the 'you don't look like you weigh that!' club - who's in?

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  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
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    I'm not especially tall, but everyone guesses I'm between 130-150. They are shocked when I say I am more than that. It's weird cause although I do see change, I still feel huge when I look in the mirror.
  • erickita89
    erickita89 Posts: 422 Member
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    I ALWAYS get this. people are shocked to hear i weight 200 lbs. They always guess 150 and under.
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
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    People never believe me when I tell them I weigh around 140. I had a nurse try to weigh me last week and couldn't figure out why it was saying that I was more than 125.

    Thanks for the compliment...but really? I'm not that tiny. My side view might look like it, but there's a reason why I don't post front shots on MFP, lol.
  • SarahCW1979
    SarahCW1979 Posts: 572 Member
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    Oh a club I can join!!
    I weigh 160lbs at 5'3" but fit a UK 12 really comfortably. My husbands friend was @rsing around at New Year and picked me up. He put me down pretty sharpish saying 'JESUS! Have you got rocks in your pockets?!?'
    :laugh:
  • Jonesie86
    Jonesie86 Posts: 446 Member
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    yep.... 5'5" and 145ish...I get that I don't look or feel like I weigh that haha, which is fine by me :wink:
  • Vlly4life15
    Vlly4life15 Posts: 248 Member
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    I actually get people that say I look like I am 180 all the time but I am actually 230ish

    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose
  • trudijoy
    trudijoy Posts: 1,685 Member
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    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose

    yeah i'm tall (for a girl) and i def think thats part of it.

    so stoked that so many people GET this!
  • truecaligirl
    truecaligirl Posts: 132 Member
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    I always get a good laugh at people trying to guess my weight...they are no where near. I am 5'5 weighing 197lbs
  • Vlly4life15
    Vlly4life15 Posts: 248 Member
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    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose

    yeah i'm tall (for a girl) and i def think thats part of it.

    so stoked that so many people GET this!

    so stoked that you brought it up lol I feel dude!
  • trudijoy
    trudijoy Posts: 1,685 Member
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    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose

    yeah i'm tall (for a girl) and i def think thats part of it.

    so stoked that so many people GET this!

    so stoked that you brought it up lol I feel dude!

    you feel dude? thats a different topic :)
  • RECowgill
    RECowgill Posts: 881 Member
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    Around 250 here. I couldn't look a pound over 245 either!
  • Vlly4life15
    Vlly4life15 Posts: 248 Member
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    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose

    yeah i'm tall (for a girl) and i def think thats part of it.

    so stoked that so many people GET this!

    so stoked that you brought it up lol I feel dude!

    you feel dude? thats a different topic :)

    I really need to look at what I am posting...
  • trudijoy
    trudijoy Posts: 1,685 Member
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    I think its a height thing being 6'3 is different i suppose

    yeah i'm tall (for a girl) and i def think thats part of it.

    so stoked that so many people GET this!

    so stoked that you brought it up lol I feel dude!

    you feel dude? thats a different topic :)

    I really need to look at what I am posting...

    :p
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
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    Oh man, I hear you on this one!

    I don't know why I do this, but I let people guess my size. They usually pick a size or two lower than I really am. I either hide it well, or they're just being nice.

    Oh, and I get told ALL THE TIME that I look like a teacher. I'm not a teacher.

    I get surprised looks when I tell people I'm a Speech Pathologist. It's like they look at me and think, "She's smarter than she looks."
  • trudijoy
    trudijoy Posts: 1,685 Member
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    It's like they look at me and think, "She's smarter than she looks."

    in paranoid moments i have wondered if people think i'm not a teacher because i look like some manner of bimbo :p
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
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    I'm 6'3 and of large frame. At my heaviest people, including myself, estimated I was 350-360 lbs at the most. They were shocked to find out I was nearly 500 lbs. I never got an exact starting weight. Doctor weighed me on different scales using counter weights to assist and he estimates that I was between 470-485 lbs. Also right now, I am just barely under 300 at the moment at 299.5. People are still shocked. The height and frame really throws people off.
  • Tat2dDom0105
    Tat2dDom0105 Posts: 661
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    I've been told that many times that i hold my weight well. Even my instructor at one time, thought i weighed alot less than I actually was........
  • DonnaLeeCattes
    DonnaLeeCattes Posts: 492 Member
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    People think I weigh less then I do and they like to tell me that I need to eat and I like to tell them to f..k off. I'm 5'3 and weigh 127.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,141 Member
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    Anyway, the thing I am wondering is...why are people guessing people's weights? I never encounter people asking my weight or trying to guess it. I also can't imagine I would ever start a conversation like that.
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    Same here, sounds rather odd!!
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,141 Member
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    People think I weigh less then I do and they like to tell me that I need to eat and I like to tell them to f..k off. I'm 5'3 and weigh 127.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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