Body Mass Index

[fishbones]

It's tough to eat healthy when you spend the night fishing. I never used to eat while fishing at night, then I would go home and eat everything in sight. After polishing off some ice cream, I went to bed. They tell you to eat more during the day and not to eat before going to bed because your matabolism is slowed way down while sleeping. Now, I try to bring something to snack on while fishing and drink a lot of water to fill up. I have lost quite a bit of weight by not eating late at night anymore. Now I don't tire as much when walking to the secluded spots while wearing my waders and carrying my gear.

[FishermanTim]

I don't put much stock in those BMI charts.
Why? Because after my physical last week, I weighed in at 261 at approx. 6'1". Now based on that chart, I'm obese. That's crap.
I walk approx. 1 mile a day, 3 days a week while pumping 2 5lb. weights. I try to eat VERY sensibly. I don't look like I weigh as much as I do, becuase muscle weighs more than fat.
I have always been a "stocky" kind of guy.
For example: when I was 14-15 years old I was 5'11", 175 lbs.
I wore mens shoes size 11 and had a 34 inch waist.
I walked and ran EVERYWHERE just for fun.
I am what is comically referred to as being "big-boned".
When I see/hear expert charts or info regarding what our "perfect" weight should be, I cringe. How the hell does the idiot that made that chart know what I look like?
Sure, if we were all cloned from the same perfect mold, then we should all adhere to the chart specifications, but fortunately for me (and the rest of us) we weren't spit out of some laboratory experiment gone wrong, and we're all different.
For the record, for me to get to my ideal weight, I would literally have to cut off part of my body or starve myself to near death.

[MAC]

I don't put a lot of stock into the BMI scale. When I got out of basic training/AIT I weighed in at 191 after 3 1/2months in Alabama. The docs couldn't "pinch an inch" on my body. (now at 235#s that is a different story) At 6' the chart calls for me to weigh 160 to 170#s. LOL Never gonna happen

I am still of the belief that life insurance companies used to use. If your waist is bigger than your chest then you have a problem.

[spence]

That chart is complete bunk...At 6"2 I should weight 175?

I haven't weighed that since 8th grade. If I went below 200 today I'd look emaciated.

-spence

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by MAC

If your waist is bigger than your chest then you have a problem.

whew...thanks Dave...I feel better now.....and I am having Ice Cream tonite....slow churned 1/2 the fat

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Originally Posted by FishermanTim

I don't put much stock in those BMI charts.
When I see/hear expert charts or info regarding what our "perfect" weight should be, I cringe. How the hell does the idiot that made that chart know what I look like?
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Hey,just maybe,this is how the Bass think of our charts for them

My wife got a 22.35 & I got 23.87 & I always felt I was under weight.
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