"And no, I'm not fat, I'm just festively plump."
Can you clarify what this might actually mean?
Is this denial we're witnessing here on this forum?
A BMI of 25 - 29.9 = fat
A BMI figure of 30+ is obesity.
Unless you are disproportionately muscular, then it's a pretty good guide.
Peregrine: Have you looked into Eugenics of late? It's back in the news recently. Developed by Darwin's cousin no less.
Mitch, it was something along the lines of you like to get dressed up in uniform and then have sex play with your drugged and straight jacketed patients.
Harmless joshing really
A BMI of 25 - 29.9 = fat
Bugger 25.2!
Seems I am "fat" again. 
Goan,
how did you get on teaching the fatties to drive? Did you refuse to take their bookings? Charge them extra for increased wear and tear? Spend the whole lesson trying to refrain from vomitting at their presence in your car?
Damn, my secret is out! So much awareness from one so (apparently) off his trolley...
I am not fatist.
vinnyeh - I sense a little anger there!
I think from now on everyone should post there BMI before commenting, just so we know what perspective they are coming from. 
No - no anger at all.
BMI is 23 btw.
Damn you sir, I'm as sleek as a young gazelle! (providing said gazelle weighs about fifteen stone and lists 'sitting' as one of it's hobbies).
You think you have issues!
Try taking wedding pictures of the Modern Bride, or to be more accurate, the Modern Bridesmaid!
I once did a photo shoot in a Northern town (no names but Mitch knows!). The art director flew in from the States and he worked very closely with the Bay Watch TV cast and the California lifeguards on their books and publications.
In said northern town, the local council had asked for volunteers to be subjects for some publications on life saving, first aid and other related matters.
There were about 15 girls who turned up, in their swimming costumes for the audition. We had to let all but one girl go. HUGE!
So, yes, in my line of work, it does actually matter. It shouldn't, but it does.
It's a truism that the larger the lady, the more flesh will be on show.
BMI of 24.6
I am not fatist
I am especially when I see fat parents who have obviously forced there way of life onto there fat children, that disgusts me.
No - no anger at all.
Was not aimed at you Goan.
25.2BMI But you wouldn't think it if you saw me...
...no lets stop right there!
Should singlespeeders be forced to stop being annoying?
in that case you may like this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Vs1KRQ_DY
21.3 BMI who cares let them eat pies
what would we do next?
No smoking , regular excercise, 5 fruit and veg,low fat diets ?
I'm slightly dismayed when I see fat parents fattening up their kids. Once saw a very obese couple fill a large bag of pik n mix for their already overweight little girl. Wasn't there a court case recently about parents over feeding their kids being a form of abuse?
vinnyeh - I sense a little anger there!
No, thought Goan had an issue and was curious how he got through the day without exploding.
I'm resigned to carrying around a spare tyre these days. bmi of 25.2 as well (just been off and calculated it). Blame it on the arrival of middle age and semi retirement.
vinnyeh - according to recent surveys i have no issues and am a well balanced stress free individual.
I'm slightly dismayed when I see fat parents fattening up their kids.
That really worries me nowadays- when we were kids we ate anything and everything, and it didn't seem to affect us.
how much blame can be laid at the door of sedentary lifestyles? And how are those early eating habits ever going to be changed?
vinnyeh - according to recent surveys i have no issues and am a well balanced stress free individual.
I'd like to know where they found the sample to poll for that survey...
They found it in the world outside STW.
BMI - 19
No one should be forced to do anything - but incentives should be provided. It's simple - ryan air should charge you for the combined weight of you and your luggage. It boggles my mind that i'm charged a fortune for going 2 kilos over the luggage weight limit when there is someone litteraly double my weight paying the same price for their ticket. When people talk of banning chocolate, i've often thought it would be much fairer to have scales at the check out - the result of which dictates what you are allowed to buy and what you are charged for it. I'm misserable cause I can't find any tasty crisps or sweets these days because they have all been changed to reduced-sugar reduced-fat reduced-salt sunflower-oil no-artificial-colours tasteless crap. and it's the fatties' fault.
Vinnyeh.
I think your BMI figure is based on the wrong criteria.
Best weigh-in is in the mornig, a "dry" weight, after morning movements, no food nor drink, and not after a heavy meal and / or alcohol the night before which will all have an effect of maybe + / - 3 lbs or maybe more.
Meaning you are more than likely 24.9!
Welcome back to the "normal" range!
Why does every thread involving weight on this forum always involve having a shit?
I weigh as much as a bag of sugar, maybe I should be legally forced to stop being smug around my dieting workmates? But it's so satisfying. "Still on the diet eh? I'm just going to have a mars bar and a packet of crisps for lunch."
Goan.
The best examples are at the weigh-in for boxers and also jockeys.
Those morning ablutions can make a big difference when you're border-line / on the edge of straying into the next weight category.
I've been in a local gym sauna (Malton, N Yorks) with professional jockeys, downing cans of beer after a work-out. It's how they make the weigh-in the next morning when they're a little heavier than they want to be.
I would suggest the difference is that an anorexic could be in imminent danger of death through their refusal to digest food, whereas an obese person could go on living for years - being 10st overweight won't necessarily kill an adult but being 10st underweight will.
This chap only paid for one airplane ticket.
He looks like a hazard.
Would you want to be anywhere near him if the plane had to make an unscheduled emergency landing?
Besides, how would you get the drinks and food to the rear passengers?
Note how the 2x seats directly behind him are empty; the passengers have fled fearing the seat's impending collapse!
ps - think of his B.O!
every single time I get on a plane, a man approaching that size comes and sits next to me and presses his huge sweaty arm against me.
I once got business class to Dallas. I'm sat there enjoying the plush calf leather seats, sipping champagne before takeoff, we're flying to Atlanta first, this is going to be great!. There's a big rush of air through the plane and then this huge man collapses into the seat next to me. His fat folds across the arm rest and pushes me to one side. It's awful, hot and damp and very smelly. I beckon a stewardess and whisper if it's possible to be moved, but the plane is apparently full. On top of the wheels would be preferable to this but no, I'm stuck with it.
He also beckons the stewardess. He's unhappy about having to go to England. Apparently we're crap at everything. He then tells her to bring him a stiff drink and keep them coming. They come on a very regular basis for the next 8 hours and he keeps knocking them back. He eats TWO main courses and a shitload of snacks, all free in business class. I start drinking after about 4 hours to soften the pain. The man watches videos on his PSP and just shovels food and drink in constantly. He reeks of sweat and a bit of piss and bitches constantly with a full mouth about everything from the size of the plane to the dress code of the flight attendants.
What a vile person. If the rule was to starve people like him, I'd sign on the dotted line right now.
BMI 29 
I need a padlock on the kitchen door !!
On the plus side I'm not as unfit as I could be obviously I don't agree with forcing people to do anything however I think parents whos kids are over BMI 30 need talking to.
Not sure of my BMI, but thanks to lousy bloody toothache and an infected abcess, I've not eaten properly for about five days - result! Anyway, why does it matter? Unless someone's weight is affecting you personally, why get a hair across your arse about it?
I got on a flight to LA once, weighing in at 52kg (oh the days).
They put a big fat guy next to me, on purpose I am sure. I pulled a huge strop and they moved me, not proud of myself, and then had to sit by the window at the back all the way, and somebody else got bumped to first class to free up an extra seat for the behemoth. Bad result all around. Must work on that combination of strop and grovel that gets one upgraded. Will cry next time.
"Anyway, why does it matter? Unless someone's weight is affecting you personally, why get a hair across your arse about it? "
No man's an island, seriously overweight people tend to soak up healthcare at a disproportionate rate. Which I used to think was a good reason to either enforce thin-ness, or withdraw care for self-inflicted conditions, til I realised where that could lead... "No fracture clinic for you, mtb boy, you did that to yourself..."
Why is everyone getting excited about the deeply flawed measurement that is BMI though? Surely there are better ways to measure whether you are overweight/seriously overweight than that (well - there are, many studies have been done to prove it, such as waist measurement and hip/waist ratios).
I managed to get my BMI down to 30 once... there wasn't much left to shift (think I was around 17 stone 10lbs at the time), so needless to say I get pretty pissed off when people get on their high horse and categorise people on some arbitrary figure dreamed up by statisticians in Belgium many years ago.
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