[mountn man]

I had a dr tell me I was fat, when I was in high school. I was 17, 5'-11", 185#.

I wore a 48 jacket with 32" waist pants.

My body fat was about 9-12%. I worked out an hour a day and ran 5 miles a day.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I had a dr tell me I was fat, when I was in high school. I was 17, 5'-11", 185#.

I wasn’t a star athlete, but I was 6’-1” and weighed 190 in the late 1950s (and for decades afterward). You guessed it - when I was a college freshman they said I was almost 20 pounds overweight.

Nowadays, I weigh too much. No doubt. But in college? Not so much that I wasn’t nicknamed “Slim!"

[Marie]

My son’s BF was 6% and he was classified as obese. The kid was ripped like an old t-shirt. He had a three-foot standing high jump and could do pushups and pullups all day without breaking a sweat. A SEAL team had a booth set up at some local function and had the civilians try their hands at meeting the minimum SEAL requirements. My son blew it out of the water.

The gym instructor used him as an example of the flaws in the BMI system and talked the school into buying a BF machine. (My son was one of the first ones they used it on.)

There’s still a LITTLE common sense left in the world.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I had a dr tell me I was fat, when I was in high school. I was 17, 5'-11", 185#.

I arrived at Basic Training just before my 18th birthday. I was 6'1", 195 and got put on the 'fat boy' program.