re: Let's talk BMI

I deliberately ate like a horse the past 12 months to make gainz. The gainz have come. Now I'm upping the cardiovascular while still lifting. I'll lose about 10 lbs of mostly belly fat over the next few months and be great at 190

BMI says I could way 125 pounds and still be a healthy weight. That's insane - short of some sort of life threatening illness I could never weigh 125.

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It is always the most startling thing for me when I come back to the U.S. after a vacation or working overseas. I am 5'11", 160 lbs, and even I felt a bit on the chunkier side when I was in Spain this past summer

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Having traveled through much of Europe and some of the Caribbean and Central America, while certainly you don't see as many fat fricks in those places as in the US, they aren't these rail thin people. A 5'11 guy who weighs 160 isn't chunky anywhere, unless he's in a damn gulag.

We can't all be size 32 baw

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BMI says I could way 125 pounds and still be a healthy weight. That's insane - short of some sort of life threatening illness I could never weigh 125

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Well to be fair, it's a terrible barometer to measure individual well-being and was developed and is designed for the purpose of measuring swaths of people.

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BMI says I could way 125 pounds and still be a healthy weight. That's insane - short of some sort of life threatening illness I could never weigh 125.

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I think people might be surprised at how well their body looks and feels at weights that seem preposterous.

Again, I'm 5'11", and the healthiest/fittest I have ever been was when I was about 145 pounds. I spent a year on deployment drinking no alcohol, eating only what you need, working out almost every single day, patrolling for hours and hours in 110+ temperatures with 60 pounds of equipment, etc. - I was fitter than hell when I came back to the U.S. I could bench the most I ever have, run the fastest mile I ever have, very strong through my core and legs, etc., etc.

Everyone's frame is different, but this country would very much be improved if every single adult dropped 10 or 15 pounds overnight.

That's probably the best explanation I've heard

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Having traveled through much of Europe and some of the Caribbean and Central America, while certainly you don't see as many fat fricks in those places as in the US, they aren't these rail thin people. A 5'11 guy who weighs 160 isn't chunky anywhere, unless he's in a damn gulag.

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Certainly true, but to be fair, it was summer in Spain. A bunch of hot 25 year old European women looking flawless with their accompanying Euro-skinny boyfriends everywhere I turned.

all the people on here that think they would look famished at xxx weight, would likely love themselves at that weight plus 5-8# of muscle. You would look like a guy from 300.

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Certainly true, but to be fair, it was summer in Spain. A bunch of hot 25 year old European women looking flawless with their accompanying Euro-skinny boyfriends everywhere I turned.

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Ugh. Hated seeing that. And then the Spanish guys get all uppity with American women because they think they're all MTV whores. Had a girlfriend spend her summer in Spain and get groped by an older man in public. No one gave a shite. I still don't think she's recovered from it.