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I am 5'9 at 180 pounds. According to my BMI I am overweight. I played football since I was small, I think that's what gave me my football player shape more than anything else. In high school, I got into weight training. That is probably where most of my weight came from since I didn't hit puberty until I was 15. I do not find myself overweight at all and I'm sure if you asked anyone that knows me, they'll tell you I'm in great shape...or ok at the least. I hated the BMI measurement. My gym teacher made the overweight people run laps and exercise harder than the other students. I was able to do these easily of course...I have to give myself credit But it still felt unfair. I am definitely not overweight.

I do tend to notice that alot of wargamers are unhealthily obese or skinny, with most of us in fine shape. Each time I meet some of these guys, I have an urge to inform them of how to get into better shape, but I don't of course. That would be a bit rude at the least. However, since this is a forum, I would like to inform all of you people in unhealthy shape to walk more often. Do not take the car if you're going to go somewhere only 20 blocks away. It'll take you 30-40 minutes walk at the most. Also, drink water instead of juice or soda, water hydrates you more and does not contain sugar.

And the most important of all is your diet. If you eat meals, only eat three times a day, no more no less. Have less meat, that is the part of the diet I don't get. People just find the having less meat part hard. It's all fat for Terra's sake, forget it. You are not a carnivore, you do not need that much meat. What you do need alot more of are wheat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, and seafood. Seafood is probably the most underestimated food category in the United States when it comes to health and fitness. Remember people, exercise counts, but your diet is where it is at. One plate one meal. Don't stack your plate to ten pounds. Contrary to popular belief, a pile of food is not one plate. It's human trough. With all this in mind, there are no secrets to a healthy body except a combination of exercise, diet, and motivation. You need all three to build a healthy body. I hope at least one person here reads this and take my advice. Just one, and I'll be happy that I helped make someone elses life happier.

I do have to say, I find the diet part to be probably the only thing keeping me from being morbidly obese. BMI says I'm 'overweight', and I do have a nice 2 or 3 inches of fat on my torso, but I can sprint, jog, climb, etc. without problem, despite being something of a computer bum.

Thing is, I eat when I'm hungry, I don't eat when I'm not. I don't stuff myself, but I don't deny myself a full portion when I feel like it. If I'm not hungry, I'll skip meals, if I'm craving something, be it Chocolate Gobbs or Lettuce or fish, I'll get some of that.

Your body knows what it needs. Listen to it.

About a month ago I fit into the obese catagory, now I'm happily in the overweight catagory and dropped two bmi points. Still I've got a ways to go. Being 6' tall means i'm not nearly the blubber ball people expect when the word 'obese' pops into their head, but I'm certainly not a spitting image of the Greek ideal either.

Other: Yo Mamma


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sry for the trollin, but it was too hard to resist

Im a bodybuilder XD

I'm underweight but not annorexic.

I'm a average weight , I've never changed!

Im 6 foot and I weigh 255. I play college football though, offensive line, so we are known for being heavily built for those of you who arent familiar with american football. According to the regular BMI scale, im obese, but there is an adjusted one for athletes because our higher muscle ratio makes us heavy for our height.


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any other ball players on dakka just out of curiosity?

6'4" - 265 lbs. I'm a fatboy.

I lift weights every other day at the Y, and I run the days I don't lift...I used to be a competetive swimmer and I was on the nordic ski team in high school, so I've always been pretty fit..when college started I vowed to myself I would keep up my routine, and I actually did very well I gained some weight but it was from the lifting that I was doing (my school has an amazing workout facility)...but I put normal weight

I have to say the question options on here are a little leading. I.e. there are quite a few leaning towards the obese end of the scale. If morbidly obese is an option then why not bollemic?

slice of toast wrote:Yep, I'm skinny.

Always been skinny, working to always stay skinny.

I'm REALLY interested to see if there are any folks built like body builders who are gamers....I mean, just because, really!

Me! I play AAA and so am athletically built.


Does anyone else find it strange that there is no "athletic" option on this poll?

Edit: 6'- 30" waist 165 pounds of solid build

slice of toast wrote:Yep, I'm skinny.

Always been skinny, working to always stay skinny.

I'm REALLY interested to see if there are any folks built like body builders who are gamers....I mean, just because, really!

I'm obsessed with working out and American football is pretty much my life and i still love W40k lol my friends tell me I have a wide range of interests


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romegamer wrote:Im 6 foot and I weigh 255. I play college football though, offensive line, so we are known for being heavily built for those of you who arent familiar with american football. According to the regular BMI scale, im obese, but there is an adjusted one for athletes because our higher muscle ratio makes us heavy for our height.


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any other ball players on dakka just out of curiosity?

Me! Definitly my new friend lol love football

Slightly overweight, but I'm trying to lose it. And failing.

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.

Exactly... I think this poll is pooly put together. It doesn't include categories like "Athletic" and isn't specific enough about what it means to be over or under weight. So it makes me mostly assume that people's answers are not as accurate as they could be.

I'm personally in shape, though likely underweight compared to the normal person my height - 6'2". I workout at the gym and rockclimb with the gf quite regularly. My last visit to my FLGS revealed about 80% of the gamers to be a bit overweight. But they were good people! I look forward to my next visit!

I could say overweight, but compared to a lot of other Americans out there, and what quite a number of my friends say about how skinny I am, I'd just go with normal weight. Considering oneself normal is rather convenient in about all circles, though certainly this poll isn't quite accurate, as weight is just one part of one's body type, within one's relative size class.

Like a little person masked wrestler? I dunno. Kaesar II

I'm 5'5'' and 131lbs, so I put normal. However, I've been to lots of game stores and I'd wager at LEAST 50% of folks there fall firmly in the overweight category, so I'm fairly certain some people are being less than truthful.

I'd say i'm average. 5'9" 170.

OK so I've just Googled a BMI calculator and put in my particulars. Apparently a score of between 25-29.9 means you're overweight. I scored 26.5. This is total Bt! I must go and console myself with a pie and a pint - maybe followed by some cake.

See, I don't put much stock in "overweight" as a guideline for BMI. Why? Because they're basically comparing you to an Aryan workoutaholic who spends their entire day making sure they are in shape. Normal people, in today's primarily sedentary culture and workforce, will almost always have a few pounds 'extra'- and honestly? That's not a terrrible thing. Means you have extra insulation against cold weather, and a store of energy if you ever are stuck in a situation where you have no food. One thing you see on shows like Survivorman, where the 'survivalist' is in 'perfect' physical condition is that he's basically starving to death in 2 or 3 days, when someone who's 'overweight' by 50 pounds would be fine for a week.

Just had a routine fitness consultation at the gym,

6'0 165 lbs 8%Body fat

Anvildude wrote:See, I don't put much stock in "overweight" as a guideline for BMI. Why? Because they're basically comparing you to an Aryan workoutaholic who spends their entire day making sure they are in shape. Normal people, in today's primarily sedentary culture and workforce, will almost always have a few pounds 'extra'- and honestly? That's not a terrrible thing. Means you have extra insulation against cold weather, and a store of energy if you ever are stuck in a situation where you have no food. One thing you see on shows like Survivorman, where the 'survivalist' is in 'perfect' physical condition is that he's basically starving to death in 2 or 3 days, when someone who's 'overweight' by 50 pounds would be fine for a week.

Actually BMI assumes you have an average muscle/fat ratio. Gym rats and pro athletes mess the scale up by having much more muscle mass compared to their height, and comparatively less height, than the average person, which means that they'll show up as overweight or obese when in fact they're in great shape. Modern people are unhealthy, yes, that doesn't mean that we should start considering unhealthy the average. There's a middle ground between starving to death and 50 pounds overweight, and in modern western society we have gone just a bit too far towards the overweight side.

As a transvestite, I have to worry about my figure a lot, if anything, I'm undrweight, sadly enough, beauty is painful.

Okay, usually I'm all for more commas, but dude! (or dudette)!

skinny, not as much as before because I started rock climbing and doing other sports that are considered training as well (hiking, 5k runs, RC, etc)

im2randomghgh wrote:Just had a routine fitness consultation at the gym,

6'0 165 lbs 8%Body fat

Is this good or bad? How much body fat does/should the average person have?

the color purple wrote:

Anvildude wrote:See, I don't put much stock in "overweight" as a guideline for BMI. Why? Because they're basically comparing you to an Aryan workoutaholic who spends their entire day making sure they are in shape. Normal people, in today's primarily sedentary culture and workforce, will almost always have a few pounds 'extra'- and honestly? That's not a terrrible thing. Means you have extra insulation against cold weather, and a store of energy if you ever are stuck in a situation where you have no food. One thing you see on shows like Survivorman, where the 'survivalist' is in 'perfect' physical condition is that he's basically starving to death in 2 or 3 days, when someone who's 'overweight' by 50 pounds would be fine for a week.

Actually BMI assumes you have an average muscle/fat ratio. Gym rats and pro athletes mess the scale up by having much more muscle mass compared to their height, and comparatively less height, than the average person, which means that they'll show up as overweight or obese when in fact they're in great shape. Modern people are unhealthy, yes, that doesn't mean that we should start considering unhealthy the average. There's a middle ground between starving to death and 50 pounds overweight, and in modern western society we have gone just a bit too far towards the overweight side.

Guess I'll put my 'overweight' down to muscle bulk then

Overweight (normal by American standards) but trying and being successful at thining up.

Stormcallers wrote:I'd say i'm average. 5'9" 170.

BMI says that's Overweight, son. Unless it's all muscle or something, you sir are overweight not normal/average. (This is an example of people skewing the results.

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Anvildude wrote:See, I don't put much stock in "overweight" as a guideline for BMI. Why? Because they're basically comparing you to an Aryan workoutaholic who spends their entire day making sure they are in shape. Normal people, in today's primarily sedentary culture and workforce, will almost always have a few pounds 'extra'- and honestly? That's not a terrrible thing. Means you have extra insulation against cold weather, and a store of energy if you ever are stuck in a situation where you have no food. One thing you see on shows like Survivorman, where the 'survivalist' is in 'perfect' physical condition is that he's basically starving to death in 2 or 3 days, when someone who's 'overweight' by 50 pounds would be fine for a week.

Actually BMI assumes you have an average muscle/fat ratio. Gym rats and pro athletes mess the scale up by having much more muscle mass compared to their height, and comparatively less height, than the average person, which means that they'll show up as overweight or obese when in fact they're in great shape. Modern people are unhealthy, yes, that doesn't mean that we should start considering unhealthy the average. There's a middle ground between starving to death and 50 pounds overweight, and in modern western society we have gone just a bit too far towards the overweight side.

Except the 50lb overweight guy wouldn't be able to do at least half the things the in shape guy can. Could they cross the powerful river without being swept away? Probably not (the extra surface area from all that fat, not to mention the lack of muscles certainly wouldn't help in fighting against a current). Could they climb up a rocky mountain/slope to get to a better vantage point in order to determine which direction to travel? Not likely (The extra weight, and lack of finger strength certainly wouldn't help with the ascent). Face it, being out of shape doesn't make you more survivable than a fit person. An person in optimal shape could provide for themselves, accomplish goals they needed to and out perform a person in less that premium fitness. But sure, I suppose the out of shape person could last longer on just lounging in a hole doing nothing... though I'm not sure that's very ambitious nor very good long term thinking.

This isn't to say that I don't like people of different weight distributions. I am just arguing against your justification for being over weight as a means of being better able to survive harsh environments and physical feats... Afterall, who ever heard of a Fat SM? The Emperor wouldn't have it!

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NakedBatBoy wrote:This isn't to say that I don't like people of different weight distributions. I am just arguing against your justification for being over weight as a means of being better able to survive harsh environments and physical feats... Afterall, who ever heard of a Fat SM? The Emperor wouldn't have it!

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Different weight distribution?! Is that what the politically correct people are calling us fat f***ers now? Fat people everywhere! Be proud! Have another bit of cake! I apparently (thanks to the god damn people who invented BMI) fall into this catagorie and I'm gonna swill down plenty of beer and wine and stuff down some pies and cake this weekend and I don't bloody well care!!!!

Did I say out of shape? Or rather, unathletic? You can be fat and still be athletic. Defensive Linemen, for example, or Sumo Wrestlers. I had a friend who stood over 6' tall, weighed over 350 lbs, was most definitely overweight... and he could carry a railroad tie around.

And besides, isn't the best thing in most survival situations to stay still? Unless nobody knows you were gone, or you're being actively hunted, you shouldn't wander around unless you know for a fact that civilization lies in a certain direction- and you never know that for a fact.