Survey of AFF members Body-Mass-Index

[paule11]

184 cm 109kg bmi 32 got down to 98kg and people called me small and was getting asked if I had cancer. At 109kg I am doing 40 tgo 80km bike rides and fitting into size 97 pants . Most footballers would be obese according to BMI

[Phils xm]

BMI 26.5, 183cm and 88kg. As a fireman I'm quite fit and not carrying to much extra, don't put much stock in BMI

[FGII-XR6]

looks like I'll live till I'm 84

Originally Posted by Charliewool

Rather than start a new thread.. Here is a LIFE SPAN calculator.
http://media.nmfn.com/tnetwork/lifespan/
Ok, I know it's a yank thing, but should apply to us too?
You'll need to convert your weight to pounds because it's yankee. (Kgs x 2.2 gives your weight in pounds)

[Rev28K]

Size 30 Jeans, can still fit in to T shirts and suits I had 20 years ago. And I'm just overweight on the BMI.

[fou_bleu]

Even if the BMI isn't the most accurate metric for optimum weight, I'm still definitely underweight! 175cm and between 50-55kg (I say in between because I can literally fluctuate between the figures on a weekly basis such is my erratic metabolism!) No amount of healthy eating or physical exercise has ever stabilised this habit, nor has it put on muscle mass -_- It's like I have a non-crippling version of Muscular Dystrophy! (A terrible disease, a friend has it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchenn...ular_dystrophy)

[Powdered Toast Man]

Hmm I'm living until I'm 88 according to the life span indicator. Take that BMI Index!

[NickyN]

Lifespan Calculator tells me my magic age is 92. Holy ........ that's a LONG time more!!

I posted earlier than my BMI says I'm underweight. Which I know I am thanks to high metabolism.

I think to some extent, weight is a number and so is BMI. If you're active, eat healthy, take care of your body and feel good about yourself, that has a lot to say about you.

[trentski]

I'm 6ft and 95kg which give me a BMI of 28 but with a 34 inch waist I'm pretty sure I'm a long way from obese. Still makes me sad that in a survey I would be counted as borderline obese which is misleading.

[XP6]

Yep tis crap index... a body fat scale measure is much better

How do you compare an office clerk to a bloke who's silly enough to swing sledge hammers all his working life?(me )
BMI is for the office clerk... key board fingerer :P

Mines just gone under 30(178cm/93.3kg)had my Health and Wellbeing check up at work today, started @ 109kg last October.
Hoping to get back to my old level of fitness of 3 yrs ago 11%BF and a BMI... of 30(gym junky), had a bad bout of tennis elbow which stopped me from doing much outside work so I got lazy and fat.