<p>Just so everyone knows the average woman in America wears a size 12/14</p>
<p>Don’t focus too much on what the scale says. If you check it too often, it will drive you crazy with the seemingly random fluctuations with weight, depending on time of day or water/food consumed recently. </p>
<p>Remember, muscle weighs more than fat, and increasing muscle mass increases your idle metabolism.</p>
<p>Also, don’t concern yourself with the “average American” because they are fatties.</p>
<p>Yeah, the average American is fat. 12 is big.</p>
<p>Wow… That’s the average?!</p>
<p>Americans are f****n’ huge! Everytime I go running I see 10 cars lined up at taco bueno because these McDonald munching fatties are too lazy to even walk across the parking lot.</p>
<p>Size 12 is not fat. I wear a 10, sometimes 12, and I am definitely not fat so screw that. Guys tell me how hot/pretty/cute I look all the time.</p>
<p>I havent read every post here but my experience freshman year was pretty typical. I came into the year skinny and in good shape. But like most frosh I played a lot of beruit and gained 10 pounds throughoutt he year. I ended up losing all the weight this summer, and it was so hard to do. This year I definately wont make the same mistake because being on a diet really sucks!</p>
<p>hm… okay. but size 12 certainly isn’t small. my friend is a size 10 and she isn’t fat (well… if i were her size i’d consider myself fat, but a normal person wouldn’t consider her fat) but i wouldn’t want to be her size let’s just put it that way.</p>
<p>Size 12 isn’t huge or anything but for many women if you are wearing a 12, you are too heavy. If you are 5’8" and big boned, a size 12 might be perfect. Not so much if you are 5’3". Just because something is average, especially in America, doesn’t make it good! </p>
<p>Though I will say that America’s obsession with skinniness is sort of like our obsession with rare jewels. Americans are getting fatter and fatter each year, so thinness becomes that rare, hot commodity. With our lifestyles, what once was relatively easy for the average citizen to do (maintain a healthy weight) has become difficult, and so the obsession and envy grows. That’s why we have to slave for 2 hours every day at the gym - because we drive everywhere and sit on our butts! The whole situation is really unnatural when you think about it.</p>
<p>If I were a 12 I’d be quite large. I’m 5’4", though. 12 seems like a big average, is what I was trying to say.</p>
<p>well i’m 5’2, 105-110 lbs, and I range from size 6 to size 8</p>
<p>Well, I’m 5’9" and have a larger frame so a size 10 is pretty good for me (I have been a 14, nearly 16 in the past and I know that is definitely too big). I’ve been thinking about losing a little more weight (no smaller than a size 8 though), but I don’t know if I should. Maybe just tone up some flabby areas. I couldn’t be a size 2 if I tried though. If I was, I’d look anorexic, just because of how my frame is built.</p>
<p>interesting. im 5’7" and i was very upset when i found out a size 6 is my like normal size in most brands now. i was a size 2-4 for so long (but that was when i was exercising for 5 hours a day…). oh well. </p>
<p>but yeah, my mom is like 5’10"/5’11" and she was a stick and was always a size 8, so sizes can mean really different things. but i still have a hard time with anyone saying a size 12 isn’t on the bigger side.</p>
<p>Come on, let’s get some guys in here!</p>
<p>I’m 5’9" and only weigh about 140 pounds. I wear a waist size 31.</p>
<p>And as for the Freshman 15, I lost 20 pounds my first semester due to poor health. I was about 150 when I left for college and 130 when I came home, and I’ve only been able to re-gain 10 of those pounds mostly because I actually am eating two meals per day instead of one now. Working out didn’t help either–I worked out even when I was ill.</p>
<p>I basically don’t like to eat. I think it’s a waste of time and am awaiting the day you can chew a tablet ala Flinstone Vitamin (which I started taking recently–I don’t swallow pills) to get an entire meal. I enjoy cooking but not eating. And when I do eat, I always have to be doing something like reading or using my computer or watching a ballgame. I can’t just sit there and stuff my face. Nor do I require much–I am always doggy bagging food at restaraunts.</p>
<p>I’m 6’2" and weigh 145-150, depending on the time of day. I also eat 3000-3500 calories a day.</p>
<p>AUlostchick makes a very good point. Even people of the same height and weight have their own ideal size. </p>
<p>One of my best friends is extremely fit (XC, Track, Basketball, Tennis, etc) but wears an 8 at 5’10 and 135-140lbs because she has a larger frame. Everyone comments on how scrawny she looks, so nobody in their right mind would ever accuse her of being overweight.</p>
<p>I’m the same height and about the same weight as her but wear a 6…and am not in near as good shape as she is. My ideal size if I were as fit as her would be a 4 because I have a smaller frame. </p>
<p>Going even further, another friend of ours is also 5’10 (apparently the tall girls flock together at my school) but has a tiny frame, so she wears a 2 or 4. If she wore a 6 or 8 like us, she’d look pretty chubby. </p>
<p>And the real average size is pushed up because of the large amount of obese people in this country, so I pretty much totally ignore it.</p>
<p>What’s the average waist size for guys?
Because I went to get some khaki pants and the smallest they had was 34, and I wear 30. </p>
<p>I’m not a stick or anything at 5’7" and 143 pounds.</p>
<p>For guys? Probably a 32. I’m fairly overweight and I wear a 38.</p>
<p>I was going to say 32, because my brother seems about average and I have to do his shopping because he hates to buy clothes.</p>
<p>I’d think from a 30-34 depending on height, probably.</p>
<p>But I really don’t know.</p>