Ok...good
For the longest time I imagined myself as a large guy...which wasn't surprising as I was morbidly obese, but even after I lost the weight I thought as myself as a large guy. I'm not a large guy. I'm an average 23 year old guy.
height = 71.5 inches
ave height for a 23 year old male = 70 inches
weight ~ 210 lbs (I don't have a scale but I think this is pretty close)
ave weight for a 23 year old male = 170 lbs
I'm still overweight but I know average weight is bullshit since muscle is heavier than fat, and since I don't know my percent body fat, average weight becomes a bullshit metric. So all I really figured out is that I'm in the 63rd percentile for males my age. I always thought I was somewhat imposing, but that obviously isn't true as people come up and talk to me all the time, I'm a friendly kind of guy and my body reflects that.
"Look at me I'm slightly larger than normal, but not too much larger so you should come talk to me," my body seems to say. Also since I'm muscular but also carry some extra baggage I don't have that lean angular look, and my face is rounder especially if I have a beard, both of which make me less threatening. The only children I scare are the ones that are afraid of strangers. I guess I should be happy that I'm approachable, but I don't want to be approachable I want to be a big scary man, a man that people don't want to cross, a man that strides into a saloon, stops the music, and people look at each other and say, "I don't want to cross that guy", before things continue as normal. Instead I'm that guy people look at and say, "I bet he's a fine young gentleman, I wonder if he knows the way to Albuquerque? I'm gonna go over and ask him." Oh well, I probably will know the way to Albuquerque.
Also a nice elderly lady helped me out today. I forgot my kroger card in my car and I told the cashier that I'd needed to run out to my car to get my kroger card. A woman that had already paid and was leaving turned around and said "here use mine, it'll save you the trip". Good times, I thanked her and it saved me a couple of minutes. Yay for nice strangers!
height = 71.5 inches
ave height for a 23 year old male = 70 inches
weight ~ 210 lbs (I don't have a scale but I think this is pretty close)
ave weight for a 23 year old male = 170 lbs
I'm still overweight but I know average weight is bullshit since muscle is heavier than fat, and since I don't know my percent body fat, average weight becomes a bullshit metric. So all I really figured out is that I'm in the 63rd percentile for males my age. I always thought I was somewhat imposing, but that obviously isn't true as people come up and talk to me all the time, I'm a friendly kind of guy and my body reflects that.
"Look at me I'm slightly larger than normal, but not too much larger so you should come talk to me," my body seems to say. Also since I'm muscular but also carry some extra baggage I don't have that lean angular look, and my face is rounder especially if I have a beard, both of which make me less threatening. The only children I scare are the ones that are afraid of strangers. I guess I should be happy that I'm approachable, but I don't want to be approachable I want to be a big scary man, a man that people don't want to cross, a man that strides into a saloon, stops the music, and people look at each other and say, "I don't want to cross that guy", before things continue as normal. Instead I'm that guy people look at and say, "I bet he's a fine young gentleman, I wonder if he knows the way to Albuquerque? I'm gonna go over and ask him." Oh well, I probably will know the way to Albuquerque.
Also a nice elderly lady helped me out today. I forgot my kroger card in my car and I told the cashier that I'd needed to run out to my car to get my kroger card. A woman that had already paid and was leaving turned around and said "here use mine, it'll save you the trip". Good times, I thanked her and it saved me a couple of minutes. Yay for nice strangers!