I’m 5’11” and about 170-180. Yet I got a letter from my doctor saying I might be ‘overweight or obese’.
Well, that’s another thing. They keep lowering the numbers that they claim make someone overweight or obese. Since most people gain weight as they age, and we are an aging society, pretty soon most of us will be lumped into those categories.
If your doctor gives you a hard time, show him this: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2006/11/say-it-isnt-so-part-two.html
My leg weighs 170.
My doctor. She was recommended to me by my hand doctor a couple years ago.
She's a hottie.And she knows what she's doing.