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KP:
Eh, there isn't really any easy way to tell if you're at a healthy weight. BMI is good for some people (I think I'm like 27 or 28 which seemed fine to me) but for others it can get out of wack as can just using your weight. Basically the real thing is if you can handle intense physical activity or not, not some random number. Me, I'm 6'0'' 192, but I also play basketball, baseball, work out a fair amount, bike and walk a lot, etc so I don't bother worrying about BMI or weight or anything. As long as you feel good, that's probably what really counts. I used to be about ten pounds lighter for a while, but I was quite out of shape and didn't feel too great, feel much better now that I'm active again. Besides, you might just be a big boned type of person, I know I'm not tall but I've got wider shoulders so I'm naturally going to have a little more weight on me. The important thing is to keep that weight from being fat. Also, I hate looking for pants, no place sells 30X34s EVER it's annoying as hell.

HappyGrar:
BMI has been discounted by many doctors, or so I've read. It's a useful tool for generalizing, but for specific measurements it's basically useless. Everyone else is doin' it, so...I'm about 5'8", 175 lbs, which gives me a BMI of roughly 26.6. That's in the overweight range, but that doesn't take into account the fact that I've got a thicker build than most, more muscle and bone than fat. That's also not to mention that I was about 190 (a BMI of nearly 29) due to greater muscle mass back when I was swimming, and was in far better shape than I currently am.

Meaning, any doctor who was to look at my swimming weight (and BMI) alone and tell me to stop hitting the Krispy Kremes and get off my fat ass would have been gravely mistaken. It's a better measure for those with a normal distribution of muscle, fat, and bone, a group which definitely does not include athletes.

As for body image...I'll just put it out there that I didn't consider myself fat at all, even since I stopped swimming, until I got to college. Has anyone on this forum ever BEEN to Arizona State? This place is Stepford if I ever saw it. A bunch of frickin' creepy-ass size-zero clones. *shudder* And that's not to bash on SayWhat, above, because your weight is a natural thing that you can't help in the least. Theirs, I presume, is the result of a diet that consists entirely of Red Bull, cocaine, and petty bitching.  :-P

Spluff:
Sorry, but you have to have a lot more muscle mass than any regular swimmer for your BMI to be that far off. You would still have a decent amount of fat.

Zingoleb:
Shoe shopping sucks. They only stock up to 13's in my county. >.<

I have weight issues as a guy, and I'd probably end up being a bulimic if it weren't for the fact that I don't have a gag reflex.

JonSnow:

--- Quote from: HappyGrar on 24 Jan 2009, 22:15 ---As for body image...I'll just put it out there that I didn't consider myself fat at all, even since I stopped swimming, until I got to college. Has anyone on this forum ever BEEN to Arizona State? This place is Stepford if I ever saw it. A bunch of frickin' creepy-ass size-zero clones. *shudder* And that's not to bash on SayWhat, above, because your weight is a natural thing that you can't help in the least. Theirs, I presume, is the result of a diet that consists entirely of Red Bull, cocaine, and petty bitching.  :-P

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What the hell? The entire point of diets, and half of the health industry is based on the fact that you CAN HELP YOUR WEIGHT. Even people who are skinny and tiny, if they eat a highcarb diet and go to the fitness to work this up into muscle can gain weight. And if you weigh too much it's nothing exercise and a decent diet cant help. Why else would people with the obesity gene (not the trait, but the real gene) be able to stay among the skinnier of the fatter people? If not by working out and eating healthy they can manage their weight (even though they have a disease that makes them fatter).

and if you have a BMI of 29 just because of your muscle mass, you aint no swimmer you're a friggin bodybuilder, lay of the steroids.

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