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Faye is curvy
Surgoshan:
Or if you're tall. Tall people break the BMI. So do short people, but in the other direction.
Is it cold in here?:
Tanita makes a reasonably priced scale that estimates body fat percentage based on an electrical measurement, saving you the trouble of getting calipered or water-tanked.
On real-life women, it's a minus for me if ribs are sticking out.
What makes Faye attractive to the other characters, and what would make a Faye-like real woman attractive to me, is her wit and personality. I have a dysfunctional pattern of being attracted to personalities like Faye's.
Faye isn't even Rubenesque. I bet she's on the high side of medical recommendations but it's a cultural malfunction that makes her feel fat.
LegendaryPancake:
My BMI is 16. I am in no way a skeleton. I'm just hella tall. :mrgreen:
JonSnow:
if your BMI is 16 you're either calculating it wrong or I would really hurry myself to a hospital. a BMI of 16 = severe malnourishment, it gets dangerous below 18 just like obese gets dangerous above 28.
for the calculation again lets use me.
I'm a skinny person, (for some reason I have a superfast metabolism) I weigh 69kg which is 151.8 lbs and I'm 1m83 which is about 72" or 6' feet something
69 divided by 1.83 times 1.83 = 69/3.348 = a BMI of 20.6 which is still ok.
Body fat is something they introduced after they discovered that the way body mass an body fat related to eachother were changing in drastically but no way in heaven or hell would your BMI be over 25 if you have 0% bodyfat. Saying you're bigboned? for a BMI of 25+ on an average height guy lets say 1m75 which is 68.9" = 5 ' and 8.90 " he'd have to weigh over 80kg which is 176 lbs and still be healthy. or way more then 87kg or 191.4 lbs to enter the obesity zone.
Fenriswolf:
BMI is crap, manages to make most people feel like shit (you're too fat! You're too thin!), and why the fuck do doctors need a weight.height chart to work out if someone's overweight or not anyway?? They shouldn't be too thick to learn discernment what with that medical degree and all... nor do you need a MD to work out what's a healthy bodyfat% and/or weight for you.
Skinny people are not necessarily healthy or active. Fat people are not necessarily unhealthy or lazy. Get the fuck over it.
(Oh and FYI at just under 20% bodyfat, a fair amount of muscle and extremely active with a good diet I was exactly on the line between "OK" and "overweight". I am now what I consider overweight; I've got a wee bit of a belly, gone a size up in pants, probably around 35% bodyfat and my weight is starting to annoy me in terms of being able to walk the dogs on hills etc.
My BMI makes me "obese" which strikes me as ridiculous as I can still go harder and longer at kickboxing than my muscular, slim, male friend whose BMI puts him on the line between "OK" and "underweight". Waste of fucking time and energy, I know I need to lose weight and didn't need an arbitrary bullshit chart to guilt-trip me into knowing that.)
As for Faye, she's hot but her increasing negativity and passive-aggressiveness are killing my respect for her. :x
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