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Pufer out-fats everyone. To get out of being officially overweight for insurance purposes, I'd have to lose around 75-80 pounds. I personally think that the insurance formula is crap, but do not delude myself into thinking that I don't need to lose at least 50 pounds, despite the fact that my nurse practitioner (my doctor is a boob, so I go to a nurse practitioner at the UNM health center) says, and this is an exact quote, "You're remarkably healthy for a fat ######." I like my nurse practitioner.

-Pufer

Pufer's nurse practioner ++


Everyone needs to lose weight. We should all start a club and exercise together! We could get treadmills with built in laptops. Macbook pros for everyone!!!

Apparently my BMI is 26.6, which officially makes me overweight. I have no real issue with this, I just know that I need to tone up a little bit.

I have a 200-pound friend. You wouldn't know by looking at him, because quite a lot of that is in muscle. Body mass index fails-it would fail miserably for a body builder with large amounts of muscle.

Well ok, I weight 202 pounds, and am 6 foot 1. Is that a better measurement?

Depends on how much muscle there is mixed in.

I'm 6'1" and weigh around 160. About a year ago I was 6' and weighed under 150.

I'm not joining in the fun. But I'm 5'8"!

My BMI is 26.5, so I'm 1.5 from being "Average". Which is good because I recently lost about 15 pounds. (Yay me!) But according my my nutritionist, I need to lose about 25-30 more to be at my "ideal weight". I'll get there eventually.

Yay! Go you.

5'9"... 135lb...


Little dude.

Grow Matt Grow!

Not gonna happen anytime soon.

Then when? When!?

Never. I will always stay small.

It's not good for business you know..

I never said my business wasn't going to grow.

Hehe.. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything just then.

What?

Because I was laughing very hard.. and whatever I was drinking would've hurt my computer.

I'm 6' and 210 pounds, but even so I'm healthy and not too overweight for my size/musclemass. I've never had my BMI measured.

mWalk, on Jul 10 2007, 09:53 PM, said:

Well, at least you don't drop dead occasionally from being a little dude.

I'm 5'10" and around 244 (as of a couple weeks ago), but my height/weight ratio is actually quite a lot better than it used to be. If I remember correctly, in sixth grade I was 5' tall and weighed around 235, so when you consider than in 10 years I've only put on around 10 pounds while growing 10 inches in the process, I'm a lot less fat than I used to be. Of course that just means that I'm just regular obese now instead of being morbidly so. I do fit into the 40-inch-waist test for health (some scientist with too much time on their hands decided that if your waist measures less than 40 inches and you're an adult male, you're generally not at as much risk for dropping dead, regardless of your weight, as someone who has a waist larger than 40 inches; I'm at around 39.5" right now, so I just squeak by on that one), so I'm not all that bad off along with having perfectly normal blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.

The only real way I'm going to pull off losing any weight is to get the hell away from my family. I can do my healthy vegetarian thing all I want while on my own, but so long as I'm expected to do three or four meals a week at my grandmother's house with the rest of my family, I'm screwed. For instance, my grandmother this past Sunday made a supper consisting of about a pound of veal in capered lemon-cream sauce per person, spaghetti with meat sauce, and a couple pounds of shrimp in garlic butter per head along with her usual spread of three kinds of bread, buttered peas, two salads, and a fully stocked relish tray. Oh yeah, pound cake with melted chocolate, whipped cream, and three large scoops of ice cream for dessert. The fricken' meal probably contained around 8,000 calories (I didn't get fat for no reason).

I can't hardly get out of showing up, she doesn't listen to my pleas to make less food, and if I don't eat what she puts in front of me, she literally starts throwing plates and stuff while cursing me in Italian (I'm not making this up, my best story is about a decade ago she got pissed off at my grandfather and he got a turkey platter, complete with turkey, smashed over his head).

-Pufer

Pufer-

1. You Grandmother sounds like a badass. An awesome badass.

2. Good lord...that's a lot of food, indeed.

and 3. I'm a "vegetarian" (I eat seafood) and I have to tell you, as long as you do it right, its a very healthy way to go. The first time I got my Cholesterol done it was about 280 (or round abouts...this was 10 years ago). Since I've gone veggie, its gone down a good 50-60 points. Still not perfect, but a heck of a lot better than when I was 8.

mWalk, on Jul 7 2007, 10:48 PM, said:

... Brilliant.

*reads next page*

6', 150 lbs. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

My problem, apart from eating too much food in general, is too much sugar. Need to cut down on that and work out more. And all shall be fine.