How lardy is FISO?

[murf]

Just find out your BMI (Body Mass Index) by typing your height and weight into a calculator such as this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43697948

The BMI result is assigned to a standard category:
Less than 18.5 - underweight
18.5 to 24.9 - healthy weight
25 to 29.9 - overweight
30 to 39.9 - obese
40 and over - very obese (also known as morbidly obese)

So are you trim or lardy?? How does FISO compare with the rest of the country/world?
(nb - there is something on that website about different values applying if you are of asian descent - if you are, just fill in the poll as you see fit)

I'm nicely in the middle of the healthy category (22ish) thanks to running regularly and resisting the urge to overeat/drink

(a couple of years ago I lost so much weight training for a marathon that my stomach actually went concave rather than convex - typed that weight in and I was still quite a way above 'underweight'!)

[Spinynorman]

Quite lardy.

I come in at 31 which is lot better than the 36.5 I was at 3 years ago.

Still hoping to improve.

[Spinynorman]

Dan Walker the tall thin man from breakfast telly and football focus put his details in this very thing the morning on BBC Breakfast and came up as obese.

[Zimmerman]

I just scrape in as ‘healthy’ although I have shocking diet and do virtually no exercise whatsoever

69% of men in my age bracket are overweight -> Very Obese

[Maldini]

6ft 1inch
14st 2lb

26.1 - overweight.

Probably eat less now than I ever have.
I have developed a little beer belly in my forties though.

[Darbyand]

I was in t'gym the other other day and heard a (short) woman talking about BMI and one of the personal trainers was saying it's an inherently unsatisfactory method of measurement. That Dan Walker one sounds odd but more common would be a short, muscular person with very little body fat who'd come up as obese.

Not sure what's better without it becoming too complicated.

[murf]

BMI is notoriously dodgy in that it doesn't take your frame into account or musculature. Your body still has to carry the weight of your muscles though even if they aren't fat.

You can establish percentage fat fairly easily by a measurement of your electrical resistance (I think) but can't do that without a machine.

BMI is a great simple measure but any individual should treat it with care but not use any imperfections as excuses to justify their lardiness.

[Zimmerman]

Yep, we all must have an idea of whether it’s fat or muscle. There’s no point in being a fatty and then trying to claim ‘well Ronaldo has an obese BMI so I can ignore my own BMI reading’

Likewise, I know my diet and inactivity aren’t ideal - so my ‘healthy BMI’ are not to be taken as a ringing endorsement for my lifestyle choices.

[Latic]

I'm the perfect weight, just a foot and a half too short.

[Spinynorman]

I have on numerous occasions and by a multitude of various health care professionals been told that my ideal weight is twelve and a half stones. I think I last weighed that when I was at school.

[Spinynorman]

Just done one of our cats but had to fib about his age. At 33.4 he is worse than me but I'm not sure whether I feel good about that or not.

[DAREEL]

Just find out your BMI (Body Mass Index) by typing your height and weight into a calculator such as this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43697948

The BMI result is assigned to a standard category:
Less than 18.5 - underweight
18.5 to 24.9 - healthy weight
25 to 29.9 - overweight
30 to 39.9 - obese
40 and over - very obese (also known as morbidly obese)

So are you trim or lardy?? How does FISO compare with the rest of the country/world?
(nb - there is something on that website about different values applying if you are of asian descent - if you are, just fill in the poll as you see fit)

I'm nicely in the middle of the healthy category (22ish) thanks to running regularly and resisting the urge to overeat/drink

(a couple of years ago I lost so much weight training for a marathon that my stomach actually went concave rather than convex - typed that weight in and I was still quite a way above 'underweight'!)

BMI means very little mate. Not reliable at all. I have my PT quals and nutrition and although I don't do it for a living any PT worth their salt will tell you the same.

Fat test with calipers is the best way. I am pretty muscular and hardly a ounce of fat on me as I live a good lifestyle yet BMI even has me as slightly overweight which is nonsense

[murf]

As we've said, not ideal for those with heavy muscles....

[Spinynorman]

I have a heavy brain.

[unc.si.]

When I was 19 and playing Rugby seriously I was BMI overweight, but not overweight. Low body fat %, high bleep test score
Now I'm similar BMI (and weight, obviously) but actually could do with losing about a stone to feel like a healthy weight.

I suspect that most people deep down know whether they're a healthy weight or not.

[Edmondson]

I’m just ticking over into the obese segment

I’d be happy to lose the weight to tip back into just overweight.

I’m 44 and went for one of those discounted £129 health checks last week. I was told I had a metabolic age of 49 . Then when I mentioned all the 5-a-side footy & Park runs I do ( ) the nurse insisted on taking a second reading with the machine reset to some kind of ‘sport mode’. I came out aged 29 Just made it look like a load of nonsense. I’ll wait for the 15 page report telling me I’m 40% fat or whatever.

[Surprised]

I'm about halfway to obese

[mad dog]

Overweight. 12 stone and 5foot 7. Trying to lose a stone by World Cup 47/48 days

[Tacalabala]

Funny this has come up, just started a diet and gym again after an accident back in December, lost 3lb net in two weeks so far. Can get in 36 waist at the moment, aiming for 34 waist and to lose a fair chunk of the belly by end of May. Aiming for gym 90mins at least three ideally four nights a week, no chocolate or alcohol since I started, now cutting out bread. I'm lucky that I actually like salad and dried fruit, that definitely helps.

[mad dog]

Funny this has come up, just started a diet and gym again after an accident back in December, lost 3lb net in two weeks so far. Can get in 36 waist at the moment, aiming for 34 waist and to lose a fair chunk of the belly by end of May. Aiming for gym 90mins at least three ideally four nights a week, no chocolate or alcohol since I started, now cutting out bread. I'm lucky that I actually like salad and dried fruit, that definitely helps.

That’s what I’m doing no cake Chocolate biscuits or beer. Tried to sign the misses up to sex three times a week for some exercise. Need to be at about 11 stone. Apparently I should be 10 1/2 but I haven’t been that since I was about 16 so can’t imagine ever being that again.

[Zimmerman]

You’re aware that for exercise to be beneficial the heart rate needs to be elevated for a lot more than 90 seconds.

[Darbyand]

If you've got a chunk of spare time, have a read of this. It is long and not all relevant but has got some really interesting ideas on how low-fat diets are, biologically at least, nonsense for someone trying to diet.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ohn-yudkin

TLDR: sugar, not fat, is your enemy.

[kingcurtley]

26 - could lose a stone. Do the exercise, it's the not eating too much for me.

[Tacalabala]

If you've got a chunk of spare time, have a read of this. It is long and not all relevant but has got some really interesting ideas on how low-fat diets are, biologically at least, nonsense for someone trying to diet.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ohn-yudkin

TLDR: sugar, not fat, is your enemy.

Yep sugar is killing all of us slowly, or rather the wrong type of sugar.

[Spinynorman]

I understand all of the sugar/carbs thing but the only success I've ever had was when I was plonked on a low fat diet a couple of years back.

[murf]

The trick isn't to skip fat or sugar but to reduce meal and portion size and frequency. Less snacking and only 1 proper meal a day. No big lunch if you have a decent breakfast etc.

Also the bleeding obvious that you should burn more calories than you consume. You actually have to exercise quite a bit to burn off just a mars bar.

[Spinynorman]

I think you have to do a marathon to burn off a mars bar which is handy as I do like marathons.

[mad dog]

You’re aware that for exercise to be beneficial the heart rate needs to be elevated for a lot more than 90 seconds.

I’ll have you know that on a good night I’ve broke the 5 minute barrier.

[murf]

BBC defend/justify/explain/discuss the use of BMI.

[Darbyand]

I understand all of the sugar/carbs thing but the only success I've ever had was when I was plonked on a low fat diet a couple of years back.

Also the bleeding obvious that you should burn more calories than you consume. You actually have to exercise quite a bit to burn off just a mars bar.

There's plenty of crossover in a low-fat diet and calorie counting. For instance if you notice the horrendous amounts of fat in a pizza so decide to give it a miss then you'll also be missing a high-calorie food which is a win-win.

Where I think it goes awry is when there's a low fat yogurt with say 5g of fat and 10g of sugar or a regular choice with 10g of fat and 5g of sugar. I'd always go for the latter. As per that article the human body has hundreds of thousands of years of burning off that type and quantity of fat with an active lifestyle. The refined sugar will take you down over the years.