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What is your BMI (Body-Mass Index)?

Discussion in 'Member Casual Chat' started by Ronstar, Apr 19, 2015.

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  1. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ronstar, Apr 19, 2015
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  2. gorte

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    I"m 20% bodyfat, and should be 10%, but i'm working on it. I dropped 20 lbs in the past 3 months.
     
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    25,5, slightly overweight.
    Somehow I managed to gain almost 5 kg over the winter. There's work to be done here.
     
    antb0y, Apr 20, 2015
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  4. ChrisL

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    Mine's low, 19.8. I'm petite and never had a problem with weight though, thankfully. :cool: Besides, I think people put way too much into BMI. It's all going to depend on your build too. Some people are bigger boned than others. I happen to be a small-boned person, and I'm only 5 feet 1 inch tall and only weigh about 105 pounds. Some women my height have a "thicker" body type and would naturally have a higher BMI than mine.
     
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    antb0y Well-Known Member

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    True. Heavyweight boxers would be overweight according to their BMI.
    In my case, it's fat though ;)
     
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  6. ChrisL

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    Well, a lot of people put on some fat during the wintertime. :smile: Inactivity and all of that. Now that the good weather is coming, we will all be more active.
     
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    About 24, top end of the alledged normal range so I guess I should try to put on a little height. :cool:
     
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    25.8 6'0" tall....190 lbs.
     
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    Precisely so. The great Earl Campbell (running back Houston Oilers) stands 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 meters) and in his heyday weighed 245 pounds (111 kg) and yet the calculator claims that he automatically has a fat index of 34.2; which is patently f-a-l-s-e. He was all muscle mass. So while gimmicky good fun, these auto-indexes are utterly inaccurate depending on specific physical circumstances.
     
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  10. ChrisL

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    And muscle weighs more than fat. It is heavier and denser tissue than fatty tissue, so if you are very muscular, you will weigh more and have a higher BMI.
     
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    Yes; for instance while I freely admit to being about twenty pounds overweight at 5 feet -- 8 inches and 236 pounds I once was a serious weightlifter and have been a martial artist all my life and at age fifty-eight I move like a much younger man simply because I practice a very strenuous version of Yoga on a nightly basis. As I do every spring I have begun losing the excess fat simply by working in the garden, moving landscaping items and shoveling soil and so forth. But even when I lose that excess and once again start to look a bit like an anatomical sketch (in a good way) I will still weigh over 200 hundred pounds, as was indeed the case last year when my clothes were hanging off my frame.
     
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    24.3, but I'm thin and toned, so apparently this thing doesn't account for much....
     
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  13. ArmySoldier

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    I am a little self conscious about mine but I don't mind sharing to my PF friends:

    I am 27 years old, I am 5'11, and weigh only 145 pounds. When I went to Basic Training in the Army they had to feed me double portions.

    After all the blood tests and me being terrified wondering why I can't gain any weight, turns out I have the metabolic age of a friggin 12 year old! Seriously. My metabolic age is 12.

    So now I have to work out constantly and eat all the time just to keep my weight.

    HOWEVER, they did tell me this will go away fast (in the next year or two) and it will be a complete 180 and I will struggle to keep weight off.

    Lol
     
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    The last time it was measured my BMI was 25.8 Kg/m2. I was classified as overweight.
     
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    I'm 6'3" and 214 pounds, which gives me 26.7 -- supposedly overweight.

    It claims I have to get my weight down to 198 or so to be considered the high end of "normal".

    I could go as low as 148 and still be considered normal.

    Does anyone consider 6'3", 148 pounds "normal"?

    I call shenanigans on the measuring formula.
     
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    [​IMG]

    You should probably never leave the house. You're an embarrasment to your species. A slight breeze will topple you like a bowling pin, you turn sideways and become invisible. Bullies at the beach steal your girl friend and kick sand at you.

    Yes, you should be ashamed, very ashamed.

    j/k
     
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  17. ArmySoldier

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    Lol :dual:
     
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    BMI was never intended to be taken alone or interpreted by non-professionals. It wasn't really intended as an individual measure at all but where it is used in a clinical setting, it's either as a general indicator or alongside other measurements and assessments to build up a wider (no pun intended) picture.
     
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    I'm like 5'11 and 148 pounds (145) and I'm skinny.
     
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  20. ChrisL

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    Well, my BMI is low, and I don't look that skinny. Maybe it's the difference between thin and short and thin and tall?
     
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    35.2 What do I win? I could stand to lose 40 lbs. I'm 5' 7" and weigh 225. I can still outwork most people half my age, especially my kids. I can install 120 lb batteries into battery cabinets all day long. Some of them over my head. Thank goodness I don't do batteries EVERY day. The college paid off.
     
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    What is this battery into battery cabinets you speak of ?
     
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    112 percent
     
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    i lost 90 lbs
    bmi 19.2
    no longer need diabetes meds, blood pressure meds, or statins
     
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