getting fatter

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[KaskadskyjKozak]

Don't blame yourself, blame your friends!

 

Forget blaming your friends. It's all George Bush's fault.

[AlpineK]

Don't blame yourself, blame your friends!

 

Forget blaming your friends. It's all George Bush's fault.

 

There's food missing out of my fridge, and I saw some funny looking Secret Service types this morning.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Don't blame yourself, blame your friends!

 

Forget blaming your friends. It's all George Bush's fault.

 

There's food missing out of my fridge, and I saw some funny looking Secret Service types this morning.

 

That's part of the Patriot Act! Damn them!

[foraker]

I recall seeing Frank Shorter (gold medal in the marathon in the 72 Munich Olympics for those of you too young to remember) on the Tonight Show. They hooked him up to a treadmill and monitored his heart rate. Before he started, it was something like 36 or 38. He started running and it went up to about 60 and then dropped back down to his resting heart rate again......I'm sure that's a sign of how ill he was.

[sk]

so if i am between 22 and 23 is that suposed to be my body fat percentage??? am i fat or not. i am so confused

[archenemy]

From Wiki:

 

The BMI is meant to broadly categorize populations for purely statistical purposes. As noted, its accuracy in relation to actual levels of body fat is easily distorted by such factors as fitness level, muscle mass, bone structure, gender, and ethnicity. People who are mesomorphic tend to have higher BMI numbers than people who are endomorphic, because they have greater bone mass and greater muscle mass, respectively, than do endomorphic individuals.

 

Similarly, ectomorphic individuals could conceivably receive a reading below the normal range, when in fact their body type makes it healthy for them to be thin. In fact, ectomorphs could obtain healthy readings even when their body fat percentage is higher than is healthy, as their low lean mass will lower the BMI.

 

From Archy:

I am a mesomorph. Even when I am in good shape and lifting hard, I can only get down around 22, 23; but my body fat was down to about 12% at that time. So the BMI #s do not necessarily correlate to actual body fat. For your h/w and activity levels, you are probably a bit less than normal women in the Body fat dept. And, you look like a mesomorph, is that how you would catagorize/characterize yourself?

[sk]

you are correct i am mesomorphic. I easily put on muscle mass and have lager than average bones for a woman my size. the lowest my body fat percentage ever was, was 18%. and for that i was WAY too thin and starting to lose huge amounts of muscle mass. i was just not made to be frail and thin. i don't know that i have less than normal body fat so much as i have more than normal muscle mass under my fat layer I like to think of it as the soft outer layer that protects others from my reality

 

thank you for the explination, that was exactly what i needed.

[selkirk]

aren't low to mid 20%'s was a healthy percentage for women?

 

[archenemy]

Yes.

[tvashtarkatena]

I'm fatter than a force fed chuffy hog

[ericb]

Feel you're pain....I just found out I was overweight as well.

[tvashtarkatena]

Where is the 'Great, Fat Pie Wagon' category I've seen on other height/weight charts?

[tvashtarkatena]

Also missing is the far right end of the chart, where the height/weight curve goes asymptotic due to gravitational effects.

[lizard_brain]

And what about us polymorphs?

[archenemy]

Feel you're pain....I just found out I was overweight as well.

Go easy on yourself. You just had a baby!

[ericb]

Feel you're pain....I just found out I was overweight as well.

Go easy on yourself. You just had a baby!

 

AE - you are the last person in the world I expected to credit the father with "having" the baby. I did get a little meconium on my favorite t-shirt though. That was traumatic.

[archenemy]

ew

[i_like_sun]

i feel a little tingly

 

 

Is that because giant symetrical muscles are so damn cool? Or are you scared?

[selkirk]

You obviously haven't been paying attention to anything that Archy says, have you?

[G-spotter]

obesity is contagious

 

new study finds that the more obese people you know, the fatter you are

[G-spotter]

I like to think of it as the soft outer layer that protects others from my reality

 

the thicker the cushion

the finer the pushin'

8D

[Holly R]

I recall seeing Frank Shorter (gold medal in the marathon in the 72 Munich Olympics for those of you too young to remember) on the Tonight Show. They hooked him up to a treadmill and monitored his heart rate. Before he started, it was something like 36 or 38. He started running and it went up to about 60 and then dropped back down to his resting heart rate again......I'm sure that's a sign of how ill he was.

 

When I swam 4-6 hours a day I had a heart rate like that. Even now it is on the low side and my blood pressure readings are usually no higher than 105/60 tops.

 

I've been told by all the "know-it-alls" though that I must have a bad heart. The doc has never said anything though.

[TheJiggler]

Agreed. I am a 17.5 and have size D boobs (100% real TheJiggler's). So you never know.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Agreed. I am a 17.5 and have size D boobs (100% real TheJiggler's). So you never know.

 

pictures!