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Post by Humph on Oct 20, 2017 14:43:36 GMT
There has been much speculation recently about the increasing "size" of people. I'm just reading a fashion industry report which analyses the difference in clothing sizes etc in Britain from 1993 compared with 2015 and which throws up some interesting numbers.
The potted version is as follows,
Women - Average height 1993 5ft 3.4in Average height 2015 5ft 3.8in Waist measurement 1993 32.2in Waist measurement 2015 34.8in Mean weight 1993 10st 7lb Mean weight 2015 11st 3lb
Men - Average height 1993 5ft 8.6in Average height 2015 5ft 9.1in Waist measurement 1993 36.7in Waist measurement 2015 38.8in Mean weight 1993 12st 6lb Mean weight 2015 13st 5lb
At dead on 6ft, with a 34in waist and at 13st I feel much better than I did before I read that !
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Post by hobbit on Oct 20, 2017 15:37:28 GMT
At 5'7" and 10st 4lb (down from 15st 8lb) and 32" waist (down from 36") I'm wondering about taking a part time job with Ken Dodd! ;-)
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Post by Humph on Oct 20, 2017 16:04:24 GMT
That's pretty impressive Hobbit. Well done !
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 17:15:08 GMT
6', 34" waist, 13st 3lbs. And I was feeling good before I read the above, so now I'm unbearable. I eat very healthily which makes up for my utterly appalling drinking habits. I am quite seriously thinking I need to cut down.
Stunning on the weight loss Hobbit, how did you do it?
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 20, 2017 17:28:53 GMT
Stunning on the weight loss Hobbit, how did you do it? ....dysentry....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 17:36:28 GMT
I've just worked out how much I drink in an average week.
I think I need to do something, I've quite shocked myself.
The trouble is, what does one do? I don;t like fizzy drinks, fruit juices ok but very strong tasting and conflict with meals, etc. etc. Water? Really?
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 20, 2017 18:31:48 GMT
What are you trying to do, get sober or lose weight?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 18:57:43 GMT
My weight is just fine. However I am clearly a drunk.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 19:31:09 GMT
According to the party freaks at Drinkaware.co.uk I should drink no more than 6 glasses of wine, 14 shorts or 6 pints of beer a *week*. I'm safe on the beer, but I reckon I'm about 30 years ahead of schedule on the wine and clearly using 9 other people's allocations on the vodka and gin.
I had 3 gin & tonics last weekend, there's about 1/2pint of gin in each one, so that's 1 1/2 pints gin or 850ml. That there alone is 2 1/2 weeks permitted alcohol. I also think I had about 2 pints of London Pride and an unknown amount of white wine.
I'm doomed I tell you, doomed.
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 20, 2017 19:57:02 GMT
I'm doomed I tell you, doomed. ......not fallen down any steps yet though, have you?................
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 20:22:34 GMT
Who knows? Perhaps I did and I was so well diluted I didn't notice.
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Post by Humph on Oct 20, 2017 20:56:01 GMT
I never drink on a "school" night, in other words, if I've got to work the next day, I don't touch a drop. Similarly, never have even one if I'm driving. But, if I'm free the next day, and I've got company, I'll drink copious amounts of gin and tonic mainly. Sometimes whisky, but only in the winter. Wouldn't thank anyone for a beer unless it's at the end of a really hot day, but don't mind wine with a meal. I have been known to go months, even years without alcohol, but not deliberately, sometimes I'm in the mood for it, and sometimes I'm not. I'm not good at doing nothing much, and need to fill my days with activity, I'm a terrible insomniac, and if I have a drink, I can't go out and "do" something, even if it's only going for a late swim. I find "relaxing" difficult, maybe I'm a bit hyperactive in truth. Can't sit down for long and I recognise that I have the attention span of a goldfish. I enjoy a drink when the moment is right, but it slows me down, and I can't quite cope with that. Happy enough in my weirdness though. Too old to worry about it anyway.
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 20, 2017 20:59:17 GMT
Who knows? Perhaps I did and I was so well diluted I didn't notice. ..if you had, I think you'd end up with a tune going round and round in your head.....
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 20, 2017 21:42:20 GMT
I had 3 gin & tonics last weekend, there's about 1/2pint of gin in each one, so that's 1 1/2 pints gin or 850ml. That there alone is 2 1/2 weeks permitted alcohol. I also think I had about 2 pints of London Pride and an unknown amount of white wine. I'm doomed I tell you, doomed. Im on about 30 units a week, twice the recommended limit. Ive had extensive medical checkups, full blood tests, biopsies, scans and x-rays since the hip incident, and at my last consultation the doctor said "Apart from osteopenia, and being a bit overweight, I have never seen a 62 year old man with less wrong with him"
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Post by WDB on Oct 20, 2017 22:08:17 GMT
1.97m and 104kg at the moment. About 3kg more than I'm entirely comfortable with, probably a result of a recent increase in, ahem, business entertaining. I have signed up for another 5km run in a Santa suit this December (Commer will know the one I mean) so I'm working to get a little leaner and - maybe - meaner in time for that.
I'd treat Humph's averages with scepticism. Improvements and childhood medicine and nutrition mean that individuals with similar genes are reaching a higher percentage of their 'true' genetic height now than in previous generations. But the UK's overall genetic base is not the same now, because of immigration, the majority of which has been from countries with 'genetically shorter' populations. So you have two factors working in opposition.
Similarly with waist measurement, we have two opposite trends: towards health and fitness on the one hand, and sloth and obesity on the other. I suspect the standard deviation of both datasets is pretty high, and the mean doesn't tell the whole story.
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