Guess how much DH weighs

[Wigeon]

So I am going to add DH (with his permission!) to the Zoe app which is helping researchers track what’s going on with Covid in real time (you report whether you feel well/unwell every day).

However, to add him I need to state his weight and he hasn’t weighed himself in about 20 years. We don’t own scales. His trousers waist measurement is usually 32”/34”, and he’s about 5’9”/5’10” tall.

Anyone any idea? I literally don’t even have a ballpark idea of what an adult male of his build /height weighs!

@BarbaraofSeville

Very impressed with the graph and spreadsheet, but I would have done a bar chart not a wibbly line graph. A-

But if Mumsnetters were any good at guessing, the line would be in the middle of the graph.

I really wanted to do a bar chart too but I couldn't for the life of me work out how. The charts wizard in Excel seems to insist on a "clustered column chart", which plots the frequency and weights next to each other in a weird way.

However, it was really annoying me I couldn't, and you've given me the impetus I needed: ta da!

You are most welcome OP, but I do hope your dh is a gardening wizz, to get my money's worth .

Excellent work OP, I love the graph. Just shows how terrible we are at guessing weight.
(You'd expect a normal distribution curve around his actual weight... good luck finding a model to fit our terrible data!)

Ah, I was close!

This is the best thread on here for a while..

@Wigeon you have surpassed even my highest expectations and should really hold the title as Queen Original Poster (think MBE or OBE but QOP) for the foreseeable future...

Bravo!

Truly excellent thread!

1 pound out. Get in!

My guess would’ve been spot on were it not for the poo

Good point something! That one pound I was out by was probably his massive poo

And the wee!

Haha glad I know! (I was 8lbs out.)

1lb out here . Right who is going to put their OHs picture up so we can do it all again tonight , mine has already said no .

Love Your Work OP.

Thank you! I enjoyed your speadsheet and graphs! And I was not that far out

I think that was the most original thread I’ve seen!

Congrats OP.

I was only 4lb out so good guess

Amazing effort and I'm delighted to be a joint winner

@Miloarmadillo2

This thread is oddly compelling. My DH is the same height and has just lost 12kg after a diabetes diagnosis which was a bit of a wake up call. I'm guessing his 'before' weight which was 85kg/13 stone. Get your DH to measure and keep track of the 'bit of a belly' as it needs to be kept to less than half his height, as well as working out his BMI. DH's BMI at diagnosis was only 27 and he was squeezing into 32-34" trousers not admitting they were a bit tight!

@Miloarmadillo2 - gosh, that must have been a shock. As a result of your post, we measured DH's waist and it's 93cm - the NHS says you should lose weight if you are a man and your waist is 94cm or more :

"Regardless of your height or body mass index (BMI), you should try to lose weight if your waist is:

94cm (37in) or more for men
80cm (31.5in) or more for women"

NHS advice is here for anyone interested

Brilliant thread! The nhs website gave me a wake up call too.

I guess this thread proves that the camera adds half a stone.

The graph is a brilliant addition (and I'm super smug for getting it right!)

I've recently lost 3kg and everyone is very complimentary but I've still got a BMI of 28, and a 31" waist, I'm not thin by any stretch of the imagination. It goes to show how skewed our perception is at a population level.

I’m a bit annoyed that you didn’t acknowledge my extremely accurate 1/4 of a piano estimate.

@CatherinedeBourgh - ah, apologies! Are we talking standard school hall upright? Grand? Spinnet?

I need to loose a stone to get down to that weight

Thank you @Wigeon for a superb thread, especially the graphs! Delighted to be a joint winner 🏅

I guess 12 stone