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View Poll Results: are you over or underweight?
WAY overweight....50+ lbs heavier than i should be 16 23.19%
overweight 10-50 lbs heavy 25 36.23%
right on plus or minus 10lbs 21 30.43%
underweight 4 5.80%
scrawny 3 4.35%
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Old 10-09-2007, 11:04 PM   #11
ZenGum
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Originally Posted by lumberjim View Post
I would have to be 8'2" to be 20 bmi according to that last link. it says i'm 35.6% i should be dead.
BMI isn't a percentage. It is your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height.
There are adjustments for non-metric units, wikipedia explains it well.

I'm just using it to compare the thinness of various people of different heights. I don't advocate BMI scores as a goal or as a very reliable predictor of health. It all depends on whether your weight is muscle or flab. Reading your posts, it sounds like you're mostly muscle.

Last edited by ZenGum; 10-10-2007 at 08:51 AM. Reason: possessed by spelling-obsessed devil
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