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Thing is, I am small & skinny. I have several friends who can fit one hand around both of my wrists, and I am a 4' 9" 14-year-old. quite small.

i used to be overweight, then I started working out about a year and a half ago and dropped myself from 181lbs to 143lbs and even put on some muscle mass, which I always thought was impossible for me to do

I'm 6'0" on the nose and 160-ish lbs. I have a mean PT test three times a year, gotta stay in somewhat decent shape.

I weigh 135 pounds, which I guess is average, maybe a little under.

I've been at 115 lbs. since I was 10 years old, at 5'4 that's pretty awesome. All I want now is more muscle mass.

I am 121 pounds at 5"9.

I have like 4% body fat and then mostly muscle because of wrestling. . .If I could only drop those last two pounds :/

5'5'' and 125 lb, 20.8 BMI (normal apparently).

I'm 117 kg
I blame my wife's mother for cooking so much good food! I hardly leave the table thinking "man i could still go for something else!"

i'm overweight but idk i like me

Similar to a mythological god.

My BMI is 22 so i am neither overweight or underweight.

Bmi is a broken system and a horrendously inaccurate measurement tool.

Example: at 6'4" the BMI scale weight range is between a dangerously thin 145# and a fairly healthy 195#. A weight of over 205# is considered "Overweight." (BMI = 25). The low end of the height scale only allows for a weight varience of 10-15# while the upper end of the height scale allows for a varience of over 50#.

It does not factor in things like muscle mass vs body fat, (Muscle is heavier than fat) so being more muscular actually throws off your BMI.

helgrenze wrote:Bmi is a broken system and a horrendously inaccurate measurement tool.

Example: at 6'4" the BMI scale weight range is between a dangerously thin 145# and a fairly healthy 195#. A weight of over 205# is considered "Overweight." (BMI = 25). The low end of the height scale only allows for a weight varience of 10-15# while the upper end of the height scale allows for a varience of over 50#.

It does not factor in things like muscle mass vs body fat, (Muscle is heavier than fat) so being more muscular actually throws off your BMI.

Im 5`4 and weigh 8 and a half stone, is that overweight?

EagleArk wrote:

helgrenze wrote:Bmi is a broken system and a horrendously inaccurate measurement tool.

Example: at 6'4" the BMI scale weight range is between a dangerously thin 145# and a fairly healthy 195#. A weight of over 205# is considered "Overweight." (BMI = 25). The low end of the height scale only allows for a weight varience of 10-15# while the upper end of the height scale allows for a varience of over 50#.

It does not factor in things like muscle mass vs body fat, (Muscle is heavier than fat) so being more muscular actually throws off your BMI.

Im 5`4 and weigh 8 and a half stone, is that overweight?

Probably not.

punkisntdeadyet wrote:I'm actually built like a space marine. 7 ft tall, 280 lbs. I lift small cars for fun and kick down telephone poles because I can. I also spit acid, and can chew my way out of a prison cell (it's been done twice).

How many people memories have you eaten?

HENCH!!! only joking i'm normal, but i have started doing more fitness exercise so i can join the RAF (and no, not the bader-meinhof lot)

My Wii fit told me that I'm really underweight,
It also keeps asking me to go have dinner.

173cm
78kg

You tell me

I am 6'1 178lbs. Its not hard to be in shape and wargame. I lift weights, I run, I go outside, I chase women around, and I play tabletop 40k.

When I was young I had a hourglass now the hour glass has brokin and I have a beer belly.

Im of a fairly big build.

5 years of rugby and starting gym on top does often throw people off when they catch me in the nerdiest of pursuits, which is just narrow minded views on their behalf.

Ex-high school football player (American football that is) so I am pretty large:

6'3", 280lbs

I have a gut but for the weight/height ratio, I am not all that fat. Of course, I am considered obese to the BMI index so I am working on getting the weight down to ~225 to 250.

I'm 6'3" and 360lbs, I've always been big. When I was in the Navy they wanted me down to 190-195lbs and even with damn near starving me I couldn't get below 217. Hell I don't think I've been under 200lbs since I was about 12 (38 now). Most people don't believe I weigh as much as I do, I guess it's 'cause I'm kinda barrel shaped (54" chest). Ah well my wife loves me and so do my seven children.

punkisntdeadyet wrote:I'm pretty sure everyone is aiming for the "I'm not the stereotype!" when they submit their answers to the poll. I'm 95% sure most people are lying when most are "average weight" (although this really needs to be clarified).

I'm sure most people will fit into either the "overweight" or "underweight" category. A look at my FLGS suggests the overweights are the adults/extra late teens and the underweights are the 8-year-olds.

More like your general body types like: thin, lean/athletic, built, a little extra pounds, overweight, obese.


Also, I freakin' love your avatar. Too bad that quote was never in the Republic.

1.93 meter and 86 kg

Pretty happy about my body shape (:

Kinda underweight, something about 65kg and like 1.87 meter tall. Received this from my parents and so on, so cannot change it, but im ok with it.

I typically roll between Athletic and Slightly overweight.

For my body shape normal is between 190-200lbs i'm currently in the 230's but am working hard to reduce that

4ft 11 and 8st 10.

Normal weight, BMI is pointless for me as it expects short people to be very waif like when it comes to body shape.

I do parkour so I literally can do almost everything you see on parkour videos.
I tell the truth. Though a second ago I hurt my back lol.

My tone is slowly fading away ever since I began clearing out of the Army. It kinda sucks not being forced to workout.