What's your BMI (Body Mass Index)?

[Charmed]

Dear Covers:

Remember the old saying, "Charity begins at home."

I say, "Quality begins at home." Quality includes a sound mind in a healthy body. Physical and Mental Health are both important. So, here's my height and weight as of today.

Height: 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm)
Weight: 163 pounds (74.1 kg)

BMI = 27.1 (see BMI calculator in the attached links).

https://diet.fitness.msn.com/

https://diet.fitness.msn.com/bmicalculator.armx?htft=5&htin=4&wtlbs=163&bmi=1

https://diet.fitness.msn.com/bmicalculator.armx?htft=5&htin=4&wtlbs=163&bmi=1

I have been fluctuating about 2 pounds and my most recent lowest weight was 161 pounds. My lowest weight, which I held for only a couple of days, over the last six months, was 154 pounds. My current BMI puts me in the middle of the overweight BMI range of 25.0 to 29.9. In January 2003, I was 183 pounds and my BMI was 30.1 which pushed me into the obese category. My highest weight ever was 191 pounds.

Goal: I want to get back to 154 pounds, which would still make very slightly overweight. But what's a few pounds between friends, a cup of icecream, and a granola bar?

Timeframe: I want to give myself about six to ten (6 - 10) weeks to accomplish this goal.

Charmed

P. S. I also meditate regularly, for 30 minutes minimum, on average about an hour.

 

[Puzzle]

Height 6' 2"

BMI 29.1

Not a happy bunny, but have a chocolate craving at present. + a hip problem

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

This calls for a (anonymous) poll

24,5 here. I just had to add a poll here.


/Claes

 

[Atul Khandekar]

BMI:25.8

Years ago, I wrote a small software for a gym in the city to keep track of their members' health data. I remember one of things the program calculated was the BMI. I think its time to join that gym now!

 

[SilverHawk]

BMI = 21.3 after inserting three (3) stents in blocked arteries in March 2004.

 

[Charmed]

Thanks, Has Obesity vanished at the Cove?

Dear All:

Thanks for the participation so far. It is remarkable to notice that BMI values so far are well below the obese range. Has obesity vanished, at least among Covers? Wouldn't it be wonderful?

I am already thinking ahead about a new health plan with lower premium rates for Covers!

Don't be afraid, or embarrassed, to reveal your height/weight and BMI data.
Nothing would please me more than to see this as a motivator - as it has been for me. Just think about how much better we are compared to Partrick Deuel. I still think about him and pray for his speedy recovery. I have started my walking routine again, thanks to the threads started here. Have a great week.

Charmed

Dear Claes: Thanks for adding the poll. Great idea.

 

[Jen Kirley]

30.7. No, Covers have not avoided obesity. Sigh.

I've struggled with my weight for years. I did my best while on my two Navy deployments, where I was able to control my activities and I didn't have to cook for a family, none of whom is bothered by weight but me.

I power walked for 1 1/2 hours 4-5 days a week, swam, did pushups and situps every couple of laps around the ship's cargo handling passageway (our track) for several months.

By the time I was done, I was about 160, maybe a little less.

Now, at 5'7" 160 is considered overweight (25.1) but if you could have seen me then, you would not agree I was overweight. I have a wide frame, so that BMI is something I do not completely agree with. If I weighed 135, I'd be right in the middle of "normal" but I would be, in fact, ill. Past my lower limit.

I do agree I am on the edge of obese now, and I hate that. It's hard to lose the way I was, I had reached a great fitness level, I looked and felt great then.

I work from my desk in the summer, am under a good deal of stress, and essentially live my life for my family (it's been a crazy summer). And, while I do have some leeway, I assert that it isn't as simple to lose weight as "eat less, do more" although that is the basis of it. I really do envy those whose lives are their own, and for whom it really is as simple as "eat less, do more."

I suppose I will be accused of copping out, but it's just not as easy as it seems, all of our challenges are a bit different.

 

[Charmed]

BMI Calculator - both units

Dear All:

Here's a BMI calculator that allows you to input weight in either pounds or kilograms, and height in feet-inches or metric units.

https://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm

But, please include both height and weight, and the BMI value if you participate (I hope you do). I want to prepare a graph later and see how the height to weight ratio varies.

Charmed

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

I suppose I will be accused of copping out, but it's just not as easy as it seems, all of our challenges are a bit different.

Well said Jennifer, and nobody will say anything about copping out. It is a struggle to lose weight.

As a matter of fact some people have the opposite problem, and that challenge is every bit as tough: I just realized that my wifes BMI is: ... 18.5! In spite of making an effort she simply cannot seem to get past the underweight limit.

/Claes

 

[Rachel]

Now, at 5'7" 160 is considered overweight (25.1) but if you could have seen me then, you would not agree I was overweight. I have a wide frame, so that BMI is something I do not completely agree with. If I weighed 135, I'd be right in the middle of "normal" but I would be, in fact, ill. Past my lower limit.

Jennifer - I'm with you on that. I was probably born with a triple-digit weight, for flip's sakes. Now, I am 5'6, ~175 (BMI ~28). I am carrying extra weight at the moment - my boyfriend's love of carbohydrates has hit us both in a way that just leaves me feeling abused. We made a deal lastnight that we are both going to lose 20 pounds by Christmas - the winner (whoever gets there first, I guess) has to watch "Anne of Green Gables" with me (he balked at that..."but that implies that you're going to win!"). But that's a different story...

At my fittest (third and fourth-year university) I weighed in at about 160. You could still "pinch an inch" - see earlier posts in other threads re: my "curvy" body type - I would have to train like an Olympian to get down to the can't-pinch level, and frankly I'm not interested. However, I was in good shape - I was eating well, working out pretty much every day, doing a variety of types of cardio exercise, and working with weights. I had a friend tell me recently that, at that time, she thought I was getting too *thin*. Don't know about that...but I do know that I was fit. That's what's important.

I do honestly believe that all of this number stuff is hokey cr@p. I don't care how you calculate it, what numbers you crunch - come on people, you *know* when you're overweight/obese. Who needs a number to tell them that? As I mentioned, I've always been a thick girl - I was 8lbs at birth and it was all growth from there - it's my body type and that's that. I will never be a size six - even if I was skin and bone, my rib cage and pelvic bones wouldn't permit it. That's just how it is. I don't need a number to tell me if I'm fat - I can tell that myself, thank you very much, based on how my clothes fit and how much energy I have.

No worries, Jennifer - numbers have gotten me into trouble in the past (see grades 7 through OAC when I ate one meal a day) and I just don't bother with it. My BMI is an estimate because I have no idea how much I actually weigh, nor do I care. I don't need number-crunching to tell me if I'm porking up - I have a mirror that can tell me as much.

Cheers,
-R.