yet don't actually have the body type to look that way. Yet I still weigh less than the average American woman. Now, me being me, I had to look up the weight of an average American man, and what I found blew my mind--
I weigh 31 pounds less than the average American man, who clocks in at 191 pounds.
Now, admittedly, I’m somewhat small boned, and you all have an idea of my exercise and eating habits. But to be 31 pounds lighter than the average American man, or four pounds lighter than the average American woman? I don’t know if that says something about me or something about the country as a whole, but I sure know it says something.
That’s just the strange fact, one in an ongoing series, blew my mind. And it's more proof as to why, although in a much different context than usual, that my life is one weird thing after another.
It's not easy being me. Really, it's not.
8-)
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