MFK Member Profile: Are you normal?

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Whats you BMI?

  • Underweight

    Votes: 10 8.8%

  • Normal

    Votes: 67 58.8%

  • Overweight

    Votes: 32 28.1%

  • Obesity

    Votes: 5 4.4%
  • Total voters
    114
bump for my "harsh" thread....lol

reality sucks hu? LOL
 
Wow dude.. 6'0 and I'd have to weigh like 180ish to be considered normal.. I don't know if I could drop 40lbs..
 
Don't women and men have a different BMI? How does this calculate for both?

I'm 6'2" and 170lbs....says my BMI is 21.8. This is the most I've ever weighed, too. :(

Here's one that adds age and sex. http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/av.htm

Oh, and Wikipedia says
The medical establishment has generally acknowledged some shortcomings of BMI.[12] Because the BMI is dependent only upon net weight and height, it makes simplistic assumptions about distribution of muscle and bone mass, and thus may overestimate adiposity on those with more lean body mass (e.g. athletes) while underestimating adiposity on those with less lean body mass (e.g. the elderly).

In fact, some argue that the error in the BMI is significant and so pervasive that it is not generally useful in evaluation of health.[13] Due to these limitations, body composition for athletes is often better calculated using measures of body fat, as determined by such techniques as skinfold measurements or underwater weighing.
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My body fat percentage is <6%, as it's hard to get an exact skinfold measurements when you're under 7% bodyfat.
 
5' 11" and 175 lbs. and it says I'm .05 away from being overweight....whatever. I'm completely fit with very little body fat.
 
this wouldnt work for me.people that weight lift/body build would be automatically over weight or obese.like a 5'10'' guy that has 5% body fat at 300lbs.at one point in time due to this i was .8 off from being obese


well to answer it anyway i am over weight.
 
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