# Guess my weight!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 22, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074 "2002-11-22T02:34:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/1 "2002-11-22T02:34:10Z")
Okay, so in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145341) I show off pictures off my big ol’ self. And I was thinking… whenever people IRL try to guess how much I weigh (usually when they tell me I’m not that fat and I say, “Oh yeah, well how much do you think I weigh?”) they are waaaayyy off, sometimes like 50 pounds under. So I was wondering…
[Here](http://antaresjb.tripod.com/pics/) are the pictures. Most are upper body/face shots, but there are a few full bodies in there…
How much do YOU think I weigh?
(and no, it hasn’t really changed more than like 10lbs throughout those pictures)
I’ll tell you the real truth eventually. 🙂 I just wanna know what it looks like to you guys.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/2 "2002-11-22T02:40:49Z")
Hmmm. How tall are you?
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/3 "2002-11-22T02:49:41Z")
Approximately 5’4".
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/4 "2002-11-22T02:55:15Z")
148?
Haj
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/5 "2002-11-22T03:00:28Z")
How much exercise do you get? If you have a lot of muscle, you probably weigh more than people expect.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/6 "2002-11-22T03:04:33Z")
I am a sedentary blob, I admit it. I have very very little muscle. I am weak, weak weak. I get winded going up a flight and a half of stairs. When I was attempting to beat one of my friends up with a big stick, he said it felt like a butterfly landing. It ain’t muscle, baby.
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/7 "2002-11-22T03:10:53Z")
If you want an honest guess, I’ll give you one.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/8 "2002-11-22T03:23:35Z")
I want honest guesses. I swear I won’t be offended. And if I am, hell, I asked for it. Go right ahead. I honestly want to know how fat I look.
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### Author:  [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/9 "2002-11-22T03:33:03Z")
I’d guess ~200. I’m 5’4" and 155 so I am using that as my basis.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/10 "2002-11-22T03:40:22Z")
Hehe, so far, I’m not offended at all by these guesses. I’m thoroughly flattered, actually. 148, **hajario**?!? That’s… wow. I apparently carry this _really_ well.
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### Author:  [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/11 "2002-11-22T03:40:43Z")
You said you really wanted to know…
I used to weigh about 260 and you look about the size I was. You wear a size 24 dress, right?
I read the other thread. I admire your self-confidence. I sure didn’t have that at your age.
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### Author:  [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/12 "2002-11-22T03:43:45Z")
Just thought I should add, especially in case I guessed high–I do have lots of muscle, and always did, so I might have been heavier than you are. And you know what they say about the camera adding 10 pounds. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/13 "2002-11-22T04:18:49Z")
I’ll say 210, but only since you always said people guess 50 pounds less. I wouldn’t have thought it.
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### Author:  [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/14 "2002-11-22T04:27:33Z")
230 pounds. What do I win?
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/15 "2002-11-22T04:36:10Z")
Hehe, exceeded tripod’s bandwidth limit… that’s what happens when you post the same link in three different threads at the same time, i guess.
[Here’s a copy of the page elsewhere](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/antaresjb/index.html)
And noone’s quite hit it yet… I’ll take a couple more guesses before I tell y’all. Hehe. I’m enjoyin this. 😃
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/16 "2002-11-22T05:03:30Z")
I’m thinking 190-200.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/17 "2002-11-22T06:10:16Z")
okay, sleeepy. Goin to bed. Will post the truth in the morning.
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### Author:  [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/18 "2002-11-22T06:34:13Z")
1. You’re positively rotund.
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### Author:  [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/19 "2002-11-22T13:47:13Z")
225 lbs. Naked.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-weight/138074/20 "2002-11-22T13:52:12Z")
I’m gonna gues 250. You are about my build but taller.
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