By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
Are you currently trying to lose weight?
Women Men
Yes 44% 32% No 56% 66%
How many pounds?
Average 23 26
[From a telephone poll of 500 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 10 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 4.5%. "Not sures" omitted.]