So, exactly how fat are you?

MattC59

prb007 wrote:

Jim457...endless hours of lonely training, ocd attitude to diet, ridiculous tanlines, willing to take drugs to reach the top tier, looking ridiculous in lycra,
now who on EARTH would get involved in a sport like that?

Is making yourself look like a freak really a sport ?

Pross

Age 39, height 6' 2", weight 12 stone 10lb, BMI 23.

Despite being 2 stone heavier than I was in my early 20s I've got a lower BMI than 89% of people in my age group in the UK and 61% of people worldwide and most like someone from Singapore (where there is obviously a huge amount of the population over 6' in height!). Lucky I've lost 23lb this year or I'd be in the fattest 65% of the population.

DesB3rd

Is making yourself look like a freak really a sport ?

There's a world of "sports" out there that I'd consider "athletic performance arts" (if your sport has no genuine objective measure of victory then that's the box you're in) - I'm not even sure body building gets into that category.

mingmong

Mountain biking, Stella and pies equate to: Uzbekistan

(Resting pulse around 50 though, so not that bad )

alihisgreat

MingMong wrote:

Mountain biking, Stella and pies equate to: Uzbekistan

(Resting pulse around 50 though, so not that bad )

False measurement.

That's your heart giving up.. not being super strong (that's what pies will do to you!)

lancejambo

184cm
74kg
male

DG Congo hahahahaha

Headhuunter

Pross wrote:

Age 39, height 6' 2", weight 12 stone 10lb, BMI 23.

Despite being 2 stone heavier than I was in my early 20s I've got a lower BMI than 89% of people in my age group in the UK and 61% of people worldwide and most like someone from Singapore (where there is obviously a huge amount of the population over 6' in height!). Lucky I've lost 23lb this year or I'd be in the fattest 65% of the population.

Wow you're almost the same as me, same age, same height, however I a bit lighter, more like 12½ stone.... Got any old clothes you don't want?

skylla

This is honestly ridiculous.. but mine's 20 and am like someone from Eritrea. My arse (if I could find it!)! Don't believe it for a minute.

"You have a lower BMI than 97% of males aged 30-44 in your country" :shock:

Pross

Headhuunter wrote:

Pross wrote:

Age 39, height 6' 2", weight 12 stone 10lb, BMI 23.

Despite being 2 stone heavier than I was in my early 20s I've got a lower BMI than 89% of people in my age group in the UK and 61% of people worldwide and most like someone from Singapore (where there is obviously a huge amount of the population over 6' in height!). Lucky I've lost 23lb this year or I'd be in the fattest 65% of the population.

Wow you're almost the same as me, same age, same height, however I a bit lighter, more like 12½ stone.... Got any old clothes you don't want?

I'm in South East London tomorrow so if you think you're looking in a mirror it might be me!

skylla

Anyone from Eritrea on this board (bored!) that wants to sign up to a wardrobe exchange project? Anyone?

andrewJohnson

You have a lower BMI than 100% of males aged 15-29 in your country

You're most like someone from DR Congo*

pinno

skylla wrote:

Anyone from Eritrea on this board (bored!) that wants to sign up to a wardrobe exchange project? Anyone?

Laos for me. However, I guess if I chose XL items from the EWEP (Eritrean Wardrobe Exchange Project), they would fit !
I mean Large is someone's small and small is someone's large, so size is relative ?

Message for OP - Don't sit there gloating over posting a thread which has attracted a shed load of miserable bored people and taking some sort of vicarious twisted pleasure in it, I am just existing - miserable + bored would lighten it up no end.

jim453

skylla wrote:

Anyone from Eritrea on this board (bored!) that wants to sign up to a wardrobe exchange project? Anyone?

Get Rick involved. Though you may struggle with sizing as he's like a weird boy/man. As far as I can gather he's around 50 kilos and five feet 3 inches.

Almost exactly the same size as Kylie I think but less masculine and even less useful in a pub brawl.

You may want to ask before you swap though as you could end up with some extremely brightly coloured 'chino's'

think - Rod, Jane and Freddie but without the edge and not as cool.

Headhuunter

jim453 wrote:

skylla wrote:

Anyone from Eritrea on this board (bored!) that wants to sign up to a wardrobe exchange project? Anyone?

Get Rick involved. Though you may struggle with sizing as he's like a weird boy/man. As far as I can gather he's around 50 kilos and five feet 3 inches.

Almost exactly the same size as Kylie I think but less masculine and even less useful in a pub brawl.

You may want to ask before you swap though as you could end up with some extremely brightly coloured 'chino's'

think - Rod, Jane and Freddie but without the edge and not as cool.

Poor Rick! That's but very nice/complimentary! I've met him he's not all bad

RonB

BMI 23. Let me get this straight, now all I have to do is find a guy from the Philippines who is 6'4" and pinch his clothes?

finchy

I'm Chinese. Lower BMI than 83% of the male population in the UK, although I have put on a stone of fat in the past couple of years thanks to working and studying at the same time.

kieranb

well bmi of 21 (173cm and 63.5kg) so not bad,but for me I was surprised how low down Ireland was, every time I go back to the old sod I'm sure the people are getting larger. I know its not me getting smaller as my bmi has stayed the same since late teens.

Question: Is there a north south UK divide in bmi?

Cleat Eastwood

kieranb wrote:

Question: Is there a north south UK divide in bmi?

No theres a perfect balance - the south has vanessa feltz, the north has susan boyle.

willhub

175cm 73kg

capt_slog

I've just returned from a week's holiday on Jersey.

While we were there, I noticed a number of teenage girls all alike and carrying the same yellow rucksacks, they were obviously on some sort of school trip or suchlike. I had a sort of bet with Mrs Slog that they were Swedish, they had that sort of 'look', the blonde hair, the face shape, (+the long legs and looking good in shorts, hence I noticed them :oops: ).

On our last day I asked a couple of them in the street who they were and why they were there. Yup, Swedes on a language course, both spoke perfect English, perhaps they were learning French as they'd spent time there as well.

As I said, they were all very much alike but there was something odd about them. It was only when I saw a large group of them having their photo taken in the square that I realised what it was; not one of them was overweight (neither did any look like they needed a good meal by the way).

It can't have been that someone had picked them out to be that way, but that's what it looked like. It made me realise what a fat nation we're becoming.

Anonymous

Capt Slog wrote:

I've just returned from a week's holiday on Jersey.

While we were there, I noticed a number of teenage girls all alike and carrying the same yellow rucksacks, they were obviously on some sort of school trip or suchlike. I had a sort of bet with Mrs Slog that they were Swedish, they had that sort of 'look', the blonde hair, the face shape, (+the long legs and looking good in shorts, hence I noticed them :oops: ).

On our last day I asked a couple of them in the street who they were and why they were there. Yup, Swedes on a language course, both spoke perfect English, perhaps they were learning French as they'd spent time there as well.

As I said, they were all very much alike but there was something odd about them. It was only when I saw a large group of them having their photo taken in the square that I realised what it was; not one of them was overweight (neither did any look like they needed a good meal by the way).

It can't have been that someone had picked them out to be that way, but that's what it looked like. It made me realise what a fat nation we're becoming.

Or a nation of pervy blokes on holiday ?

declan1

6' 1"
10 Stone 8 pounds (ish)
16 yrs

BMI = 20

Some details:

You have a lower BMI than 95% of males aged 15-29 in your country.

You have a lower BMI than 77% of males aged 15-29 in the world.

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 50,751,688 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.

You're most like someone from Guinea-Bissau*

john-e-big-guns

BMI..a load a bollocks

I'm 6ft and 15st 7lbs at the age of 64...with 10% body fat{ and had it as low as 0.7%}..I've been this weight for the last 35yrs with very low body fat..mine is all muscle mass always as been..even surprised the nurse at my GP's when she said I was overweight untill I took my top off...I can control my weight within 5lbs...as I eat clean and exercise reglarly...in my TT days my race weight was 15st 4lbs and did regular short 22's for 10mls..I have arms bigger than some riders legs..and had many a laugh at the LBS when try'n on leg warmer on my arms...so when ya chest is 49" and ya waist is 32" ya thighs 28"with 18"calf and 19"upper arms along with low body fat...BMI flies out the window

jim453

john-e-big-guns wrote:

BMI..a load a bollocks

I'm 6ft and 15st 7lbs at the age of 64...with 10% body fat{ and had it as low as 0.7%}..I've been this weight for the last 35yrs with very low body fat..mine is all muscle mass always as been..even surprised the nurse at my GP's when she said I was overweight untill I took my top off...I can control my weight within 5lbs...as I eat clean and exercise reglarly...in my TT days my race weight was 15st 4lbs and did regular short 22's for 10mls..I have arms bigger than some riders legs..and had many a laugh at the LBS when try'n on leg warmer on my arms...so when ya chest is 49" and ya waist is 32" ya thighs 28"with 18"calf and 19"upper arms along with low body fat...BMI flies out the window

Is that you in the gimp suit?

And anyway, even if any of what you've written is actually true. You're hardly a typical shape are you, and so it would be pretty stupid to write off BMI calculation because it doesn't work for 0.01% of the population.

We appear to have come full circle. Again.

Laird_Attwood

jim453 wrote:

john-e-big-guns wrote:

BMI..a load a bollocks

I'm 6ft and 15st 7lbs at the age of 64...with 10% body fat{ and had it as low as 0.7%}..I've been this weight for the last 35yrs with very low body fat..mine is all muscle mass always as been..even surprised the nurse at my GP's when she said I was overweight untill I took my top off...I can control my weight within 5lbs...as I eat clean and exercise reglarly...in my TT days my race weight was 15st 4lbs and did regular short 22's for 10mls..I have arms bigger than some riders legs..and had many a laugh at the LBS when try'n on leg warmer on my arms...so when ya chest is 49" and ya waist is 32" ya thighs 28"with 18"calf and 19"upper arms along with low body fat...BMI flies out the window

Is that you in the gimp suit?

And anyway, even if any of what you've written is actually true. You're hardly a typical shape are you, and so it would be pretty stupid to write off BMI calculation because it doesn't work for 0.01% of the population.

We appear to have come full circle. Again.

BMI is a guide and isn't correct at all. The same method is used for men and women, women naturally have a small percentage more fat. Men more muscle.

I'm 24bmi in the ok level, however I know for me I have to much body fat for my build. For all my teenage and most of my adult life I would have been classed as 'under weight' on the bmi scale - it's all B'locks.

philbar72

BMi 25. Says I'm Swiss....

byke68

I'm 6ft 1" and a bit and my weight varies between 92-94kg, bollocks to BMI.
My daughter has just started high school and has been getting harassed by the school nurse or whatever she is, saying she is borderline overweight. Bollocks she is! She is just big boned and like most kids grow in spurts. Kid can't win - they'll end fat or stick thin because the nanny state, glossy "fashion" mags and peer pressure puts too much attention on looking "right".

jedster

Actually kids can win if they are active and eat sensibly.

Although I grew up in the North, I now live in a prosperous town in the South East. My kids go to this cushy state primary school (i.e., very middle class). The town is very sporty. Parents are careful about what their kids eat and encourage them to do lots of exercise. Barely any of the kids in the school are overweight, noe are obese. Walk around poorer areas of our country or city centres and fat people are everywhere. Don't know what the answer is.

I was pretty podgy as a kid - ate too much. Fortunately our GP told my mum she was overfeeding me and I liked sport so I got in OK shape in my teens. Still tend to put on weight if I'm not careful, currently in one of my slimmer phases - 5'9" and 75kg so towards the upper end of normal BMI.

All the research says that it really does matter what BMI kids have, that growing in spurts stuff does not justify kids being overweight, and that getting into good habits when you are young is very important for the rest of your life. I think you'd be doing your daughter a favour by encouraging her to do more exercise and setting an example about what you eat at home. Just from my personal experience. Being overweight isnt fun.

me-109

random man wrote:

My BMI is 23, I'm like someone from Tanzania :shock: but I'm lower than 91% of men my age in the UK and if everyone in the world was similar to me it would reduce the world's weight by over 9million tons

So would it spin any slower?

anj132

john-e-big-guns wrote:

blah blah blah

Are you The Phantom?