Are you fat?

19.2, not bad at 43 when most of my friends I grew up with are carrying at least a little extra, 28" waist and 40" chest. I'm very lean but have to keep as fit as possible to fight back against muscular dystrophy and carrying extra weight would be no good at all for me.
 
stopped paying attention to the bmi crap my BMI is 27.8 saying I am overweight yet my fitness levels are great and have very little fat on my body.

I used to be 12 stone now 13.12 stone I have gained that in the last year and a half since I quit smoking. Now I workout every day eat healthy and my weight is stable I managed to get it back down to 12.11 at one point about 3 weeks ago but that has gone back up in the last month due to workout routine changing (holding hell of lot water atm).

If everyone was in the correct bmi then the population would look like bunch of stick insects.
 
mattyfez said:
Very rough guide, mines 27.4, over the last 6 months I've put on weight and look skinnier due to regular cycling (increase in leg and bum muscle).

There's just too many variables from person to person, I'm 6'3 and just under 16 stone which weight wise alone I'm perfectly happy with, I just need to reduce my middle age spread and retain/put that weight back on as muscle and I'm happy.

I think you need to look as muscle to fat ratio AND height vs weight to get a more sensible picture.

To look at just height vs weight (BMI) doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.
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The fact BMI calculates you as just overweight and you also say you have a small amount of Middle age spread suggests BMI appears to work fairly well for you. Get rid of the spread and you'll probably drop a few kg and get below 25.

No, it's not perfect but its a good indicator for the majority of people.

My BMI is 21.5 and I'm constantly called "skinny", generally by people with rather too much "middle age" spread...
 
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mattyfez said:
Apparently this chap is overweight, his BMI is almost identical to mine and I can assure you I don't look nearly as fit.

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See that's why BMI is so wrong. 90% of the people I see on the high street look like that. Oh wait, no, 90% don't look like that, rather most people wobble as they walk...:p
 
Amp34 said:
The fact BMI calculates you as just overweight and you also say you have a small amount of Middle age spread suggests BMI appears to work fairly well for you. Get rid of the spread and you'll probably drop a few kg and get below 25.

No, it's not perfect but its a good indicator for the majority of people.

My BMI is 21.5 and I'm constantly called "skinny", generally by people with rather too much "middle age" spread...
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That's kinda my point, I have no intention of loosing weight, I'm slender despite the belly area, and quite happy for my BMI to call me overweight, it's my muscle to fat ratio that I'm concerned about.

The fact I've put on weight and dropped a waist size in the last 6 months from doing no exercise to a fair bit I'm quite pleased with.
 
BMI of 28.0 - Not that bothered as i'm not a bag of fat, but not fits enough to be made of muscle neither.

Dropped a jeans size and certainly toned the odd bit up as well as increased general fitness. Happy. :)
 
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