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Faye is curvy
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 30 Dec 2008, 23:08 ---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
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Eh? You've have a problem with your weight, but a measure that tells you the same is ridiculous?
JonSnow:
Fenris, maybe you dont need a doctor to help you find out you need to do a little more exercise, but a lot of people DO. otherwise the world wouldnt have any obese people. a chart never tries to guilt-trip you in losing weight, a chart cant even try to DO anything. The fact that you checked the chart, and that you feel uncomfortable with what it says is you guilt-tripping yourself. In most cases it's better off to be a little bit overweight then underweight when it comes to physical activity. More fat too burn means you can produce more energy. But the problems with overweight start setting in at the late 30's, early 40's and we'll see who's better off then you or you little underweight friend. You said so yourself you're having problems waking dogs on hills, you know that seems like a big problem to me (hills shouldnt be too physically exhausting)
and as you may have noticed we are not pissing on the parade of fat people. We're getting annoyed by fat people who DONT exercise or at least eat more then they know themselves they should, and then go blaming everybody and everything but themselves for being fat. You got yourself fat, nobody else did, face that and you're halfway down the road of a diet (that last part was directed at the group of fat people described, the angry non exercisers).
I do heavily agree on the Faye part though. I loved Faye in the earlier comics, now (and this from before the Sven thing) she's lost all my respect. She's a sad woman who hates it to see other people happy, she tries to hide it, but as of late I dont even think she's trying to hide it
Puki:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Dec 2008, 01:40 ---Eh? You've have a problem with your weight, but a measure that tells you the same is ridiculous?
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Eh, I think it was refered to unacuracy (<-insert right term instead) of BMI. For instance, my BMI would be 21,5, and I'm quite skinny, but 202 cm.
Obese people don't walk on hills, etc...
Random832:
--- Quote from: JonSnow on 30 Dec 2008, 01:17 ---if your BMI is 16 you're either calculating it wrong
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The point people have been making (which you've ignored) is that there is no right way to calculate it because it's a fundamentally broken measurement.
--- Quote ---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.
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If you're self-described as "skinny" but 20.6 when 20 is the ostensibly "average" BMI, doesn't that kind of prove the point?
--- Quote ---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.
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How is 80kg of mostly muscle implausible?
Surgoshan:
Yeah. I'm 5'9" and 80kg of mostly muscle. Granted, I had to work hard to get there and have to work hard to stay there, but it's not implausible.
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