Calculate and post your BMI

how the fuck is dude who is 6 ft tall and 150 lbs normal looking? this bmi shit is some bullshit

ayo shaddup ya face chunky

I know I'm mr preternaturally skinny but "190lbs or less" is in no way an absurdly low weight.

hmmmm, bbq...

ILX needs to get on the revenge diet.

it doesn't take into account your frame, your gender, how much muscle or fat you have, etc it is amazing that it is accepted as a useful number.

ayo shaddup ya face chunky

-- El Tomboto, Friday, April 11, 2008 4:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/44/23/23112344.jpg

it doesn't take into account your frame, your gender, how much muscle or fat you have, etc it is amazing that it is accepted as a useful number.

-- bell_labs, Friday, April 11, 2008 4:25 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

its pretty crazy that it doesnt ask your sex... girls have big ol titties for example that makes how much they weigh be different

dont be imagining my body, dog

i think i only thought this b/c you make fattey (chaki) jokes.

the owner of that skeleton is clearly a thick bastard just look at the circumference of his watch

22.4

BMI is a medical metric shorthand that correlates fairly well with a few things, it's not supposed to be about your build or your fucking image of yourself, that's like saying "my baby's apgar score was an 8 and not a 10, they're not taking into account blah blah blah!!"

my mom thinks i'm a perfect 10

I heard your mom WAS a perfect 10

how the fuck is dude who is 6 ft tall and 150 lbs normal looking?

I'm 6 foot and I'm currently 165 lbs, but my personal 'best weight' for my body is about 152 lbs. This is based on how I feel, not how I look. But I still have a visible fat roll at my waist even down to about 157 lbs.

As for "normal looking", I look ok to me. I am supposed to be skinny.

i'm pretty sure you heard wrong! xp

19.9 <- this has got to be wrong - i am stupid thin!

oh, i guess this explains it: It may overestimate body fat in athletes and others who have a muscular build.

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It may overestimate body fat in athletes and others who have a muscular build.

was gonna say...
I came in at 22.7 (5'9", 154lbs.) but back when I was eating better, going to the gym etc, I was up around 158 lbs, with considerably less belly fat.

i am just naturally ripped.

24.9...whoa, salad tonight!

ugh, 32+... I don't FEEL like a walrus!

20.5

1.21 gigawatts

23.2

xp - great scott!

28.2 - was under 25 before I quit smoking :(

Can't imagine getting down into the 150-160 range and still looking healthy.

17.75, give or take .35 based on how I've much I've starved myself in the last week.

Straight dope on BMI:

"(BMI) is both a convenient and reliable indicator of obesity."
...
Yes, it's great for estimating the fitness of groups of people, but used to assess any one individual it can sometimes produce an iffy answer. Since it doesn't differentiate between fat weight and muscle weight, and since muscle is denser than fat, people who are especially muscular tend to score as fatter than they really are. (Most NBA superstars — e.g., LeBron James, listed at six-eight and 240 — are classed as at least mildly overweight.) BMI also glosses over the issue of fat distribution — excess weight carried around the waist is more unhealthy than extra inches on the hips.

i should put an andwhat-disapproved collidge picture of myself somewhere prominent as motivation

25.1 shiiiiit, and i had a haircut earlier

it was the lol creme

19. It was 17 until a couple of years ago.

18.9. That, for me, is rather high.

you discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch (xp)

That applies to me too, Steve: it's called Leftover Vietnamese Food.

have you ever ordered but then not eaten any of it until the next morning? it's an ambition of mine

EIGHTEEN
http://www.charlestonseafood.com/images/Amazon/Shrimp-cooked-500.jpg
POINT
http://www.averyrailing.com/handrail1.jpg
TWO
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/289964817_abb7fca85d.jpg

That Ruth Fowler article is awful but she'll go away if her soon to be published book bombs. Give it time.

Steve: This is easy to do if you live on your own and need to order a minimum value of delivered food. I always get a 'dinner box' of lemongrass prawns on rice noodles and immediately put it into the fridge for the next day's lunch. The breakfast leftovers I am really talking about are things like salt and chilli spare ribs, chicken satay and crispy duck with pancakes.

I'm going to have to stop with the over-ordering and totally throw away my microwave.

23.4. My peak of fattitude was 25.1 when I was 23. I then drastically lost weight down to 17.8 in my mid-twenties before settling around 23-24 since. Didn't change my diet at all!

mine is like 30

I scored 23.3 with a rough guess at my weight (I'm also unsure of my exact height, I may be 1 inch taller - I don't weigh or measure myself for I dislike thinking of my own corporeality). I am definitely fatter than a 23.3, mind you: I should be scoring at least slightly in the 'overweight' section rather than the 'normal' one.

When I was 23 I was in a much worse shape than when I've been close to that recently - it was all beer gut, whereas now I'm just a bit bigger overall. I'm tall though so it's easier to get away with it.

or a 100

24, thank god for being really tall because I'm way out of shape and beefing up.

GUYS BMI DOESNT TELL YOU ANYTHING, IT IS A RED HERRING

-- bell_labs, Saturday, 12 April 2008 06:17 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Dead set, mine's 24.0 and my body fat is somewhere below 10%

20.9

20.1

26.1

but i had to roughly guess my weight, and i'm not even completely sure of my height.

At 5'10", I'd have to be 128 lbs to be underweight... which actually seems fair to me, slightly high even. The limit on the other end of the 'normal' spectrum might be less fair, yes.

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24.1