How fat are you?

[doubledeluxe]

BMI is 23.

looking at the chart, it's appears that Bangladesh is a very healthy country.

I have the same BMI but I think it's worth comparing to countries similar to your ethnicity at the very least. Asians for example are built differently.

 

[MustISO]

23 bmi

 

[smackababy]

It's a range and not a specific weight. 194 is slightly fat but there's nothing wrong with 160.

194 might be slightly overweight, however at 160 and 5'10, you're struggling to do a push up or a soccer player. That is sickly small.

 

[doubledeluxe]

If you are a thin guy who exercises a lot then around 160 is ok. If you were muscular maybe around 180.

160 is not sickly small by any means for everyone.

I feel like anytime weight is discussed there is always someone trying to say that xx lbs is sickly small when there is a nice range of weights available to everyone depending on your body.

194 though is fat. Really fat if you're not muscular.

 

[doubledeluxe]

I missed that though. I think the soccer player description is a really good one. That I would agree with.

 

[alkemyst]

If you are a thin guy who exercises a lot then around 160 is ok. If you were muscular maybe around 180.

160 is not sickly small by any means for everyone.

I feel like anytime weight is discussed there is always someone trying to say that xx lbs is sickly small when there is a nice range of weights available to everyone depending on your body.

194 though is fat. Really fat if you're not muscular.

Depends on height.

 

[doubledeluxe]

Been talking about 5'10

 

[alkemyst]

Been talking about 5'10

if not muscular then probably, many think sumo wrestlers are obese.

 

[doubledeluxe]

OK let's get away from the extremes.

 

[Zivic]

I spent a little over two years away without going home to visit. The first thing I noticed when I came home was how fat we are. It's shocking. Its not something I was acutely aware of before but being away from America and then coming back I can assure you that we have a serious problem.

Its something I've discussed with my friends and family and they seem to be convinced it has something to do with our food. They're not even sure what to do with their kids but are trying to buy meat from small farms at least. Maybe it's the hormones and maybe it's not but something is different.

Its not confined to america either. In Europe the girls are starting their periods at 8 and 9 years old. Breasts are bigger. Something has changed.

Our size has everything to do with how much we eat. In general, we have no idea what, or how much we should be eating. it isn't the hormones.... it's the excessive amount of over processed foods and sugars we devour daily.

And I will just throw this out there that if you are fat or obese, you don't need a BMI number to inform you of it.

 

[doubledeluxe]

I'm a big believer in eating healthy and exercising and it's actually quite possible that obesity is the reason that girls are starting puberty earlier according to a few things I've read. Nonetheless I still wonder since I have friends with daughters who are not fat yet started menstruating insanely young. Might be another reason for those exceptions though.

 

[FiLeZz]

You have a lower BMI than 84% of males aged 30-44 in your country

Obesity Index
24bmi

You have a lower BMI than 53% of males aged 30-44 in the world