What does he say???
Well, I haven’t gotten on a scale in a while either, but here goes:
I (the picture is about 5 years old, and I was skinnier then, but whatever) weigh probably around 150 pounds, 5"3 1/2. (And yes, that half is important when you’re my height!)
I wear size 14 in a good store. They don’t make 16s, so I often just can’t find pants in my size. I have often been told I look a lot lighter than I am, but I never believed it until last week, a saleslady insisted I should take a small skirt, when I ended up not even fitting into a large.
So make of that what you will. But I definitely think Gwyneth looked to be MUCH more than 300.
Here is a pic of me from over a year ago, I weighed around 285-290 back then. The hispanic guy standing next to me weighed over 200.
I believe Gwynneth is 5’7? I’m 5’8 and currently weigh 297. I wear a size 24.
This is a link to demo’s SLO Dope pictures from July. I think I was probably about 304-310 at the time.
There we have it. Proof that 300 lb. women aren’t necessarily huge blobs of cellulite and can actually be attractive.
Thanks for not making me regret posting that.
I’ve often wondered if the low guessers are just trying to be polite. From where I sit it’s a hard thing to judge. People are cruel on a daily basis, and it makes me oversensitive and doubtful of the people who aren’t. Just today at the gym I caught a woman with her face pressed up against a gap between the door and the wall, staring at me in the shower.
I think that proportion and muscle tone become greater factors the heavier you are. I am active as I can be (lift weights at the gym, walk 2-3 miles several days a week, some yoga), and have lost a significant amount of weight. I don’t know exactly what my peak was, but I’m guessing it was 340-350. I know a woman who is my size, but she weighs about 40lbs less then I do, and she never exercises. In the long run, I think I’m better off.
Dammit! My pix at the People Pages is still N/A…
I’m about 310 lbs., but no one ever guesses it because I am tall (6’4") and just generally big…
FWIW: I am probably about 50 or 60 lbs. overweight, but don’t look it.
300 lbs. is not that big, IMO.
I doubt they are. I often underestimate by as many as 30 pounds for petite women, and can be even farther off when it comes to bigger women. It is hard to guess another person’s weight, and since so many people (especially celebrities) claim that they weigh less than they really do it’s easy to underestimate.
Me, at a family reunion for my parents’ 50th anniversary party four years ago. Had to be about 260 at the time. I had lost some 40 pounds since our previous reunion in '93, unfortunatly they returned with reinforcements. 
I could add some '93 pics to my site if anyone’s interested.
I could have worded that a little better. I meant so say that I gained the 40+ pounds back between '97 and now, not betweene '93 and '97.
I am very far from 300 pounds. I am around 150. It is by far the heaviest I have ever been in my life.
Prior to children, I worked out ( because I liked working out, not to fit into a dress size) rode my bike 15 miles a night and swam about 5 miles a week.
Now I have niehter the energy or time for working out. Moeny is a bit of an issue too.
YOU KNOW WHAT? …I have never felt sexier and I have never been as healthy as I am right now.
If my IQ matched my weight, WHOOOOO BOY!
I’m 6’2" and weigh 250, and “Rosemary” in “Shallow Hal” was twice my size. At least.
And I’ll throw a big ditto on the weird way women underreport their weight. I dated a girl who was 5’9", 165, and she had a body like a Playboy centerfold. Another ex was 5’7", 145, with an even better body. My sister’s stick-thin at 5’9" but weighs 130. So I would assume many Playboy centerfolds are likely closer to 165 than the 115 they claim.
As a tall woman, 5-9, I can tell you people have no sense of what average people weigh. I weigh 145 and wear an 8 or 10. No curves at all on me! (Well, a couple.) But anyway, my point is people assume I must wear a size 2 and weigh about 110 pounds soaking wet. Here I am (but it’s only a mug shot!)
I think it’s just hard for people to estimate weight, period. I don’t think it’s a matter of being kind – it’s just hard to look at someone and tell accurately what they weigh.
F’rexample, I’m about 6’5" and around 240 lb. People guessing my weight usually guess around 200 – if I weighed 200 pounds, I’d look like a pipe cleaner with a head!
http://www.geocities.com/jackrandom23/me1.jpg
I’m also bad at guessing weight myself. A friend’s wife is about 5’2" and very overweight. One day, her husband told me she tipped the scales at over 300 – I would have thought more like 200. I’ve also dated girls that I would have pegged at around 140 or 150 that I later found out were more like 170 or 180. That just goes to show that weight isn’t an indicator of attractiveness; I thought these girls were absolute knockouts, and frankly their weight didn’t make any difference to me.
Just more info backing this up…
I’m 5’2" and I weigh just over 115. I wear XS in shirts and 2 in pants. 115, my ass.
From what I’ve seen in the previews the ‘fat’ Gwen in Shallow Hal looks more like the 450 to 550 range. Actually I don’t think she would be as active in the film as a real person that big. How much did the woman in Gilbert Grape weigh?
Yeah, I weigh 400 pounds, and when they say the shallow Hal girl was 300, I said “no fucking way” I’m glad I’m not the only one.
peace,
JB
It’s scientifically proven, and weight charts that you see online are never right. I’m between 5’9" and 5’10", and, when this picture was taken, I was around 210# and wore a size 16/size 38(mens’ pants). I don’t have a current picture of myself, but I now weigh around 190 or possibly less and the only difference is a little less stomach and more muscular legs. Most people assume I don’t weigh more than 150#, and the same people also don’t know of that important little fact at top. I know that even 160# with the huge body frame I’ve got would make me look emaciated, and that I often get rejected at blood drives for not having a high enough iron count… it’s not due to a lack of meat in my diet, it’s the fact that I have to eat more than the recommended daily serving to keep my body supplied with iron. Oh well, I know I’m still sexy. (I promise I’ll get a more recent picture up soon…)
I just want to know how Badtz Maru knows how much all these people weigh. What, do you carry a scale around with you? “How 'bout them Steelers? Think they might go all the way? Hey, mind hoping on this for me real quick?”
For some reason people, especially women, feel very comfortable opening up to me about just about everything. A few times I just flat-out asked how much people weighed, most of the time it was volunteered during discussions about guessing weight.