[Closed] Where are you on the fatty / thinny scale?

Legs like Wiggins, body like Biggins

BMI is really meant to be an indicator of the health of a large group, not individuals. Many athletes have fairly high BMIs because they have a lot of muscle mass, while people with average BMIs can have much higher body fat percentages because they have very little muscle mass.

24.1 which is OK but I know could do with losing a few pounds

25.1 Which is based upon a scale of wildly criticised methodology.

I'm fit and healthy, thats all that matters.

BMI is for a generally sedentary population not those who actually get out and do something. I did the linked test and my BMI is 26.8, so technically I'm overweight, the last comment on my weight was "you lost weight? you're looking fit".

22 point something so healthy which I guess is accurate. Half expected to be closer to underweight actually.

BMI is really meant to be an indicator of the health of a large group, not individuals. Many athletes have fairly high BMIs because they have a lot of muscle mass, while people with average BMIs can have much higher body fat percentages because they have very little muscle mass.

Apart from the guy who ran the marathon nearly as fast as Mo i suspect there arent many 'athletes' here...

23.7 here and I'm about what you would expect a not fat but not thin man to look like. Until 6 months ago I looked almost exactly like the overweight picture of a man on there, though, with a BMI of about 26. Feel much better now that's gone.

Somewhere in the middle. Can't do the calculator thing cos I haven't got a clue how much I weigh. I find measuring fat much easier using a mirror.

Existence of athletes with a hight BMI != Your high BMI due to pork pies. Good excuse though.

23 ish, hard to believe that 18.5 is health as at that I’d be the weight I was when I was 21 and had been ill for a year. Lived in Glasgow at the time and people kept asking me for drugs as I looked like a heroin addict

Age 54,  BMI 23.4,  waist 29 inches, abs visible.

I imagine a mirror is not very flexible Dez and aren't the sharp edges painful?

"Your BMI is 21.7 which is in the healthy category."

55 year old. 30" waist. Uncut... ;0)

25.6, 83 kg, 180 cm.

Until a few months ago and buying a road bike I’d been hovering around 90 kg and at the upper end of overweight. At that stage, I too used to hide behind the “yeah well, but leg muscles...”

Now having nearly returned to “healthy”, and being the lightest I’ve been for nearly 10 years, I feel one hell of a lot better. Not there yet, but definitely happy that I’ve lost a chunk of flab I really didn’t think I had!

obese.

but those silly chart things don't really work if you a built like a house side, do they.

28 - Overweight. I'm surprised I'm not classed as Obese really.

I find measuring fat much easier using a mirror.

tru dat.

Strip,stand in front of the mirror and jump.

Nothing above the hips should wobble 😉

20.7

inadvertently dropped a full BMI point this year when I decided to stop eating sugary snacks and eat peanuts/cashews etc instead. Hadn't actually wanted to lose any weight, I was just interested to see if it would affect my energy levels...

24.6

5'11"

80 kg

49

33"

BMI is a bit toss though.

21.3

Just nonsense though. I've been far fitter/healthier in the past at stone heavier than now.

23.5.

BMI is bollox as measurement of health.

I imagine a mirror is not very flexible Dez and aren’t the sharp edges painful?

Man doesn't know how to use mirror shocker. I help: Hold it in your left hand, move your hand behind your back, angle it downwards. Look at the reflection until you can see your buttocks. Now bend forward at the waist until you can see your smile. The further forward you have to bend, the fatter you are. If you can't bend forward far enough, then you are obese.

BMI is bollox as measurement of health.

Not really.  It is a pretty good indicator of whether a person is a healthy weight.  Doesn't tell you any more than that but it is not supposed to and couldn't possibly just from some height/weight numbers,

BMI of 22.7, ok with that, It'd be interesting to go on one of those fat scanners like an MRI machine and see where the fat / muscle is (I could probably guess and say it's torso, given I'm a cyclist and not particularly upper body strong). never been convinced by those home scales with fat calculators that do it by electrical resistance through the feet...

'yeah but I'm an athlete' QUOTE Prof Naveed Sattar from the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow says this is likely to apply to far less than 1% of individuals.

>Not really. It is a pretty good indicator of whether a person is a healthy weight.

Only for untrained people. Anyone who does any weights will have a score unduly high on it. Waist* to height ratio is probably a better single figure metric.

* As in real waist measurement and not trouser size, which can be up to 8" difference due to vanity sizing.

BMI is really meant to be an indicator of the health of a large group, not individuals. Many athletes have fairly high BMIs because they have a lot of muscle mass, while people with average BMIs can have much higher body fat percentages because they have very little muscle mass.

Existence of athletes with a hight BMI != Your high BMI due to pork pies. Good excuse though.

Yeah, unless you're an elite shotputter or professional rugby prop your 'athleticism' probably isn't the reason for an overweight/obese BMI.

The average male olympian (from the data here: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/datablog/2012/aug/07/olympics-2012-athletes-age-weight-height#bmi ) has a BMI of 24, inside the healthy range.

20.4 apparently.  Anyone beat that?  I'm a skinny wretch.

BMI is really meant to be an indicator of the health of a large group, not individuals. Many athletes have fairly high BMIs because they have a lot of muscle mass, while people with average BMIs can have much higher body fat percentages because they have very little muscle mass.

I'm not calling everyone on this thread fat, but they're not all rugby forwards or Chris Hoy either.

It's like asking people are they an above average driver, suddenly everyone becomes 'athletic' and one of those outliers for whom BMI can't possibly be accurate.

20.4 apparently. Anyone beat that? I’m a skinny wretch.

20 (6ft, 67kg), take that fatso!

^ Bails, do you have to run around in the shower to get wet?

24 here, being a similar to HtS.

Fat bast**d here and I know it. But not as fat as I was, so heading in the right direction. Still some way to go though

At the fat end.

BMI 36ish. I was hovering around 40 6 months ago so not all bad news. I'm having an "over 40s" health check at the docs tomorrow so I'll find out if I'm about to cark it soon or not.

How do all you skinny chaps stay on the ground in a strong wind?

Strip,stand in front of the mirror and jump.

Nothing above the hips should wobble

It's still going. That's been an hour now.

I'm morbidly undertall

18.9

but this is shocking:  "About 78% of men in your age group in England are overweight, obese or very obese."

and if you factor in the northern bias towards fatness the figure would be even greater in those areas compared to London which has the lowest (60%)

as ever it’s always somebody else’s problem, either the retailers/supermarkets/education/income/schools/parents etc etc. funny that there were no overweight kids at my school and olive oil was something you put in your ear and a mediterranean diet was scampi and chips.

people need to stop being in denial and take ownership of their health/weight issues and deal with them. (though it’s quite ok to not deal with them as long as you stop blaming society/others for your own ills)

28, based on last time I weighed myself (probably gone down a touch since) at 5'11 and 14st 5lb. Had to guess my waist at 33".

It's funny 'cos I *know* I could do with losing a good stone of fat (though I struggle with much more than that) but folk in my office tend to say 'oh you do loads of exercise (true), you don't need to lose weight (not true)'. But then I am by some way the slimmest here. Well apart from the guy who runs something ridiculous like 3:20 marathons. But we don't talk about him.

Reckon I could stand to lost a lb of beard too.

I’m not calling everyone on this thread fat, but they’re not all rugby forwards or Chris Hoy either.

Exactly.  The people who are misrepresented by BMI calculation are probably in the 0.n%.

So on the whole a very good, and easy, indicator.

I am straddling the normal/overweight range and I think it is a fair result TBH.

22.5, would like to lose a couple of kg though to get to a decent race weight.

I used to race the NPS at 67kg, 70" tall, so BMI of 21.6 BMI. I'm now 79 kg, so BMI 25.5 so technically over weight, but my % fat (as measure by callipers) is exactly the same. I stopped cycling and took up weight lifting / gymnastic strength training. I have been 83kg at the same % body fat (BMI 26.7). Doesn't really tell you much....

I keep meaning to get a DEXA bodyfat scan, just out of curiosity...

BMI = 23.6

"About 69% of men in your age group in England are overweight, obese or very obese."

I'm going into the pie making business.

Being of an age where you get invited for medical check-ups I've had my BMI "officially" measured in the last few years. It's somewhat ironic being told you are overweight by someone who is both considerably shorter than yourself and much heavier!

In my youth I used to climb a lot. Looking at pictures of me from that time I was ripped, not quite front cover of Mens Health ripped but pretty decent muscle definition all over. I worked out my BMI for that time - 24, i.e. towards the top end of "normal"

As @MrSmith says, controlling my weight is my responsibility, if I have a splurge on biscuits or whatever then it's up to me to apply the necessary corrections.

30 here

yes im fat and unfit. 🙂

It’s somewhat ironic being told you are overweight by someone who is both considerably shorter than yourself and much heavier!

This is not ironic.