New and Improved Weight Chart

[CoolBlackChick]

There are so many variations between weight/height charts. The military still uses weight standards from 1979. Can anyone suggest a more up-to-date weight chart to use?

[dotsamantha]

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I take those charts as very loose guidelines.Anytihng that doesn't look at frame size and muscular build isn't going to be accurate. i use weight, bmi and bodyfat. This link has a few different charts. like I said they all vary. i just got out of the ar,my in April and being "curvy" and muscular often worked against me. http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm

[CoolBlackChick]

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I take those charts as very loose guidelines.Anytihng that doesn't look at frame size and muscular build isn't going to be accurate. i use weight, bmi and bodyfat. This link has a few different charts. like I said they all vary. i just got out of the ar,my in April and being "curvy" and muscular often worked against me. http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm

You are SO right about that. It worked against me, too, when I was in the Army!

I need to lose more body fat (as opposed to just losing weight), while retaining and increasing the muscle I have. I can feel the muscles underneath the fat. I look good in clothes, but without them, not that impressive!!!

My BMI is 25.6. This is considered in the overweight category.

It would be really great if I could achieve the amateur bodybuilding look despite the fact that I carry weight around my mid-section.

[Fozzy]

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This is one of the reasons that I left the Military (Army specifically). I was a skinny kid until about the 9th grade. I started playing football and played all the way throught high school. I am a basically a pretty large individual. I got sick of playing the weight game in the military and having some putz "judge" me on looks. I weighed about 220-225 most of the time while in the service. This was about 30 to 40 pounds too heavy? I should add that I "maxed out" the PT tests. I could do 80+ push ups and 90+ sit ups and ran the two mile run in 12:20. All this while being deemed too "fat". I didn't get thrown out, I just got fed up with it. Right after we got back from French Commando school (loved that) and I won the Expert Infantrman Badge (not that much fun), I had some 300+ pound NCO give me some grief over my weight. He was the retention guy? Needless to say, I was not "retained"

I got my underwater weight done right after leaving the service and according to them, my ideal weight was 216. The BMI is also something that I really can't even come close too. It's frustrating, But I've pretty much just given up on meeting other people's standards when it comes to my weight. I will shoot for 230 and be darned happy when I get there.

Sorry for the rant! It's been one of those days...

[Fozzy]

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I just looked at an online BMI chart.. My weight isn't even on the chart (thats depressing) but I'd say that right now, my BMI is about 40...

According to the chart someone at 6'2" who is over 186 is "over weight" and someone who is over 230 is "Obese".. sheeesh, this is what I wanted to be categorized at for the rest of my life! LOL. I guess, I could cut off one of my legs to make them happy?

[Fozzy]

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Hey Dotsamantha, I like your links suggestions a lot better (230) !

[changing]

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I just discovered a neat little calculator that I enjoy as well... I'd been reading a lot about the whole "bmi relevance" controversy. How some very muscular people (famously, one of them Arnold Schwarzenegger) register as obese on height/weight charts and bmi readings. Apparently, a new trend for measuring "healthy weight" is the waist to hip circumference ratio.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/waist-...io-calculator/

Abdominal fat is intimately linked with a number of health risks so they're finding that this is a good way of measuring such things... As far as bmi, I am at the high end of severely obese, obese II (just lost a few pounds and got out of the morbidly obese, obese III, category), which would indicate that I have serious problems and that this weight is seriously unhealthy.

For a female, a waist to hip ratio of .80 or below is associated with low health risk. I am proud to report that despite my severely obese bmi, yesterday I had a .78 waist hip ratio. Thank you, exercise!

Looking back to when I began, before exercise and diet, I had a ratio of .93. Ratios higher than .85 are considered high risk for women so I'm extremely glad that I cleaned up my eating, starting exercising, and improving my life.

Anyway, summary: check out the calculator, it's interesting... and it's based on the measuring tape, which is less of a liar than the scale!

[dotsamantha]

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The wasit/hip ratio always gets me. I've always been bigger on top than bottom, and I definitely hold my insulation in my stomach. Even now at a much healthier weight, my ratio is .82. Although before it was .93, so there's a definite improvement there. i have a lot of trouble thinning out in the middle.