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[obvious]If you like looking how you look now, then dont lose weight

If you give more value to having a BMI that some chart tells you to have, then lose weight[/obvious]

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rock_eleven

[obvious]If you like looking how you look now, then dont lose weight

If you give more value to having a BMI that some chart tells you to have, then lose weight[/obvious]

You may think its obvious, but I don't. I like the way I look, yes, but I also know truly 'fat' people who like the way they look and have no urge to lose weight. I don't want to put my health at risk or ignore a potential problem just because I'm happy with the size of clothing that I wear.

Chel: thankyou, I may just try to eat less fat or something, rather than do anything major. :smile:

Reply 4

mtbab

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i'm overweight but this time last yr i was bigger and whilst i'm still overweight, i now fell better about myself and if more weight comes off so be it, if not o well, in the past yr i've lost 5inches off my chest, 6inches off my waist too.

Reply 5

BMI can be very unreliable especially for people who arent adults, so i wouldnt take too much notice if you think you have a nice body already. what exactly is your height/weight though?

Reply 6

kikzen

14

also if youre very muscly then BMI doesnt work (since muscle ways more than fat andstuff). but if youre happy with how you are then just stay as you are; its all good

Reply 7

Cirsium

19

Are you particularly muscular?
Muscle weighs a lot more than fat
Example: Matthew Pincent (as in one of the 4 British gold medalist rowers from last Olympics) has a BMI of slightly over 27

Reply 8

muscle doesnt weigh more than fat

Reply 9

Cirsium

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Umm yeh it really does. Give me another example why some professional rowers are technically almost obese?

Just to clarify you're aware that what I mean is that it's denser and therefore you can be perfectly toned and muscley and look good or properly fat and still technically be the same weight right?

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Twaffy

bis432

muscle doesnt weigh more than fat

It does

Reply 11

Elements

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Bekaboo

Umm yeh it really does. Give me another example why some professional rowers are technically almost obese?

Just to clarify you're aware that what I mean is that it's denser and therefore you can be perfectly toned and muscley and look good or properly fat and still technically be the same weight right?

So that they can keep afloat! :p:

Don't lol, that was a poor joke that I don't even know why I said it as it's so obvious (to me) that muscle weighs more than fat! :redface:

Reply 12

its an over used myth. muscle doesnt weigh the same as fat, they weigh the same. muscle is simply more compact and dense. very few people seem to understand that. its almost as bad as 'high repititions tones you and low repititions gives you muscle' - get it right!

Reply 13

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bis432

BMI can be very unreliable especially for people who arent adults, so i wouldnt take too much notice if you think you have a nice body already. what exactly is your height/weight though?

I'm 5'10 and according to the scales, am 80 kilos (which the converter sayts is 12.57 stone)

But my waist is 25 inches and I take an 8-10 on top and 12-14 on the bottom. I'm not particularly muscular but am quite fit as I walk almost every day.

I just don't understand how I can be this weight, too heavy for my height, when I'm displaying no signs of being overweight. BMI doesn't mean much to me, but 'overweight' does.

Edit: I may just give up and not step on the scales again.

Reply 14

Mata

I'm 5'10 and according to the scales, am 80 kilos (which the converter sayts is 12.57 stone)

But my waist is 25 inches and I take an 8-10 on top and 12-14 on the bottom. I'm not particularly muscular but am quite fit as I walk almost every day.

I just don't understand how I can be this weight, too heavy for my height, when I'm displaying no signs of being overweight. BMI doesn't mean much to me, but 'overweight' does.

Edit: I may just give up and not step on the scales again.

i think you will find your scales are faulty or you are reading them wrongly. theres no way in hell you weigh 80 kilos with a 25 inch waist at 5'10 so dont worry. take a look on some other scales and dont worry about it, your not overweight.

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Captain Chaos

How on earth did you come up with that!

Of course muscle is heavier than fat! It's common knowledge, there is no 'myth' about it at all!

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What your saying is just like saying that certain metals don't weigh more, they are just 'denser' than other metals, of course things are more dense, and that is what determines the weight of a particular volume of any given material!

Take an 18 stone fat bastard and an 18 stone muscleman, and guess which one is bigger?

i didnt 'come up' with anything, its a fact. its like saying 'a stone of bricks weighs more than a stone of feathers'. muscle doesnt weigh more than fat. if your gonna say something like that then you can at least mention mass density. for example 1 cubic inch of muscle weighs more than 1 cubic inch of fat - thats true. fat is something like aprox 20% less dense than muscle and so takes up 20% more room. thats the difference.

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bis432

i think you will find your scales are faulty or you are reading them wrongly. theres no way in hell you weigh 80 kilos with a 25 inch waist at 5'10 so dont worry. take a look on some other scales and dont worry about it, your not overweight.

Thankyou! I haven't weighed myself in years so I didn't know that 80 kilos wasn't a weight I should be seeing. I'll go to one of those machines in boots to have a look.

Thanks for everyone's replies. :smile:

Reply 16

Cirsium

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Yep bis432 is right - I'm 5'10 too and not fat but fairly curvy - about a size 14 and I only weigh 70!! If you were 80 then trust me that size 8 would fit on one leg :p:

Reply 17

Barny

17

****ing hell, 80kg and 25 inch waist? Don't think so!

Reply 18

Apricot Fairy

I agree. I'm only 5'6", but I have a 27" waist and only weigh 56kg.

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