Weigh in - week of Nov. 6

[Bikingmomof3]

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You look awesome and yes, I want arms like yours. You do not need to shed a pound. You look great and are fit. I never cared for the "ideal" body weight charts.

[Veronica]

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You look awesome and yes, I want arms like yours. You do not need to shed a pound. You look great and are fit. I never cared for the "ideal" body weight charts.

Thanks! I think I look pretty good too. But that's my point, just one more pound puts me at overweight for BMI.

It's so easy to get sucked in to thinking these charts are "right." When maybe they just don't work for certain individuals.

I've actually decided to put a little effort into losing five pounds, ideally eight because it will make a huge difference in a 200 mile hilly ride. I'm not quite sure how I want to tackle it. A bit of consumption modification but mainly up the output.

V.

[tprevost]

I'm coming up on my five year anniversary of losing 30 pounds.



This is me in June of 2002 after losing 30 pounds.



This June 2006, same weight, but I think I look leaner. That's why I think weight is only one way to measure how you're changing your body for the better and shouldn't always be the only way you measure. I could be really bummed that I weigh the same after all the hard work I've put in in the last year.

V.

Wow Veronica... Love those arms!

[CycleChic06]

Weighing myself this morning, I found I have lost 2.5lbs. The weight I'm at now is kinda my threshold, I've been here before and it's hard to go below it.

Along the same lines, I found this BMI calculator online. Along with calculating my BMI, it gave me an "ideal weight" range for my height. The low end of the range seemed kinda low and when I punched it into the calculator for my height, it came up as "underweight" WTF? Is this BMI stuff a bunch of BS?

Here is the calculator:

http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pa...GOOG&KEYWORD=p

[jobob]

I like moving the little sliders on the side of the body diagram ... lessee, if I grew 2 inches, my BMI would go down by 2 points ...

It's just a guideline, like anything else.

There was a time a year or so ago when my weight according to that site was smack in the middle of the ideal range, and my BMI was 21. Sounds healthy, but friends would come up to me and ask me if I'd been sick and that I was looking gaunt and haggard. Even my GYN told me I could stand to put on a few pounds (words I thought I would never hear, LOL) - she said, "honey, when you get to be our age, it comes off our face first".

So, I obliged and put on a few pounds. And it started creeping up so now I'm on the outer edge of ideal - and more important to me than than weight, my pants are starting to get snug - so I should start watching it again. Self: avoid the donuts at work, you nit.

[Dogmama]

Hmmm, I put in my BMI and it read underweight too. But the print under the big red UNDERWEIGHT said that my ideal weight was from 5 pounts less to 20 pounds more that I put in.

Methinks there's problems with that counter.

[Bikingmomof3]

The ideal weight ranges made me laugh. If I weighed on the low end, I would look as though I was on my death bed. Better yet, DH would look dead.

Some are better than others. Age does play a factor IMO. How I looked when I was 18 (and weighed much less) is not what I should look like now, almost 20 years later.

I use them all as a guide. I am more interested in being fit, healthy, and building lean muscle. I stear clear oif the scale. It is just a number. Easy to say? Example. I weigh more then several people (I know of) on here, yet I wear smaller sizes in clothing. We all come in different sizes and shapes. Line 10 people up who all wear the same size and they will all look different (and probably all weigh different amounts).

[kelownagirl]

My hieght 5-3 says ideal weight 104-127. I currently weigh 126. If I go below 114 on that calculator, it says I'd be underweight. ??

The thing I can't figure out with BMI is that I have lost some weight since I started biking (about 15 lbs) but I KNOW I have gained LOTS of muscle. BMI doesn't seem to take the difference in weight of fat versus muscle into consideration.

[kelownagirl]

More on pushups - I am absolutely pathetic. Motivated by Veronica's arms, I tried to do some "real" pushups last night - couldn't do ONE. So I did 10 "girl" pushups, and the last 5 were really hard. I am going to do pushups every night from now on and I WILL improve. I think I need a "pushup check in" thread.

[Dogmama]

Re: BMI - athletes with muscles (football players, basketball players) are overweight according to BMI charts.

Congrats on the 5 pushups!!! You'll be doing the boy pushups & clapping your hands in between before you know it!

[CycleChic06]

Ok, I thought I was going crazy with that BMI calculator. I don't really want to weigh 110 lbs...even if that what my ideal weight should be.

And you're right, Dogmama, I don't think it's good for athlete's since it doesn't take account muscle versus fat. Maybe BMI in conjunction with body fat percentage would be better indication. But it still doesn't say anything about fitness.

[Bikingmomof3]

I ignore the BMI and go by Body Fat %.

[kelownagirl]

Can you figure out body fat % without the calipers etc? I tried on a machine at the grocery store but I don't know how accurate it is... You punched in your info and held on to a handle while I ran a current or something thru your body. I've heard it's unreliable too...

I was down to 125.8 this morning. My goal was to lose 5 lbs in 1 month. I have one more week to lose the last .8 lb

[Bikingmomof3]

I have my body fat tested every few months. I also bought scale that tells me my weight, body fat %, % water, etc. So far it has been the same as the "professional" tests.

[kelownagirl]

I've seen those scales and wondered how accurate they are. Maybe I'll get one. What % body fat does an athlete have? How about a 46 year old, athlete wanna-be?