Height/Weight: BG edition

[Darlantan]

I want to be like Byrthnoth and be able to lose or gain 10+ lbs in a daily basis.

[Byrthnoth]

I really only lose ~10lbs when something major happens. GF goes away, so I eat when I'm hungry instead of 3 meals/day. I get strep, so I don't want to eat, etc.

+/- 5 lbs is really just based on:
* When is the last time I crapped?
* How much have I eaten lately?
* What time of day is it?
* Have I been drinking a ton of water, or just "enough" water?

[Darlantan]

Yeah.

Battlefield report:
I just ate a huge sub. Pretty sure I gained about 15 lbs.

mmmmmmmmm.....

It was this kind of joke statements I was referring to. Would be awesome, or at the very least, interesting, to be able to gain or lose weight in a manner as simple as eating a lot or very few one day and get the same results you would in the reality while maintaining a fairly strict calorie intake for 2 months.

[Byrthnoth]

Haha, yeah. I'd totally make good on my "do this or I'm going to get fat!" threat just to spite my girlfriend.

As a related note, I highly recommend Giant Eagle Market District prepared foods subs on their multigrain bread. 14 inches, $9, feeds me for 2-3 days depending how hungry I am. My current favorite is "Three's a crowd" (ham, turkey, roast beef iirc), with provolone, lettuce, tomato, onions, banana peppers, and yellow mustard. If you live in Pittsburgh (or Columbus), for the love of god do yourself a favor and buy a sub. I swear it's cheaper to buy subs and take them apart than to buy lunch meat. In my opinion, Dell is the best sub maker in Shadyside, but Travis gave him a run for his money when he still worked in the prepared foods area. I'm going to take a picture and post it the next time that I have a camera and a sub at the same time.

[Hushigoshi]

Late to the party but.... 5'7" 174lbs... 11% bf (up from 8% FML).
Curse my tree trunk legs, makes everything else look smaller!

[Naggi]

4' 11"
Last year weighed 92 pounds... now gone way up to 105

[wipers]

6', 120

Eating disorder ?

[Saithorx]

5'11"
168

[Ashmada]

Hey, is this the thread where the obese call the slightly underweight and normal weight people anorexic?

Incidentally: ~2m, ~70kg.

In lolunits, I think that's 6'6"-6'7" ~155 lbs.

Tried building up muscle, can't. My diet is mostly made of animals (yay proteins), but in small quantities and I have a hard time forcing myself to carry on eating after satiety intervenes.

[Aevis]

call it what you want but that can't be healthy. a buddy of mine is thin as fuck looking like one intense windblow could break him (1.82m @ 66 kg) but you got only 4kg more @ 2m o.O

[bluefan]

5'6
127lbs

I can eat like a black hole for months and maybe change my weight ~3lbs? Yeah, all the girls I know hate me for it. Especially when we're eating out and I'm shoving stuff into my face and they're nibbling on salads or what not...

[Ashmada]

I don't call it what I want, I call it what the BMI says .
BMI isn't the end-all be-all, of course (body fat% is more sensible), but your friend is right in the middle of the "normal" BMI range.

Overrepresentation of excess weight leads some societies (notably, but not only, McDonaldsland society) to consider said excess to be the new norm.
The shift of perception makes sense on a social level, but not on a health level.

[Aevis]

BMI when hipbones and ripcage start to show, i start to worry. hell even with the BMI index, 182@66 is just 19.9, which isn't in the middle of 18.5 - 24.5 at all. also, your 2nd paragraph is a double edged sword, as you only have to replace "McDonaldsland" with "xxx's Next Topmodel".

no offense, it's just that we (me + bud) talk a lot about nutrition lately as he's desperatly trying to put on some mass and is having a hard time with that. then i saw your seize/weigh + isla's and thought how the hell can you guys even walk

[richardd]

dont look at your BMI, lol. those things are a horrible way to calculate stuff like that.

go to this site instead, courtesy of plow. http://www.healthcentral.com/cholest...-2774-143.html


i have 13.5% bodyfat during bulking season, but a 30.2 bmi? lol whatever man

[isladar]

Because I'm not a dude? I've got a tiny-ass bone structure. I'm slender, but certainly not malnourished.

[RKenshin]

BMI is really misleading, it can be thrown off completely just by stuff like frame size, muscle size/tone, water retention/hydration levels, body fat%, etc. It may be a decent reference in a general/statistical sense but it certainly doesn't mean much on purely a case-by-case basis.

I've been obese/overweight since I was like 14 according to my BMI measurements, but the 'fattest' I've ever been was like a 32" waist with ~14% body fat. And over the past year my BMI has only gone up despite being at 7% body fat with a 31" waist.

I've never been anywhere close to obese (if anything I've been closer to being too thin), and am certainly not now, but according to BMI I have! It's silly.

[Ashmada]

BMI when hipbones and ripcage start to show, i start to worry. hell even with the BMI index, 182@66 is just 19.9, which isn't in the middle of 18.5 - 24.5 at all. also, your 2nd paragraph is a double edged sword, as you only have to replace "McDonaldsland" with "xxx's Next Topmodel".

no offense, it's just that we (me + bud) talk a lot about nutrition lately as he's desperatly trying to put on some mass and is having a hard time with that. then i saw your seize/weigh + isla's and thought how the hell can you guys even walk

Bad choice of words on my part, there, "overrepresentation" was ambiguous. Should've said "ubiquity". I didn't mean the representation in the media, just that the average american (and british, and probably belgian but we don't care,...) is overweight.

The average becomes the new norm, that's a very understandable process. But still amusing to observe.


About BMI: I said it wasn't very good . This thread gives height/weight only, though, so not much more to go for.


Anyway, I'm far from those anorexic pictures you see, and it's not like I can help it anyway. I'd probably be even thinner if I had "good" eating habits and a diet richer in them plant thingies.


Edit: emphasis.

[Hushigoshi]

BMI?

Yeah let's use something that was formulated back in the 1830s because average body standards, exercise science, and body kinesiology has definitely not changed since then.

Just saying that i love being considered morbidly obese because of it.

[archibaldcrane]

i have 13.5% bodyfat during bulking season, but a 30.2 bmi? lol whatever man

Just saying that i love being considered morbidly obese because of it.

You think that your extra body weight isn't going to put you at an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other weight-related illnesses later on in life?

That's all BMI refers to - how at-risk you are for health problems because of your weight.

[RKenshin]

You think that your extra body weight isn't going to put you at an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other weight-related illnesses later on in life?

That's all BMI refers to - how at-risk you are for health problems because of your weight.

BMI is purely a measurement meant to estimate levels of adipose tissue (aka, body fat/fat cells) through comparing the height to weight ratio. It has no such 'cardiac/health risk' measurement intentions whatsoever.

Regardless of that, increased muscle tone/size has absolutely no correlation to an increased rate of heart disease and especially diabetes (beyond using drugs or extremely excessive levels of training of course). If anything you're at a significantly decreased risk of those problems as they're proven to have a direct relation to fitness level, and part of fitness is muscle tone/strength.