Are you overweight?

[MarillionFan]

And you're doing something about it, so good on you. How did the turbo-trainer go?

He's not installed it yet. He's still working his way through the years worth of Mars Bars it came with.

[vwdan]

It's not even accurate for the moderately athletic people who run once or twice a week and play footy, squash etc at the weekend. It's also not accurate for people with heavy physical work like soldiers, firemen, fishermen, builders, policemen who walk a beat all day, labourers, etc etc. That's a lot of exceptions, too many for my liking. Waist measurement is a better indicator, or actually waist to height ratio.

Agreed - it was never meant to be about individuals, it's a metric that only really works on a population level.

That said, I'm just a few kg's overweight, but it's all just podge on my belly and nobody ever believes that I weigh 14 stone. I exercise a lot, but I unfortunately eat a lot of tulip too - according to my GPS watch I burned something like 60000 calories last year, so I dread to think what I'd be like if I stopped.

[scooterscot]

My BMI is nearly 27

Better get moving...

[kal]

I'm built like Hulk Hogan Ill have you know.

Pumped full of steroids to the eyeballs

[Mich the Tester]

Nah, I'm OK on BMI, but waist to height ratio is a big fail. So I'll stick with BMI, ta.

But yes, fine physical specimens without an ounce of fat on them can ignore my poll.

Problem is that lots of overweight people (thinking Mr ms here!) insist that they are overweight because they're muscular, when they are in fact very fat.

Some people are fat and muscular and fit. But don't underestimate how many people are quite muscular; at the same time as many people have got chubbier due to the huge supply of food, a lot of people who do moderate to hard physical work have also increased muscle bulk because alongside fat and sugar, protein is also more readily available than in the past.

[Mich the Tester]

Didn't.

I'm extremely prone to sinus infections after colds. Had a snorter of a cold last week and now have a sinus infection. Can't think/balance. Feel like crap. Just about get home and collapse into bed.

MTFU

[doodab]

Bloody hell, I'm a "healthy weight" now and I'm built like a well whittled stick. That thing reckons I could loose another 12kg and still be healthy. I think I'd need to have a leg amputated for that to happen.

[d000hg]

Waist measurement is a better indicator, or actually waist to height ratio.

Give some numbers or a link then...


I am just inside the healthy range on BMI (24.6) after doing exercise. Sadly, All my spare weight is on my tummy in a blob. Gone down an inch or two on my waist but no obvious difference to the naked eye.

[d000hg]

Bloody hell, I'm a "healthy weight" now and I'm built like a well whittled stick. That thing reckons I could loose another 12kg and still be healthy. I think I'd need to have a leg amputated for that to happen.

Do you need your liver pumped again? Instant stone gone...

[MarillionFan]

MTFU

Private Sicknote Suity is still in the billet sir complaining he can't come out to fight the Jerries as he has a terrible cold. Ill see if Private Optimist has cleaned up his trousers after his accident earlier and can take his place.