POLL: What is your BMI?

[BigFatMeanie]

The posts in the Diet and Nutrition thread led me to believe that we have a pretty high percentage of CSers that, like me, are categorized as obese according to BMI.

So, let's figure out how fat we are as a group. What is your BMI?

Handy BMI calculator here: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/edu...MI/bmicalc.htm

[BigPiney]

I would have to gain close to 40 lbs to be classified as obese and lose 25 lbs to be underweight. I think I will be hanging out in normal for the foreseeable future. Somehow if I was able to put on 13 lbs of muscle I could be overweight.

[USUC]

No differentiation between gender?

I'm overweight by .5 lbs. I would have to lose 50 lbs to be underweight. I just lost about 30 lbs earlier this year. My doctor was ecstatic and said to chill out a little bit. He seemed to be much more focused on inches around the waist than weight.

[Pelado]

I'm well into the obese range. Strangely, my target weight is also pretty close to obese. My high school playing weight, when I was in pretty damn good shape, would be just into the overweight category.

[SCcoug]

I would have to gain close to 40 lbs to be classified as obese and lose 25 lbs to be underweight. I think I will be hanging out in normal for the foreseeable future. Somehow if I was able to put on 13 lbs of muscle I could be overweight.

You're only 5'4?

[Clark Addison]

I normally fluctuate around 22.5 to 23.5. The last month or two have not been particularly healthy, so I am above 24 and dangerously close to the overweight border. I made some new rules for myself this week.

[Northwestcoug]

Overweight, BMI 28.9

I just had my physical turning 50 last month, and I also have slightly elevated cholesterol. Which sucks, because before I had low LDL and high HDL. Now the opposite.

Can I blame 2020?

[BigPiney]

You're only 5'4?

Almost. I used to be 5 11, but getting shorter all the time.

[Bo Diddley]

That online calculator puts me close to 26%, but the Army tape puts me at 23%. I don't trust either. I've been thinking about getting one of those body scans to see where I stand, but inertia.

[Eddie]

If I grow another 10", I'll be in the "normal" range.

[LiveCoug]

27.7 suckas.

[old_gregg]

bunch of goddamn undernourished soy boys

[Commando]

I'm in fat denial right now. I'll be back with my answer when I drop like 20 lbs

[Jeff Lebowski]

I am in the overweight category and it says I would have to lose a ton of weight to get to normal weight. A weight I have not seen since I was 17 years old. But the problem with these simple calculators is that they don't take into account body type. I have broad shoulders. My doctor used to laugh when he plugged my numbers in and would tell me that the charts were way too simplistic. That being said, I could stand to lose 10-12 lbs.

[Donuthole]

25.2. After dropping about 25 lbs since peak COVID weight, I’ve stalled out at around 190. I’ve been slacking on my food tracking and I have not been getting my 10,000 steps for the last month. Time to get back to work and get comfortably into the normal weight range. 183 here I come.