17-03-2005 23:07									#1
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An offshoot of Oerdin's thread:

So, is this community of Net jockeys full of fatties, or full of healthy young bodies??

Here is the Body Mass Index calculator:

So, are your under, normal, or overweight? Perhaps Obese?

Be honest in the poll, if your BMI is 25.1, you are overweight, it does not matter is your only .2 there.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm

	17-03-2005 23:10									#2
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2 years ago, I was quite fit... 190 lbs...

now, I'm about 235

	17-03-2005 23:11									#3
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Hmmm...26.3. A bit into the overweight category, which can be confirmed by yours truly by looking at a mirror. No surprise there.

But I'm not worried. I eat as I always have, and my weight has stayed the same for three years now. What made my weight go up was the fact that I quit smoking, so it's probably a good thing.

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	17-03-2005 23:12									#4
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I can be honest I am a little underweight. I am 5 11 and weigh 145. And have no healthy habits other then I swim when I can. I used to on a swim team and now that I dont do that anymore, the team, I still like to get out and do my laps to try and stay in shape.

	17-03-2005 23:12									#5
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6'1" @ 205 pounds. I could stand losing a good 10 pounds but I'm not terribly fat.

	17-03-2005 23:12									#6
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I am now... last full scale medical I had (4 years ago) had me rated as half a stone under. So I'm not too unhappy about it.

	17-03-2005 23:13									#7
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The calculator will tell what you are- 5 11 and 145 is probalby normal weight, not underweight.

	17-03-2005 23:14									#8
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quote: Originally posted by GePap The calculator will tell what you are- 5 11 and 145 is probalby normal weight, not underweight.

that calculator is bullshit... it doesn't take into account your build...

	17-03-2005 23:14									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin 6'1" @ 205 pounds. I could stand losing a good 10 pounds but I'm not terribly fat.

You'd still be overweight losing 10 lbs.

	17-03-2005 23:15									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Sava that calculator is bullshit... it doesn't take into account your build...

Build is immaterial to the definiton.

Overweight is a measure of how far form the median you are. Build is nowhere in the definiton.

Suck it up fellow obese polytubby.

	17-03-2005 23:16									#11
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I guess Im normal then. All my nursing books state I should weigh bout 160

	17-03-2005 23:18									#12
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27.3

	17-03-2005 23:20									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski I guess Im normal then. All my nursing books state I should weigh bout 160

I think it's a standard deviation- 160 might be the ideal, but the average can fall anywhere within say 15 lbs up or down. Go beyond that and you are either under or overweight.

For example, 5 11 and 175 is normal

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quote: Originally posted by GePap Build is immaterial to the definiton. Overweight is a measure of how far form the median you are. Build is nowhere in the definiton. Suck it up fellow obese polytubby.

my point is that the BMI calculator is inaccurate... you can't figure out someone's % of body fat just based on their height and weight.

It's stupid.

	17-03-2005 23:23									#15
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Here's the problem with the BMI

5'7"
220lbs
BMI 34.5

I'm not obese, or even 'chubby'. There's no account taken for muscle.

	17-03-2005 23:24									#16
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Well, I'm a little on the light side myself.

5'6'' and 130

	17-03-2005 23:26									#17
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I'm right around where Oerdin is 6'1" and around 205 lbs. I started doing some more exercise today, actually. 205 lbs. isn't too extreme, if I can get down to 195, then 190 I'll feel alot better about my body.

	17-03-2005 23:28									#18
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It's a body mass index, not a body fat index. It's nothing more than a quick and dirty formula to determine whether you might have a weight problem, nothing more. It doesn't take into account whether you look like Arnold Schwarznegger or Rerun from What's Happening because that's beyond the scope of the test.

So chill, y'all.

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NO ITS A CRIME IW ILL NOT CHILL ZOMFG

	17-03-2005 23:33									#20
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The BMI is indeed not a good indicator of being overweight for muscular/athlete types. However, for most people, it is a good estimate.

	17-03-2005 23:35									#21
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spencer is totally a bro

	17-03-2005 23:41									#22
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a bro?

I sink like a rock in fresh water.

	17-03-2005 23:49									#23
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a guy who lifts weights. as in "hey bro, lets go lift some weights, bro"

	18-03-2005 00:00									#24
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For about 30 years now, at different degrees of craziness.

	18-03-2005 00:07									#25
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overweight, but only marginally so.

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I was right! WOOHOO! man, you must be built like a tank

	18-03-2005 00:24									#27
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The muscle thing does kind of throw a wrench into thing I have more musle then fat. One way we did fat measurements was taking your arm stretched out and if you have a flap of skin fold over your elbow that was your fat index.

	18-03-2005 00:27									#28
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Feh. IMO, although BMI might be a good way to give a rule of thumb, it's not accurate enough to get classifications of being overweight on a large population scale.

	18-03-2005 00:30									#29
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fat percentage of weight

	18-03-2005 00:32									#30
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BMI is 25.4. I´m 1.73 meters and weigh 76 kilos.

So, only slightly overweight