Overweight

I'm 5'8" and weigh 78KG and I'm feeling a bit 'chunky', but more importantly I feel (and am) unfit :(. So I bought myself a new bike and I shall start cycling to work :)

Burnsy
 
5'10 here and 12 stone which according to the BMI thing is bang on for my height. This is rubbish. I want to be 13 stone. Maybe more. *Reaches for Cashews*
 
Im around 5'8" and 110kg, ive got a bigger belly than id like and a small case of the moobs but all in all I dont look like im that heavy. Although now ive got a new job as a door man and I could do with getting fitter for my summer job as a lifeguard ive started hitting the gym and lifting and it feels great to be getting fit while doing something I enjoy a lot more than endless cardio
 
Biohazard said:
Who?
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I'm not going to trawl through the whole thread again, I just read it all once. However, I will find you one..

Bigstan said:
I still stand by my main point though. There are still many doctors who put too much faith in this BMI nonsense - even when the contradictory evidence is standing half naked in front of them in the shape of a 6'2" ex Marine.
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As for myself though, I am over weight and currently in the process of trying to lose it. Im 5'7" and 14 stone, but am currently on a semi-strict diet and spending a good hour and a half in a gym 3 times a week. Saddly, I have tried losing weight before and just never made it.. This time though, I'm hoping I will.. Seems to be going ok so far :up:
 
MotherMayI said:
I'm not going to trawl through the whole thread again, I just read it all once. However, I will find you one..



As for myself though, I am over weight and currently in the process of trying to lose it. Im 5'7" and 14 stone, but am currently on a semi-strict diet and spending a good hour and a half in a gym 3 times a week. Saddly, I have tried losing weight before and just never made it.. This time though, I'm hoping I will.. Seems to be going ok so far :up:
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In Stans example you can quite obviously see the doctor was wrong to be using the BMI chart to tell an obviously low bf% and well built man that he could do with loosing some weight
 
blitz2163 said:
In Stans example you can quite obviously see the doctor was wrong to be using the BMI chart to tell an obviously low bf% and well built man that he could do with loosing some weight
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That is not what I obviously see at all.

I see Stan, or his friend, completely misunderstanding what the doctor said/advised.
 
MotherMayI said:
That is not what I obviously see at all.

I see Stan, or his friend, completely misunderstanding what the doctor said/advised.
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Im not quite sure how you could misunderstand the phrase clinicaly obese and loose some weight, but either way you must be able to see that BMI isnt the be all and end all a lot of health profesionals seem to belive it is in the same way RDA's arnt going to be the same for every one and not every one will be able to keep fit by only doing half an hour of exercise a day.
 
blitz2163 said:
Im not quite sure how you could misunderstand the phrase clinicaly obese and loose some weight, but either way you must be able to see that BMI isnt the be all and end all a lot of health profesionals seem to belive it is in the same way RDA's arnt going to be the same for every one and not every one will be able to keep fit by only doing half an hour of exercise a day.
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Of course, Both BMI and RDA etc. etc. are just guidelines.. I'm not disputing that fact.

Of course not everyones daily calorific intake should be the same, I don't think you'd find a single health professional in the world that would claim anything like that.

What I am disputing about Stan's statement is that a doctor would never look at a clearly fit, healthy man and claim they are obese, or need to lose weight. Or, if he did say that he must have had his reasoning other than a simple BMI reading and a chart.
 
MotherMayI said:
I'm not going to trawl through the whole thread again, I just read it all once. However, I will find you one..



As for myself though, I am over weight and currently in the process of trying to lose it. Im 5'7" and 14 stone, but am currently on a semi-strict diet and spending a good hour and a half in a gym 3 times a week. Saddly, I have tried losing weight before and just never made it.. This time though, I'm hoping I will.. Seems to be going ok so far :up:
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lol @ the people who think time spent in gym has a direct link to amount of weight lost
 
A2Z said:
lol @ the people who think time spent in gym has a direct link to amount of weight lost
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Are you retarded? Of course it does.

Obviously the specifics of what exercises I am doing play more of a part, much more of a part in fact, however I am not going to go in to the finer details of my fitness programme for no apparent reason in this thread without a good reason to - Which I did not have, I just wanted to give a rough idea. Because of, this 'time spent' was the best indication I could come up with as to the amount of physical activity I am engaging in weekly.

For the record, my fitness programme is set by a personal trainer so I am fairly certain that it is a fairly decent work, if not completely optimal, in the time I have free for it.
 
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