Look. I'm still a freak!!
After yesterday's entry, I'm sure
you're exciting to hear that I haven't changed. It's because I came
across yet another interesting fact/comparison/ whatever regarding
clothing, and this one may shed a little further light on why, as I
was mentioning last time, that I have trouble finding pants in the
proper size.
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 yet (you know, like I have muscles) 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, that blew my mind this week. And it's more proof
as to why, like I said, yesterday, it's almost impossible for me to
find pants that fit.
It's not easy being me. Really, it's
not.
8-)
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