What is our average size?

[Meggers]

I am somewhere around 25 inches around my waist, 36" around hips, 5 foot 7 height...120-125 pounds.

[Whidbey78]

36-38" at the waist, 43-44" at the hip, 5'10" tall and about 205-220 lbs depending on the season. I have my "winter coat" right now so I'm pushing the upper end of said tolerances.

I'm not a "man of substance" but I sure don't need to put rocks in my sporran to keep from blowing away in a stiff wind.

[Pinkrose]

28" waist, 36" hips, 5ft, 110-115 lbs.

[OC Richard]

The poll results so far have surprised me a bit, as I too thought we XMarkers were, on average, a bigger/heavier group.

I'm 6'4" and in my 20s when I was running regularly I had a 30" waist, weighed 170 pounds, and wore a 39L jacket. Alas! Age, poor diet, and inactivity have taken their toll, and I have a 44" waist and weight 229 pounds and wear a 48L jacket, putting me in an upper minority in the poll.

It sure was nice to have that small waist back then and be able to wear MOD kilts!

Now I search Ebay regularly and things my size are few and far between.

I did recently get a very nice vintage tweed Argyll, and a gorgeous near-new black Argyll, both of which fit great. And now that more and more Scottish kilt hire shops are putting their ex-hire stock on Ebay, there are kilts my size fairly often.

[artificer]

6' (lost almost an inch due to cartilage damage in knees & back)

In winter I weigh in around 210 with a 35.5" waist, by the end of summer when my schedule gets loaded down with yard/house work I might be ~38.5" and 218.

The weird thing is while I gain/lose tummy, my hip measurement barely varies from 41.5" - 42.5"

I'm just starting to lose all of my summer weight now, finally.

[Father Bill]

My, but we are an oddly-shaped bunch!

[flyingshamrock]

6' tall and 182 lbs. with a 33'' waist.

[ForresterModern]

The poll results so far have surprised me a bit, as I too thought we XMarkers were, on average, a bigger/heavier group.

I'm 6'4" and in my 20s when I was running regularly I had a 30" waist, weighed 170 pounds, and wore a 39L jacket. Alas! Age, poor diet, and inactivity have taken their toll, and I have a 44" waist and weight 229 pounds and wear a 48L jacket, putting me in an upper minority in the poll.

It sure was nice to have that small waist back then and be able to wear MOD kilts!

Richard, you and I sound like similar physiques in our youth, with variable responses to age and time since. In my high school basketball days I was 6'5" and 170# soaking wet, gangly and grisly, and kept that size through college and med school and even my first couple years of marriage and children into my early 30s. Unfortunately a series of minor medical, and one or two major medical, issues, combined with a change to a more sedentary work environment, divorce, several job changes, etc..., I put on weight in bunches (30# in 30 days on one medication, and 60# in 5 months on another) over the next 20 years to my max 2 years ago at 289.75# (a small piece of pride that I never broke the 290 barrier), then got my life straightened out (remarried, near perfect job, and a new young son in a new town) and have drifted back down to the 265-270 range depending on how many xmas parties I attend and how many xmas cookies my wife bakes. Wife and I are both now on healthier diets, more active lifestyles, and cutting back on soft drinks (still going strong on hard drinks), evening snacks, and sweets, and both stabilized and slowly dropping pounds and sizes as we develop muscle in place of fat. As such a few of my kilts have actually become a bit loose of late, which is why in so many of my pictures they appear to droop a bit lower than ideal---I will take that sad side effect of the downward drifting weight, and when ready send my kilts off to be altered appropriately.

Amazing how the ravages of 20+ years of what many would consider a not atypical american life can have on what was a very healthy, extremely active (runner, basketball, golf, tennis, ski and snowboarder, soccer, volleyball, softball--all at competitive levels), lean and mean young man. I show pictures of me from just 20 years ago at my finish of training to my coworkers, and except for the height they would not be able to pick me out of the crowd with the weight changes, greying, and hair loss. Aaaaaah, the good old days, when I could still put on my socks without grunting or becoming winded. A good friend shared a wisdom with me once ,which I have found profoundly telling as time has passed by: You know you are getting old when you make a noise either sitting down into a chair or while getting up out of one, and both is even worse. Well I believe I am there. Yahoo.

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[Dale Seago]

You know you are getting old when you make a noise either sitting down into a chair or while getting up out of one, and both is even worse.

And when it's become consistent enough that your parrot makes the noise FOR you when she sees that you're about to stand up.

Though since I got the structural upgrade on my hip, neither has been happening. Maybe I'm getting younger.

[MacLowlife]

Many long years ago, I took a Statistics class and the professor graphed our test results. He described the graph as "Jane Russell from above" or something similar. That is not really on topic, I just like to think of that double bell curve when discussing statistics.

But I am wondering how many of us in the higher weight regions used to be those in the lower weight regions. That is, if you factor age, how many substantial guys here were once wiry guys here. (and by extension, how many of the wiry young chaps will soon be, ahem, old guys who make a noise when sitting or standing... ) I gather that a few wise and careful XMarkers have avoided gaining a pound a year over thirty years or so.

That is OK, guys, I gained one for you, too.