I’m about 5’11", and I’m not sure how much I weigh but it must be over 200 pounds - I ain’t skinny. I haven’t seen the movie and doubt I will, but I’ve seen clips on TV, and you could easily fit two of me inside the “fat Rosemary”.
Oh, and incidentally: the 300 pound canary says <basso profundo>“HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY!”</basso profundo> 
You have to realize how much weight the movie and TV cameras add to your appearence. Some people look big on the screen but are much smaller in person.
I’m male, 6’0" and around 210-220, but I don’t look it. I have big Celtic legs and skinny arms which tends to throw people off, especially if I’m not wearing shorts. A friend of mine once said, “Your calves are bigger than your thighs dude”, to which I replied, “Uh, bigger than yours maybe.”
People tend to overestimate your weight after you’ve lost a lot, too. I went from 155 pounds to 100, and most people assume that I weigh about 120 (I wear a size 0). Any ideas why?
IMDb says Darlene Cates weights 500 pounds.
I agree scales are not a good measure of healthy weight. I see those models weighing around 115 pounds and I wonder. I am 5’2" and weight 126 lbs! and yet I am a size 5, I guess I have a higher percentage of muscle. If I was 115, even at my 5’2" I would look like a stick figure.
I was one of those blessed/cursed with a very large frame, and have always been able to carry weight well. When I was a young lass, I had a ahem [sub]small drug habit[/sub], and subsequently lost a tremendous amount of weight (I’d had always been a fat kid). I got to the point of when my ribcage was showing, I actually weighed in at 145. My ideal weight for my frame and height is somewhere around 170, where I fit rather comfortably in a size 12. I’m weighing in at the moment at 235, but most guess I’m about 200.
Those models weighing in at 5’10" and 125? Yeah, right.
I’m 5’8" and I weigh about 110 lbs. I have to agree that the women in “those” magazines are probably closer to 150 lbs. This is completely unhelpful. I just felt like sharing.
'5"6 and about 155. I wear size 12 jeans and small or smallish medium tops. Actually, I think I could stand to lose maybe ten pounds, but a few years back I got down to 125. Mr zoogirl and I had been living in another province while I lost the weight, and when we came back my mom just about had a fit! You could see all my ribs. I looked WAY too thin. I’m another one with big bones. My wrists won’t fit some bracelets and my hands are bigger than a lot of men’s. I tend to carry weight in my legs and hips, so in a good skirt I look quite thin. I got pretty close to 200 about three years ago and no one believed me. I’m not trying to be obnoxious or anything, just point out another example of how hard it is to guess weight. I suspect (and hope!) that my bones are of exceptional thickness. Since Mom had very severe osteoporosis this would be very good. It does tend to run in families. I read in Readers Digest this summer of a woman who is in great shape according to medical tests but she is over 160 and looks a bit plump. She has a healthy cardio-vascular systeym and rides a bike, does weights etc. at a level comparable to a much lighter person. I have also heard that being underweight can be as damaging as obesity. A certian level of body fat is actually necsasary to be healthy.
I would wager that those Playboy models are lying. I’m 5’10", and my adult weight has fluctuated between 125 and 200 lbs. At 125 I was emaciated, all bones, no curves at all. 175-180lbs looks best on me, even though I’d never admit it if I wasn’t behind the anonymity of a screen name. Chalk that up to insecurity, but it sounds too heavy.
Also: <basso profundo>"CHIRP!!"</basso profundo>
I’ve heard both of these punch lines–and as dumb as that joke is, it cracks me up every time!! 
I would guess that when someone says how much they weigh, the listener listens to the pounds and doesn’t realize what that actually looks like. So if a woman says she weighs 150 lbs, say, some guy might think she will look overweight, but really she looks great.
For the record - I’m 5’4" and I weigh about 107. For some reason this has been stable since high school, with the exception of pregnancy. I’m guessing menopause will up this weight. I am quite healthy, but I do look somewhat thin.
What scares me are these runway models - they look EXTREMELY thin. Now granted, it’s possible to be tall and have a thin frame and look great, but half the time these models look like they haven’t had a decent meal in months - they look artificially bony, if that makes sense. And yes, some body fat is important.
Boy oh boy, I wish I had read something like this thread when I was about 16 and 5’6 and everyone around me was saying they weighed 115 soaking wet and I was hovering at 135-140 and thought I was huge.
Looking back at pics of me at 16 I wasn’t even chubby so much as curvy. I can’t imagine the emotional pain something as forthright with photo’s such as have been posted in this thread might have saved me.
5’7", around 175. Most people guess my weight around 140-150. I wear a size 12 in women’s sizes, a 34 waist in men’s, and around a large in shirts. (Thanks, breasts.) I was “blessed” with wide shoulders/muscular upper arms and wide hips/muscular thighs, so I tend not to wear sleeveless things (I look like a thug) or tight pants (not attractive on me).
I’m pretty happy with my body; I want to lose a little weight, definitely not more than 30 pounds. More than that, I just want to be healthy. Back when I was thirteen (and 5’7") I weighed about 150 pounds AND I was physically fit. I’m aiming for that again.
I thought that males and females of the same height should weigh about the same. I thought it was a build-muscle-fat-bones issue - men had larger frames and more muscle, women more fat, but with smaller builds.
I’m a male - weigh around 140 dry and am 5’7.5". I have a small frame for my size - watches tend to slip around my wrists and I can make my fingers meet midway up my lower forearm. Fat and muscle are just a touch below average. I told someone who asked what my weight was, and he raised his eyebrows visibly at the answer. My sister’s just a few inches below my height, of the same build and weighs twenty pounds below me. She gets compliments from people all the time - and popular media says she should be much lighter than she is for her height.
Ignore those weight charts - they’re crap. According to them, I’m in the top end of healthy, but I’m downright bony. If I weighed ten pounds below what I do now, I’d look sicklier than I do now.
I meant males and females of the same height and build will have differing weights. I’m a female [5’9"-10"] with a very large build, and I weigh around the same as a male friend who is about 6’ or taller with the same build.
The reason why genetics does this is because females are the ones who have to support themselves and a baby, and the extra weight gives a higher assurance of the offspring’s survival in times of drought and famine. Essentially, males are programmed to last long enough to pass their genes along through the females.
Who knew Ecology class would come in handy after the year was over?
I don’t quite know where I’d feel best. I have broad shoulders and muscular legs. Although when I was really depressed during high school I gained a lot of weight and I have yet to get to losing any. I think I was best around 180-200 and I am about 5’9 or 5’10. I have a muscular frame so I get underestimated by 60 - 70pounds when I weighed about 220. I think I actually put on muscle and now weigh 240. I know it wasn’t fat. But I’m still in the trouble of being motivated so its not easy to get out of the swing of it… depression leaves you, but never very easily and I was left with <font size=1>sigh</font size=2> this. Fortunately the gyms and things here at college are free so I intend to get in there next quarter and so on.
I forgot html was not on. haha, well you know what I mean. I mean, it used to work elsewhere!
I’m 5’5" and when I was in high school I weighed around 150-160. My mother insisted I was fat and generally gave me a huge weight complex, so now that I’m an adult I actually am fat (and neurotic). I looked at my yearbook photos just a couple of days ago and I would give anything to look like that again. As has been said, some people just listen to the numbers without looking at the person.
You might want to change your member name first. 