If you're a woman and you're dating online, what body type do you put on your profile?

As a dating consultant, I get asked this question very often. After all, most women in the U.S. have a little meat on their bones. They aren't fat, but they wouldn't be classified as "skinny" either. It makes sense that the with the average woman being 163 pounds (that's average, mind you) that women generally listed themselves as "curvy" on dating sites.

The problem? Men think "curvy" means FAT.

Hey guys? It doesn't. You're gonna have to get over this.

There's an interesting article from the Baltimore Sun's Dating Column that reinforced this issue. A woman tries to be honest by listing her body type and gets absolutely no responses from men as a result.

I usually tell women who are the average size of about 163 pounds that they should list themselves as "average." They are!

And guess what? Men, despite this Phobia of searching for a gal that's "curvy," actually prefers women with a little meat on their bones than completely skinny. Yet they'll search for "skinny" before anything else. Most of these guys, incidentally, are NOT skinny themselves. Many have beer guts and bald heads and yet turn up their nose at curvy gals. To add to this, most women think they're fatter than they actually are. They'll say they need to lost a few pounds when in fact they don't.

Maybe the solution for this is to have men actually take a look in the mirror, and women not to be so hard on themselves.