Heigh weight and bmi

I am 5'4" and 135 (I gained weight after PJP shut down) but I want to lose another 15-20 pounds. I just don't like being completely flat up top and then I have wide hips.

My lowest weight was 107 and I was wearing a size 4. Today I am wearing size 28 mens jeans. which is a 7 womens I think.

For some odd reason I am obsessed with stick thin people.
 
What does the fashion industry have to do with my opinion?

I'm probably the least fashionable person you'll ever meet, I'm more of a tomboy actually. I could care less about the runway, and to be honest, I've had friends that were the total opposite of Anorectic.

Being stick thin is more of a personal issue and choice.
 
19.4% BMI, according to CDC calculator. 18.5%-24.9% is normal for my range. http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.html
For the record, I am about 6".


I think there are supposed to be more variables though.. Like I know for for instance Asians are genetically slimmer than other races for instance, African americans or Anglo saxons. There's some variables like cultural food, eating habits not being factored..

I like to measure heartbeats per minute after exercise and idle as well.
 
naisho said:
19.4% BMI, according to CDC calculator. 18.5%-24.9% is normal for my range. Healthy Weight: Assessing Your Weight: BMI: Adult BMI Calculator: English | DNPAO | CDC
For the record, I am about 6".


I think there are supposed to be more variables though.. Like I know for for instance Asians are genetically slimmer than other races for instance, African americans or Anglo saxons. There's some variables like cultural food, eating habits not being factored..
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But most people require the same basic nutritional needs, one's ethnic background doesn't change that.

The reason for most is that there are people who medically require more or less nutritional needs, not just in calories, but in certain vitamins, minerals, and supplements, and ones diet may have to be modified according to that.

The average healthy person in Asia will have the same nutritional needs as an average healthy person in the Congo.
 
How do you explain why, say an obese person would eat more than that of a genetically slim asian, yet when you do a BMI calculation your figures are off the charts? How do you balance that? All you can do is input height and mass.

Unless you are saying that there's an one-for all diet where if you eat over this, then you are teethering into the overweight criteria?
In other words, how much a healthy average Asian eats in Asia is how much an American should be eating to get their daily nutritional needs?

The way I see it, the BMI calculation is extremely biased to the genetically slimmer races versus that of the normally denser ones.
 
5'6".. 140lbs.... 22.6 BMI... :dunno:
 
Hear Again said:
Lucia,

I also hate it when people comment on your weight. I think it's rude except when someone compliments you for losing weight. Just today a neighbor of mine asked if I was losing weight and I said no because I don't think that I am. My weight tends to fluctuate. The last time I saw my GP, my weight was 114. Prior to that it was 109. Before that, it was 125. Go figure. :lol:

I also can't stand it when people comment on my body size. I can't count how many times someone exclaimed "You're so small!" or "You're so tiny!" They even comment on how small my hands and fingers are. It's annoying. :roll:

When I was growing up, the song "Short People" by Randy Newman used to be pretty popular. I HATED it because there was one boy in my elementary school who would sing the chorus of that song whenever he saw me and it always made me livid. :mad2:
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Really? I'm 5'2 too and 110 pound with tiny body frame too (used to be 88-92 pound none of bone was showing though, due to high metalbolism but it slowed down a lot since my "relatively" hypoglycemia diagnosis about 8 months ago so now I look normal and curvy) and I have very small hands and feet and shorter than rest of my female relatives (my cousin was 9 and her hands was bigger than mine) and I wear size 5 women and can fit in 2 half-3 kids my mom and her sisters were 5'4-5'5 and my dad's sisters is about 5'6 so I don't know I was short I was only 2 weeks premature lol. Tiny hands and feet is mystery as well my mom wear size 8 1/2!
Its nice to know someone else my height with small frame and small hands/feet
I hate it when people said "omg you're so tiny" or get shocked and confused look when my fiance jason said I'm his fiancee not little sister (they think I was 14 years old when I'm 21 and he look like his age so you get reactions lol because of my tiny frame lol and I inherit young look from my grandma she's 70 and look like she's my dad's older sister!)
 
naisho said:
How do you explain why, say an obese person would eat more than that of a genetically slim asian, yet when you do a BMI calculation your figures are off the charts? How do you balance that? All you can do is input height and mass.

Unless you are saying that there's an one-for all diet where if you eat over this, then you are teethering into the overweight criteria?
In other words, how much a healthy average Asian eats in Asia is how much an American should be eating to get their daily nutritional needs?

The way I see it, the BMI calculation is extremely biased to the genetically slimmer races versus that of the normally denser ones.
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There is no such thing as a thin and thick race. It all comes down to the food they eat.

In America yes, a higher percentage of blacks tend to be overweight, but over in other European countries a lower percentage of blacks are overweight. A lot of blacks, especially here in the south, eat a lot of fried foods. I've also noticed as a cashier that black customers tend to buy more junkfood than their counterparts of other races.

Blacks in Africa however tend to be at or below the ideal weight. Again, its based on the foods they eat and the amount of activity they do. A lot of blacks in Africa depend heavily on manual farming techniques for survival because they don't have the money to purchase fancy farm equipment to do the work for them, like we do in America. They work more and eat less (because the food supply is short over there to begin with).

Anyone of any race can be of any build. There's not a one diet fits all, that would be impossible. But what I'm getting at is that the average european man would have the same nutritional need as the average korean man does.

Even within races and ethnic groups you have tall skinny people as well as short fat people, and average people who are in between. We also have small tiny people, and there's also huge massive people who could easily hold their own on the line at an NFL game.

Clear as mud?
 
Yeah, I know what you are saying Dixie.

What I'm trying to say is, when you match up BMI between different continents, you will see a difference in the average BMI per every other country, meaning the USA BMI values are not supposed to be accepted as universal for all races.

This is what I'm referring to when say, we are comparing BMI here with those in Africa. We eat different foods, we do different things, therefore the min., mean, max. BMI might not be the same as us with them.

So in turn when they have a BMI of say 17.1 versus the average person having 25.1 here, it goes to show that's what they consider normal is what we consider thin.

I think there was something on this though, like I recall Signapore changing and revising values in their BMI index so their people have a different depiction of the scale. Here, I found it up in a google search: Singapore's BMI system. This is what I'm implying as that it might be not wise to compare BMI between different races.
 
society's_child said:
I just won't divulge that sort of information about myself. I leave to the imagination.
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Ditto! I'm not divulging my stats, either.

I will say that the BMI measurement is quite misleading. I wish that they would go back to using life time growth charts to plot what people weigh or should weigh instead of relying on the Body Mass Index or BMI.
 
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