Are you overweight?
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In April of last year I was 135kg with a BMI of 43%, so massively overweight.
Now I am at 85kg with a BMI of around 20-22%.
My lowest was 82kg 3 months ago, but since summer started I decided to take a break from gym (once a week instead of 3 times), have a cheat meal twice a week instead of once every 2 weeks and drinking a bit when going out.
Will resume back to pre-summer lifestyle end of september, which I am looking forward to, but I felt I needed a break.
Edit: I am 5' 8" tall.
Now I am at 85kg with a BMI of around 20-22%.
My lowest was 82kg 3 months ago, but since summer started I decided to take a break from gym (once a week instead of 3 times), have a cheat meal twice a week instead of once every 2 weeks and drinking a bit when going out.
Will resume back to pre-summer lifestyle end of september, which I am looking forward to, but I felt I needed a break.
Edit: I am 5' 8" tall.
Caporegime
24 on BMI scale, but 5'11, 170 pounds, and not a lot of bodyfat.
Apparently I could lose 25 pounds and still be in the normal range, but in reality I would look unhealthily skinny if that were to happen.
Apparently I could lose 25 pounds and still be in the normal range, but in reality I would look unhealthily skinny if that were to happen.
The problem is we are now a society where "normal" is actually overweight. The average woman for example is a size 16! It used to be 10-12 and while extra height my be a factor most of it because they have too much fat. Same with men. Just under 2/3 of men are overweight and over half of women.
That all leads to body shape issues. Overweight people see most people are like then and "normal", so they must be fine. Those scrawny kids people always talk about on the other hand are probably a perfect weight...
Obviously this is ignoring the small percentage of people that are actually large because they do active jobs or weight lifting and actually have a lot of muscle and little fat.
The whole size 16 mannequin idea is something I really dislike. All it does is reinforce that overweight/borderline obese is "normal". Then again I'd argue the same with some of the super skinny mannequins...
As for the actual question, nope I'm "skinny" with a BMI of 22...
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Caporegime
Yep, just because most people are something, doesn't mean that something is good/acceptable/ideal.
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I always laugh when I see fat women posting things like "Real men like curvy women".
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I was weighing 105kg before my holiday now i am 95kg. It just hits my stomach, no where else at this point. I never used to have any fat on me growing up. But hit 25 and drinking every day, ended up getting a beer belly.
I am 6'2
I am 6'2
Soldato
This is true. You're actually supposed to be able to see the ribs on a healthy 10 year old.
Www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19050139
Not perfect but gives a good idea of weight to height ratio of a multitude of different Olympic athletes.
Soldato
Yes. I was a slob at uni and put on loads of weight so when I left I was so unfit and had a BMI of 41.X. Joined the gym about 2 years ago but never stuck to it but recently being going 2 or 3 times a week and cycling at weekends and paying a lot more attention to what I eat. My BMI is still too high at 36 but coming down every week, if I keep to target it should be around 25-26 by the end of the year 
Soldato
Well done, I have done the same as you. Went down to 12st 8 last summer but after a rather poor year at both diet and gym I have gone up to 13st 5. Nearly a stone
Starting from today though I'm determined to get below 13st. Not sure if I want to go as low as 12st 8 this time though.
Look at the amount of kids that get letters home from school saying that they are overweight.
Nanny state at it's worst.
ONe example: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/47...etter-branding-fit-and-healthy-son-overweight
I used to be 6 stone heavier than I was, I was originally 22 (urgh) then dropped down to 13.10 or so, put on 2 stone again but do a lot more gym work (I still want to drop it a bit again). I'm probably classed as overweight if you go by BMI but probably not to look at me. Still, Great North Run for the 4th year in a row, Newcastle Stampede and Tough Mudder next year is going to keep me in normal shape for the time being.
I'd love a geet massive pizza right now though!
I'd love a geet massive pizza right now though!
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This talk of ribs is making me hungry
Soldato
Yeah, deffo overweight. I got away with murder until the age of 20, then my body waved a white flag and surrendered. Tried various diets over the years e.g. cabbage soup diet, diet pills, Slimming World. Slimming World was probably my best attempt out of all of these, but ultimately, you end up putting the weight back on regardless. I also tried biking it to work, but my bad eyesight meant that I only cycled on pavements and cycle paths and ended up running into someone, so had to ditch the bike. I can't do sports either, again because of eyesight. So yeah, I give up. I'll die young.
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Body shape can vary massively depending on muscle / fat ratio. Myself and my brother are the same height, 6'3, however I am 83kg and he is about 90kg. Due to lacking in upper body muscle and having a higher fat content than me his shoulders and chest make him look slimmer and lighter than me. This is due to him coming down from about 105kg through diet control and cycling with no resistance workouts. He is now doing resistance work and tailoring his diet to help reduce the fat he still has clinging on around his midriff. So whilst scrawny looking might come across as healthy and having a good body composition it isn't always the case. I've weighed a few people on a set of scales that indicate body fat / muscle levels and whilst they look slim they have literally no muscle and fat levels are quite near the upper limit.
Everyone is different
Everyone is different
Soldato
Yeah some people need to learn that curves does not mean one big curve.
Sneaky Red Dwarf/Carter USM quote there?
You reach that age.. 24/25 then all of a sudden your muscles give up they wave a little white flag and without any warning at all you're suddenly a fat *******
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Growing up i was always very skinny and had no muscles, but i had some definition in to my early 20s for the small amount of muscle that i had. When i started drinking a lot more and stopped all exercise apart from occasional walking (used to do football with work). I started to fill out a bit and people close to me always said i looked a lot healthier than i used to. In some ways drinking and eating more and stopping exercise has allowed for my body shape to be less skinny and scrawny which i think is a positive. I Just need stop drinking before I get a serious beer belly then start on the cardio (or team sport) and weights. Hopefully if i ever get the will power/energy to start doing that i will end up with good body shape opposed to just being skinny but with some muscle definition. Hope that makes sense.
Couldn't agree more and the fact that fatness seems to be getting treated like a disease or worse a disability drives me mental.
If I take that many drugs I send myself mental or lost some limbs or something I'd be shunned by society.
Eat so much cake you can't walk? Well obviously you need ramps and bigger beds and people to give you bed baths.
The chronically obese should be dealt with as darwin's theory intended.
Just to "weigh in" on the BMI thing, I am about 23 so towards the higher end of normal but I have a 30" waist and I'm in good health. I also pathologically miss meals, not for weight but because it doesn't occur to me to east breakfast or lunch, I rarely snack but I seem to cling on to weight.
My other half has a BMI of 16.9, she's properly underweight and yet is always texting me about what she's eaten at work, gets home talking about lunch and then eats pretty much 50% of whatever we cook. Its insane.
There's got to be something in this metabolism/resting heart rate thing. Also when I sit I tend to sit still, I've never seen anyone fidget as much as her.
Madness. Lucky cow lol