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Are you?

Yes.

iam underweight

I much roflcopter at Jabba. Fat bastod.

Funny. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I AM FAT
nah... im just a little chubby.

average :)

underweight.. no matter how much i eat that wont change. I'm just a skinny, hyper guy... who burn a lot of calories fasttttt.. that's not good because I eat far too much..

One of my classes they said some scientist proposed each human has some pre-set weight that their body will try to maintain. Seeing that I've weighed between 130-140 for the past 6 years during some large changes in diet, I'm inclined to agree.

I wonder whether a bunch of people in front of their PCs on Internet Forums associated with a political online game would be an unbiased sample....

I'm under tall.

I periodically fluctuate between 160-190 lbs. I have very crazy weight gain/loss tendencies.

Lots of chubby people on NS. Who would have thought?

I was barely scratching ideal weight from the bottom, so I voted I'm a bit skinny.

I've been 160 for some time, and do not really appear either skinny or chubby. I'd safely place myself in the "average" category.

1.82 m, 75 Kg. I think I'm just about right.

Lots of chubby people on NS. Who would have thought?To be honest, my mental pictures of other NSers are never chubby... :p

I've been underweight all my life. Which in a sense is good, because I can eat as much as I want and know I'm not going to put on weight.

I've been underweight all my life. Which in a sense is good, because I can eat as much as I want and know I'm not going to put on weight.I've heard me eating referred to as feeding my tapeworm, since it seemed that there must be something in me that intercepted anything that could make me fat. :D

1.88 m and 80 kg. A nice average weight, according to my BMI.

Are you?

185 cm or 6' 1" or so.... and about 145 lbs or 66 kg. Male, 37, so ya im a bit on the lean side.

overweight, and getting worse.
problem is food is too nice to give up :(

I'm pleased to be able to say that I am, according to scientists at least, the ideal weight for my height. Slap-bang in the middle of the scale, in fact. I exercise enough to be moderately fit, though I'm not all skin, bone and muscle either.

More importantly, I'm one of those people who can eat seemingly anything I want without any negative side-effects. I know how much women in particular enjoy to hear that, so I thought I should put it in. :D

I've been underweight all my life. Which in a sense is good, because I can eat as much as I want and know I'm not going to put on weight.
i hate people like you :mad:

i mean i only have to look at a sandwich to put on weight.... mostly because i'm eating cake at the time but thats not the point :D
(jack dee)


but seriously, i must have a fucking slow metabolism or something cos even if i eat nothing i can still never lose any... which is why i've given up now :(

And I want to add that the healthy weight is different for everyone.

1,80 and 87 kg. A bit chubby, but it doesn't show much. It also doesn't show that there's some good muscle underneath.

And I want to add that the healthy weight is different for everyone.

Very true...

...that said, I'm 5'10 and I weigh about 190 lbs...a little more in winter when it's harder to get decent exercise.

I've been graced with the frame of the males on my mothers side of the family. Not short...not tall...solidly built, but with almost all of the excess weight around the belly and thighs. :p

my nickname is beanpole.

I'm 6'2" and about 14st, which puts me at the very top of "OK" in terms of BMI, or the very bottom of "a bit fat". So a little chubby, then. My baggy clothes, decent legs, long, skinny arms and big, grasping hands disguise it well ;)

It can change quite a lot, though... Before university I weighed over 18st. At one point, I weighed 12st7, which was nice; that's what cycling 100 miles a week gets you :/

At 220 lbs, I'd ideally like to lose 10 or 15 lbs.

That Supersize Me movie was wrong, all wrong. I eat fast food every day, and I'm a skinny bastard (6' 1", 150lbs). And I haven't been ill in a decade. I'm a goddamned cockroach. Bring the nuclear holocaust on. More room for me.

I'm a couple of kilograms underweight.

I'm 5'6" (1.68m) and weigh 9st 5lbs (about 60kg). That's at the bottom end of 'average' on the BMI scale. I've managed to lose half a stone (3.5kg) in 6 months (since I turned vegetarian) despite eating more...not just more food, more in the way of calories.

A friend of mine is 6'6" (about 2m) and weighs 10st 8lbs (about 75kg). That's not healthy...his BMI, for those who are interested, is 15.8.

I'm 5'6" (1.68m) and weigh 9st 5lbs (about 60kg). That's at the bottom end of 'average' on the BMI scale. I've managed to lose half a stone (3.5kg) in 6 months (since I turned vegetarian) despite eating more...not just more food, more in the way of calories.

A friend of mine is 6'6" (about 2m) and weighs 10st 8lbs (about 75kg). That's not healthy...his BMI, for those who are interested, is 15.8.

I'm about 182cm and at last check, weigh 63kg.

How do you figure out BMI?

I’m over weight, but it’s all muscle *tenses bicep’s and chest* see

What,

Why are you looking at me like that?

No, no don’t poke me there

Ok I’m a porker, oink oink

Average weight for me. Around 135 lbs.

I'm about 182cm and at last check, weigh 63kg.
You're fine...BMI's a little low, but you're probably fine...
Problem is, it depends a lot on your diet and metabolism. If you eat healthily and you have a fast metabolism, your weight's going to be quite low. If you eat shit and have a slow metabolism, you're going to be overweight.

You're fine...BMI's a little low, but you're probably fine...
Problem is, it depends a lot on your diet and metabolism. If you eat healthily and you have a fast metabolism, your weight's going to be quite low. If you eat shit and have a slow metabolism, you're going to be overweight.

I eat shit, so I obviously have a very good metabolism. :p

I tried putting on a bit of weight, but it doesn't work. Oh well. No real problem. :D

How do you figure out BMI?

(Mass in kilogrammes) / (height in metres)^2

And more usefully:

Too skinny < 18-20 (depending on who you believe)
25 < fat
30 < obese.

I'm dense.

(Mass in kilogrammes) / (height in metres)^2

And more usefully:

Too skinny < 18-20 (depending on who you believe)
25 < fat
30 < obese.

Ah, so i'm 19. On the bottom of the scale, but meh.

I'm overweight and have tried numerous diets which didn't work. Recently I just read a book by William Leith, a British Journalist, called, The Hungry Years, ''Confessions of a Food Addict'', which details his struggles with his numerous addictions including cocaine and booze but mostly dealing with food. An Interview with a certain Dr Atkins led him to give it a try and the rest they say is history, for him and me, i read Dr Atkins book and started the diet a while back and i'll be damned, the diet is working, it was a bit restrictive at first but it bloody works, i've got a ways to go yet but it f###ing works, Yahooo.!!!

i read Dr Atkins book and started the diet a while back and i'll be damned, the diet is working, it was a bit restrictive at first but it bloody works, i've got a ways to go yet but it f###ing works, Yahooo.!!!

Worked for my Dad, too.

(Mass in kilogrammes) / (height in metres)^2

And more usefully:

Too skinny < 18-20 (depending on who you believe)
25 < fat
30 < obese.

no way.
i'm 5'10 and 12st7

so im (5 x 12) + 10 inches tall and (12 * 14) + 7 lbs
= 60 + 10 inches and 168 + 7 lbs
= 70 inches 175 lbs
= 70 * 2.54 cm 175/2.2 kg
= 177.8 cm = 79.54 kg

so my bmi is 79.54 / (1.778^2)
79.54 / 3.161284

= 25.16

so i'm overweight? no way - i'm the skinniest person there is. i have a little fat on my belly recently, but i'm still way skinny overall. aren't I?

I'm overweight and have tried numerous diets which didn't work. Recently I just read a book by William Leith, a British Journalist, called, The Hungry Years, ''Confessions of a Food Addict'', which details his struggles with his numerous addictions including cocaine and booze but mostly dealing with food. An Interview with a certain Dr Atkins led him to give it a try and the rest they say is history, for him and me, i read Dr Atkins book and started the diet a while back and i'll be damned, the diet is working, it was a bit restrictive at first but it bloody works, i've got a ways to go yet but it f###ing works, Yahooo.!!!

You know why it works? because if you ram your gut with protein, you fill up quicker. and you stay full up longer. so one fish fills you up more and longer than 5 loaves.

i'm 5'10 and 12st7

so i'm overweight? no way - i'm the skinniest person there is. i have a little fat on my belly recently, but i'm still way skinny overall. aren't I?

Check your measurements. 79.5kg and 177.8cm is not skinny.

so i'm overweight? no way - i'm the skinniest person there is. i have a little fat on my belly recently, but i'm still way skinny overall. aren't I?
Hey, I don't invent the rules (http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml) ;)

Of course, there's variation. If you have a lot of muscle your BMI will be higher, for instance. I wouldn't let 0.15 worry you over-much. I think it only works properly for adults, too, so if you're a young teenager it might not be spot on.

Hey, I don't invent the rules (http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml) ;)

Of course, there's variation. If you have a lot of muscle your BMI will be higher, for instance. I wouldn't let 0.15 worry you over-much. I think it only works properly for adults, too, so if you're a young teenager it might not be spot on.

i'm 33 and i have less muscle than a butcher's pencil :(

Check your measurements. 79.5kg and 177.8cm is not skinny.

maybe im anti-anorexic then? like i look in the mirror and see someone so skinny that i run off and scoff icecreams, when in truth i'm a fat bastard.

you may be on to something

I'm slight, 5'2" tall and 106 lbs.

And all the fat goes to the most obvious places, my sister calls me lardass, but my boyfriend seems to like my bodyshape.

maybe im anti-anorexic then? like i look in the mirror and see someone so skinny that i run off and scoff icecreams, when in truth i'm a fat bastard.

you may be on to something

Who cares, as long as you have a healthy self-esteem. :D

I look really thin, but it turns out I am the right weight because I'm extremely dense. *is a neutron star..."for real-z."*

I've always been the skinny one in the family. The women all hover around 200 lbs. I stay around 125. I've been an athlete nearly all my life, first with track and field, and now with yoga.

My BMI is around 18 (pretty darn good for a female).

I am very comfortable with my weight, even though I'm told all the time by people that I'm too skinny. I've been this weight for 25 years, with a couple outrageous fluctuations (temporarily gained the 'freshman fifteen' when i went to college, and another time dropped down to 112 after a bad breakup.)

What can I say? I'm perfect! :p

I don't believe that there's a right weight, per se.

I'm 5'10 and a half - 5'11, and fluctuate between 80-82 kg.
But it's predominantly muscle.
It's not necessarily pretty muscle, like it used to be, but it's
definitely muscle.

There are those who'd say that the weight means you're fat, or slightly obese or whatever.

Well, what about fighters? Take Mike Tyson in his hayday - or even NOW.
He's about my height (slightly taller, maybe), but he's easily in the mid 120s of kg.
It's mostly, if not entirely muscle.

And, as for the "Fat"kins diet, no, I don't buy it.
http://www.atkinsexposed.org/
If you eat lots and lots of meat, butter and eggs you'll die of a heart condition. He himself had at least one heart attack and was obese by the time he died.
http://www.nndb.com/people/153/000025078/

I think that the way to fitness is exercise combined with an o.k. diet
i.e. you don't have to be overly obsessive about your diet, and you can have that burger and chips every now and then, but you should
watch your intake of certain things e.g. too much of any one food group.
A balanced diet is the way to go.
As long as you exercise, usually it's all good.
I, myself, am a mixed martial artist.
(Karate, Kickboxing, Tai ch'i, Pa-kua and Wing Chun style Kung fu),
and I have designs on taking yoga in future years.

I don't believe that there's a right weight, per se.

I'm 5'10 and a half - 5'11, and fluctuate between 80-82 kg.
But it's predominantly muscle.

There are those who'd say that the weight means you're fat, or slightly obese or whatever.

Well, what about fighters? Take Mike Tyson in his hayday - or even NOW.
He's about my height (slightly taller, maybe), but he's easily in the mid 120s of kg.
It's mostly, if not entirely muscle.

Yeah, but face it. If you're muscle-bound, you're probably fit, so you know you're healthy. And how many people are that built up, anyway? :p

And, as for the "Fat"kins diet, no, I don't buy it.
http://www.atkinsexposed.org/
If you eat lots and lots of meat, butter and eggs you'll die of a heart condition. He himself had at least one heart attack and was obese by the time he died.

If you don't take it to the extreme and simply cut down on carbohydrates, using vegetables to replace them rather than eating copious amounts of meat, it works...at least it did for my father.

I'm underweight, but this comes from years and years of ballet. I'm about 5'3" 100-107 lbs, kind of skinny.....

according to my BMI I am overweight, according to the chart with height and weight I am obese. I had my body fat percentage checked though and it is only 25% which my dr says is very normal for a woman of childbearing age, he says I just have a lot of heavy muscles and big bones. People are surprised at my actual weight, they guess about 30 pounds lighter. go figure. I put a little chubby because I am not underweight and after seeing myself in the shower this morning I can tell you my body is anything but perfect. (but what do you expect after 2 kids?) ;)

I am fairly normal for my age.

I am fairly normal for my age.
No you aren't.

according to my BMI I am overweight, according to the chart with height and weight I am obese. I had my body fat percentage checked though and it is only 25% which my dr says is very normal for a woman of childbearing age, he says I just have a lot of heavy muscles and big bones. People are surprised at my actual weight, they guess about 30 pounds lighter. go figure. I put a little chubby because I am not underweight and after seeing myself in the shower this morning I can tell you my body is anything but perfect. (but what do you expect after 2 kids?) ;)
Interestingly, my body fat is just 8%, which should mean I have very good muscle tone...ha! Yeah, right...
Though it does apparently mean I don't have to have much muscle to look good. I can live with that.

Interestingly, my body fat is just 8%, which should mean I have very good muscle tone...ha! Yeah, right...
Though it does apparently mean I don't have to have much muscle to look good. I can live with that.
yeah I am going to bet you are a male too.
Women, esp. young women of childbearing years tend to accumulate some extra fat that is very difficult to lose. For some reason our body wants to keep extra fuel around in case we get pregnant or something. :) I am working on it though, I have been going to the gym but seem to be gaining weight and losing inches I guess I am building muscle. (I hope I don't build too much ladies are supposed to be a little curvy)

yeah I am going to bet you are a male too.
Women, esp. young women of childbearing years tend to accumulate some extra fat that is very difficult to lose. For some reason our body wants to keep extra fuel around in case we get pregnant or something. :) I am working on it though, I have been going to the gym but seem to be gaining weight and losing inches I guess I am building muscle. (I hope I don't build too much ladies are supposed to be a little curvy)
Aim for the 'Charlotte Church' as opposed to 'Skinny Rake Beckham woman'.

*nods*