The fashion industry is still pushing crazy thin body images - eviltoast

Apologies for the low resolution. It was a mobile ad and all I could get was a screenshot.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I looked a lot like that as a teenager while going through some growth spurts. I ate like an elephant (1990s taco tuesdays at Taco Bell we’d each get a 12 pack after school), but I was still 150-160 at 6’3” (60 something kilos and 190something cm).

      This person might be a little lighter, but I couldn’t put on muscle to save my life back then. Not till I was in my 20s did I get above 170.

      Edit: forgot how to divide by 2.2…

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        1 year ago

        In High School I was a 5’9" burly 165 lbs dude I was doing like 25 pullups on door frames, but after that life kind of went sideways and I lost the weight and strength and I’ve never been back to that weight again.

        I did continue to grow to 5’11" tho so thats a consolation prize.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        but I was still 150-160 at 6’3” (30something kilos and 190something cm).

        150-160 lbs is definitely not “30 something kilos”. It’s more than double that, around 70 kg. Just FYI or for any other weird-unit users out there who aren’t familiar with standard kg. 😅