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What's your BMI Number?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Health & Wellbeing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7069914.stm

Ideal range is given as 18.5 to 25

According to this site I'm 25.37
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    20.37

    :)

    5'6 and 9st.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Wow what a lot of body threads there are this morning.

    I have an enormous BMI, am far too fat and overweight. Let me waddle back over to the other one and post the same thing in there too...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    BMI is about as precise a tool as using boxing gloves to do surgery is - have a look here. My BMI is around 19.1.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yet it is still used as a sound test by doctors to tell you just how fat you are.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Tbh, I've only ever seen it used by anaesthetists, and even in that instance, if we saw a BMI on paper that was cause for concern, we'd tell the doctors, they'd come down and see the patient, and most of the time, they'd be ok for surgery under general anaesthetic.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Contraception nurses seem quite keen on it!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Knee High Stripy Socks wrote: »
    Contraception nurses seem quite keen on it!

    Yeah they do.

    Mines 17.39. I need to eat some more pies.

    Thing is; I eat quite a lot... which everyone who knows me would back-up.
    So I think I'm just the weight my body thinks I should be. I would like to put on a bit of weight though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well, unforch there's little time in a consultation to stand around and use body fat calipers. It's a shitty baseline to use, but the health professionals I've come across use it as a guide, then use their own discretion if they see a person who is quite tall or muscular.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    All right, all right I'll stop grumbling! :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    23.76
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    xsazx wrote: »
    16.33 :D
    5'6 7st 3

    That's nothing to be happy about tbh :no:

    Mine was 20.46
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    23.91
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    22.78 :banghead:

    5ft 9 and 11 stone :sour:
    Gonna loose 2 stone by christmas though :yes:
    then id be 18.64:yippe:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Gonna loose 2 stone by christmas though
    then id be 18.64

    Hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice, but you're setting a very difficult target for yourself - that's roughly 4lbs a week to lose. Any healthy weight loss programme should aim to lose roughly 1lb a week, no more than 2lbs. The slower you lose weight, the more likely it is to stay off.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    18.05 atm. Not bad, for me! I'm nearly in the healthy range. :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote: »
    Hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice, but you're setting a very difficult target for yourself - that's roughly 4lbs a week to lose. Any healthy weight loss programme should aim to lose roughly 1lb a week, no more than 2lbs. The slower you lose weight, the more likely it is to stay off.

    Sounds like good advice to me ... I want to lose about a stone by mid January 2008 (when I'm due to be going abroad) - although this would only bring my BMI index to 23.4

    But then losing 2 stones would only mean I'm 20.9 BMI

    But I couldn't imagine being that light

    Anyway as pointed out I think BMI should only be used a a very rough guide

    If I lost 3 stones I'd be 18.4 on the BMI scale and probably look like I was dying.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lacrymosa wrote: »
    21.32 :( Mmmm. Want to be 20!

    well the mid point of 18.5 to 25 is 21.75 - so you're already under that
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote: »
    Hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice, but you're setting a very difficult target for yourself - that's roughly 4lbs a week to lose. Any healthy weight loss programme should aim to lose roughly 1lb a week, no more than 2lbs. The slower you lose weight, the more likely it is to stay off.

    Nope I dont mind. You're training to be a doctor arnt you?
    I know its not a particually good idea but its the only way I keep my motivation, if I loose alot at once.
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    JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    Somewhere between 6 and 7 billion.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh you're all a lot lower than me :blush:
    I'm not gonna say now :lol: I need to lose a bit :blush:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kate- wrote: »
    Nope I dont mind. You're training to be a doctor arnt you?
    I know its not a particually good idea but its the only way I keep my motivation, if I loose alot at once.

    Yep, but that doesn't mean I know much :p Most of the info I know is through research I have done by losing some fat myself. Just be aware of the health risks that come with sudden weight loss. Do feel free to pop into or look through the gymrats threads, or PM me if you ever want advice or anything :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote: »
    Yep, but that doesn't mean I know much :p Most of the info I know is through research I have done by losing some fat myself. Just be aware of the health risks that come with sudden weight loss. Do feel free to pop into or look through the gymrats threads, or PM me if you ever want advice or anything :)

    thanks thats really kind :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    As far as I can tell the BMI numbers 18.5 to 25 are a difference of approx 3 stones? At least they seem to be for myself.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    23.91

    Hmmmmmmmmmm... Only 1.09 from being "overweight". Utter bollocks. :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    19.26
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lipsy wrote: »
    19.26



    Skinny wretch. ;)

    You should be an 'almost fat bastard' like me :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    DG wrote: »
    As far as I can tell the BMI numbers 18.5 to 25 are a difference of approx 3 stones? At least they seem to be for myself.

    The taller you are, the bigger teh diff will be, it's about 2 1/2 for me.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    18.67
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    there really should be different scales for men and women - :yes:

    I think based on the feedback we're getting it's quite bad they're recommending to be on the lower side of the BMI Index to lower your cancer risk.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    20.55, though could do with putting on bit more weight if anything.
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