Question Where are you on the global fat scale?

[Keatah]

-11 kilos would be a good thing 4 me

 

[Notebook]

Seems I'm somewhere close to

If he makes a film equal to that:

N.

 

[Artlav]

Huh?
How does BMI tell between 10 kg of fat and 10 kg of muscle?

 

[dgatsoulis]

It doesn't.

 

[C3PO]

Huh?
How does BMI tell between 10 kg of fat and 10 kg of muscle?

It doesn't, hence the problem.

The Danish wikipedia article describes it as "an indicator for over- or underweight in groups, but shouldn't be used for exact measurement on individuals."

 

[N_Molson]

I'd say it's up to your appreciation, and the advice of your local medic.

 

[Krys]

I'm not going to say what my BMI is...but let's put it this way - if i go to the gym every day for a few years... I may get back to a healthy weight....

The problem with BMI is that it doesn't account for your body type either. I'm a curvy girl (yay me) so a BMI of 22 would look fine on my sister (who is not at all curvy) but I'd look like I was anorexic.

 

[Izack]

177cm tall and 53kg. I score a 17 bmi, most like the average citizen of the Congo.

That's what happens when you work long hours and only have an opportunity to eat once or twice a day, if at all. I thought this wasn't supposed to happen to people in NA...?

 

[Quick_Nick]

I'm not going to say what my BMI is...but let's put it this way - if i go to the gym every day for a few years... I may get back to a healthy weight....

The problem with BMI is that it doesn't account for your body type either. I'm a curvy girl (yay me) so a BMI of 22 would look fine on my sister (who is not at all curvy) but I'd look like I was anorexic.

Indeed. I checked the bmi of others, and it suggests people lose weight to a totally unhealthy degree. And I don't think it properly accounts for all heights.

 

[fort]

Here:

bmi 20
a lower BMI than 97% of males aged 60-69 in your country
a lower BMI than 85% of males aged 60-69 in the world

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 46,933,945 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

I'm most like someone from Eritrea :blink:

...and there
Taille 168 cm Poids 56 kg IMC 19.8 corpulence normale

 

[PeriapsisPrograde]

I'm in the heaviest third for the world, but the lightest third for America :facepalm:

 

[dumbo2007]

I am just about over the edge...25 bmi. Maybe in a few more days.

 

[MattBaker]

You're most like someone from DR Congo

Should I take this as a heavy insult?

Whatever, I could eat twice as much as everyone else and can't gain weight (60 kg at 185 cm:shifty...

 

[Face]

Whatever, I could eat twice as much as everyone else and can't gain weight (60 kg at 185 cm:shifty...

Were your blood fat levels checked recently? If not, I'd recommend doing so.

I had that mode running from adolescence to around 30, and now I'm fighting high blood fat levels, although my BMI is around 22. Doctor said my body can't properly convert fat from food into "usual" fat cells, so I can eat much but don't gain weight. Instead, my liver has to handle the fat and eventually dumps it into the blood. You can guess that that's not healthy...

IMHO, doctors, trainers or body-coaches that use the BMI as single yardstick for weight goals should be avoided at all costs, as they can do more harm to people than McDonald's.
Also, I see the current "body-cult" as pretty dangerous. Weight and shape is only one aspect of a healthy body, but is treated as the be-all-end-all in society.

Oh well, at least at Facebook they can do the Photoshop diet. Just like the real models do...

 

[liber]

Should I take this as a heavy insult?

Whatever, I could eat twice as much as everyone else and can't gain weight (60 kg at 185 cm:shifty...

Maybe you have parasite?

 

[ky]

Your numbers

Obesity Index
19bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is

National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 97% of males aged 15-29 in your country

Global
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 81% of males aged 15-29 in the world

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 57,041,004 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

You're most like someone from Somalia

I knew I'd be about there, Zatnikitelman beat me by 1

Whatever, I could eat twice as much as everyone else and can't gain weight

High metabolism, same here

 

[Napalm42]

I'm 5'10, weighing 169 pounds.

BMI is 24, in the lowest 26% of the US, but highest 30% of the world. Kiss me I'm Irish.

I never really liked the BMI index to be honest. Sure, I'm a little rounded in the middle, but most of my weigh comes from muscle I gained in the marching band and working out on my own. Furthermore, I have no health issues, normal cholesterol, and am in a healthy weight range according to my doc. Just because this thing thinks I'm nearly overweight doesn't mean I'm unhealthy.

 

[Urwumpe]

BMI of 28 here... Now, you could say that I am fat... Hell, I am saying this about myself. But my ideal weight has still a BMI of 24.

According to my coarse body analysis scale, I have 24% fat and 51% water. I might claim to have heavy bones, but in reality, it is a fair amount of muscles hidden below the fat.

Hmm...Qatar...

 

[tblaxland]

The only thing this has been good for has been for me to discover what the demonym of Sierra Leone is.

 

[FADEC]